Simulations are required to understand the data that has been recorded, as well as to guide the final design of the detectors and electronics, including the project listed immediately above. The REU student will learn some of the important processes that are expected to occur at these two experiments, write software, and analyze the results using graphical and numerical packages. The student will take advantage of the abundant computing resources available to the High Energy Experiment group at the University of Florida. Computer programming experience is desired, but not required. The wire chambers must be checked for deficiencies, and repaired, before installation in the CMS experiment.
Gravity plays a central role in all of astrophysics.
From clusters of galaxies, to clusters of stars, to stars themselves, gravity is what holds matter together. Examples of possible applications include spherical star clusters, close binary systems and rotating stellar models. When a current travels through a wire, there is a potential drop and rearrangement of the charge in the wire. In ordinary wires this charge build-up is very small, as are the voltage drops on the atomic scale. However, there are systems now being studied with large voltage drops and charge redistribution on the atomic scale.