Student Thesis Archive

2010s

Porter, Aaron, “Library of X-Ray Florescence Spectra of Lanthanide Series Elements and Order of Magnitude Measurements of Absorption Conditions,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Jun 2015).
Burton, Ashlie, “Sound Reduction in Prostheses,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, Apr 2015).

Corey, Alexander, “Construction and Testing of Four Adit Photomultiplier Tubes With Scintillating Plastic for Neutron Detection,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Dec 2014).
McArthur, Matthew, “Neutron Measurements with a Shielded Source & Measured and Theoretical Errors for Multiplicity Counting,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, Nov 2014).
Richards, Taylor, “Transit Time Uniformity of Two Commercial 5” Photomultiplier Tubes,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, Aug 2014).
Talbert, Bradford, “Calibration of a cadmium capture-gated neutron spectrometer,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Apr 2014).
Jex, Trevor, “Preliminary Study of a Dual PMT Lithium-Cadmium Hybrid Neutron Detector,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Apr 2014).
Higgins, Craig, “Cadmium Capture-gated Neutron Detector Analysis of the U-235 Fission Spectrum,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, Apr 2014).

James, Brian, “Modeling Cd-based Neutron Detector Configurations,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Aug 2013).
Quist, Nicole, “LGB Time of Flight Facility,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, May 2013).

Bastola, Suraj, “Spontaneous Fission Spectrum of Neutrons from Cf-252 with Kinetic Energies Less than 1 MeV,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Aug 2012).
Gardiner, Steven, “Neutron Detection Using Shards of 6Li Glass Scintillator,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Aug 2012).
Hoffman, Andrew, “Improving Cadmium Capture-Gated Neutron Detection Techniques,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Aug 2012).
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Hogan, Nathaniel, “Characterization of a Cadmium Capture-Gated Neutron Spectrometer,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Aug 2011).
Hoggan, Rita, “Cadmium Capture-Gated Neutron Detector with 6Li-Glass,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Apr 2011).
Wallace, Adam, “Lithium Glass Neutron Detector,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Apr 2011).

Calton, Mark, “Liquid Lithium Pendant Droplet for Laboratory Nuclear Astrophysics Beam Experiments,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Dec 2009).
Howell, Steven, “Lithium Gadolinium Borate Crystal Scintillator For Low Flux Neutron Detection,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Apr 2009).

Hall, Benjamin, “PIXE Analysis Of Oil-Paint Pigments: Proof Of Principle,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Apr 2006).
Bonewell, Brandon, “Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Print Ink Analysis Using The PIXE Method,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Capstone, Apr 2006).
Ashby, William, “Trace Element Analysis of 9mm Bullet Lead Via PIXE Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Senior Thesis, Apr 2006).

Perry, Scott Evans, “Multienergetic External-beam PIXE as a Means of Stydying the Surface Enrichment Effect in Coins,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Masters Thesis, Jul 2003).

Wilcox, Eva, “Energy Resolution in Neutron Detection,” Advisor: Lawrence Rees (Honors Thesis, Feb 2002).