News from the ACU Engineering and Physics Department
It is fun and easy to talk about huge colliders, massive experiments, and the latest cool results, but often the day-to-day life gets overlooked. Curious about cutting-edge physics research as viewed through the eyes of our students? Well, until the movie comes out you can read our latest Doings ANd Goings On at the link below:
-Dr. D
We received word this morning that the 100th peer-reviewed paper by PHENIX has been published online. To the best of our knowledge, every single paper includes at least one person from ACU on the author list. The first paper was published in April 2001, and it is an amazing accomplishment by the PHENIX Collaboration to reach this milestone in 10 years.
View the complete list of published peer-reviewed articles on PHENIX’s web page.
After a long, beautiful hibernation, we are back with this summer’s physics research!
This summer we’ve got students and professors working in New York, Chicago, Colorado, New Mexico, and Idaho. Not bad for a physics department from small-town west Texas. Most of our work falls under the umbrella of nuclear physics by studying the structure of the proton and directly measuring nuclear fission processes. We also have students who have recently worked on various research projects in medical physics, homeland security, and optics just to name a few. Of course, the research experience helps our graduates go off to a huge array of different fields in physics, engineering, education, and computing.
My plan is to let you hear directly from the students about their summer research experiences, so for the first time I am posting a copy of our weekly newsletter: the Doings ANd Goings On (DANGO) of the ACU Physics department. Since our group is quite literally scattered across the country, we have the students and professors write a weekly status update for the DANGO newsletter. By our records, this is the 17th year of DANGO (and the 30th year of nuclear physics research at ACU).
Research is an inherently messy process. The User’s Center here at Brookhaven National Lab has a poster with quote from Einstein on the wall:
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research”
DANGO captures it all. The joy and the sorrow. The triumphs and the suffering. The work and the play. The serious and the not-so-serious. The difficult process of doing something which has never been done before. And you’re welcome to come along for the ride.
Click on the link to download: DANGO 2011 – Issue #1
-Dr. D
