SAIP2015

Session

NPRP

30 Jun 2015, 10:00

Conveners

NPRP: NPRP1

• Simon Mullins (iThemba LABS (Gauteng))

NPRP: NPRP1

• Steven Karataglidis (University of Johannesburg)

NPRP: NPRP1

• Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)

NPRP: NPRP1

• Joel Mira (iThemba LABS)

NPRP: NPRP1

• Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)

NPRP: NPRP1

• Antoine Mulaba-Bafubiandi (University of Johannesburg)

NPRP: NPRP1

• Paulus Masiteng (University of Johannesburg)

NPRP: NPRP1

• Deepak Kar (University of the Witwatersrand)

NPRP: NPRP1

• Stephan Winkler (iThemba LABS (Gauteng))

NPRP: Division Meeting

• Simon Mullins (iThemba LABS (Gauteng))

NPRP: track 2

• Vela Mbele (iThemba LABS (Gauteng))

NPRP: track 1

• Simon Mullins (iThemba LABS (Gauteng))

NPRP: NPRP1

• Sifiso Ntshangase (University of Zululand)

NPRP: track 2

• Pete Jones (iThemba LABS)

Contribution list Timetable

138. Test for traditional vibrational wisdom in 110,112Cd by two proton stripping

Mr Bongani Maqabuka (University of the Western Cape)

30/06/2015, 10:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

90. Nuclear structure studies in the A=136 mass region using transfer reactions.

Ms Bernadette Rebeiro (University of the Western Cape)

30/06/2015, 10:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

140. Statistical properties of Zirconium-91

Mr Bonginkosi Richard Zikhali (Zikhali)

30/06/2015, 11:10

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

168. Second-order Coulomb excitation effects from the GDR

Prof. Nico Orce (University of the Western Cape)

30/06/2015, 11:30

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

93. Search for a Neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in the tau-tau final state in early Run II collision data at ATLAS

Mr Guillermo Hamity (Honours Physics Student)

30/06/2015, 14:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

61. Jet substructure: a discovery tool at the LHC

Deepak Kar (University of Witwatersrand)

30/06/2015, 14:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

43. Probing new physics in the Higgs sector with effective field theories at the Large Hadron Collider

Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

30/06/2015, 15:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

42. Status of the measurements of Higgs boson properties with the ATLAS detector

Prof. Bruce Mellado (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

30/06/2015, 15:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

26. Monte Carlo simulations to obtain the weak magnetism term for ²²Na beta decay

Mr Lutendo Phuthu (University of the Western Cape)

01/07/2015, 09:40

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

360. Generation and validation of Monte Carlo signal events for the H->ZdZd->4l Analysis

Mr Doomnull Attah Unwuchola (University of Johannnesburg)

01/07/2015, 10:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

271. Measurement of single muon vs charged particle multiplicity at the LHC – an outlook study.

Ms Sibaliso Mhlanga (Post Graduate)

01/07/2015, 11:10

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

207. Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in ATLAS

Ms Shell-may Liao (University of the Witwatersrand, School of Physics, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa”)

01/07/2015, 11:30

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

216. The Impact of Re-homogenisation for Nodal Cross-section Corrections in OSCAR-4 as Applied to SAFARI-1 Research Reactor

Mr Eric Chinaka (North-west University & NECSA)

01/07/2015, 14:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

177. The development of a neutron converter for the production of radioactive beams at iThemba LABS

Mr Zipho Ngcobo (iThemba Labs)

01/07/2015, 14:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

48. An analysis and quantification of typical errors in the deterministic calculational path for research reactor modelling

Mr Thembelani Gina (University of Johannesburg, Necsa)

01/07/2015, 14:40

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

337. Fast Neutron Radiography at an RFQ Accelerator System

Mr Graham Daniels (Necsa)

01/07/2015, 15:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

212. Data processing at the Necsa neutron diffraction facility

Mr Deon Marais (The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa))

01/07/2015, 15:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

67. Alpha particle scattering within the MCAS approach

Prof. Steven Karataglidis (University of Johannesburg)

02/07/2015, 09:40

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

107. Developing the high data-throughput ADC daughter board of the PROMETEO test-bench for the upgrade of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter

Mr Matthew Spoor (WITS)

02/07/2015, 10:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

78. GPU-based Computation of Energy and Time for the Upgrade of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS Detector”

Mr Marc Sacks (University of the Witwatersrand)

02/07/2015, 10:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

153. Exploring the Dark Sector extension to the Standard Model via the Higgs Portal

Prof. Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)

02/07/2015, 11:10

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

159. Dark matter production in association with Higgs bosons through heavy scalar resonance at the LHC

Mr Stefan von Buddenbrock (University of the Witwatersrand)

02/07/2015, 11:30

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

44. Search for the Higgs boson in the di-photon decay in association with intermediate missing energy with the ATLAS detector

Ms Shell-may Liao (University of the Witwatersrand, School of Physics, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa”)

02/07/2015, 11:50

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

416. Radioelement results which was obtained with a self-developed measuring method of a new in situ gamma ray detection system

Dr Jacques Bezuidenhout (Stellenboch University)

02/07/2015, 14:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

449. A calibration facility for in-situ gamma-ray detector efficiency

Mr Alfred Sehone (Military Academy, Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, Saldanha, 7395, South Africa)

02/07/2015, 14:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

287. Plasma diagnostics on the GTS-ECRIS at iThemba Labs

Mr Muneer Sakildien (iThemba LABS)

02/07/2015, 14:40

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

317. Ion Sources used to produce different beams at iThemba LABS

Dr Joele Mira (iThemba LABS)

02/07/2015, 15:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

238. Investigating prompt gamma cross-section data using a Geant4-simulated AFRODITE detector system

Ms Vijitha Ramanathan (University of Cape Town)

02/07/2015, 15:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

464. Division Meeting

Dr Simon Mullins (iThemba LABS (Gauteng))

02/07/2015, 16:10

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

335. A multiplet of chiral bands in 194Tl: DSAM lifetime measurements

Dr Elena Lawrie (iThemba LABS)

03/07/2015, 09:40

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

148. An Integration Framework Tool for ATCAs in the ATLAS Detector Control System

Mr Robert Reed (University of Witwatersrand)

03/07/2015, 09:40

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

147. A di-Higgs Search in the γγbb Decay Channel Using the ATLAS Detector

Mr Robert Reed (University of Witwatersrand)

03/07/2015, 10:00

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

66. A Portable ReadOut ModulE for Tilecal ElectrOnics (PROMETEO) test-bench for the certification of the Tile Calorimeter of the ATLAS detector

Dr Chamunorwa Oscar Kureba (University of the Witwatersrand)

03/07/2015, 10:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

174. The design and simulation of a new experimental set up for measuring short nuclear level lifetimes

Mr Bhivek Singh (University of the Western Cape)

03/07/2015, 10:20

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

358. Fine structure of the isovector Giant Dipole Resonance in neutron-rich calcium isotopes using the (p,p') reaction at 200 MeV

Mr Mouftahou Latif (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050)

03/07/2015, 11:10

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

119. A study of the Isovector Giant Dipole Resonance across the neodymium and samarium isotope chains

Ms Lindsay Donaldson (University of the Witwatersrand)

03/07/2015, 11:30

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

99. Comparative study of proton induced radiation damage in plastic scintillators for the Tile Calorimeter of ATLAS

Ms Harshna Jivan (University of the Witwatersrand)

03/07/2015, 11:30

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

327. Generation of Time-Stamps by a Digital Data Acquisition System

Mr Nicholas Erasmus (University of the Western Cape)

03/07/2015, 11:50

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

149. Search for scissor resonance in 182Ta

Mr C.P. Brits (University of Stellenbosch)

03/07/2015, 11:50

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

240. Extraction of statistical properties in 181Ta to investigate nucleo-synthesis of 180Ta

Mr Kgashane Malatji (UWC)

03/07/2015, 12:10

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

136. Online energy reconstruction on ARM for the ATLAS TileCal sROD co-processing unit

Mr Mitchell Cox (University of the Witwatersrand)

03/07/2015, 12:10

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

83. Characterisation of potential cluster states in 16O

Mr Kevin Li (Stellenbosch University, iThemba Labs)

03/07/2015, 12:30

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

414. Developing a sorting code for Coulomb-excitation studies at iThemba LABS

Mr Craig Mehl (University of the Western Cape)

03/07/2015, 12:30

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

45. A study of radiation damage in plastic scintillators using magnetic resonance techniques for the upgrade of the ATLAS detector

Mr Chad Pelwan (University of Witwatersrand)

03/07/2015, 12:50

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation

420. The Design and Construction of an Active Target Detector for the Study of the 20Ne(α,α’)20Ne* Reaction

Mr Johann Wiggert Brummer (Stellenbosch University)

03/07/2015, 12:50

Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Oral Presentation