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

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

Undergrad Honors Projects

 * Construction and testing of a GEM-based radon detector - Andrew Sampino, started 6/2016
 * [[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.

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:AlexBarnes-DNP2015.pdf|Calibration of the Tagger Detectors with GlueX Commissioning Data]],  Alex Barnes - contributed talk, APS-DNP Annual Fall Meetings, Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 28-31, 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.
 * 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.

Other Venues

 * [[media:Hotte-Frontiers2015.pdf|Construction and Testing of the Photon Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment]], Liana Hotte - poster at Frontiers in Undergraduate Research, UConn, April, 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

Theses

 * Igor Senderovich, "Search for Gluonic Excitations in Hadrons with GlueX", PhD thesis, University of Connecticut, August 24, 2012.

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