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Projects for BA/MPhys students and summer students

Below is a list of projects available for undergraduates students. Contact me if you would like to work on any of these projects.
These projects are expected to take place over 8 weeks starting the 5 July 2010 (until 27 August 2010).

Please note that I now work at the University of Paris-South (Orsay). If you would like to do a summer project with me, please check my students projects page in Orsay.

Summer projects 2010

LPWA-1 How to measure ultra-short electron bunches?
Recent work done in Oxford has established the observation of Smith-Purcell radiation as a method to measure the length of an electron bunch in the picosecond regime. This project will build on previous work to study how the method could be extended to the femtosecond regime.

Skills required: Electromagnetism calculations and computer simulations.

Supervisor: Dr George Doucas and Dr Nicolas Delerue


LPWA-2 Compton scattering simulations
Building on previous work, this project aims at writing a code that simulates the production of X-rays when a laser beam hits an electron beam (Compton scattering). The project will first study the propagation of the laser beam and then calculate the probability for X-rays to be emitted. The aim being to build a software package that can be used by other users.

Skills required: Knowledge of the Java programming language.

Supervisor: Dr Nicolas Delerue


LPWA-3 Automated scanning of nuclear emulsions
This project aims at measuring the quality of the beam of a particle accelerator by using a special type of photographic plates. To do so will require to assemble the suitable hardware and to program it. This will require to read out the data taken by a camera and to analyse them to produce a digital imgae of the photographic plate. Then, building on previous work we will analyse these images to extract information on the beam quality.

Skills required: An interest in computer programming. Knowledge of the Java programming language would be an advantage.

Supervisor: Dr Nicolas Delerue


LPWA-4 Simulations of the propagation of a particle beam in matter
This project will use a dedicated computer code (GEANT4) to study how high energy particles propagate in matter and how this can be used to minimise beam quality loss. We will used these simulations to see how these effect can be used to measured some properties of the beam and improve its quality.

Skills required: An interest in computer programming and in particle physics.

Supervisor: Dr Nicolas Delerue


Misc-1 Building a cyclotron
This project will identify what would be required to build a small cyclotron in Oxford for teaching/outreach purpose. The first part of the project will study how a cyclotron works and then we will build the parts required.
This project will take place only if sufficient funding can be found.

Skills required: A strong interest in hardware/mechanical construction.

Supervisor: (tbc) or Dr Nicolas Delerue


If you are interested in any of the projects above please contact me (Please include a resume stating your interests and previous experiences).

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