Student Projects in Nuclear Physics

This work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant 1812415



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
 * [[media:TAGM_fiber_geometry.pdf|Fiber geometry and numbering scheme]] - Richard Jones
 * Inclusive listing of lab journals of students who worked on this project

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
 * Replacement Fibers Construction and Assessment - Micah Warren
 * Moving the Tagger Microscope - James McIntyre
 * Calculating the move - James McIntyre

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

 * 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

Detector Development

 * Construction and testing of a GEM-based radon detector - Andrew Sampino, Mira Varma

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
 * GPU/CPU Cooling Loop Construction - Andy Wang
 * GPU/CPU Cooling Loop Controls - Frances Yu, Jeremy Prema, Sabrina Shen, Amar Sinha, Varun Yetukuri

Conferences and Workshops

 * [[media:AlexBarnes-JlabUG2016.pdf|Hall D & GlueX Update]],  Alex Barnes - invited plenary talk, JLab Annual User's Group Meeting, Newport News, VA, June 20-22, 2016.
 * [[media:FridahMokaya-DNP2016.pdf|Spin density matrix elements for radiative decays of the omega meson in photoproduction at 5 GeV]],  Fridah Mokaya - contributed talk, APS-DNP Annual April Meeting, Salt Lake City, NM, Apr. 16-19, 2016.
 * [[media:AlexBarnes-DNP2015.pdf|Calibration of the Tagger Detectors with GlueX Commissioning Data]],  Alex Barnes - contributed talk, APS-DNP Annual Fall Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 28-31, 2015.
 * [[media:FridahMokaya-HEreactions-6-2015.pdf|High-Statistics Analysis of All-Neutral Decays of Mesons with the Radphi Experiment]], Fridah Mokaya - contributed talk, 2015 International Summer Workshop on Reaction Theory, Bloomington, IN, June 8-19, 2015.
 * [[media:JamesMcIntyre-HEreactions-6-2015.pdf|High-Resolution Tagger Hodoscope for GlueX]], James McIntyre - contributed talk, 2015 International Summer Workshop on Reaction Theory, Bloomington, IN, June 8-19, 2015.
 * [[media:AlexBarnes-HEreactions-6-2015.pdf|GlueX at JLab]],  Alex Barnes - contributed talk, Hampton University Graduate Summer School 2015, Newport News, VA, May29 - June 17, 2015.
 * [[media:BrendanPrattHUGS-2015.pdf|Diamond Radiator Development for the GlueX Experiment]], Brendan Pratt - contributed talk, 2015 International Summer Workshop on Reaction Theory, Bloomington, IN, June 8-19, 2015.
 * [[media:CHESS-Users-Meeting-6-2014.pptx|Thin Diamond Radiator Characterization at CHESS for the GlueX Experiment]], Brendan Pratt - poster, CHESS Annual User's Meeting, Ithaca, NY, June 10-11, 2014.
 * [[media:NDNC-2014.ppt|Thin Diamond Radiator Fabrication for the GlueX Experiment]] Brendan Pratt - contributed talk, New Diamond and Nano Carbons Conference, Chicago, IL, May 25-29, 2014.
 * [[media:AlexBarnes-DNP2013.pdf|The Development and Construction of the Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment]],  Alex Barnes - contributed talk, DNP-2013 Newport News, VA, October, 2013.
 * [[media:ICDCM_2013.pdf|Thin Diamond Radiator Fabrication and Characterization for The GlueX Experiment]] - Brendan Pratt - poster, International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials, Riva del Garda, Italy, Sept. 2-5, 2013.
 * [[media:CHESS-Users-Meeting-6-2013.pdf|CHESS Rocking Curve Measurements of Thin Diamonds for the GlueX Experiment]], Alex Barnes - poster, CHESS Annual Users Meeting, Ithaca, NY, June 4-5, 2013.
 * [[media:Pratt_DNP2012.pdf|Thin Diamond Radiator Fabrication for the GlueX Experiment]], Brendan Pratt - contributed talk, APS-DNP Annual Fall Meeting, Newport Newport Beach, CA, Oct. 24-27, 2012.
 * Collimation and Tagging Instrumentation for the GlueX Photon Beamline, Igor Senderovich - contributed talk, APS-DNP Annual Fall Meeting, Newport Beach, CA, Oct. 24-27, 2012.
 * Design and Fabrication of Calibration Device for Scintillating Fibers of Tagger Microscope: For use in GlueX’s QCD Experiment, Emily Briere - poster, Conference Experience for Undergraduates, Newport Beach, CA, Oct. 24-27, 2012.
 * Search for Gluonic Excitations in Hadrons with GlueX, Igor Senderovich, Proceedings of the XIV International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, eds. S. Paul and N. Barmbilla, Munich, Germany, July 13-17, 2011.

Other Venues

 * Applying Machine Learning to Particle Detectors ([[media:Frontiers_Poster_Ercolani.pdf|Poster]], [[media:Frontiers_powerpoint_Ercolani.pdf|PowerPoint]], video), Alexander Ercolani, Frontiers in Undergraduate Research 2021, Physics Department, University of Connecticut, March 2021.
 * [[media:mokaya-UConnGradPoster-4-2016.pdf|Spin density matrix elements for radiative decays of the omega meson in photoproduction at 5 GeV]], Fridah Mokaya, poster, Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, Physics Department, University of Connecticut, March 11, 2016.
 * [[media:pratt-UConnGradPoster-4-2016.pdf|Diamond Radiator Fabrication and Characterization for the GlueX Experiment]], Brendan Pratt, poster, Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, Physics Department, University of Connecticut, March 11, 2016.
 * [[media:Ploen_Gluex_PGSA_Poster_Session_Mar_2016.pdf|Quantifying Light Loss in the Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment ]], Christine Ploen, poster, Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, Physics Department, University of Connecticut, March 11, 2016.
 * [[media:Hotte-Frontiers2015.pdf|Construction and Testing of the Photon Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment]], Liana Hotte - poster at Frontiers in Undergraduate Research 2015, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 10-11, 2015.
 * [[media:Barnes-Juniata-Talk.pdf|Understanding Confinement in Quantum Chromodynamics Through the GlueX Experiment]], Alex Barnes - invited seminar, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, Nov. 2 2012.
 * Posters and talks from past years

Undergrad Honors Projects

 * Diagnostics of Light Yield from Scintillating Fibers - Christine Ploen, 5/2016.
 * [[media:LianaHotte_Honors_thesis2015.pdf|Construction of the Photon Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment]] - Liana Hotte, 12/2015.
 * Design and Fabrication of Calibration Device for Scintillating Fibers of Tagger Microscope: For use in GlueX’s QCD Experiment, Emily Briere, REU project final report, August 1, 2012.
 * Listing of past undergraduate research projects

High School Mentor Connection

 * Mentor Connection 2014 - Alden Richter, Omar Amer, and Suki Hyman, 7/2014.
 * Mentor Connection 2013 - Michael Reisman and Kyle Lockwood, 7/2013.
 * all past years

Theses

 * Fridah Mokaya, High Statistics Analysis of All-Neutral Decays of Vector Mesons with the Radphi Experiment, PhD Thesis, University of Connecticut, May 4, 2018.
 * Brendan Pratt, Diamond Radiator Fabrication, Characterization and Performance for the GlueX Experiment, PhD Thesis, University of Connecticut, August 21, 2017.
 * Alex Barnes, Development of the Tagger Microscope & Analysis of Spin Density Matrix Elements in gamma,p -> phi(1020),p for the GlueX Experiment, PhD Thesis, University of Connecticut, May 5, 2017.
 * Liana Hotte, [[media:LianaHotte_Honors_thesis2015.pdf|Construction of the Photon Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment]], Undergraduate Honors Thesis, University of Connecticut, December 18, 2015.
 * Igor Senderovich, Search for Gluonic Excitations in Hadrons with GlueX, PhD thesis, University of Connecticut, August 24, 2012.
 * Chris Pelletier,Vibration Analysis for Diamond Bremsstrahlung Targets, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, University of Connecticut, May 11, 2011.
 * Mitchell Underwood, Design of Electronics for a High-Energy Photon Tagger for the GlueX Experiment, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, University of Connecticut, May 8, 2010.

Help

 * How to 3D Print - James McIntyre, Ben Willis
 * 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

Safety Resources

 * Chemical Inventory P-403 and P-405