This is a past event.

Michigan Tech Physics Professors Raymond Shaw and Will Cantrell will give a talk entitled "Accessing New Physics by Super-Sizing a Convection-Cloud Chamber".   Please join the presentation on Thursday, September 16th at 4:00pm in Fisher Hall 139. 

Accessing New Physics by Super-Sizing a Convection-Cloud Chamber

 The Michigan Tech Pi Chamber generates clouds through turbulent thermal convection in a humid environment. The resulting lab-scale cloud allows exploration of the chain of events from aerosols to nucleated cloud droplets, to droplet growth by vapor condensation. An analogous chain of events can be studied for ice in supercooled water clouds. By scaling up the size of a convection-cloud chamber, we expect that one more crucial link can be added to the chain: the growth of precipitation-sized drops through collision and coalescence of cloud droplets. Michigan Tech is leading a collaboration to design the super-sized "aerosol-cloud-drizzle convection chamber" (ACDC2), that will allow the full range of "particle physics" in atmospheric clouds to be explored.