Physics Department News
Learn more about Advancement and Innovation for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDAinnova) project
Dr John Marshall and Dr John Back are working as part of the to further the development of the software. They are developing algorithms to interpret highly-complex images of neutrino interactions in the detectors that will be deployed for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Their software uses a careful blend of sophisticated clustering algorithms and machine-learning approaches.
The Pandora software aims to provide an automated approach to reconstruct what happened in neutrino interactions, and so help unlock the One of the defining features of DUNE will be its cutting-edge detectors, and the role of pattern recognition and machine learning is becoming more important to interpret the detector outputs. Under the AIDAinnova programme, Dr Marshall and Dr Back are adapting the Pandora software specifically for use at the
Dr Marshall says 鈥淭hrough AIDAinnova, we鈥檙e collaborating with other teams across Europe: to develop software for future detectors, and to help include the Pandora software in a reusable 鈥渢urnkey鈥 software stack, designed for easy use at future particle physics experiments.鈥
AIDAinnova is co-ordinated through CERN. The U.S. Department of Energy鈥檚 Fermilab is the host laboratory for DUNE, in partnership with funding agencies and more than from all over the globe.
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25 April 2022.
European Research Council Advanced Grant awarded
Professor Ray Dupree (Department of Physics, 果冻传媒) would like to congratulate his son and collaborator Professor Paul Dupree (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) on the award of a European Research Council Advanced Grant EVOCATE. Working together over the last few years using solid state NMR they have made significant advances in the understanding of the molecular architecture of plants. The ERC EVOCATE project will allow the Cambridge and 果冻传媒 teams to study how the architecture of plant fibres changed over millions of years of evolution and to further develop solid state NMR for this research.
Welcome back for term 3
Monday 25 April marks the start of term 3 this year, and we are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to the department after the break.
X-ray Materials Science (XMaS) new school materials
Professor Tom Hase (Magnetic X-ray Scattering group), Co-Director of XMaS alongside Co-Director Dr Didier Wermeille (University of Liverpool) has developed materials aimed at secondary schools to learn about 'The power of X-rays in Material Science' at the European Synchrotron.