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This is a page under development now, being prepared by CUA Nuclear Physics Group in order to start thinking in ideas of projects for summer students.

Ideas for summer students

• Effects of humidity on aerogel refractive index

One of our concerns for the long term use of aerogel, in the Kaon Aerogel Detector, is how the aerogel will behave. We know from papers that it is manufactured by drying silica gel. So, in principle, the tiles can absorb water again and change their densities. As their densities are directly related to their refractive indexes, it is important to understand any change we may find.

The tiles we have are coated by an hydrophobic thin layer of material, so we have a protection on them already. But studying the efficiency of this protection would be an interesting way of understanding better our detector.