The University of Connecticut in association with

GlueX : Current Research Projects

Beamline and Tagger Working Group
- Working group organization
- Diamond radiatior assessment, thinning, mounting and degradation
- Active collimator prototype construction and beam tests
- Dedicated tagger and beam line Monte Carlo simulation
- Tagger focal plane fixed detector array and microscope prototyping and testing
- Review of GlueX photon tagger and beam line, January 23-24, 2005
- Conceptual Design Report work area
- Feedback on tagger design issues from outside experts
Offline Analysis and Simulations Working Group
- HDGeant: a Geant3-based physics simulation for Hall D
- HDGeant4: a Geant4-based physics simulation for Hall D
- HDDM: an xml-based data model for Jlab Hall D
- HDDS: an xml-based geometrical description document for Hall D
- Discussion of beam-related background issues
- Discussion of trigger simulation issues
- Integration of distributed resources into a simulation grid for GlueX
Student Research Projects ()
- Brent Evans: X-ray assessment of diamond radiators at the Synchrotron Light Source in Daresbury, U.K.
- Brent Evans: Web-applet simulating response of thin diamond crystal to mechanical stress
- Chris Gauthier: Monte Carlo simulation of the phone beam line for Hall D
- Chris Gauthier: Design of an active collimator for the GlueX polarized photon source
- Jie Zhao: Counting individual photons with compact photodetectors
- Matthew Demas: Mapping diamond surfaces using interference
- Brendan Krueger: Design and prototyping of SiPM electronics
- Carl Nettleton: Tagger microscope prototype construction
- Igor Senderovich: Characterizing_SiPMs

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0402151.

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