Physics: Schellman Research Group

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. She came back to the US to give a fantastic Fermilab Wine and Cheese talk in June 2016 which has been written up in […]

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

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 […]

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.     This link compares two versions of the MINERvA simulation code.  It combines  the CDF data validation code with […]

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 […]

Brandon Walker graduated from Northwestern in 2010 with Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Astronomy and in Mathematics.  He did his honors thesis in the Schellman group on `An Algorithm for Particle Tracking and Analysis of Muons in the Main Injector Experiment v-A (MINERvA).” He is currently a doctoral student in Medical Physics at the University […]

Chris Marshall, a graduate student finishing his thesis at Rochester, was on the day shift today and contributed this screenshot from the Original UROC at Rochester.    

Emily Maher, a Physics Professor at MCLA, who was doing the night shift, has kindly documented the official setup in the Fermilab control room. This is on the MINERvA shift wiki but that makes it hard to post pictures so I’m reposting here.    

The MINERvA experiment at Fermilab is currently running 24×7 in the NuMI neutrino beam. We have set up a Remote Operations Center (UROC) at Oregon State where we can run remote shifts monitoring data acquisition and controlling data taking. This frees up the experts at Fermilab for emergency repairs. The screen on the far left […]