Out-of-date Warning

You probably want to go to my current webpage (2016–?). This is my grad student webpage, dating mostly 2005–2010.

Projects

• Winter 2008 – Sept 2010: MINOS analysis
  • Thesis: "A Measurement of Oscillation Parameters using Antifiducial Charged Current Events in MINOS"
  • MINOS runs subrun ranges
  • Scan of cross section plots in Barish et al, Phys Lett B66, p291 (1977)
  • Example loon code: prints a few things in sntp files
  • Example loon code: create a simple ntuple file from an sntp file:
    • The actual code
    • The loon wrapper script to actually run it
    • The bash wrapper script to run the loon wrapper script (saves a lot of typing)
• NOνA (a.k.a. NOvA) work:
  • Spring 2007 – ???: Fiber/Pseudocumene reaction
    • Data through Dec 2009 published as M. Strait, D. Cronin-Hennessy and K. Arms, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A615, 33 (2010).
    • Scan of a hard-to-find paper I cited: Über Anlauffarben von Metallen
    • Maintenance of samples (temperature monitoring, essentially), continues. Taking data at a rate of ~once/2 years could still be interesting.
    • Samples maintained 2010–2016 by Susan Lein
    • Now maintained by me again, still going as of mid-2016
  • Fall 2006 – petering out sometime in 2007: Stringing Machine
  • Summer 2005 – Summer 2007: Calorimeter study

Public Talks

• APS 2010 March Meeting, February 2010, "Anti-fiducial Muons in MINOS": OpenOffice presentation | PDF
• St. Olaf College Physics Colloquium, March 2010, "Neutrino Oscillations and the MINOS Experiment": OpenOffice presentation | PDF
• Pheno 2010, May 2010, "New Results from MINOS": OpenOffice presentation | PDF

Misc

• My (generic) computer tips for physicists
• A UNIX (Linux command line) tutorial
• ROOT:
  • Using TColor::CreateGradientColorTable
  • Making a nice dashed contour
• Patch for Digitemp 3.5.0 that allows reading from a specific USB device

Misc Misc

• My coffee reviews

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