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Sultan Qaboos University(SQU)

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

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Presented by

• Prof. Amr Radi

Team Leader for Oman group

a.radi@squ.edu.on and amr.radi@cern.ch

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Outlines

 Structure of SQU  Structure of SQU-CMS Group  Joining CMS as cooperative member  SQU Long term Aims for Joining CMS  SQU Contributions in RPC  Summary and Conclusion

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SQU Structure

The SQU consists of nine Colleges:

 Science  Engineering  Medicine and Health Science  Agricultural and Marine Sciences  Arts and Social Sciences  Economics and Political Science  Education  Law  Nursing

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SQU Structure

 SQU is the oldest university

in Oman and one of the

• ldest university in the

whole Gulf region (was

Founded 1985).

 SQU includes 9 large

faculties and several research institutes

 SQU colleges are serving

around 15,357 students of which 7,942 are female students and 7,415 are male

• students. 4000 employees.

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SQU-CMS group

 The group was formed in

September 2015

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10 academic staff and 6 MSc and 8 BSc students.

 SQU-CMS

group holds regular weekly meeting since Sept. 2015 tell present. The group showed a great interest to join the CMS as full member in order to run strong collaborative research with CMS groups.

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• SQU-CMS group forms fourth sub-groups:

i- Theory (phenomenology), ii- Data analysis iii- Experimental (Simulation detectors). This division was done according to the background and interests of the academic staff in SQU-CMS group which had mainly 6 physicists and 2 computer science. iv- Mechatronic Engineering which has 3 academics and

• ne MSc student from college of Engineering.

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Objectives

 SQU has signed an agreement (Letter of Interest LI ) with CMS

since June 2015 which is mainly benefits the undergraduate and postgraduate students.

 SQU has corporation membership since 2016 which provides

higher level of research collaborations with CMS existing groups

 The main objective is to train young Omani scientists in

theoretical and experimental techniques as well as data analysis skills of high energy particle physics.

 To expose SQU academics and researchers from college of

Science and College of Engineering to one of the most challenging international collaborations at CERN

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Proposed Contribution of SQU in RPC

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 Research, Development and

Simulations

 Chamber Assembly and

Tests

 Data Quality Monitoring

 Completion of the

instrumentations needed for an RPC laboratory in Oman.

Summary and Conclusions

 Within one year (June 2015 - Present), SQU set the

foundations of the CMS research infra structure by: 1- Constructing local SQU-CMS group of 10 senior academic staff 2- Encouraging post graduate students to attend CMS summer schools (10 are selected in the summer 2015,2016 and 2017)

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3- SQU-CMS group has well defined three subgroups according to interests

• f the group members.
• There is always a possibility of adding new members to the SQU-CMS

group from computer and mathematics departments , College of Science and from Mechatronics Department, College of Engineering. Also the window is opened for researchers from other universities in the Sultanate of Oman.

• We have a well organized plan for the coming three years of mainly
• holing training workshops
• MSc and PhD supervision
• getting exposed to CMS type of research topics
• establishing collaborations with regional middle east groups.

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Th Than ank you you

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