Research
- October 2006 - Present:
... To Be Written ... - Fall 2002 - October 2006:
Under the supervision of my advisor Professor David Armstrong of the college of William and Mary and Robert Michaels of Jefferson Lab, conducted research for the successful defense of a Ph.D. thesis for experiment E-00-114, "Parity Violation from 4He at low Q2: A Clean Measurement of rs." - Summer 2000 - Fall 2002:
Development of the Detector Lab at the College of William and Mary is currently being done under the supervision of Professor Keith Griffioen and Professor Todd Averett. This project mainly entails the development of device drivers, written in the C programming language, to operate an embedded processor on a VME Controller. The data acquisition system contains a VME Controller, Scaler, TDC, and QDC mounted within a VME bus and a monitorring PC. Communication between the PC and VME is accomplished via remote procedure calls (RPC) over an ethernet connection and a graphical user interface (GUI) on the PC has been written using the Tcl/Tk scripting language. The immediate goal of this project is to aid in the detection of Cosmic Rays and studying the properties of scintilators.
- Summer 2001:
Under the supervision of Professor Todd Averett, basic analysis of particle detection was done for experiment E99-117 in Hall-A of Jefferson Lab. Calculation of efficiencies for Pion-Rejection and Electron-Detection were made of the Hall-A spectrometers using the CERN analysis program Physics Analsis Workstation (PAW). During the running of this experiment, ten shifts as the Online Data Replay Analyst and Target Operator were recorded. - Summer 2000:
Introduced to the Professor Todd Averett's Target Lab at the College of William and Mary. Significant changes to existing LabView programs were made to reflect modications in the target cell filling procedure and decrease the probability of "human error" when the filling procedure program was executed. These programs eventually led to the successful filling of many Polarized 3He target cells that are now at use at Jefferson Lab. - Summer 1998:
Participated in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program of Arizona State University. With the assistance of Professor Kevin Schmidt, modifications to existing FORTRAN code were made to calculate Ground State energies for solid 4He. Because of the nature of this many-body problem, Monte Carlo computational techniques using periodic boundary conditions were applied using the Variational Method, Green's Functions, and Path Integrals. The method and results of these calculations were presented at the 1998 ASU-REU Symposium, the Society of Physics Students Zone 16 Spring-1999 Conference in Socorro, New Mexico, and an ASU-SPS Member's Meeting in Spring of 1999.