2019 Proseminar: Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics

Proseminar

Tuesday, 3. DS. (11:10 - 12:40), SE2/201/H

Organizer

Steffen Turkat (steffen.turkat@tu-dresden.de)

Information

• The language of this Proseminar is English.
• During the first seminar on 2 April 2019 the general procedure, as well as some important presentation skills will be discussed.

How to participate/apply?

• Please contact the organizer via email as soon as possible and indicate three preferred topics from the list below.
  
• Alternatively simply show up in the first seminar and pick one of the remaining topics.
  
• The list of presentations with associated students will be updated frequently on this page.

• If you still want to register write an email to the organizer. There are still open slots in the schedule below.
  

About the presentation

• Preparatory meetings: 2 meetings for each talk, further details by email
• Every talk will last 30 minutes
• All necessary materials will be provided after all topics are distributed
• Talks should be given with prepared slides in English (laptop, beamer and pointer will be provided)

Schedule:

• 16.04.2019
  Exploring the interior of the sun
  The Borexino experiment
  
  
• 30.04.2019
  Visiting the particle zoo
  The Standard Model of particle physics
  
  
• 07.05.2019
  Collisions on a micro-scale
  Interactions between particles and matter
  
  
• 14.05.2019
  Screening the human body
  Radiation detection techniques in medical diagnostics
  
  
• 21.05.2019
  Hunting the rarest nuclear processes
  Experiments investigating the double beta decay
  
  
• 28.05.2019
  Radionuclide therapy in cancer treatment
  Incorporating radioactive substances to irradiate tumor tissue
  
  
• 04.06.2019
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• 18.06.2019
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• 25.06.2019
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• 02.07.2019
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• 09.07.2019
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Further available topics:

• Nuclear Astrophysics Underground
  The world's underground accelerator facilities for nuclear reaction experiments

• Radioactive ion beam facilities
  Basic concepts of rare isotope beam production and where to find them

• The Evolution of the Elements
  What is experimentally known about nuclear processes creating chemical elements

• Space based gamma-observatories
  How can we track nuclide signatures from supernova remnants

• Radiation therapy in cancer treatment
  Using ion beam facilities to precisely irradiate tumor tissue
  

• The age of the Earth, the Galaxy and the entire Universe
  Using alpha spectroscopy for (Cosmo)chronometry

• The most common decay mode
  The advantages of Beta-Spectrometry

• Messengers of the nucleus
  Measuring the nuclear structure with Gamma-Spectrometry
  

• The solar neutrino problem
  Solar neutrinos and their oscillations

• Supernova explosion nearby
  How Supernova 1987A started the multi-messenger era

• How much does a neutrino weight?
  The KATRIN experiment, the worlds most sensitive beta spectrometer

• Neutron stars
  Nuclear densities on stellar scales

• Illustrating Quantum Field Theory
  Feynman-Diagrams and their advantages

• Predicting the rarest nuclear processes
  The theory of the double beta decay