SONAR 1: First Workshop on SOftware for NegAtive-muon Research

Monday 15 Apr 2024, 10:00 → 16:00 Europe/London

Virtual Workshop

Adrian Hillier (Muon Group, ISIS, STFC, UKRI, UK), Ben Ohayon (Faculty of Physics, Technion IIT, Israel), Leandro Liborio (Scientific Computing Department, STFC, UKRI, UK)

Recent research developments in non-destructive elemental analysis, the extraction of absolute nuclear charge radii, and muon catalyzed nuclear fusion have been using negative muon experiments. Computational modelling has played an important role in these developments, but the modelling activities have happened in different places, have relied in a set of diverse modelling codes and some of the modellers have not had the chance to interact with their experimental counterparts.   

We organized this "SONAR 1: First SOftware for NegAtive-muon Research" workshop to give the community the opportunity to get together and discuss in detail the role of software on negative muon research.  

The workshop will take place on April 15th, 2024, and its scope will include discussion of the uses of negative muons on different research areas and which are the computational needs for these areas. 

 

10:00 → 10:05 Introduction

Speakers: Dr Adrian Hillier (STFC), Prof. Ben Ohayon (Faculty of Physics, Technion IIT, Israel), Dr Leandro Liborio (Scientific Computing Department, Rutherford Appleton)

10:05 → 10:25 MuDirac and Its Software Philosophy

Speaker: Dr Leandro Liborio (Scientific Computing Department, Rutherford Appleton)

MuDirac-Liborio.pptx

10:25 → 10:45 Negative-muon research at J-PARC MUSE

Speaker: Dr Izumi Umegaki (KEK)

Umegaki_240415_reduce.pdf

10:45 → 11:05 Elemental analysis at J-PARC MUSE

Speaker: Dr Motonobu Tampo (KEK)

11:05 → 11:25 Muon Cascade Dynamics Revealed by High-resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Muonic Atoms

Speaker: Dr Takuma Okumura (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

11:25 → 11:45 Usage of MuDirac in mu-XES Experiments

Speaker: Dr Sayani Biswas (Muon Group, ISIS, STFC, UKRI, UK)

SONAR_workshop_talk_2024_ISIS.pptx

11:45 → 12:05 Implementation of MuDirac in GEANT4: a Preliminary Approach to the Improvement of the Muonic Atom Cascade Simulation Process

Speaker: Matteo Cataldo (Muon Group, ISIS, STFC, UKRI, UK - Univ of Milan, Italy)

mudirac_19April.pptx

12:05 → 13:05 Break

13:05 → 13:25 Muonic Atoms for Particle and Nuclear Physics

Speaker: Dr Andreas Knecht (PSI, Switzerland)

Andreas Knecht - Muonic atoms for particle and nuclear physics.pdf

13:25 → 13:45 MuDirac wishlist

Speaker: Ben Ohayon (Faculty of Physics, Technion IIT, Israel)

SONARBen.pdf

13:45 → 14:05 Simulation of muonic atom physics and muon catalyzed fusion with GEANT4

Speaker: Dr Ara Knaian (NK Labs, USA)

14:05 → 14:25 Rapid elemental analysis from muonic X-ray spectra

Speaker: Dr Tomasz Kacprzak (PSI, Switzerland)

talk_tomaszk_240415.pdf

14:25 → 14:40 Break

14:40 → 15:45 Discussion

15:45 → 16:00 Close