Diamond Radiator Assessment

Brent Evans is a UConn undergraduate physics major (class of 2004). While still a high school student, Brent began working R. Jones in summer of 2000. That year they traveled together to Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia, where he spent four weeks helping to conduct the Radphi experiment. The summer of 2001 Brent completed a software project in which he wrote a package in Java to control physics simulation on a computer cluster and display the results all from a web browser. This package was used by the Radphi collaboration and has been adapted for use for the GlueX experiment in Hall D.

After the completion of that project, Brent has initiated a R&D project in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Glasgow to find a reliable source of high-quality diamonds for use in the photon source for the GlueX experiment. In January 2001 he traveled with R. Jones to the U.K. to participate in an assessment of synthetic crystals at the Synchrotron Radiation Source in Daresbury, England. Brent presented a report on those experiments at the 2002 UConn Frontiers in Undergraduate Research exhibition.