SBU-Spin Group: Present and Past

Post Doctoral Fellow Dr. Swadhin Taneja (2007-present) Global Analysis of polarized DIS and p-p data, including study of impact with the EIC PHENIX Silicon VTX tracker upgrade, construction, testing and commissioning EIC: Electroweak Structure Spin Functions, Searches of possible physics beyond the Standard Model at the EIC Graduate Students: Andrew Manion (2008-present) Polarized gluon distribution via inclusive neutral pion cross section and double longitudinal asymmetry, RHIC Run-9 data, (200 and 500 GeV, Center of Mass) PHENIX Silicon VTX tracker upgrade, testing QA, construction and commissioning Paul Kline (2008-present) Polarized gluon distribution through direct photon production, RHIC -Run-9 data (200 and 500 GeV, Center of Mass) PHENIX Si VTX tracker upgrade, fabrication, testing, commissioning PHENIX Operations: Vernier Scans for luminosity measurement, QA of systematics including luminosity and relative luminosity studies Sookhyun Lee (2009-present) Measurement of 250 GeV polarized proton’s spin polarization, RHIC Run-9 Determination of polarized gluon distribution via inclusive charged pion production asymmetry in polarized p-p scattering, Run-9 (200 and 500 GeV, Center of Mass) Ciprian Gal (2010-present) VTX tracker: fabrication, commissioning PHENIX Operations: ZDC based Local Polarimetry Undergraduate Students Cyrus Faroughy (2010-present) Study of Lepton Flavor Violation at the EIC, A sensitivity and feasibility study Thomas Videbaek (2010-present) Feasibility study of the “gattling gun” design for the polarized electron source for the eRHIC (co-supervisor: Dr. Triveni Rao, BNL) Owen Vail (2010-present) GEANT simulation for EIC detector (co-supervisor: Dr. E. C. Aschenauer, BNL, and the EIC Task Force) William Foreman (2009-present) EIC Kinematics and physics acceptance studies through simulations (co-supervisors: Dr. E. C. Aschenauer, BNL and the EIC task force) Peter Schnatz (2010) Study of radiative corrections in DIS at the EIC (co-supervisors: Dr. E. C. Aschenauer, BNL and the EIC task force) Stony Brook Spin Group Alumni Names, dates at SBU, research topics, Where are they now? Dr. Kieran Boyle, Ph.D. 2004-2008 Thesis Topic: Double longitudinal spin asymmetry in inclusive neutral pion production in 200 GeV Center of Mass polarized proton collisions at RHIC. Present: Post doctoral fellow at RIKEN BNL Research Center at BNL, Activity: RHIC Spin and BELLE experiment at KEK Dr. Robert Bennett, Ph.D. 2004-2009 Thesis Topic: Cross section and double longitudinal asymmetry in direct photon production in 200 GeV Center of Mass polarized proton collisions at RHIC. Present: post doctoral fellow at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA. Activity: Jefferson Laboratory, Hall C Steven Kaneti, MSI (Masters in Scientific Instrumentation) 2008-2010 Thesis Topic: Design and construction of PHENIX VTX tracker. Present: Ph.D. Graduate Student, Cambridge University, UK working Activity: ATLAS experiment at CERN, Switzerland. Nathan Means, MSI, 2006-2008 Thesis Topic: Construction, installation and commissioning of the PHENIX muon piston calorimeter. Present: Financial planning for services, Colorado, USA Michael Savastio B.S. Honors (2010) Diffractive physics in e-A collisions at the Electron Ion Collider (EIC); Collider acceptance studies for the EIC Present: Ph.D. Graduate Student, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Anders Kirleis (2009-2010) GEANT detector simulation for the EIC (co-supervisor: Dr. Vadim Ptitsyn & Dr. V. Litvinenko, BNL-CAD) Sr. Physics and Computer Science Major, Stony Brook University Phillippe Castera (Visitor from 6 months 2010) Silicon VTX tracker, PHENIX Detector Upgrade (co-supervisor: Prof. B. Jacak, Stony Brook & Dr. Rachid Nouicer, BNL-Physics) Undergraduate student, Physics and Engineering, Ecole Centrale, Paris, Francehttp://livepage.apple.com/