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
  • Tagger Microscope Engineering Drawings - James McIntyre
  • Igor's repository of mechanical drawings - Igor Senderovich
  • 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
  • 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

Talks and Posters

• Diamond Radiator Machining with Laser Ablation (poster, 3/2012) - Brendan Pratt
• Design and Testing of Photon Tagger Electronics (poster, 3/2012) - Alex Barnes
• Tagger Microscope (poster, 3/2012) - James McIntyre
• Identification of New 5-pion Meson States (poster, 3/2012) - Igor Senderovich
• Thin Diamond Radiator Fabrication for the GlueX Experiment (talk, DNP-Newport Beach, CA 10/25/2012) - Brendan Pratt

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 print a poster in P403
• Notes on distributed authoring software tools
• Example page - Richard Jones
• Test page - testing

References

• Group Photos
• Physics References