Kim Siang Khaw

Jun Kai NG (黄俊凯) successfully defended his Master’s thesis on 12 May 2024. He worked on the “Validation of the Calorimeter Acceptance Model in the Fermilab Muon g-2 Experiment”. The whole team congratulates him on his success. He has been awarded the CSC PhD Scholarship (2024-2028) and will stay in our group as a PhD student, working on the SHINE Muon Source project. 

Yimin Wan (万一民) and Xingyun Huang (黄幸运) have successfully defended their Bachelor’s thesis on 4 Jun 2024. They worked on the “Design and Construction of Spark Chamber Frame Structure, Gas System, and Camera System” and “Spark-Chamber-based Muon Mass Measurement”. The whole team congratulates them on their success. Xingyun will stay in our group as a PhD student, working on the PSI muEDM project. Yimin will join the Shanghai Advance Research Institute (SARI) as a Master’s student in the major of Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics.  

Our group recently participated in the MIP2024 workshop at Peking University from April 20th to 21st. Kim Siang served as the session chair for the precision measurement session, while three of our group members (Yusuke, Siew Yan, and Guan Ming) presented at the plenary session and nine at the poster session. Fangchao, Jun Kai, and Yuzhi won the Best Poster Awards for their work on the Shanghai Muon Source, the Muon g-2 experiment, and the muEDM experiment, respectively. Congratulations to them! For more information about the workshop, please visit https://indico.cern.ch/event/1356341/. The next edition of the workshop, MIP2025, will be hosted by Hunan University at Changsha! We are all very excited about it!

Our group recently participated in the SHINE electron beam’s Applied Science and Key Technology workshop from April 1st to 2nd. Kim Siang delivered a talk on the Muon Source based on SHINE and its applications. Several members from TDLI also attended the meeting, and we enjoyed a comprehensive tour of the SHINE facility. We are all very excited about the progress of the SHINE construction!

From Mar 3rd to 4th, Kim Siang visited Lanzhou for the first time to engage in an academic exchange with Prof. Zhiyi Liu’s group on Muography, accompanied by several officers from the Shanghai government. He also gave a seminar talk on Muon Physics at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP), CAS. We enjoyed a comprehensive tour of IMP’s accelerator facility, which was truly eye-opening. The trip was extremely successful, as we learned a great deal about muography from Prof. Liu’s group and had extensive discussions about future collaborations with both Lanzhou University and IMP. We look forward to our next visit!

We are accepting SJTU Summer Research Internship students this summer! The program we offer is the measurement of the muon properties using tabletop setup in our laboratory at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute.

Eligibility Requirements:
– Students must have completed at least one year of an undergraduate program and be currently enrolled as an undergraduate;
– Hold at least a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale or equivalent;
– Students from non-English speaking countries must provide an English language proficiency certificate.

The program will start on Jul 1st and last until Aug 11th, 2024. Please apply by May 30th for the application to be considered.

You will find more information about the internship in this brochure: https://global.sjtu.edu.cn/en/news/view/718.

Kim Siang has represented the accelerator-based particle physics experimental group for the Key Laboratory for Shanghai and MOE for the annual report. In the presentation, Kim Siang elaborated the progress in three main directions of the group, the collider experiments (ATLAS and CEPC), the fixed-target experiment (Dark SHINE) and the storage ring experiments (Muon g-2 and muEDM). Lots of progress have been made for 2023 and we hope for more in 2024!

Meng has attended the 27th J-PARC Muon g-2/EDM Collaboration Meeting at Niigata University and presented a talk about the status of the muon polarization monitor. The exchange between the Shanghai Muon Physics Group and the KEK/J-PARC Muon Physics group has became a regular and we hope for a stronger collaboration in the future!

Kim Siang and Tianqi have presented talks about the Shanghai Muon Source and the PSI muEDM experiment at the Shanghai Particle and Nuclear Physics Annual Meeting at Tongji University. It was a great opportunity to present the progress of our research program and to meet up with fellow physicists in the same region.

Kim Siang was invited to be a speaker at the 《致交论道》event organized by the Zhiyuan College at SJTU. The topic of discussion was “What is the new physics behind the N-th place of decimals”.