Student Projects in Nuclear Physics
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This work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant 1207857
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Active Projects
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
- 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
Hadron Spectroscopy
- Summary of 2008 XYZ Meson Review - Igor Senderovich
- Exotic b1π Channel Simulation and Analysis - Igor Senderovich
Radphi Data Analysis
GPU Computing
Completed Projects
Undergrad Honors Projects
- Design and Fabrication of Calibration Device for Scintillating Fibers of Tagger Microscope for use in GlueX’s QCD Experiment - Emily Briere, 8/2012.
- Active Collimator Beam Test Data Analysis - Ann Marie Carroll, 12/2011.
- 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.
- Mentor Connection 2012 - Ramone Brown and Solomon Utain, 7/2012.
- Mentor Connection 2011 - Lacey Nolz, Kim Hoon, and Alex Popescu, 8/2011.
Talks and Posters
Diamond Work
- CHESS Users Meeting (poster, 6/2014) - Brendan Pratt
- New Diamond and Nano Carbons Conference (talk, 5/2014) - Brendan Pratt
- International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials (poster, 9/2013) - Brendan Pratt
- CHESS Users Meeting (poster, 6/2013) - Alex Barnes
- Thin Diamond Radiator Fabrication for the GlueX Experiment (talk, DNP-2012, Newport Beach, CA, Oct. 24-27, 2012) - Brendan Pratt
- CHESS Rocking Curve Measurements of Diamond Radiators for the GlueX Experiment (poster, 10/2012) - Brendan Pratt
- Diamond Radiator Machining with Laser Ablation (poster, 3/2012) - Brendan Pratt
Tagger Microscope
- Construction and Testing of the Photon Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment (poster at Frontiers in Undergraduate Research, UConn, April, 2015 - Liana Hotte
- The Development and Construction of the Tagger Microscope for the GlueX Experiment (talk DNP-2013 Newport News, VA, 10/2013) - Alex Barnes
- Design and Testing of Photon Tagger Readout Electronics (poster, 4/2013) - Alex Barnes
- Tagger Microscope (poster, 3/2012) - James McIntyre
- Design and Testing of Photon Tagger Electronics (poster, 3/2012) - Alex Barnes
Analysis
- Identification of New 5-pion Meson States (poster, 3/2012) - Igor Senderovich
- Radphi MonteCarlo - Fridah Mokaya
General
- Understanding Confinement in Quantum Chromodynamics Through the GlueX Experiment (talk, Juniata College invited seminar talk, Nov. 2 2012) - Alex Barnes
- Collimation and Tagging Instrumentation for the GlueX Photon Beamline (talk, DNP-2012, Newport Beach, CA, Oct. 24-27, 2012) - R.T. Jones, Ann Marie Carroll, Igor Senderovich
Published Works
- Igor Senderovich, "Search for Gluonic Excitations in Hadrons with GlueX", PhD thesis, University of Connecticut, August 24, 2012.
- Emily Briere, "Design and Fabrication of Calibration Device for Scintillating Fibers of Tagger Microscope: For use in GlueX’s QCD Experiment", REU project final report, August 1, 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.