Postgraduate Seminar Series
Thursday 18th October
Room 564
5pm
α-TeO2 and sodium tellurite glass
by Emma Barney
Tellurium is a lone pair cation which, when incorporated
into glass, gives interesting optical properties. To better
understand these properties, it is important to have a
good understanding of how Te incorporates its self into a
glass network. This talk will present some work on
alkali tellurite glasses and discuss how total scattering
neutron data is used to get an insight into the
environments of both tellurium, and the modifying alkali
atoms. The advantage of using crystals of similar
compositions as a structural model will also be
highlighted.
Particle Identification in T2K
by Anthony Carver
The ND280 near detector is designed to determine initial
neutrino fluxes and measure Pi0 production cross sections
for the T2K experiment. The design of the ND280 detector
has been influenced by the way that the far detector (Super
Kamiokande) detects particles. This talk will discuss how
the particle identification techniques at Super Kamiokande
have influenced the design of the near detector and discuss
the work at Warwick on particle identification for the near
detector.
DON’T FORGET THIS WEEK THERE WILL BE PIZZA!
The postgraduate seminar series is a series of informal talks run by
postgraduates for postgraduates. All postgraduates are welcome and
refreshments are always provided!