Bollettino Settimanale - Dipartimento di Fisica

Bollettino Settimanale
Lunedì 19 gennaio 2015
AULA CONVERSI ORE 16.00
SEMINARIO TEORICO
Non local gravity
Fabio Briscese
(Dipartamento de Fisica, CCEN, Universidade
Federal da Paraiba, Cidade Universitaria, Brazil.)
In this seminar I will introduce a new nonlocal
model of gravitation, the so called superrenormalizable quantum gravity model, and I will
review its main properties. In particular I will
discuss the power counting renormalizability and
some features of the classical solutions.
Martedi’ 20 gennaio 2015
SALA DIREZIONE INFN ORE 14.00
SEMINARIO INFN-Fisica particelle
elementari
Rivelazione di fotoni con MicroPattern Gas
Detector (MPGD)
S. Dalla Torre (INFN - Sezione di Trieste)
La rivelazione di fotoni con rilevatori a gas e'
introdotta in chiave storica. I MPGD offrono nuove
oppportunita' che permettono di superare alcuni
limiti intrinseci degli approcci precedenti. Viene
offerta una panoromatica degli sviluppi recenti e
delle applicazioni sia nell'ambito della ricerca
fondamentale che in campi di interesse sociale.
SALA DIREZIONE INFN ORE 16.00
SEMINARIO
STRUTTURA
DELLA AULA CONVERSI ORE 16.00
MATERIA
SEMINARIO GENERALE
Screening of charge impurities: an alternative The Top Quark: Yes, it is Large, but is it
mechanism for the detection of gases on Essential?
graphene and nanotubes
Michael E. Peskin
Jorge O. Sofo
(SLAC, Stanford Unversity)
(The Pennsylvania State University)
The top quark now well-characterized as the
In gas detection with carbon nanotubes or heaviest particle in the particle physicist's Standard
graphene, the change in conductivity due to Model. But, still, we do not understand the
molecular adsorption has been generally significance of this property. Is the top quark just an
attributed to a change in carrier density due to ordinary quark, though somewhat oversized? Does
charge transfer. However, these explanation does its heaviness give it a special role in the story of the
not take into account several important physical Higgs boson, dark matter, and other open
effects. 1) The counter-ions left after the charge questions? Is it the lightest of a set of even more
transfer process lower the mobility and might massive particles, lying just over our current
compensate the effect of extra carriers. 2) The horizon? Does it represent the climax of our current
experimental results are not consistent with story of particle physics, or the beginning of the
variations in the ionization potential or electron next one? In this lecture, ! I will review what is
affinities of the adsorbates. We proposed an known about the top quark and discuss the
alternative explanation based on the screening directions that the study of this quark may take us
produced by the molecules on the charge in the future.
impurities of the substrate. Given that the
scattering with these impurities is the main limiting
factor of the conductivity, the change in screening
produced by the mol! ecules has a substantial
effect on the conductivity. Our model is based on
the dielectric function of graphene at the RPA
level and the impurity scattering in the first Born
approximation. With this model we explain the
increase in conductivity and we determine
optimum parameters to increase the sensitivity of
the devices.
Mercoledi’ 21 gennaio 2015
Giovedi’ 22 gennaio 2015
Venerdì 23 gennaio 2015