Research in Jenny Hampton’s Group (the Surface Lab) started this week. Here is Nick Wozniak working on some analysis that was left over from his work during the spring semester. He is characterizing the Teflon electrochemical cell that was designed last summer for doing electrochemistry on wafer samples. Alyssa Frey, a student from UW-Eau Claire, …
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Friday Afternoon Progress in the Nuclear Group
Here is Matt after a good day of IBIL and PIXE on various mineral grains (zircons, etc.) The ion source is cooling and he is cleaning his sample holders. Eric made this great plot to help us understand the properties of the fragments from the decay of 13Li, 12Li, and 9He. Each of these unstable …
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Nuclear group at MoNA collaboration meeting
These are the MoNA collaborators at Westmont College. This morning Eric Lunderberg and Paul DeYoung, showed them how to sort our 13Li->11Li+2n data files so they can develop algorithms for finding events containing exactly two neutrons. This was done via videoconferencing and desktop sharing since they are located in California.
Inside the accelerator scattering chamber
This is the inside of the vacuum chamber. The dislodged target is hard to see but is on the ring (with angle marks) sort of behind things in the lower right. This is Graham Peaslee making sure that the set of targets that have been dislodged from the target mechanism are not going to jam …
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