Minerva Archives - Physics: Schellman Research Group

Amit Bashyal (far right) at the Neutrino summer school in Illinois.

5th year grad student Amit Bashyal’s team won a group presentation prize at the International Neutrino Summer School for their study of magnetization of DUNE experiment far detectors. Students were divided into groups given a short time to do an original study and then present it! Congratulations Amit and team!

3 other Schellman group members and alumni are pictured. Laura Fields (Fermilab, 6th from left) and Cheryl Patrick (UCL, 7th from left) were lecturers at the summer school and 2nd year student Sean Gilligan (3rd from right) also attended.

Jen Hobbs worked in the Schellman group as an undergraduate and beginning grad student at Northwestern. She and Howard Budd (Rochester) built the testing system for all 32,000 scintillating fibers for the MINERvA experiment using LabView. I knew she was good when she got frustrated with the slow device drivers and rewrote them during her first summer at Fermilab. When MINERvA was complete she switched to neuroscience so she could continue doing hands-on stuff in the lab.

Her dissertation was on the relation between physical motion and neural signals from rat whiskers and won the Journal of Experimental Biology Outstanding Paper Award in 2015.

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/219/1/6

She then became a data scientist applying her expertise in quantitative studies of motion to – SPORTS!

She’s featured in the most recent issue of Symmetry Magazine

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/from-physics-to-data-science

Kaseylin Yoke shows her poster on MINERvA data quality at the SURE Science Symposium.

Junior Physics major Kaseylin Yoke was awarded a $5,000 SURE Science Summer Fellowship by the College of Science. The SURE Fellowship supports students to do research over the summer. She spent the summer learning to analyze data from the MINERvA experimentand finished by spending two weeks in Illinois at Fermilab working with graduate students Amit Bashyal and Sean Gilligan and seeing the apparatus in the flesh.

She delivered a very popular poster on her work at the SURE Science Symposium in early September.

Former student Cheryl Patrick does it again. Her SUPERNEMO the Musical won the day at the UCL christmas show and was featured in Symmetry News.

Her thesis also won a Springer Thesis Award of 500 EU and is now out as a lovely book.

Differential QE-like cross section dσ(E_QEν)/dQ^2_QE, in bins of E_QEν. Inner error bars show statistical uncertainties; outer error bars show total (statistical and systematic) uncertainty. The red histogram shows the MINERvA-tuned GENIE model used to estimate smearing and acceptance.

The much anticipated paper version of Cheryl Patrick’s thesis has been accepted by Physical Review D. Check it out at:

http://inspirehep.net/record/1646253?ln=en

The data release is available at

http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~schellmh/data_release/qelike.html

Update: It is published in Phys. Rev. D which is now open access:

https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.052002

Cheryl Patrick successfully defended her thesis:

Measurement of the Antineutrino Double-Differential Charged-Current Quasi-Elastic Scattering Cross Section at MINERvA in March and is now a postdoc on SuperNEMO at University College London.

Heidi Schellman, Cheryl Patrick PhD and Laura Fields. Cheryl is wearing the official PhD hat.

She came back to the US to give a fantastic Fermilab Wine and Cheese talk in June 2016 which has been written up in Fermi News. Watch the video!

We went to the APS Division of Nuclear Physics conference in Vancouver BC in mid-October 2016.

Senior Evan Peters shows how to calibrate neutrino response in the MINERvA detector. — Senior Evan Peters shows how to calibrate neutron response in the MINERvA detector.

Undergraduates Gabe Nowak and Evan Peters gave posters on their work and PI Heidi Schellman gave a 10 minute talk explaining anti-neutrino quasi-elastic scattering.

Evan’s poster was placed with theoretical posters presented by students also working on neutrino scattering, leading to much discussion amongst the neutrino community.

Much homework was done during the 9 hour drive back in the rain. Next time I will bring two flashlights in the car.

Welcome to Mateus Fernandes Carneiro who has joined the Schellman neutrino group as a postdoctoral scholar. Mateus just completed his dissertation “Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at Enu of 6 GeV” at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas using the MINERvA neutrino detector at Fermilab. He will be working with Heidi Schellman and Amit Bashyal on studies of neutrino cross sections. Mateus will be working from Fermilab most of the time but will visit us frequently.

Gabriel Nowak is a Junior in the Physics program at Oregon State. He’s been in the Schellman group for 6 months and is writing a data comparator for the MINERvA and MicroBooNE experiments at Fermilab.

Gabriel Nowak working on the data comparator in the Fermilab neutrino control room.

This link compares two versions of the MINERvA simulation code. It combines the CDF data validation code with Gabriel’s histogram generator.

We just posted our new postdoctoral scholar position. The location is most likely Fermilab but we’ll consider people interested in working in Corvallis.

MicroBooNE/MINERvA (AJO-5824)

Oregon State U. – Postdoc

Field of Interest: hep-ex, nucl-ex
Experiment: FNAL-E-0974, FNAL-E-0938
Deadline: 2015-10-01
Region: North America
Job description:
Oregon State University is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to participate in the MicroBooNE and MINERvA experiments at Fermilab. The Oregon State group’s expertise is in data handling, validation and algorithms and our physics interest is in precision measurements of neutrino cross section in the energy regimes relevant to future neutrino oscillation experiments. The position will most likely be at Fermilab in Illinois.

We are looking for someone with prior experimental experience in either high energy physics or nuclear physics, not restricted to neutrino physics. Significant expertise in modern scientific computing and data analysis is a plus.

For full consideration, please apply by 10/1/2015

Please apply via academicjobs online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/5824
Contact: Heidi Schellman
Email: schellma@fnal.gov
More Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/5824

http://inspirehep.net/record/1386441

Physics: Schellman Research Group

Neutrino Physics at Oregon State

Category Archives: Minerva

Amit Bashyal wins INSS talk prize

Alumna Jen Hobbs is now a Data Scientist

SURE Science Fellowship Awarded to Kaseylin Yoke to work on MINERvA

Alumni: Cheryl Patrick wins again!

CCQE Antineutrino paper published in Physical Review D.

Belated post: Cheryl Patrick PhD.

Road trip to DNP in Vancouver

Postdoc Mateus Carneiro joins the group

Gabriel Nowak – Undergraduate

Postdoctoral position on MicroBooNE/MINERvA

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