Book of Abstracts Ii Contents

SAIP2021 Thursday 22 July 2021 - Friday 30 July 2021 North-West University Book of Abstracts ii Contents Theoretical Modeling of High Entropy Alloys ........................ 1 THE INFLUENCE OF LOCATION AND GENDER ON SHAPING STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN PHYSICS ......................................... 1 A thermo-effusion pump for air sampling: theoretical considerations. ........... 2 Fitting the relic density with contributions from dimension-five operators . 3 Nuclear translocation of Map Kinase and release of basic fibroblast growth factor following photobiomodulation at 660 nm in diabetic wounded cells. ............... 3 A comparison between photobiomodulation at 830 nm and 660 nm on differentiation in diabetic human skin fibroblast cells ............................ 4 Effective remote learning .................................... 4 FACILITATING iADMSC DIFFERENTIATION INTO NEURONAL CELLS BY PHOTOBIOMOD- ULATION USING VISIBLE AND NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS . 5 The derivation of preliminary reference levels for radioactivity in drinking water surround- ing authorised sites. .................................... 6 Solar modulation of cosmic ray proton related to observations by PAMELA from 2006 to 2014 ............................................. 6 SYNTHESIS AND ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF GaN GROWN BY ELECTRO- CHEMICAL DEPOSITION ................................. 7 Search for tW Z production in the Full Run 2 ATLAS dataset using events with four leptons ................................................ 8 Application of tagged neutron method for detecting diamonds in kimberlite. 8 An Investigation of overtraining within Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Models in the search for heavy resonances at the LHC ......................... 9 Analysis of UOC for nuclear forensics using Scanning Electron Microscope . 9 Statistical properties of 133Xe from inverse kinematics Reactions extracted using the Ratio Method ............................................ 10 The development of a real-time Monitoring system for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Phase-II Upgrades ........................................... 11 iii South African contribution towards the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter PreProcessor . 12 Online classes and the effects on conceptual understanding . 12 Quasinormal modes in the large angular momentum limit: an inverse multipolar expansion analysis ........................................... 13 The use of machine learning to understand the excesses of events in SS and 3 lepton events with b-jets at the LHC ................................... 13 Generating function approach to open quantum walks ................... 14 Solving the Schrödinger equation for Hydrogen Molecular ion (H2+) using Sinc functions and empolying both Python and Numpy ......................... 15 Looking at overfitting within semi-supervision with Generative Adversarial Networks for physics searches at the LHC ................................ 15 The use of Semi-Supervision in the search for heavy resonances with the Zγ finalstate . 16 Background decomposition in Zγ events used in the search for high-mass resonances. 16 Search for Zγ high-mass resonances using the ATLAS Detector . 17 Solar modulation of Helium isotopes from minimum to maximum activity . 18 Teaching measurement and uncertainty the SI way ..................... 18 Climatology of the nighttime thermospheric winds over Sutherland, South Africa. 19 Integration of the ALTI module in the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter system . 20 Cost effective sol-gel synthesis of mesoporous TiO2 nanoparticles: Reaction temperature and calcination effects for perovskite solar cells application . 20 Re-designing a radiation-tolerant low voltage power supply for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Phase-II Upgrade ...................................... 21 Quality control software development for testing the next generation of upgraded lowvolt- age power supplies for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter ................... 22 + − + − Search for heavy resonances in the ` `p` ` final state in association with missing trans- verse energy using pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector . 22 Programming the load readout board micro-controllers used in the development of a Burn- In test bench for the ATLAS TileCal Phase-II Upgrade . 23 Targeted photodynamic treatment of colorectal cancer ................... 24 Targeted photodynamic diagnosis of colorectal cancer ................... 24 The characterization and functionality of the interface boards used on the burn-in teststa- tion for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Low Voltage Power Supplies phase II upgrade . 25 Statistical analysis between Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) and SuperDARN Near Range Echoes (NREs) ................................. 25 iv Photons in Darkness ...................................... 26 The replacement and refurbishment of Gap Scintillator Counters for the ATLAS Tile Calorime- ter Phase-I Upgrade ..................................... 27 Quality assurance testing of the ATLAS Tile-Calorimeter Phase-II upgrade low-voltage power supplies ....................................... 27 A Burn-in test station for the ATLAS Phase-II Tile-calorimeter low-voltage power supply transformer-coupled buck converters ........................... 28 Photobiomodulated Differentiation Of Adipose Derived Stem Cells Into Osteoblasts. 29 Search for a heavy pseudo-scalar decaying into a Z bosonp and another heavy scalar bo- son leading to four lepton final states in pp collisions at s = 13˜TeV with the ATLAS detector ........................................... 29 Electronics Research Laboratory at University of Zululand: Contributing towards the AT- LAS Experiment at CERN ................................. 30 Pitch-angle Scattering vs. Magnetic Confinement in Flare Loops . 30 Single Leptoquark Search in ATLAS .............................. 31 Towards discrimination and improved modelling of dark-sector showers . 32 Search for dark-sector showering in ATLAS using semi-visible jets . 32 The anatomy of the multi-lepton anomalies at the LHC and the potential connection with other anomalies ....................................... 33 Probing Dark Matter in the Madala Model using MeerKAT . 33 Quark versus Gluon Jet Tagging ................................ 34 Classification of Sound Conceptions .............................. 34 Diffusing assumptions in astroparticle physics ........................ 35 Intelligent and efficient dual-wavelength ghost imaging ................... 36 Effect of Er doping on structure, optical and electrical properties of the fabricated Schottky diodes based on ZnO thin films prepared by sol-gel spin coating . 36 Heat Transfer Improvement of a Thermal Interface Material for Heat Sink Applications Using Carbon Nanomaterials ................................ 37 Using Asymptotic Matching to Study Accretion Disks .................... 38 Constraints on Dark Matter Models using current LHC Measurements . 38 Effect of 6.25 at.% Ta on TiPtCo Shape Memory Alloy .................... 39 The effects of global radical changes on students’ attitudes in the new mode ofteaching and learning ......................................... 39 v VALIDATION OF THE MONTE CARLO MODEL FOR 6 AND 15 MV PHOTON BEAMS OF VARIAN CLINAC IX LINAC ................................ 40 Simulating the enrichment of cosmological gas ....................... 40 Looking for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) in the latest long baseline accelerator neutrino oscillation data .................................... 41 The multi-wavelength behaviour of PSR B1259-63 during the 2021 periastron passage . 41 Charge transfer mechanism and recombination process of hybrid perovskite solar cell . 42 Generation of GHZ states via projected squeezed states ................... 43 Assessment of NORM in fruits and vegetables from local markets in Hartbeespoort, Mahikeng and Pretoria ......................................... 43 Dicoma anomala enhances the zinc phthalocyanine tetrasulphonic acid (ZnPcS4) mediated photodynamic therapy in breast cancer cells ....................... 44 Effects of photodynamic therapy on A375 Melanoma cells using aluminium phthalocyanine photosensitizer ....................................... 45 Investigating New Computational Techniques for Solving Black Hole Perturbation Equa- tions. ............................................. 46 A dynamical systems analysis of interacting dark energy models . 46 Development of a digital data acquisition system for neutron metrology . 47 On the advantages of relative Toffoli gates .......................... 48 A search for a high-momentum high-mass neutrino in pp collisions with the ATLAS detector .............................................. 48 The Physics of Vacuum Arc Propulsion Systems ....................... 49 Development of 18F Radiochemistry for Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) . 49 Heavy Ion Beam Induced Sputtering of Thin Film Indium Tin Oxide at MEV SIMS Energies. ................................................ 50 Surface, structural, and optical investigations of heavy ion-irradiated polyaniline thin films ................................................ 51 Heav Ion Beam Analaysis of Ion Implanted Polymer Nanocomposites . 52 Cascade Outreach model .................................... 52 The impact of the field model on pre-service students’ qualitative understanding ofbasic DC circuits. ......................................... 53 DOING DIGITAL OFFLINE – THE COVIDEO PROJECT . 53 Resonant Ionization Spectroscopy for laser isotope separation of zinc isotopes

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