Neutrinos,
DUNE, and the High Voltage Testing of Fiber Reinforced Plastic
By Jennifer B. Tyler
Supervisors:
Glenn Horton-Smith, Associate
Professor of Physics
Tim Bolton,
Professor of Physics
Kansas
State University Physics Department REU Program
This work is partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through NSF grant number PHYS-1461251. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or AFOSR.
Below, I describe the Project
Overview, my Research Description, my Research
Progress, and will eventually post my Final
Presentation. Scroll all the way down to learn more About Me. Finally,
I've included some Useful Links.
Click here to view my photogallery.
My project
this summer has been to test and collect data about the resistivity of
different types of Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (FRP). I tested three types of FRP:
standard grade, fire-retardant, and electrical grade. One of these types will
be used to build the field cage of the DUNE Far
Detector. FRP’s are normally highly-resistive materials, so high voltage
was used (ranging from 500-2900 Volts) to collect the data needed to determine
the resistivity of each type
Research Description: Please make
this accessible to a prospective REU student, and to a graduate student in your
area of research. Length and level of detail are largely up to you.
Check with your advisor before posting any new
data or giving away any patentable intellectual property. This can
be a detailed description of your approach to your research, in step-by-step
style, or a final report type review of your activities and findings.
Research Progress: I have made great progress! I am
currently done with the KSU 2016 Summer REU program, but I am continuing to
analyze the data that was collected over the summer. This will be my senior research project at my home
institution.
Final Presentation: Click here to
download my presentation in Powerpoint
and pdf formats. (Still working on it)
About Me: Kansas State University’s REU program is the first REU program I
have attended. I attend college at Point
Loma Nazarene University. I first got interested in physics when I took my first physics class at
community college. After taking Modern Physics, I decided I wanted to pursue my
Ph.D. in particle or high energy physics. I'm involved in PLNU’s chapter of the Society of Physics Students.
Useful
Links: I have found the
following links particularly informative or useful:
DUNE: Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
American Physical Society Statements on
Ethics