Research Experience for Undergraduates
2000 Research Reports
Cornell University
Wayne State University
CLEO Collaboration
- David Benjamin, Deptartment of Physics, Drew University,
Madison, NJ
Search for B -> D_s eta
Postscript (1.5 MB)
PDF (311 kB)
Mentor: Kenneth Mclean, Vanderbilt University
- Larry Borum, Physics Department, Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI; and
Maureen Gramaglia, Physics Department, Pennsylvania State University,
State College, PA
Search for CP Violation in D^0/D^0bar -> K^0_S pi^0, K^0_S K^0_S, and
pi^0 pi^0 Decays
Postscript (2.0 MB)
PDF (944 kB)
Mentor: David Jaffe, University of California, San Diego
- Nick Bronn, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA
RICH Sbus Monitoring
Postscript (4.4 MB)
PDF (127 kB)
Mentors: Georg Viehhauser and Ray Mountain, Syracuse University
- Christopher Bush,Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Examining D_s^* Decays: The Hunt for Red Omega
Postscript (149 kB)
PDF (116 kB)
Mentor: Giovanni Bonvicini, Wayne State University
- Scott Forth, Department of Physics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Design and Fabrication of Compound Refractive X-ray Lenses for CHESS
Postscript (9.2 MB)
PDF (246 kB)
Mentors: Randy Headrick and Karl Smolenski, Cornell University
- Derek Kingrey, Department of Physics, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
Effects of High Temperature Vacuum Baking on Surface Oxides and
the Transition Temperature of Niobium
Postscript (12.6 MB) PDF (1.3 MB)
Mentors: Hasan Padamsee, Jens Knobloch, and Zhitao Yang, Cornell
University
- William Brandon Martin, Department of Chemistry and Physics,
Erskine College, Due West, SC
Electron/Positron Identification
MS Word (3.4 MB)
PDF (252 kB)
Mentors: Mark Palmer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and
Dan Cronin-Hennessy, Rochester University
- David A. Mayfield, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Vertical Injection into CESR
Postscript (2.5 MB)
PDF (86 kB)
Mentor: David Rice, Cornell University
- Sean McKinney, Departments of Physics and Computer Science,
University of Missouri-Rolla
CLEO III Online Software: Pass1 and Level3
Postscript (41 kB)
PDF (23 kB)
Mentor: David Kreinick, Cornell University
- Erica Saltzman, Physics Department, The Pennsylvania State
University, State College, PA
Trigger Development for Two-Photon Physics at CLEO III
Postscript (152 kB)
PDF (197 kB)
Mentors: Richard Galik and David Urner, Cornell University
- Melissa Skala, Physics Department, Washington State
University, Pullman, WA
Imaging X-Ray Fluorescence Using Microchannel Plate (MCP) Optics
Postscript (14 MB)
PDF (199 kB)
Mentor: Karl Smolenski, Cornell University
- Christopher D. Tennant, Department of Physics, Ithaca College,
Ithaca, NY
Deriving Second-Order Terms for the Solenoid-Quadrupole Transport Map
Postscript (140 kB)
PDF (159 kB)
Mentor: David Sagan, Cornell University
Investigating Longitudinal Capture in the Synchrotron
Using a Longitudinal Energy Oscillation Simulator
Postscript (1.0 MB)
PDF (300 kB)
Mentor: Robert Meller, Cornell University
- Brian Winey, Department of Physics, Houghton College,
Houghton, NY
Electron Identification
Postscript (15.9 MB)
PDF (1.5 MB)
Mentor: Daniel Cronin-Hennessy and Ed Thorndike, Rochester University
dgc@lns.cornell.edu
1998/09/22