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