Browsing by Author "Kopp, Sacha"
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Accelerator systems and instrumentation for the NuMI neutrino beam
Zwaska, Robert Miles (2005)The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) neutrino beam facility began operating at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 2005. NuMI produces an intense, muon-neutrino beam to a number of experiments. Foremost of ... -
Chaos, quasibound states, and classical periodic orbits in HOCI
Barr, Alexander Michael (2011-05)We study the classical nonlinear dynamics and the quantum vibrational energy eigenstates of the molecule HOCl. The classical vibrational dynamics, at energies below the HO+Cl dissociation energy, contains several saddle-center ... -
Comparative efficiency and parameter recovery of spin aligned templates for compact binary coalescence detection
Frei, Melissa Anne (2011-08)Compact binary coalescing systems: binary neutron stars, neutron star black hole pairs and binary black hole systems, represent promising candidates for gravitational wave first detection and have the potential to provide ... -
Diagnostics of the Fermilab Tevatron using an AC dipole
Miyamoto, Ryoichi, 1975- (2008-08)The Fermilab Tevatron is currently the world’s highest energy colliding beam facility. Its counter-rotating proton and antiproton beams collide at 2 TeV center-of-mass. Delivery of such intense beam fluxes to experiments ... -
Emission-line properties of active galactic nuclei and an experiment in integrated, guided-inquiry science classes and implications for teaching astronomy
Ludwig, Randi Renae (2012-08)This dissertation examines two broad topics -- emission line properties of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the effect of hands-on, integrated science courses on student understanding of astronomy. To investigate trends ... -
Identifying muons for neutrino oscillation and cross section experiments
Ratchford, Jasmine Star Yuko Ma (2012-05)Neutrinos (v) are interesting for many reasons; they are the only fundamental fermions which are electrically neutral; their mass is orders of magnitude smaller than the lightest charged lepton, the electron; and their ... -
Linear optics measurements in the fermilab booster and the CERN PS booster
McAteer, Meghan Jill (2014-12)The future experimental programs both at FNAL and at CERN will have a strong focus on the search for new physics at the intensity frontier. In order to provide beams of unprecedented intensities to the various experiments ... -
Longitudinal phase space tomography of charged particle beams
Evans, Nicholas John (2014-08)Charged particle accelerators often have strict requirements on the beam energy, and timing to calibrate, or control background processes. Longitudinal Phase Space Tomography is a technique developed in 1987 to visualize ... -
Measurement of the muon neutrino inclusive charged current cross section on iron using the MINOS detector
Loiacono, Laura Jean (2010-05)The Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) facility at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) produces an intense muon neutrino beam used by the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS), a neutrino oscillation ... -
Neutrino Spectra And Uncertainties For MINOS
Kopp, S. (2008-02)The MINOS experiment [1] at Fermilab has released an updated. result on muon disappearance [2]. The experiment utilizes the intense source of muon neutrinos provided by the NuMI beam line. This note summarizes the systematic ... -
Observation of disappearance of muon neutrinos in the NuMI beam
Pavlović, Žarko, 1977- (2008-05)The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) is a two detector long-baseline neutrino experiment designed to study the disappearance of muon neutrinos. MINOS will test the v[subscript mu] → v[subscript tau] ... -
Operation Of The NuMi Beam Monitoring System
Zwaska, R. M.; Indurthy, D.; Keisler, R.; Kopp, S.; Mendoza, S.; Pavlovich, Z.; Proga, M.; Bishai, M.; Diwan, M.; Viren, B.; Harris, D.; Marchionni, A.; Morfin, J.; McDonald, J.; Naples, D.; Northacker, D.; Erwin, A.; Ping, H. C.; Velissaris, C. (2006-11)The NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) facility produces an intense neutrino beam for experiments. The NuMI Beam Monitoring system consists of four arrays of ion chambers that measure the intensity and distribution of ... -
Presentation: Angels & Demons: Physics, Antimatter, & Armageddon
Environmental Science Institute; Kopp, Sacha (Environmental Science Institute, 2010-02-19) -
Science Study Break - "2012"
Kopp, Sacha (2010-09-14) -
Science Study Break - Angels and Demons
University of Texas at Austin (2009-09-08)About Science Study Break: Take a break from the books and join UT researchers for cookies, chips, and chat about popular movies and TV shows that deal with science topics. Many viewers uncritically accept scientific ... -
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Cd-116 with the NEMO-3 experiment
Pahlka, Raymond Benton (2010-08)This dissertation describes the approach taken in measuring two neutrino double beta decay of Cd-116 to the ground state of Sn-116 and in searching for the effective Majorana neutrino mass by placing a lower limit on the ... -
Steady-state spherical accretion using smoothed particle hydrodynamics
Baumann, Mark Chapple (2011-12)Due to its adaptable nature in a broad range of problem domains, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a popular numerical technique for computing solutions in astrophysics. This dissertation discusses the SPH technique ...