Conor Donnelly
(University of Pennsylvania, Department of Materials Science and Engineering)
07/08/2007, 09:00
Supervisor: Giorgio Ambrosio (TD-Magnet Systems)
The upper limit of performance of the current superconducting magnet technology, NbTi, will have been reached with the operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Swtizerland in 2008. A new magnet technology, Nb3Sn, promises greater critical current density and applied field thresholds; however, thermomagnetic...
Mr
Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh
(Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
07/08/2007, 09:20
Supervisor: Michael Tartaglia, TD/MSD
With the upcoming inauguration of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a limit in the maximum magnetic field achievable through NbTi superconductors will be reached based on the properties of the material. Fermilab has been developing a new generation of superconducting accelerator magnets based on Nb3Sn. The performance of these magnets has been...
Adenrele Fapohunda
(Benedict College/Electrical Engrng class of 07, Illinois Tech/Comm. & Signal Proc. class of '09)
07/08/2007, 09:40
Supervisor: David Wildman, Accelerator Physics Center
This summer, I will test 20, 75kW peak power quad hybrids and 3, 400kW quad hybrids using a Hewlett Packard, 8753E, 30 KHz - 6GHz Agilent Network Analyzer. I will also be making a combiner, which is needed to combine 2 individual 1200V voltages serially to make a 2400V output voltage. This will be useful in driving the meanders present...
Gabriel Caceres
(Augustana College, Physics Department)
07/08/2007, 10:00
Supervisor: Dan Bauer, PPD.
Most experiments searching for dark matter particles have been led deep underground to minimize the background produced by cosmic rays. In its attempt to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS) the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) lies ½ mile (~2000 meters water-equivalent) underground in the Soudan Mine in Minnesota. Even though the muon rate is...
Adam Stooke
(US Air Force Academy)
07/08/2007, 10:40
Supervisor: Yuriy Pischalnikov, TD/IB1
The superconducting radio frequency (SCRF) cavities of the International Linear Collider (ILC) will require high precision length control to operate on resonance. Piezoelectric columns are employed as actuators, and current research aims at lengthening the lifetime of these implements by applying the correct preload, or axial load before actuation. One...
Mr
Michael A. Dones
(Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Electrical and Computer Enginnering Department)
07/08/2007, 11:00
Supervisor:Umesh Joshi, PPD
An interface in C++ programming language that read from foward pixel configuration database that is being builded for CMS detector at LHC (CERN). This interface is for configure some components of the tracker foward pixel detector that is the inner layer of CMS.
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Moronkeji Bandele
(Benedict College, Physics and Engineering Department)
07/08/2007, 11:20
Supervisor: Kwame Bowie, PPD/EED
This project involves the comprehensive testing and calibration of the front end (FE) boards in the Tevatron Ionization Profile Monitor (IPM) Front End modules. The calibration of the FE boards is performed in order to ensure that the Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) called the Charge Integrating Encoder (QIE), located on each FE board,...
Mr
Kudzanayi Munetsi-Mugomba
(Lincoln University, Physics)
07/08/2007, 13:15
Supervisor: Caroline Milstene, ILC
This paper describes a way to test the tracking of particles within a detector. (in our particular case the Silicon Detector, SiD detector). I worked on the development of an efficient software tool to test the reconstruction package in the detector based on the Kalman filtering. In many cases(International Linear Collider, ILC) particles are produced as...
Mr
Dirk Francis
(South Carolina State University, Computer Science)
07/08/2007, 13:35
Supervisor: Elliott McCrory, AD/HQ
One of the most indispensable devices critical to the running of the LINAC, is the LINAC 201 MHz power amplifier vacuum tube, which provides the final amplification that drives the five 201-MHz resonant drift-tube cavities to 4.5 MW in the low-energy half of the Fermilab Linac. Because of the importance of these tubes to the operation of the Linac, the...
Mr
DeMarcus Thomas
(Mississippi Valley State University, Computer Science)
07/08/2007, 13:55
Supervisor: Dr. David Ritchie, CD
This document describes the continued process to find a way to monitor a high density computing center remotely and efficiently through the use of a web browser. To accomplish this, a web-based temperature monitoring program was created, and implemented at Grid Computing Center (GCC). This Python program is utilized to read data out from thermocouple heat...
Ruben Mendez Rodriguez
(Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez, Departamento de Física)
07/08/2007, 14:30
Supervisor: James A. MacLachlan, AD/PS
The longitudinal stability of couple bunch synchrotron oscillation is studied analytically using the Vlasov equation. The first step is to write the time dependent Vlasov equation for the interacting h bunch. The interaction is made by a coupling impedance that is modeled by a parallel RLC circuit. Because of the complexity of the Vlasov equation we are...
Mr
Marcus Winn
(Mississippi Valley State University (Computer Science) May 2010)
07/08/2007, 14:50
Supervisor: Taka Yasuda D0
This paper describes the Electronic Logbook used at the D0 experiment at Fermi Lab, in particular the conversion of various checklist into the Electronic Logbook using XML, HTML, and Python programming language. The Electronic logbook is highly flexible and has long-lasting data storage capabilities. The electronic logbook is also portable and saves time and...
Mr
Jefferson Okraku
(Morehouse College/Dual Degree:Applied Physics & Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2010)
07/08/2007, 15:10
Supervisor: Geoff Savage, D0
The D0 detector, at the heart of the D0 experiment at Fermilab, monitors the tracks created by particles formed from the energy released during the collision of protons and anti- protons. It sifts through millions of tracks, looking for specific ones that physicists are interested in. The data it collects with its silicon strip detector about these tracks is in...