[APEX] [Halla_coll] Opportunities for students on APEX

[Pete Markowitz]

Hi Natalia,

Our FIU group has a new, incoming graduate student (Jonathan 
Castellanos, jcastellanos12777 at gmail.com) who would like to work on the 
experiment for his dissertation.  I was assuming he would work on the 
SciFi but that is all very flexible.  Jonathan has about 2 years of 
classes, but should able to be resident at JLab for a period before APEX 
runs, to help with setup, installation, commissioning, etc.  He will 
certainly be at JLab for the next several summers.

     pete

On 9/9/14, 10:06 AM, Natalia Toro wrote:
>
> Dear APEX and Hall A collaborators,
>
> We are writing to inquire if any one has graduate students who would 
> be interested in working on the APEX experiment.  As most of you know, 
> APEX was among the PAC 41 experiments prioritized for early running 
> and is preparing for a potential 2016 run.  Several projects involved 
> in this preparation would provide excellent training opportunities for 
> students, and would prepare them for Masters and Ph.D. theses.
>
>
> As a reminder, APEX will search for "dark photons", a new, massive 
> force carrier with very weak couplings to ordinary electrically 
> charged matter.  The experiment will cover an important region of 
> unexplored parameter space, motivated by theoretical considerations 
> and data anomalies that suggest interactions of dark photons with the 
> Universe's dark matter. The high sensitivity of APEX will permit a 
> search for an A' motivated by the muon g-2 anomaly, even if the A' 
> decay branching ratio to Standard Model particles is as low as 1%.
>
> Key projects in the preparation for APEX include:
> -- Target: Development of the lifter and of target modifications 
> appropriate for all run settings
> -- Testing newly constructed SciFi detectors for optics calibration 
> and its implementation
> -- Analysis of the radiation in the Hall and design of the shielding
> -- Developing high-rate track reconstruction algorithm for VDC
> -- Field mapping of the newly constructed APEX septum (arriving to 
> JLab in October)
>
> All projects should start very soon to allow timely preparation of the 
> run.
> We anticipate 2-3 Ph.D. theses and up to 4-5 Masters theses based on 
> data from the full APEX run.  Ph.D. theses would focus on several 
> aspects of the physics analysis (understanding the QED trident 
> spectrum, the resonance-search analysis in each of the four settings, 
> and statistical combination of different settings).  Masters thesis 
> projects would be possible on each of the major components of APEX 
> (e.g. septum, target, radiation shielding, SciFi detectors & their use 
> in optics calibration, VDC track reconstruction, particle ID).  A few 
> of the Masters projects could be completed with existing data before 
> the full APEX run.  Now is a great time for a student to get involved 
> with APEX and gain expertise for such projects!
>
> If you have a qualified and interested student, please email Bogdan 
> Wojtsekhowski to coordinate.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Rouven Essig,
> Philip Schuster,
> Natalia Toro,
> Bogdan Wojtsekhowski
> (APEX spokespeople)
>
>
>
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Dr. Pete E.C. Markowitz       Florida International University
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Phone: (305) 348-1710                       Physics Department
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