Laboratory for the Optical Manipulation & Detection of Nuclei
Towards a Next Generation Search for Time-Reversal Violation Using Optically Addressable Nuclei in Cryogenic Solids Certain rare pear-shaped nuclei have unmatched sensitivity to new kinds of forces between subatomic particles that are not the same ...
CAREER: Optical Single Atom Detection for Nuclear Astrophysics This award supports the development, construction, and commissioning of an optical microscope capable of imaging individual atoms that are captured inside a thin film of frozen neon. ...
This weekly win post is for the winner announced on October 3rd, for the work done during the week of Sept 26-30. The win this week was awarded to a group composed of Spinlab members Steven ...
This paper (Phys. Rev. C 91, 055205 (2015)) published on May 21 was in large part based on my PhD dissertation from UVa. It describes how we improved polarized He-3 target performance by about an order ...
Efficient, selective, and sensitive Detection of atomic nuclear reaction products via optical imaging B. Loseth, R. Fang, D. Frisbie, K. Parzuchowski, C. Ugalde, J. Wenzl, and J. T. Singh Phys. Rev. C 99, 065805 – Published 13 June 2019
Professor Thelma Irene Arnette (1920-2017) was the third person hired (the first two were Prof. Henry Blosser and Prof. Morton Gordon) to design the first cyclotron (the “K50”) at Michigan State University around 1960. She would go on to become an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1962 and earned tenure at MSU in 1967 in ...
It is that time of year when people start applying to graduate school. Some advice, guidance, and insight is given here in a talk I’ll be presenting tonight to MSU students: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r5iqy8w6e2ft05d/2021-09-13-Grad-School-App-Bootcamp-JTS-notes.pdf?dl=0 An important part of the process is requesting letters of recommendation. Some guidance along these lines is given here: https://spinlab.me/2018/06/06/the-time-consuming-privilege-of-writing-a-thoughtful-letter-of-recommendation-for-a-student-2018-edition/ Good luck and ...
Although the APS March Meeting was cancelled this year, you can view Roy Ready’s presentation. The abstract is here: http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR20/Session/P01.2 The slides are here: https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=17142 The presentation is here on YouTube:
[This is the first in a series of posts about our efforts to improve the instruction in PHY 451: Advanced Lab. They are written by my collaborator Matthew Rossi who is an assistant professor of writing in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture. His research focuses on citizen science, writing consultation, multimodal writing, and ...
[Updated from 2017 – JTS] Inspiration It will soon be application season (at least for students considering going to grad school in physics) for graduating seniors. As a consequence, I’ve decided to borrow some useful guidelines from my colleagues regarding letters of recommendation/reference: Ed Brown’s Letters of Recommendation Pawel Danielewicz’s Recommendation Letters Brian O’Shea’s Recommendation ...
The prototype Single Atom Microscope has been assembled and has passed two critical test. The substrate upon which we grow the solid neon thin films can be cooled to around 7 K which is cold enough to grow neon films. We have grown neon films at a rate of roughly 1 micron per ...
Congratulations to Adam, Brian, Fry, and Steve! They are all graduating this semester and participated in the graduation ceremony on December 16, 2017 in Breslin Center. Adam Powers joined the group in April 2016 and has contributed to all aspects of the high voltage electrode development for the Ra EDM experiment including residual magnetization measurements ...
The Weekly Win goes to Director’s Research Scholar Steve Fromm, who was awarded a Board of Trustees Scholarship Award! This award is given to only ~50 out of ~10,000 graduating seniors (top 0.5%!) every year who have “the highest cumulative grade-points at the close of semester prior to graduation.” Furthermore, “To be eligible for these ...
A few years ago Arthur Obermayer found an essay Isaac Asimov wrote in 1959 on how to foster creativity within a group setting. This essay titled “On Creativity” was published in MIT Technology Review in 2014 and can be accessed via this link. The process of creativity appears to be universal and is often not obvious to ...
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