Detector Development Group meeting on Nuclear Technologies, March 2023

9 Mar 2023, 12:30 → 10 Mar 2023, 14:00 Europe/London

Universe

This meeting will bring together industry and academia to discuss the latest research developments from QMUL in the area of nuclear technologies alongside sector challenges. The aim is to facilitate networking toward building collaborations and working toward enhancing existing and developing new partnerships.

Thursday 9 March

1 Welcome

2 QMUL's Detector Development Group

An overview of activities including characterisation, simulation and systems engineering solutions and integration of instruments

Speaker: Prof. A Bevan (Queen Mary)

Slides 2023-March-DDGOverview.pdf

3 Case Study: ATLAS Tracker Upgrade

An overview of our contributions to the upgrade of the CERN experiment ATLAS for the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: S Zenz (Queen Mary)

Slides Zenz-ITkCaseStudy-9Mar2023.pdf

4 Case Study: Organic Semiconductor Radiation Detectors

Speaker: Dr t Kreouzis (Queen Mary)

Slides OrgSemRadDet2023.pdf

14:40 Tea Break and Networking

5 Multi physics modelling for nuclear engineering and other applications

Including reactor modelling, algorithm improvements and simulation of environmental aspects

Speaker: Dr Andrew Buchan (QMUL)

Slides Buchan_QMUL_Nuclear_slides.pdf

6 Nuclear Imaging and Therapy Research at Barts Cancer Institute

An overview of current work and proposals for a UK radionuclide manufacturing facility for sustainable medicine

Speaker: Dr Jen Young (Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL)

7 Simulating radiation environments and predicting detector response

Examples of radiation environment and device simulation using Monte Carlo Codes, other capabilities including radiation testing, and case studies of working with industry on product development.

Speaker: I Dawson (Queen Mary)

Slides DDG_Nuclear_Technology_Event_9th_March_2023_Dawson.pdf

Friday 10 March

8 Radiation Damage in Materials

Molecular dynamical simulations of materials, studying radiation damage effects for waste storage

Speaker: Dr K Trachenko (Queen Mary)

Slides Radiation_damage_in_materials.pdf

Video 100mln_500keV_1.2,1.2,1.8_def_friction.mp4 zir30.mpeg

9 Case Study: SAPIENS - Air pollution modelling

Modelling of air pollution in large urban areas. This work has potential to be used for CBRN situations including predicting pollution arising from industrial accidents, forensics and crisis management.

Speaker: Mr N Heatley (Queen Mary)

Slides SAPIENS_NuclearTalk.pdf

10 Eversion robots for the nuclear industry

Eversion robots for nuclear applications

Speaker: Prof. Kaspar Althoefer (QMUL)

Slides Kaspar_Althoefer,_Soft_robots_for_hazardous_environments_(QMUL,_Physics,_Mar_2023).pdf

10:30 Tea break and networking

11 Curved and flexible sensors

Curved silicon and flexible organic semiconductor detector potential

Speaker: Prof. A Bevan (Queen Mary)

Slides 2023-March-CurvedAndFlexibleDetectors.pdf

12 Demonstration: COTS data acquisition for radiation detectors

Demonstration of a multi channel Rasberry Pi radiation monitor readout system.

Speaker: L Vozdecky (Queen Mary)

13 Ways to collaborate with QMUL

Slides BD_Collaborate_with_Us_-_NuclearTech_Mar23.pptx__-__Read-Only.pdf

14 Closeout

12:50 Lunch and networking