The majority of my tasks include but are not limited to:
- Prepare for a HELIX launch
- Document the performance and instrumentation of the HELIX Drift Chamber Tracker
- Develop software both for interfacing with HELIX hardware and analyzing HELIX data
- Develop hardware for the PUEO project
- Mentor graduate students and undergraduate students
- Host AstroParticle Lunch (APL) triweekly.
- Upkeep a clean, inclusive, and accessible lab
- HELIX underwent a successful thermal vacuum test at the Armstrong Test Facility in nearby Sandusky, Ohio. We had a wonderful NASA and HELIX crew. Insertion of the payload and the HELIX personnel are shown. I was one of the key personnel in managing and executing the test.
2. We are refurbishing the Drift Chamber Tracker that is responsible for tracking the relativistic cosmic rays through the magnetic field. This is completed at Indiana University, and I took this photo of the inside of the chamber during one of my work visits to help with this task among other things.
3. Some of the analysis Daniel Boyea and I have accomplished working with the HELIX team includes implementing a Hough Transform to resolve the left-right ambiguity in tracking cosmic rays with drift fields. This screenshot from Daniel’s documentation shows a lot of this hard work paying off with muons (good work Daniel!).
4. I have been working with graduate students Dennis Calderon, Taylor Coakley, and Payton Linton on designing hardware and software for the PUEO project. A couple action shots of this are featured below.
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