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SAIP2019 Monday 08 July 2019 - Friday 12 July 2019 Polokwane Book of Abstracts ii Contents test 1 0 .............................................. 1 Astrophysical Transients with MeerKAT and MeerLICHT 1 ................. 1 The Equation of State of weak hadron gas from microscopic model3 ............ 1 Determining the Radon Emanation Coefficient for soil sample. 4 .............. 2 Beam emittance measurements in the SPC2 injection beamline at iThemba LABS5 . 3 L-SHELL X-RAY PRODUCTION CROSS SECTIONS IN 39Y, 64GD AND 83BI INDUCED BY 0.1-2.0 MEV/U HEAVY IONS 6 ............................... 3 Calculation of the Higgs mass in GHU: SU(3)W × SU(3)C 9 ................. 4 NMISA quality assurance through international comparisons of radioactivity measurements 10 ............................................... 4 Theoretical modelling of a new class of anisotropic compact stellar model compatible with observational data 11 .................................... 5 A non-minimal composite Higgs model 13 .......................... 5 Structural and optical studies of tin iron chromium nano oxides 14 ............. 6 Structural, Mössbauer, magnetic and optical studies of Sn0.2FexCr1.8−xO3 nano oxides pre- pared by reflux and pressure reactor methods 15 ..................... 6 Onset of 2D magnetic reconnection in the solar photosphere, chromosphere and corona 16 7 Observations of a kink-unstable coronal loop using DKIST/DL-NIRSP and Hinode/EIS 17 7 The solar wind during C22-C23 and C23-C24 solar minima18 ................ 8 Nanocrystalline Silicon Devices for Radiation Sensing Applications 19 ........... 9 Computational Modelling of Minerals Sulfides 20 ....................... 9 Multi-messenger hunts for heavy WIMPs 21 ......................... 10 Low Pressure Focal Plane Detectors for the K600: A design study 22 . 10 Study of total, complete and incomplete fusions 24 ...................... 11 iii Nanostructured 2D Ti3C2/NiO composite material as electrode for supercapacitors appli- cations 25 ........................................... 11 Angular correlation measurements with a segmented clover detector 26 . 12 Costraining f(R)-gravity with cosmological data 27 ...................... 13 <i>Ab</i>-<i>initio</i> studies of sperrylite, platarsite and palladoarsenide phase stability and surfaces 28 ........................................ 13 Transport coefficients of relativistic fluids from third order causal theory29 . 14 DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY STUDY OF COPPER ZINC TIN SULPHIDE (Cu2ZnSnS4) DOPED WITH CALCIUM AND BARIUM 30 ....................... 14 Heavy ion beam induced sputtering of thin film TCOs at MeV energies. 31 . 15 Using Classification Based Neural Networks to Improve Missing Transverse Momentum Reconstruction from 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions 32 . 15 Electronic stopping force of 16O and 63Cu ions in Tantalum Nitride thin films by Time of Flight spectrometry 33 ................................... 16 Mira Variables and the Extragalactic Distance Scale 34 .................... 17 Fast ion-acoustic soliton stopbands in plasmas with two-temperature kappa-distributed electrons 35 .......................................... 17 Simulation of the ATLAS ITk Strip Endcap Modules for Testbeam Reconstruction and Anal- ysis 36 ............................................. 18 Fluctuating Open Heavy Flavour Energy Loss in a Strongly Coupled Plasma with observ- ables from RHIC and the LHC 37 .............................. 18 Structural, thermodynamic, electronic and mechanical properties of MCO<sub>3</sub> (M: Ca, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) precursor materials for Li-ion batteries 38 . 19 Understanding the J/Psi background in top quark events using proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in ATLAS 39 .................... 19 Investigation of the benzole prefractionator distillation column using gamma ray scanning technique 40 ......................................... 20 Astronomical opportunities for HBU’s 41 ........................... 21 Effects of spin parameters variation on the structural and optical properties of spincoated polyaniline thin films 42 ................................... 21 Luminescence and structural properties of Fe3+ doped ZnAl2O4: the influence of charge imbalance 43 ......................................... 22 Beam intensity improvement of high energy heavy ions beams at iThemba LABS 44 . 23 Fluka Monte Carlo simulation of gamma photon transport through a distillation column, designed using ChemSep software 45 ........................... 23 Cosmic radiation and space exploration 46 .......................... 25 iv Probing the DA and EoR Using Differential Observations of the SZE-21cm 47 . 25 Multi-wavelength study of large-scale outflows from the Circinus galaxy 48 . 26 The effects of drifting warm ions on fast ion-acoustic soliton stopbands49 . 27 From Radium to Radon: Radiological assessment of water sources around former uranium mines near West-Rand Johannesburg 50 .......................... 27 Analysis of Type 1 diabetes verbal autopsy data by machine learning techniques 51 . 28 CsMn4As3: A new layered tetragonal pnictide compound with an antiferromagnetic ground state 52 ............................................ 29 Super-Hard Materials of the B-C binary system 53 ...................... 29 Constraining the star formation history with Fermi-LAT observations of the gamma-ray opacity of the universe 54 .................................. 30 Impact-response study of lattice waves and phonons in metallic fcc nanoclusters usingthe Sutton-Chen potential 55 .................................. 30 THE INFLUENCE OF PHOSPHATE ROCK STORAGE ON GROSS ALPHA AND GROSS BETA ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION OF NORM IN SOIL SAMPLES FROM RICHARDS BAY, SOUTH AFRICA 56 .................................. 31 A Review of Milli and Micro-flow Calibration Standards 57 . 32 Hydrogen sulphide gas sensing behaviour of ZnO nanoparticles doped with cobalt and indium. 58 .......................................... 32 Toxicity of Natural Radioactivity in Water Samples from a Gold Mine in Gauteng Province, South Africa 59 ........................................ 33 Modelling instruction in ECP 60 ................................ 34 Investigating the effect of Co addition on the stability of B2 TiPd system using DFTap- proach 61 ........................................... 34 The Study of Microwave Power Effect and Anisotropic Effect in Ba0.34K0.64Fe2As2 (BaK122) Superconducting Single Crystal Using Non-Resonant Microwave Absorption Technique. 62 ............................................... 35 The Ab Initio Study of Ti50Pt50-xHfx (x = 6.25, 18.75, 25) Potential Shape Memory Alloys 63 ............................................... 35 Structural stability of some graphene oxide formations 64 . 36 Equilibrium and electronic properties of cubic copper sulphide 65 . 36 FIRST-PRINCIPLE STUDIES ON THE STRUCTURAL, ELECTRONIC AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF L10 FePt 66 ................................ 37 Quantum Metamaterials: The past, current and future perspective on quantum communi- cation and information science. 67 ............................. 38 v Electronic and vibrational stability of M9S8 (M= Ir, Rh,) pentlandite-like structures: ab- initio study. 69 ........................................ 38 Microstructural characterization of Titanium to copper alloys with their antibacterial rate improvement for biomedical application 70 ........................ 39 Dark matter in the Randall-Sundrum model 71 ........................ 39 Counter-electrojet occurrence as observed from C/NOFS satellite and ground-based mag- netometer data over the African and American sectors 72 . 40 WATER ADSORPTION ON PtAs2 (111) SURFACE: A GENERAL PICTURE FROM DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORIES 73 ................................ 41 Radiological assessment in Weenen agricultural fields 74 . 41 Point defects in cubic Boron Nitride(c-BN) 75 ......................... 42 Computational modelling on Stability of Solid Electrolytes in Magnesium ion batteries 77 42 On the combined analysis of luminescence for thermal assistance and thermal quenching 78 ............................................... 43 An effective solution to a many-bodied problem in first-year physics 79 . 44 Density functional theory study of optical and electronic properties of doped SnO2 with Ge and Sn. 80 ......................................... 44 Temperature dependence of local breakdown voltages of crystalline Si Solar cells through voltage dependent ReBEL 81 ................................ 45 Electroluminescence Module Mismatch Analysis (EMMA) 82 . 45 Sythesis and Characterization of NiO thin films and nano-structures for gas sensing appli- cations 83 ........................................... 46 Temperature dependence of local electroluminescence parameters of crystalline Si Solar cells 84 ............................................ 47 Implementing a robust anti-QCD tagger with mass de-correlated jet image data 85 . 47 Construction and testing of a magneto-optical trap for laser cooling of rubidium atoms 86 48 Density functional theory study of Cyanidin (Cy) dye molecule adsorbed on (100) TiO2 anatase surface for application in DSSCs 87 ........................ 49 Development and testing of a single photon detector for Quantum optics experiments 88 49 Production of metal ion beams with the iThemba LABS ECR ion source 89 . 50 Title: Facile sensing characteristics of V2O5 nanostructured electrode from experimental and first principle approach. 90 ............................... 50 Elastic and Thermal properties
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