Conveners
Student Research Talks II
- Katie Harrington (Argonne National Laboratory)
The goal of this project is to determine whether weak lensing deflection effects on galaxies is negligible, as is the current assumption, using data from the Dark Energy Survey's Year 3 results. We determine this by computationally measuring the three two-point correlation functions for galaxy clustering, galaxy-galaxy lensing, and cosmic shear in gravitationally deflected galaxy positions and...
The presentation focuses on the purpose of the muon detector upgrade for ATLAS at CERN, and then further dives into the mechanics of the spectrometers themselves. I then follow up with my contributions to the building of these spectrometers, which involves quality control testing before parts are moved into final construction.
Detecting tau neutrinos is extremely difficult due to the similarities the process has with the backgrounds. Therefore, accurate modeling of the tau neutrino charged current interaction and subsequent tau lepton decay is required. Codes that effectively decay the tau already exist, but all existing event generators that produce the tau result in considerable error due to inappropriate...
Active regions (ARs), areas on the sun with strong magnetic flux, are indicators of where harmful space weather may originate. In order to better prepare for these phenomena, it is important to be able to predict how flux on the Sun evolves over time. This project aims to improve current models of flux evolution by quantifying the uncertainties in far-side helioseismic data from the...
Transitioning from community college to a 4-year College
