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===Project Proposal===

===Project Proposal and Overview===

The confinement of quarks and gluons within the hadron has been declared one of the top ten physics mysteries of the century. Quarks, along with leptons, are the smallest known building blocks of our universe, however scientists have yet to isolate one. Quarks and anti-quarks exist only in bundles known as hadrons, bound tightly together by the force-carrier particles gluons. The reason for the massive strength of such bonds remains unknown, and open for exploration. The field of Quantum Chromodynamics designates such a force the “Color Force”, further explaining that quarks and gluons carry a “color charge” (Red, Blue, Green, AntiRed, AntiBlue, or AntiGreen). As quarks and gluons frantically interact and transfer color charges, the net color of any given hadron remains colorless. When quarks pull away, the color force merely stretches and grows stronger, forever confining the quarks and gluons. The color force is a fundamental interaction, the source of even the strong interaction, and thus an understanding of the gluonic field would unveil an entirely new realm of physics that is driving the world around us.

The confinement of quarks and gluons within the hadron has been declared one of the top ten physics mysteries of the century. Quarks, along with leptons, are the smallest known building blocks of our universe, however scientists have yet to isolate one. Quarks and anti-quarks exist only in bundles known as hadrons, bound tightly together by the force-carrier particles gluons. The reason for the massive strength of such bonds remains unknown, and open for exploration. The field of Quantum Chromodynamics designates such a force the “Color Force”, further explaining that quarks and gluons carry a “color charge” (Red, Blue, Green, AntiRed, AntiBlue, or AntiGreen). As quarks and gluons frantically interact and transfer color charges, the net color of any given hadron remains colorless. When quarks pull away, the color force merely stretches and grows stronger, forever confining the quarks and gluons. The color force is a fundamental interaction, the source of even the strong interaction, and thus an understanding of the gluonic field would unveil an entirely new realm of physics that is driving the world around us.

A mechanized calibration device is a small, but instrumental, element of the GlueX experiment. Unable to access the microscope while it’s running, we nevertheless need to know that we can trust its results. The results of this experiment are expected to increase the knowledge of Quantum Chromodynamics by several orders of magnitude. The scope includes energy advances, as an understanding of the confinement of antiquarks could help us harness antimatter. From here, the potential extends from renewable energy to space travel. But fundamentally, this experiment seeks to expose an unknown element of physics, and I hope to contribute.

A mechanized calibration device is a small, but instrumental, element of the GlueX experiment. Unable to access the microscope while it’s running, we nevertheless need to know that we can trust its results. The results of this experiment are expected to increase the knowledge of Quantum Chromodynamics by several orders of magnitude. The scope includes energy advances, as an understanding of the confinement of antiquarks could help us harness antimatter. From here, the potential extends from renewable energy to space travel. But fundamentally, this experiment seeks to expose an unknown element of physics, and I hope to contribute.

== Previous Work -- John Turner ==

== Previous Work -- John Turner ==