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Blair Jamieson |
Current Graduate Students
Fady Shaker (f.shaker-ra at uwinnipeg.ca)
PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba whose main project is the
analysis of electron anti-neutrino interactions in the T2K off-axis
near detector. He has been developing a boosted decision tree
analysis to improve the particle identification, and thus provide a
cleaner selection of electron/positron candidate events.
Fady was involved in an electronics upgrade at the T2K off-axis near
detector for the Time Projection Chamber Readout. This electronics
was installed in Fall 2014 and is in operation taking data during
neutrino runs.
Lori Rebenitsch (l.rebenitsch-RA at uwinnipeg.ca)
PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba whose main project is the
development of the neutron detection and spin analysis system for the
neutron Electric Dipole Moment experiment being prepared for the Ultra
Cold neutron (UCN) source at TRIUMF.
Lori has been involved in putting the first neutron detector prototype
together, and will be bringing the detector to the Paul Scherrer
Institute (PSI) in Switzerland to test the detector with UCN in June
2015. The proposal for this beam time was recently approved by the
PSI beam physics advisory committee. She took all of the data to
determine which side of a stack of scintillating lithium glass
contained the 6Li doping ().
Undergraduate Students
Typically I hire one to two undergraduate students each summer to do
research on either the Ultra Cold Neutron project, or on neutrino
physics with T2K/Hyper-Kamiokande. Interested students are welcome to
discuss possible reasearch projects with me. Some of my past students
and their projects are described below.
Sean Hansen-Romu (seanhansenromu at gmail.com )
Successfully obtained an NSERC USRA award for the past three summers
(2012, 2013, 2014), and held the Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics
(CINP) summer research fellowship in summer 2014. He has worked on
several aspects of the UCN project including: simulation of the
scintillation of the neutron detector lithium glass, simulations of
the ultra cold neutron dropping and magnetic field interactions.
Currently he is working on his undergraduate thesis on a finite
element analysis of the magnetic fields around a magnetized iron foil
used for the spin analysis of the neutrons. This analysis will be
compared to measurements of the magnetic field around a coil used to
magnetize the iron.
Stephen Waldron (caepom at gmail.com)
Developed simulation tools to study the photons produced in the
Hyper-Kamiokande mega-ton scale water cerenkov detector being planned
in Japan (Summer 2014). The simulation code was added to a Water
Cerenkov Detector simulation from Duke University, using Cern's GEANT4
particle physics simulation framework. He developed scripts for the
SciNet compute cluster to produce and process over a Terabyte of
simulated photons. The simulation output is used to build
distribution functions used in the reconstruction of Cerenkov rings in
Hyper Kamiokande (using the same code as used in the Super Kamokande
analyses).
Leah Schellenberg (caepomat gmail.com)
Developed tools to study neutrino oscillations and compare different
three flavour oscillation approximations as an honors thesis project.
Over the summer 2013 she worked on developing code to interface a new
water cerenkov detector simulation for Hyper-Kamiokande to the
existing Super Kamiokande reconstruction programs.
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