REU Program
The Indiana University Department of Physics/Cyclotron Facility offers an annual 10-week summer research program for outstanding undergraduate physics majors from colleges and universities across the US. The participants gain direct research experience by working in ongoing experimental or theoretical research programs in accelerator physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, elementary particle and high energy physics, medical physics, and nuclear physics in projects supervised by Indiana University faculty and senior scientific staff.
For more information please visit the Indiana University Department of Physics/Cyclotron Facility REU program website: http://www.physics.indiana.edu/%7Ereu/
Applied Physics Program
The Physics Department at Indiana University Bloomington offers a Bachelor of Science degree program in Applied Physics that prepares students for high-tech industry jobs. The curriculum is designed to provide students with an optimal mix of theoretical and applied coursework. Internship opportunities are available at IU Cyclotron Facility and at a number of national laboratories, government agencies and corporations.
For more information please visit the Indiana University Department of Physics Applied Physics website: http://applied.physics.indiana.edu/index.shtml
P537 Neutron Physics and Scattering
The Physics Department at Indiana University introduced a new graduate course in Neutron Physics and Scattering in 2006. P537 is designed to be a broad, interdisciplinary survey of the physics of neutrons and the ideas and techniques of neutron scattering in biology, chemistry, geology, materials science, and physics. The course is taught by faculty and researchers in neutron physics and scattering from the Indiana University Department of Physics/Cyclotron Facility.
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Post Doctoral Research ProjectsThe following post doctoral researchers and graduate students have been partially supported by the LENS construction grant or other Federal grants affiliated with the project over the last several years. |
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Duncan Kilburn: Structure of Soft Condensed Matter/Nano-confined Material
Duncan uses various probes of matter (X-rays, neutron, positrons) to observe the different structures of materials in nano-confinement. These probes allow us to 'see' how inter-atomic/molecular interactions are affected by increased surface and finite-number influences. |
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Shah R. Valloppilly: SESAME and Layered Nanostructures
Shah is associated with the development of Spin Echo Scattering Angle Measurements (SESAME) technique at LENS. SESAME project aims testing novel methods in neutron spin echo and their implementation to SANS and Reflectometry setups for the study of lateral correlation, dynamics etc. in layered structures and liquids.. |
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George Noid: Neutron Optics Beam Line and aCORN George is a graduate student in nuclear physics working on the aCORN experiment that is designed to measaure the weak interaction asymmetry parameter "little-a". This experiment will be given its initial shakedown at LENS before it is shipped to NCNR for a physics run. |
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Yunchang Shin: Development of Ultra-Cold Neutron Moderators Yun has been studying the low-energy properties of solid methane in order to develop scattering kernels suitable for use at temperatures below 20K (the lowest temperature for which kernels presently exist). This work is of relevance to the efforts of LENS to produce very cold neutrons and is also of importance to the development of new ideas for producing Ultra-Cold Neutrons (a topic of considerable interest to the Nuclear Physics group at IU). |
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Paul Stonaha Paul is a first-year graduate student who is participating in the development of the SESAME instrument. This includes trips to both IPNS and LANSCE to conduct experiments on a spin-manipulation device of novel design. |
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Adam Washington Adam is a second-year graduate student who is working on various aspects of data acquisition at LENS. This summer he is also participating in experiments at both IPNS and LANSCE to conduct experiments on a spin-manipulation device of novel design. |
Past Graduate Student Projects |
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Nick Armstrong: Neutron Interferometry
Nick worked with the LENS group from 2005 to 2006. His primary activities were in neutron interferometry and he also conducted experiments at the NCNR reactor facility at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland. |
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Kun Chen: Neutron Radiography Kun wrote a thesis on neutron radiography. The project included the development of a variable-wavelength radiography camera at LENS together with imaging studies peformed at the Paul Scherer Institute in Switzerland. |
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Peipei Chen (UIUC NE): Development of a Hypervapotron Be Target PeiPei was a student in the Nuclear Engineering department of the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana. His thesis involves a systematic study of the hypervapotron cooling of the type that is used in the high-power LENS target. He performed the primary engineering work on this target as part of his thesis. |
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Giovanna Danagoulian (UIUC NE): Modeling of SESAME Giovanna was a student in the Nuclear Engineering department of the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana. Her thesis has included the development of advanced simulation tools that are needed for the correct quantum-mechanical description of polarized neutron transport in a magnetic field. This work is important for the accurate modeling of the SESAME instrument that is being developed at LENS. |
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Chris Lavelle: Neutronics of the LENS Source Chris's thesis involved the neutronic design of the LENS source. Extensive Monte Carlo (MCNP) modeling of neutron transport within the LENS Target-Moderator Reflector assembly has been combined with emission time and spectral measurements of the LENS source. His work also included studies of ways to improve the performance of the LENS source.. |
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Nicholas Remmes: SANS on Nanoparticles Nick's thesis involves the design and commissioning of the SANS instrument at LENS. He is investigating the structure of both dendrimers and polymer coated magnetic nanoparticles with SANS measurements at IPNS and NIST while the SANS instrument is being constructed. In addition he has studied the magnetic properties of the nanoparticles. Nick expects to defend his thesis in the spring of 2007 |
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