Paul Bach with Corbin CovaultStability Testing of GPS Units Used for the Pierre Auger ProjectWhen high energy cosmic rays strike the Earth's atmosphere, they trigger a shower of particles detectable on the ground. Detecting these showers is the focus of the Auger Observatory, 1600 detectors being built in 3000...
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Brandon Bachler with Dan Akerib and Kathy KashFabrication and Characterization of Superconducting Films for Dark Matter Particle DetectorsThe Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment uses particle detectors that, when operated at temperatures near 10-20 mK, can measure both an ionization signal and a phonon signal from a particle interaction....
Paul Fey with Glenn StarkmanStatistical Isotropy of Low-D CMBIf the cosmic microwave background sky is statistically isotropic, then a two point angular correlation function of the temperature can be expressed solely as a function of the angular separation between any two points ( C(theta) ). C-sub l is the...
Michael Helle with Arnold DahmAnisotropic Diffusion of Isotopic Impurities in HCP Helium4 He crystallizes at low temperature and pressure into an hcp lattice. Vacancies in the 4 He lattice propagate along the basal and transverse planes of the crystal as waves in straight lines. 3 He impurities can diffuse...
Chiumun Michelle Hui with Corbin Covault and Glenn StarkmanSimulations for the X-Ray Occulting Steerable Satellite (XOSS)The angular resolution of current x-ray telescopes is 0.5 arcseconds at best, but the x-ray diffraction limit for a 1-meter aperture is about 3 milli -arcseconds. To achieve a higher angular resolution, the XOSS...
Sarah Lehrian with Robert Brown Continuing the Battle to Find a Cure for Post-Exam SyndromeThere has been preliminary research^1 into the question of increasing the learning value associated with student examinations. Initial results considered the degree to which students benefit from revisiting, correcting, and analyzing their examination effort, before...
Adam Light with Kathy KashLaser Trapping and Cooling of Neutral AtomsLaser trapping and cooling is a cutting edge research tool that has made possible the work of several recent Nobel laureates, including the production of Bose-Einstein condensates by Carl E. Wieman and Eric A. Cornell in 1995. In a...
Marisa Quattrone with Robert J. Maciunas, MD, (Univ. Hosp.) (2nd semester of project in Fall 2004)Nonrigid Registration Algorithm for Warping Intraoperative MR Scans to Preoperative MR Scan for Optimal Surgical NavigationSelected neurosurgical patients will have markers filled with Vitamin E placed on their heads to appear on an MRI...
Christian Perez with Arnold Dahm (project started January 2005 )Quantum Computation: From Electron to QubitThe characterization of electron states for quantum computing with electrons on liquid He requires several proprietary components. Two of those are a low-T, low noise microwave bolometer and submicron electrode array for electron localization and...
Nicholai Salovich with Daniel Scherson (Dept. of Chemistry)Toward a Mesoscopic Description of Ion Channels and Nerve Conduction in Biological MembranesNerve impulses in the brain and muscle propagate through the depolarization of specific cellular membranes. Depolarization occurs when a stimulus of some sort triggers the opening of ion channels embedded...
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