President of the University of Bahrain Meets with Project Executors at the European Organization for Nuclear Research “CERN”

University of Bahrain (Yasmeen Khalaf)

 

January 12, 2023

 

The President of the University of Bahrain, Dr. Jawaher bint Shaheen Al-Mudhahka, has recently held a virtual meeting with the University of Bahrain team which included research and teaching assistants and postgraduate students on scholarship who are currently working on research and technical projects, in collaboration with the muon detector experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research “CERN”.

 

Dr. Al-Mudhahka learned about the stages of implementation of these development projects and the percentage of completion. She stated that she is proud in the University of Bahrain’s direct involvement is this project, seeing that it trains its cadres in the largest global laboratory for knowledge production and technology development, and one of the most prestigious global research institutions.

 

Research and teaching assistant at the College of Information Technology, University of Bahrain, researcher Abdullah Ibrahim Sabah, explained that the objective of his PhD dissertation is studying the possibility of auto adjusting software, using various techniques, including artificial intelligence.

 

The Researcher, who has been on a scholarship to CERN to work on his PhD research proposal since May 2022, stated that the preliminary findings indicate that auto adjust improves the performance of data analytics software by no less than 6% of the current performance in a short time. Accordingly, the findings of this study will allow physicists in the giant muon detector experiment to obtain high-performance software to analyze data resulting from the collision of particles at the centre of the muon detector.

 

This study is supervised by Dr. Wael Al-Madani, Dr. Hesham Al-Ammal from the University of Bahrain, and Dr. Andrea Boschi from CERN.

 

Engineer Ali Marzouq from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Bahrain, who has been in CERN since March 2022, is working on a project to develop a cooling system for a muon detector using carbon dioxide. He gave a brief presentation on his work on the project, with the design team of the new cooling device based on evaporative cooling technology using carbon dioxide.

 

Engineer Ali Marzouq pointed out that his study deals with the technique of installing and transporting multiple refrigerants in the pressurized muon detector laboratory located 100 meters underground. He referred to the development of a dynamic simulation of the new refrigeration system, with the aim of studying how to operate the system optimally. He pointed out the risks he had undertaken to study the leakage of carbon dioxide gas in the experimental laboratories, which contain the initial models of the new refrigeration system, located in different places between Switzerland and France. These studies included analyzing the process of gas leakage and developing the necessary procedures to reduce and avoid these leaks.

 

The project was supervised by Dr. Omar Al Abbasi from the University of Bahrain as well as Roberto Perosa and Jérôme Dagen from CERN.

 

The Master’s student Hassan Al-Jamea from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Bahrain, who has been in CERN since March 2022, is working on a project to receive data for the ionizing particle timing layer system.

 

Al-Jamea said this project aims to develop a program to detect malfunctions using sensor fusion algorithms and artificial intelligence, and to program the process of sending settings, to communicate between electronic chips and settings of adjusting sensors, so that the settings are implemented according to the messages sent, to fix malfunction on data receiving process.

 

The importance of this work lies in that the communication processes in the detector are subject to malfunction due to the nature of the environment where the sensors and electronic chips are located, and the inability to replace or check the devices in the ionizing particle timing layer system while inside the detector. This requires maintaining the integrity of the data receiving processes of the Ionized particle timing layer system built into the detector, without the need to replace the sensors, so that they can be indirectly examined by means of the data receiving system, via the ionizing particle timing layer system.

 

The project is supervised by Dr. Zuhair Bahri, Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Bahrain, and Dr. Mehmet Ozgur from CERN.

 

The meeting was attended by CERN’s advisor for the Middle East and North Africa region, Mr. Martin Gastal, and the supervisors overseeing the project implementation at CERN. Present from the University of Bahrain were the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Bahrain, Dr. Shaikha Haifa bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, the Dean of the College of Information Technology, Dr. Hessa Jassem Al-Junaid, and the Dean of the College of Science and the UoB coordinator for collaboration with CERN Prof. Mohammed Mustafa El Helou.

 

It is worthy to note that the collaboration of the University of Bahrain with the European Organization for Nuclear Research “CERN” started in 2019, when the University of Bahrain became a participating member in the CERN muon detector experiment. This collaboration provided the opportunity for several university affiliates and students to work on joint projects of education, training and development in the areas of science, engineering, computer, and information technology. These projects aim to make the Kingdom of Bahrain one of the countries that contribute to knowledge production and development of technology, through this global laboratory.

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