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Line 2: + + − − The project that I am working on with Dr. Jones and his UConn lab group is the mechanical design of the tagger microscope enclosure, and the assembly of fiber optic arrays that it will contain. The tagger microscope is a critical part of the GlueX particle accelerator experiment being constructed and run at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia. The GlueX project is overseen (and largely-funded) by the United States Department of Energy, but is executed by an international collaboration of physicists which includes students and faculty members from universities worldwide.
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I am soon to be a 7th semester Physics major, and I have been working with Dr. Jones and his lab group since more-or-less the beginning of summer 2008. My current work on the GlueX project relates to the mechanical engineering design and testing of the photon-tagging detector (microscope) which will be used in the Hall D experiment at the Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (J-Lab). I am also extremely involved in USA Cycling, where I work as a neutral support race mechanic at professional cycling races across the country (but mostly in the northeast).
I am soon to be a 7th semester Physics major, and I have been working with Dr. Jones and his lab group since more-or-less the beginning of summer 2008. My current work on the GlueX project relates to the mechanical engineering design and testing of the photon-tagging detector (microscope) which will be used in the Hall D experiment at the Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (J-Lab). I am also extremely involved in USA Cycling, where I work as a neutral support race mechanic at professional cycling races across the country (but mostly in the northeast).
The project that I am working on with Dr. Jones and his UConn lab group is the mechanical design of the tagger microscope enclosure, and the assembly of fiber optic arrays that it will contain. The tagger microscope is a critical part of the GlueX particle accelerator experiment being constructed and run at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia. The GlueX project is overseen (and largely-funded) by the United States Department of Energy, but is executed by an international collaboration of physicists which includes students and faculty members from universities worldwide.
==Project Abstract==
==Project Abstract==
The GlueX experiment is designed to probe the mechanisms of confinement of quarks and gluons inside hadrons. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the accepted theory of the nuclear strong force which explains the interactions of the quarks and gluons that compose hadrons. Quarks and gluons are subatomic particles which never live in isolation, but are always bound inside composite objects called hadrons. Gluons are the force that holds quarks together inside hadrons is the gluon field. Different hadrons are distinguished by a unique set of quantum numbers for J (spin), P (parity), and C (charge conjugation) and flavor. Hadrons come in two types: mesons existing in their simple state of bound quark/antiquark, and baryons in simplest form of three quarks. Mesons consist of only two fermions, and provides a unique opportunity for studying strong-interacting physics. Such an opportunity is analagous to the hydrogen atom in classical physics.
The GlueX experiment is designed to probe the mechanisms of confinement of quarks and gluons inside hadrons. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the accepted theory of the nuclear strong force which explains the interactions of the quarks and gluons that compose hadrons. Quarks and gluons are subatomic particles which never live in isolation, but are always bound inside composite objects called hadrons. Gluons are the force that holds quarks together inside hadrons is the gluon field. Different hadrons are distinguished by a unique set of quantum numbers for J (spin), P (parity), and C (charge conjugation) and flavor. Hadrons come in two types: mesons existing in their simple state of bound quark/antiquark, and baryons in simplest form of three quarks. Mesons consist of only two fermions, and provides a unique opportunity for studying strong-interacting physics. Such an opportunity is analagous to the hydrogen atom in classical physics.