Student Projects in Nuclear Physics

This work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant 0901016

Active Projects

• Tagger Microscope Construction
  • Tagger Microscope & Active Collimator Construction - James McIntyre
  • Preparations for Construction of the Full-Scale Tagger Microscope - Ann Marie Carroll
  • Full Scale Tagger Microscope Drawings - James McIntyre
  • Calibration Device for Scintillators - John Turner, Emily Briere
  • Microscope Electronics - Alex Barnes, Igor Senderovich
  • Construction Phase - James McIntyre

• Diamond Radiator Fabrication and Mounting
  • Diamond Radiator Thinning Using an Excimer Laser - Brendan Pratt
  • Analysis of Diamond Cantilever Vibration - Jessica Hyde

• Diamond Radiator Characterization
  • 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

Completed Projects

• Diamond Radiator R&D Phase I - Igor Senderovich, Brendan Pratt, James McIntyre, Chris Pelletier, and Matt Heiss
• Tagger Microscope Prototyping - James McIntyre, Igor Senderovich, Brendan Pratt, Woody Underwood, and Carl Nettleton
• Mentor Connection 2012 - Ramone Brown and Solomon Utain
• Design and Fabrication of Calibration Device for Scintillating Fibers of Tagger Microscope for use in GlueX’s QCD Experiment - Emily Briere

Posters

• Diamond Radiator Machining with Laser Ablation - Brendan Pratt
• Design and Testing of Photon Tagger Electronics - Alex Barnes
• Tagger Microscope - James McIntyre
• Identification of New 5-pion Meson States - Igor Senderovich

Help

• Administrative Guide for New Group Members
• How to print a poster in P403
• Notes on distributed authoring software tools
• Example page - Richard Jones
• Test page - testing

References

• Group Photos
• Physics References
• Igor's repository of mechanical drawings - Igor Senderovich