Wright Laboratory’s undergraduate students taking the independent research course (PHYS 471) will be presenting their research projects December 11-13, 2018 in the Sloane Physics Laboratory, room 51. The students and their projects, arranged by advisor, are as follows:
Helen Caines:
Studying the Quark Gluon Plasma using Machine Learning, Stuart Nicholls
Sarah Demers:
H→ττ Upgrade Trigger Analysis for the ATLAS Experiment, JP Dervan
Benchmarking Triggers and Optimizing Filters for the Mu2e Experiment, Heather Harrington
David DeMille:
Exploring a novel technique for laser slowing and cooling, Jack Roth
Jack Harris:
Investigating Optical Modes of a Helium Droplet, Mehmet Tuna Uysal
Steve Lamoreaux and Reina Maruyama:
Development of Phase II of HAYSTAC, Cady van Assendelft
Reina Maruyama:
Measuring Radioactive Contaminations in CUORE Crystals, Byron Daniel
Testing DAMA’s Claim of Direct Detection of Dark Matter, Elizabeth Ruddy
David Moore:
Measuring the Temperature of an Optically Levitated Micrsophere, Alec Emser
Detecting Particle Recoils from Levitated Spheres, Michael Mossman
Laura Newburgh:
Prototyping the Simons Observatory DAQ and Live Monitor, Samuel Day-Weiss
Analyzing the beam structure of CHIME, Maxime Pradier