Student Projects in Nuclear Physics

This work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant 1207857

Active Projects

• Tagger Microscope Construction
  • Tagger Microscope & Active Collimator Construction - James McIntyre
  • 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
  • Component Machining - James McIntyre, Brendan Pratt
  • Igor's repository of mechanical drawings - Igor Senderovich
  • Calibration Device for Scintillators - John Turner, Emily Briere
  • Construction Phase - James McIntyre
  • Fiber Splicing - James McIntyre, Ann Marie Carroll
  • Tagger Microscope Electronics
    • Microscope Electronics - Alex Barnes, Igor Senderovich, Jonathan Kulakofsky
    • Euro Card Connectors - Alex Barnes, James Mcintyre

• Diamond Radiator Fabrication and Mounting
  • Diamond Radiator Thinning Using an Excimer Laser - 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

• GPU/CPU Cooling System - James McIntyre, Alex Barnes

Completed Projects

• Mentor Connection 2013 - Michael Reisman and Kyle Lockwood, 7/2013.
• Mentor Connection 2012 - Ramone Brown and Solomon Utain, 7/2012.
• 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.
• Mentor Connection 2011 - Lacey Nolz, Kim Hoon, and Alex Popescu, 8/2011.
• Diamond Radiator R&D Phase I - Igor Senderovich, Brendan Pratt, James McIntyre, Chris Pelletier, and Matt Heiss, 5/2010.
• Tagger Microscope Prototyping - James McIntyre, Igor Senderovich, Brendan Pratt, Woody Underwood, and Carl Nettleton, 5/2009.
• Analysis of Michelson Interference Images, Alisa Engsberg, undergraduate summer internship final report, 8/2008

Talks and Posters

Diamond Work

• International Conference of Diamonds 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

• 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

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.

Help

• Administrative Guide for New Group Members
• How to start a Chrome Remote Desktop session on Linux
• 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