2013–2017·Boulder, CO
B.A. & Sc., Physics — Magna Cum Laude
Where physics became instruments.
I came to physics through the hardware. As an undergraduate in the Nagle group I worked on detector R&D for sPHENIX, the high-energy nuclear-physics experiment at Brookhaven National Lab — and discovered that I liked building the instrument at least as much as the physics it measured.
That instinct — solve the physics by building the thing that measures it — is the through-line of everything since.
Designed and built an automated test stand to measure gain uniformity across the hadronic calorimeter's scintillator panels — the QC gate before installation.
Wrote a C++ pile-up detection algorithm that was adopted into the collaboration's shared software library and used across the group's published analyses.
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My C++ double-event / pile-up detection algorithm was adopted into the PHENIX collaboration software. These heavy-ion physics papers are built on the collision data it cleaned.
Creating small circular, elliptical, and triangular droplets of quark–gluon plasma
Measurements of multiparticle correlations in d+Au collisions and implications for collective behavior
Measurement of long-range angular correlations and azimuthal anisotropies in high-multiplicity p+Au collisions
Lévy-stable two-pion Bose–Einstein correlations in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions
Overview of results from the PHENIX Collaboration
Measurement of the relative yields of ψ′ to J/ψ mesons at forward and backward rapidity
Pseudorapidity dependence of particle production and elliptic flow in asymmetric nuclear collisions
Measurements of azimuthal anisotropy and charged-particle multiplicity in d+Au collisions
Kinematic dependence of azimuthal anisotropies in p+Au, d+Au, and ³He+Au collisions
Cross section and transverse single-spin asymmetry of muons from open heavy-flavor decays
Nonperturbative transverse-momentum effects and evolution in dihadron and direct-photon–hadron correlations
Nuclear dependence of the transverse-single-spin asymmetry for forward neutron production
Disentangling centrality bias and final-state effects in high-pT neutral-pion production using direct photons
Measurements of Υ(1S+2S+3S) production at forward rapidity
Measurements of second-harmonic Fourier coefficients from azimuthal anisotropies
Measurements of e⁺e⁻ pairs from open heavy flavor in p+p and p+Au collisions
Measurement of emission-angle anisotropy via long-range angular correlations with high-pT hadrons
φ-meson production at forward and backward rapidity in p+Al, p+Au, and Cu+Au collisions
Angular decay coefficients of J/ψ mesons at forward rapidity
Measurements at forward rapidity of elliptic flow of charged hadrons and open-heavy-flavor muons
Measurement of elliptic flow of charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions at forward rapidity
Measurement of elliptic flow of J/ψ in Au+Au collisions at forward rapidity
Measurement of φ-meson production at forward rapidity in p+p collisions at √s = 510 GeV
The hadronic calorimeter I helped build and QC — from the scintillator-panel light-output work to the beam-tested prototype — underpins these sPHENIX detector papers.
Design and beam-test results for the sPHENIX electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter prototypes
Overview of results from the sPHENIX Collaboration
The development of a sampling hadronic calorimeter for sPHENIX and the detection of event pile-up at PHENIX