Amanda Deisher (University of Montana)
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Amanda worked on the CLEO-III
RICH Detector during the Summer of 2001. This detector is a major
part of the CLEO Experiment
at the CESR Electron-Positron
Accelerator at Cornell University. She worked on three aspects
of the RICH monitoring and calibration software, making extremely useful
analyses for the optimization of the RICH electronics. Amanda got
a lot of experience, quickly learning several programming languages at
once, and also learned about the operations of a big high energy physics
experiment. You can read about her work in her REU
Report, and also in her final presentation.
You can also check out her RICH
Project webpage. Amanda was stationed at Cornell, and worked
with Ray Mountain and Bayar Dambasuren, under the auspices of the Cornell
REU program.
Brian Gantz (Syracuse University)
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Brian worked on the BTEV Pixel Project
during the Summers of 2000 and 2001. He studied the effect of the
saturation at high fields of the electron mobility and its temperature
dependence on the properties of the silicon pixel sensors to be used in
the
BTEV Experiment at Fermilab.
He refined the simulation program developed by the Syracuse group (hep-ex/0007054).
In addition, he helped in setting up the pixel sensor laboratory that will
perform some key studies on the basic properties of the pixel detectors
being developed for BTeV. Brian very enthusiastically learned a lot
of interesting and practical things about the physics of semiconductors,
which is very good experience for electrical engineers. You can read
about his work in his REU Report.
He worked in our lab at SU under the supervision of Marina Artuso.
Nick Bronn (Georgia Tech)
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Nick worked on the CLEO-III
RICH Detector during the Summer of 2000. This detector is a major
part of the CLEO Experiment
at the CESR Electron-Positron
Accelerator at Cornell University. He worked on the RICH monitoring
software, providing an extremely valuable component for the diagnosis of
a major problem in the performance of the RICH caused by a glitch in the
data acquisition system. Nick gained a lot of experience programming
in c++ and java, as well as learning about the real operations
of a big high energy physics experiment. You can read about his efforts
in his REU Report, and also in his presentations
at the beginning and the end
of the summer semester. Nick was stationed at Cornell, and worked
with Ray Mountain and Georg Viehhauser, under the auspices of the Cornell
REU program.
Narupon "Tor" Chattrapiban (Syracuse
University)
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Tor worked on the BTEV Experiment
during the Spring and Summer of 2000. He made very interesting measurements
of the optical transmission of a new kind of material called "silica
aerogel". This is a material that we plan to use as a Cherenkov radiator
in the BTEV RICH Detector at Fermilab.
His work was very valuable in ascertaining the bulk and surface optical
properties of aerogel, information which is critical for us to understand.
Tor gained experience in programming in the widely-used graphical language
LabVIEW,
and investigated phenomena which were complementary to classes he had taken
and so was very interesting for him. (He also learned a useful lesson
not to trust everything on the Web.) From this work, he produced
a very nice Undergraduate Thesis. You can read all about his work
in excerpts from his Undergraduate Thesis, as well as
from his Final Presentation.
Tor worked in our lab at SU under the supervision of Ray Mountain and Sheldon
Stone.
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Tor also worked during the Summer of 1999, characterizing some properties
of the readout
electronics used in the CLEO-III
RICH Detector with Marina Artuso. He presented this work during
the conference "A Celebration of Undergraduate Discovery" that took place
at Syracuse on April 29, 2000.
Gregory Brons (Syracuse University)
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Greg worked on the BTEV Pixel Project
during the Spring of 2000, helping to set up the laboratory system to perform
precision I-V measurements in semiconductor detectors. He studied
several test structures to determine the breakdown and punch-through properties
of different silicon pixel detector and guard ring geometries. His
work is documented in his Research Thesis. Greg
worked in our lab on an independent study under the supervision of Marina
Artuso.
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