Student Projects in Nuclear Physics

This work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant 1207857

Active Projects
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Tagger Microscope Installation and Commissioning

 * Tagger Microscope Status - Alex Barnes
 * Microscope Installation Pictures - Alex Barnes, Brendan Pratt, James McIntyre
 * Fiber Installation - Alex Barnes, Brendan Pratt, James McIntyre

Tagger Microscope Mechanical Construction

 * Tagger Microscope Construction - James McIntyre, Alex Barnes
 * Construction of the Full-Scale Tagger Microscope - Ann Marie Carroll, James McIntyre, Jonathan Kulakofsky, Liana Hotte,  Kenny Brand,  John Bartolotta, Aaron Carta
 * Tagger Microscope Engineering Drawings - James McIntyre
 * Component Machining - James McIntyre, Brendan Pratt
 * Igor's repository of mechanical drawings - Igor Senderovich
 * Calibration Device for Scintillators - John Turner, Emily Briere
 * Construction Phase - James McIntyre
 * Fiber Splicing - James McIntyre, Ann Marie Carroll

Tagger Microscope Electronics
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 * Microscope Electronics - Alex Barnes, Igor Senderovich, Jonathan Kulakofsky
 * Euro Card Connectors - Alex Barnes, James Mcintyre
 * Darkbox Fiber Testing Setup - Alex Barnes

Active Collimator Installation and Commissioning

 * Assembly and bench tests with the active collimator - John Bartolotta
 * Active Collimator Installation Pictures - Alex Barnes

Diamond Radiator Fabrication and Mounting
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 * Diamond Radiator Thinning Using an Excimer Laser - Brendan Pratt
 * Diamond Mounting - Brendan Pratt
 * Analysis of Diamond Cantilever Vibration - Jessica Hyde
 * Surface Images and Thickness profile of Diamonds - Fridah Mokaya

Hadron Spectroscopy

 * Summary of 2008 XYZ Meson Review - Igor Senderovich
 * Exotic b1&pi; Channel Simulation and Analysis - Igor Senderovich

Radphi Data Analysis

 * Omega photoproduction and backgrounds simulation

GPU Computing

 * GPU/CPU Cooling System - James McIntyre, Alex Barnes
 * [[Media:JBCooling_system1.pdf|Cooling System Specification]] - John Bartolotta

Mentor Connection

 * Mentor Connection 2014 - Alden Richter, Omar Amer, and Suki Hyman, 7/2014.
 * Mentor Connection 2013 - Michael Reisman and Kyle Lockwood, 7/2013.
 * Mentor Connection 2012 - Ramone Brown and Solomon Utain, 7/2012.
 * Mentor Connection 2011 - Lacey Nolz, Kim Hoon, and Alex Popescu, 8/2011.

GlueX

 * [[media:EmilyBriere_FinalReportREU2012.pdf|Design and Fabrication of Calibration Device for Scintillating Fibers of Tagger Microscope for use in GlueX’s QCD Experiment]] - Emily Briere, 8/2012.
 * Active Collimator Beam Test Data Analysis -  Ann Marie Carroll, 12/2011.
 * Diamond Radiator R&D Phase I - Igor Senderovich, Brendan Pratt, James McIntyre, Chris Pelletier, and Matt Heiss, 5/2010.
 * Tagger Microscope Prototyping - James McIntyre, Igor Senderovich, Brendan Pratt, Woody Underwood, and Carl Nettleton, 5/2009.
 * [[media:Alisa-8-2008.pdf|Analysis of Michelson Interference Images]], Alisa Engsberg, undergraduate summer internship final report, 8/2008

Diamond Work

 * [[media:CHESS-Users-Meeting-6-2014.pptx| CHESS Users Meeting]] (poster, 6/2014) - Brendan Pratt
 * [[media:NDNC-2014.ppt|New Diamond and Nano Carbons Conference]] (talk, 5/2014) - Brendan Pratt
 * [[media:ICDCM_2013.pdf| International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials]] (poster, 9/2013) - Brendan Pratt
 * [[media:CHESS-Users-Meeting-6-2013.pdf| CHESS Users Meeting]] (poster, 6/2013) - Alex Barnes
 * [[media:Pratt_DNP2012.pdf|Thin Diamond Radiator Fabrication for the GlueX Experiment]] (talk, DNP-2012, Newport Beach, CA, Oct. 24-27, 2012) - Brendan Pratt
 * CHESS Rocking Curve Measurements of Diamond Radiators for the GlueX Experiment (poster, 10/2012) - Brendan Pratt''
 * [[media:CHESS-POSTER.pdf|Diamond Radiator Machining with Laser Ablation]] (poster, 3/2012) - Brendan Pratt

Tagger Microscope

 * [[media:Hotte-Frontiers2015.pdf|Construction and Testing of the Photon Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment]] (poster at Frontiers in Undergraduate Research, UConn, April, 2015 - Liana Hotte
 * [[media:AlexBarnes-DNP2013.pdf|The Development and Construction of the Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment]] (talk DNP-2013 Newport News, VA, 10/2013) -  Alex Barnes
 * [[media:Alex-Grad_Poster_session2013-42x28.pdf|Design and Testing of Photon Tagger Readout Electronics]] (poster, 4/2013) - Alex Barnes
 * [[media:MCINTYRE-POSTER.pdf|Tagger Microscope]] (poster, 3/2012) - James McIntyre
 * [[media:BARNES-POSTER-03-23-2012.pdf|Design and Testing of Photon Tagger Electronics]] (poster, 3/2012) - Alex Barnes

Analysis

 * [[media:senderovich-3-2012.pdf|Identiﬁcation of New 5-pion Meson States]] (poster, 3/2012) - Igor Senderovich
 * Radphi MonteCarlo - Fridah Mokaya

General

 * [[media:Barnes-Juniata-Talk.pdf|Understanding Confinement in Quantum Chromodynamics Through the GlueX Experiment]] (talk, Juniata College invited seminar talk, Nov. 2 2012) - Alex Barnes
 * Collimation and Tagging Instrumentation for the GlueX Photon Beamline (talk, DNP-2012, Newport Beach, CA, Oct. 24-27, 2012) - R.T. Jones, Ann Marie Carroll, Igor Senderovich

Published Works

 * Igor Senderovich, "Search for Gluonic Excitations in Hadrons with GlueX", PhD thesis, University of Connecticut, August 24, 2012.
 * Emily Briere, "Design and Fabrication of Calibration Device for Scintillating Fibers of Tagger Microscope: For use in GlueX’s QCD Experiment", REU project final report, August 1, 2012.
 * Igor Senderovich, "Search for Gluonic Excitations in Hadrons with GlueX", Proceedings of the XIV International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, eds. S. Paul and N. Barmbilla, Munich, Germany, July 13-17, 2011.

Help

 * Administrative Guide for New Group Members
 * How to start a Chrome Remote Desktop session on Linux
 * How to print a poster in P403
 * Notes on distributed authoring software tools
 * Example page - Richard Jones
 * Test page - testing