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

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

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

4. Theory Phenomenology Field theory
[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

5. Nuclear Physics Nuclear structure Nuclear astrophysics (theory)
[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

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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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

10. Challenges
Science policy
Budget
Human capital