Welcome and Introduction

• Elliott McCrory (Fermilab)

Room: Curia II Please be in place by 8:55 AM for the beginning of the session. Ms. Charles and I will have a few words to say about the day.

Preliminary Results from CONNIE-100 Science Array.

• Israel Chavarria

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Juan Estrada CONNIE-100 currently sits 30 meters from a 3.8 GW nuclear reactor in Angra, Brazil with the expectation of detecting coherent-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. To do this, there must be a solid understanding of the background radiation. This article presents some of the first results of the experiment regarding background radiation rates.

SRF LINAC Simulation

• Olaniyi Nafiu (Howard University)

Room: Curia II Supervisors: Mohamed Hassan and Paolo Berrutti Simulating the acceleration of protons traveling through the field of a superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavity to determine the number of cavities required for acceleration is quite complex. This paper describes a simplified model based on the actual PIP – II linac design. It does not take into account transverse RF field and particle dynamics. This means that only the component of the field along the axis of propagation of the particle is considered in the simulation. The simulation describes the exchange of energy between the cavity fields and a single particle as it passes through the cavities. I wrote a program to perform a numerical integration on the cavity field to determine the NTTF curve which shows the energy gained by the particle for any particular β. The number of cavities for acceleration is calculated from the relationship between the Kinetic energy of the beam and the NTTF curve. Even though transverse RF fields are not considered, the result of the simulation is within a reasonable range of the real number of cavities used for the acceleration.

From Test Stand to M-Test: The Detector Design Process

• Megan Szubert (Illinois Institute of Technology/Lewis University)

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Mandy Rominsky This summer I worked for 12 weeks at Fermilab Test Beam Facility (FTBF) under the supervision of Mandy Rominsky. I was presented with two main tasks for the summer. Firstly, I built and tested a cosmic ray stand with various electronics, instrumentation, and software components. Secondly, I aided in the installation and development of MIDAS, a data acquisition system that will include the monitoring and data records for every aspect of the test beam facility�s MTEST beam.

Muon Ring Tagging, Blue Block Documentation, and More!

• Malik Blackman

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Maurice Ball

Applications of Unit-Testing for GENIE

• James Jones (Harvard University)

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Gabriel Perdue Introduce the concept of Unit Tests and shows both how one can apply this to the GENIE Program and what is in store for the future of this concept.

Search for dark matter using mono-Higgs events in the four lepton final state at CMS

• Jairrin Dickens (Florida A and M University)

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Pushpa Bhat Analyzing the missing transverse energy associated with Higgs production to search for dark matter. This is done using the object oriented software ROOT which was developed by CERN.

Characterization of the Front-End Electronics for the Pixel-Strip Module of the Phase 2 CMS Tracker

• Christian Leefmans

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Anadi Canepa

Particle Classification in LArIAT using Convolutional Neural Networks

• Samuel Borer (University of Maine)

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Jen Raaf

NOvA Medium Energy Target Assembly

• Zac Espinosa (Stanford University)

Room: Curia II Supervisors: Chris Kelly and Bob Zwaska This presentation will aim to give insight into the NOvA. It will explain the distinction between NOvA and NuMI and explain how NuMI's target and horn system operates. It will also explain in detail the assembly and design process of NuMI medium energy targets.

Modeling Quark Compositeness at CMS

• Amanda Farah (University of Pennsylvania)

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Lenny Spiegel

A Tale of Two Uncertainties: Analyzing P_T Bias and its Effects on the Dimuon Mass Spectrum

• Tamra Nebabu (Fermilab)

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Pushpa Bhat When taking cosmic or collision data, it is important to evaluate the uncertainty associated with the detector's measurements. My project investigated the potential bias in the CMS when taking transverse momentum, or p_T, measurements and examined how this bias would propagate into uncertainty in the dimuon invariant mass spectrum.

Analysis of Beam Emittance for the Booster at Injection and Extraction

• Demetrius Andrews

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Chandra Bhat

Exploring Silicon Molds in Nondestructive Surface Finish Testing

• Juan Takase (Northwestern University)

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Katsuya Yonehara

Beholder: Automated Scanning and Detection System

• Brandon White (Northern IL Univ)

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Jason Ormes An overview of the Beholder automated cyber security scanning and detection system. Will consist of an overview of the detection and blocking network followed by a live demonstration of the dashboard constructed by Brandon White.

Investigation of Emittance Analysis Methods Using the MuCool Test Area Beamline

• Alicia Casacchia

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Carol Johnstone Emittance is an important metric in beamline physics that helps us to predict and analyze the beam's behavior and properties. Using the MuCool Test Area beamline, we are able to diagnose this parameter with the use of multiwire profile monitors. The emittance is typically defined as the area of the elliptic envelope of particles in phase space; however it is suspected that when subjected to nonlinearities, this shape is no longer elliptical. This analysis aimed to investigate this resulting shape as well as explore methodologies for doing so and determine limitations of certain models.

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• Elohi Gonzales

Room: Curia II

Diamond Detector: Measuring Beam Intensity

• Erik Dagoberto Torres Garcia

Room: Curia II Supervisor: Caron Johnstone and Adam Watts There are several ways of measuring beam intensity. One of those ways is through the use of an instrumentation device called a Diamond Detector. With the purpose of looking for a replacement for the current method in measuring beam intensity, which involves using SEMs, the Diamond Detector offers a less expensive and more effective way of measuring beam intensity, and perhaps the ability to measure the microbunch structure of the beam because of the fast time-of-flight measurement capabilities that the Diamond Detector has.

Design and selection process of the ADC Tranmission system

• Mauricio Villa (Duke University)

Room: Curia II This talk will detail the design and selection process of the ADC Tranmission system performed by Mauricio Villa during the summer of 2016. Villa is a GEM intern.

Close Out (Private)

• Elliott McCrory (Fermilab)

Room: Curia II This will be a private (SIST, GEM and the SIST Committee only) session in which we can discuss what went well and what did not go so well.