Troubleshooting the sPHENIX Electromagnetic Calorimeter
This work was completed as part of a collaborative effort to understand the very primal state of matter, Quark-Gluon Plasma, with researchers from both UIUC and across the globe. One of my first experiences with UIUC and its wonderful undergraduates and graduate students.
Work In Detail
We were working with the sPHENIX detector, a new particle detector up in Brookhaven New York. The purpose of the machine was to study Quark Gluon Plasma, a state of matter 250,000x hotter than the Sun, and theorized to be the primordial state of matter that the universe took on moments after the Big Bang.
There are many subsystems in the sPHENIX detector, but our work was with the Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMCal), which detected light.
Our Final Deliverable and Project Summary Up-Close
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