Current Developments in Nuclear and Particle Physics in

Current Developments in Nuclear and Particle Physics in Malaysia W.A.T. Wan Abdullah, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ACFA 11/08 Tsukuba

Activities High Energy Physics (Experimental) Theory Nuclear Physics Research Reactor Particle Accelerators

High Energy Physics ZEUS collaboration [Universiti Malaya, Agensi Nuklear] – Electron-proton collision at HERA Baryon production – Microelectronics FPGA-based Readout Control JPARC [Agensi Nuklear] - Possible participation

Theory Phenomenology [Universiti Malaya] – – – – – Exact calculation of photon-penguin, Z-penguin and Higgs-penguin. Rare decays of heavy flavour, s to d and b to s transitions, with emission of lepton-antilepton pair. Production of dissimilar quark-antiquark pairs from electron-positron collision. Decay of Z boson into dissimilar quark-antiquark pair Effective quark masses in hadrons. Field theory [Science University of Malaysia] – – Studying the SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs field theory for different monopoles and antimonopoles configurations Studying the solitonic solutions of the 2 1 SU(2) Yang-Mills Field Theories

Nuclear Physics Nuclear structure [Technology University of Malaysia, Agensi Nuklear] - heavy elements Nuclear astrophysics (theory) [Universiti Malaya] - solar neutrinos, cosmological neutrinos Neutron scattering [National University of Malaysia, Agensi Nuklear] - materials structure

Research Reactor TRIGA PUSPATI (RTP) 1MW [Agensi Nuklear] – Operating mode: Pulse: maximum total pulsed energy1360MWs Steady/square wave mode: 1MW thermal – Uses: training, R&D, isotope production

Research Reactor (cont) – Current neutron beam facilities: neutron radiography (NR), small angle neutron scattering (SANS) – Planned beam facilities: neutron diffractometer, Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA). Boron Neutron Capture (BNC) for medical and industrial R&D – Current R&D include: instrumentation (FPGA-based readout control/digital signal processing (DSP), neutron tomography), material testing, fundamental research, Monte Carlo simulation with MCNP5

Particle Accelerators Electron Beam Machine (EBM) [Agensi Nuklear] EPS-3000 (3 MeV, 30 mA) – For dosimetry – polymer testing – microbiology services CURETRON (200 KeV,20 mA ) Baby EBM (160 KeV, 10 mA) – Lab scale test ELV-4 RUSSIA (1 MeV, 50mA) – Under construction EPS-3000 (3 MeV, 30 mA)

Particle Accelerators [contd] Plasma devices [Universiti Malaya, Agensi Nuklear] - soft X-ray laser - neutron source Medical [Agensi Nuklear] – Synchrotron (16.5 MeV) For radioisotope production – Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Cancer treatment

Challenges Science policy Budget Human capital