REU 2005 Projects

Cornell University Participants
 

• Keith Bechtol, College of William and Mary
  Mentor: David Kreinick
  Elimination of Cosmic Ray Events for CLEO-c
   
• Theodor Brasoveanu, Vanderbilt University (CPT)
  Mentors: David Rubin and Jeff Smith
  Low Emittance Transport Studies for the Alignment of the ILC
   
• Chase Ellis, University of Redlands
  Mentor: Ivan Bazarov
  Optimization of Focusing at the ERL Gun Cathode
   
• Sohang Gandhi, University of Central Florida
  Mentor: Maxim Perelstein
  Analytic Fits to Parton Distribution Functions
   
• Michael Gerrity, University of Texas (Austin)
  Mentor: Nick Agladze
  Light Propagation in ERL Bunch Length Measurements
   
• George Hang, Swarthmore College
  Mentor: Rongli Geng
  Dark Currents in Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities
   
• Adam Hinkle, Marquette University
  Mentor: Jean Duboscq
  Measuring the Tau Pair Production Cross-Section
   
• Kristin Kopp, Central Connecticut University
  Mentors: Ritchie Patterson and Jeff Smith
  Comparison of Beam Based Alignment Algorithms in the Presence of Beam Jitter
   
• Vaibhav Kukreja, Cornell University
  Mentors: Georg Hoffstaetter and Charles Sinclair
  Field-Emission Properties in the ERL-Electron Source
   
• Jonathan Luk, University of California at San Diego
  Mentor: Valery Shemelin
  Optimization of the End Cells in SRF Cavities
   
• Kellen Petersen , University of Utah
  Mentor: Gerry Dugan
  Bunch Compression in the International Linear Collider
   
• Greg Robison, Manchester College
  Mentor: Jim Alexander
  Muon Decay Simulation Experiment
   

Wayne State University Participants
 

• Brent Gillett, Wayne State University
  Mentor: Matthias Liepe
  Testing of the Broadband HOM Absorber