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Welcome to the Department of Physics at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. I invite you to explore our website where you can find information about our academic programs, courses, research activities, and faculty members. Physics has always been at the forefront of exploration. This is accomplished through cognitive enhancement by education transmitted through academic courses as well as carrying out research at the cutting-edge frontiers of human knowledge. The Physics department offer courses that are solidly based on the American system to meet international quality assurance requirements, which has placed the Department as a world-class regional center in a leading international institution. Our student body includes pure-physics students and double-major students, which reflects the interdisciplinary nature of our program. In addition, our research facilities span various fields of physics including condensed matter physics, lasers, materials research, magnetism and superconductivity, nuclear physics, and nonlinear and computational physics. Over the past five decades, our faculty members have conducted research using in-house facilities as well as collaborative research with national and international centers.

Mohammad Al-Kuhaili,
Professor & Chairman, Physics Department

Research and Academic activity statistics 2015 to 2021

3.1

Average Impact Factor Publications​

51

Patents

10042

Cumulative Citation Count​

452

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ONLINE SEMINAR

Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay


Speaker:
Dr. Ibrahim Mirza
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Zoom online meeting

Abstract:
Are neutrinos their own antiparticles? Search for an extremely rare and yet unobserved nuclear transition−neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay if observed would prove neutrinos and antineutrinos are the same—Majorana neutrino. 0νββ decay violates lepton number conservation and therefore provides a plausible scenario to interpret the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. Neutrino oscillation proves neutrinos are massive, but the absolute neutrino masses are yet unknown. 0νββ decay provide constrain or measure effective Majorana neutrino mass. The experimental search for 0νββ decay signal is extremely challenging since it requires a quasi-background-free experiment. The new experiment LEGEND-200 started collecting physics data and recently released first results. Next-generation ton-scale experiments—LEGEND-1000, nEXO, SNO+, CUPID, KamLAND2-Zen, and several small- and medium-scale experiments−NEXT-100, AMoRE-II, TIN.TIN, etc are planned.

Biography:
Ibrahim Mirza earned PhD in experimental particle physics from The University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States. He worked on a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment-LEGEND-1000. Ibrahim conducted his research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His work involves vacuum technology, developing low-radioactivity materials, cleanroom, 3D-printing, simulations and data analysis.


To join the online meeting:
Time: Oct 8, 2025 11:00 AM Riyadh
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https://zoom.us/j/99883235191?pwd=bbmBzAgaIb6LrUcbOecbA5FYUdP8dh.1

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All faculty, researchers and students are invited to attend.

    Location and Time
  • Online

  • 08 Oct, 2025

  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM