UCL HEP Seminars, Vivas & Events
Seminars are generally held at 16:00 on Fridays in room A1 on the top floor of the Physics Department or — in the unlikely event of a global pandemic — online via Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
A calendar of all events in the Physics Department is available on the Physics Events Calendar page.
Please send suggestions for seminar topics and/or speakers to Matteo Agostini, Lucy Bailey, Lucian Harland-Lang, Andreas Korn and Margot MacMahon.
Upcoming Seminars, Vivas & Events
: Dr. Lotta Jokiniemi (TU Darmstadt) — 305 in Bedford Way (26)
Probing neutrinoless double-beta decay by nuclear observables
Neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay is a hypothetical nuclear decay in which two nucleons inside the nucleus beta-decay simultaneously emitting only two beta-particles without the associated (anti-)neutrinos. The process violates lepton-number conservation and requires that neutrinos are their own antiparticles (or Majorana particles), and observation of the decay would hence have implications in the understanding of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. Measuring 0νββ decay is also one of the most robust probes for the absolute masses of neutrinos as its decay rate is proportional to the square of so-called effective Majorana mass. While the experiments hunting for this decay are approaching ton scales, the required nuclear-theory input remains a major obstacle to planning and interpreting the experiments. In this talk, I will cover recent nuclear-theory advances in the study of 0νββ decay and how they impact the interpretation of recent and future experiments. I will also discuss different ways to improve the nuclear-theory predictions for 0νββ decay by using experimental data on other nuclear processes that can be or have been measured.
: Dr. Lauren Dawson — 828, IOE - Bedford Way (20)
“Neutrinos to neurodivergence”
TBC
: Dr Fabrice Piquemal — 828, IOE - Bedford Way (20) TBC
R2D2- a high pressure Xenon TPC for Double Beta Decay search.
TBC
: Dr Saad Sheikh — 828, IOE - Bedford Way (20) TBC
Plastic Scintillators for Proton Radiography and Real-Time Object Tracking
TBC