Post Tagged with: "Miranda Carver"

Carver Places First in Society of Physics Students Research Conference

Drs. Paul King and David Tees present a First Prize certificate to Miranda Carver

Six Ohio University undergraduate Physics & Astronomy students presented an overview of their projects undertaken the previous summer, during the 2019 Society of Physics Students (SPS) Research Conference held recently in Clippinger Labs. First place winner Miranda Carver, a senior physics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, presented […]

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November 26, 2019 at 2:20 pmIn Class News Research

Miranda Carver ǀ Analyzing Particle Physics at Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics

Miranda Carver at  the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Genoa, Italy

By Miranda Carver [B.S. Physics, College of Arts & Sciences, Class of 2020] I conducted research last summer in  in Genoa, under the direction of Andrea Celentano, and at Ohio University with Dr. Kenneth Hicks, a professor in Physics & Astronomy. The National Science Foundation and my department sponsored my […]

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November 26, 2019 at 1:47 pmIn Class

Miranda Carver ǀ Investigating the Decay of the f1(1285) Meson using the CLAS Detector

L to R: Ohio University students Miranda Carver, Joseph Rowley, Utsav Shrestha, Dr. Kenneth Hicks, and Taya Chetry in front of the CLAS12 detector at Jefferson National Laboratory

By Miranda Carver (B.S. Astrophysics, College of Arts & Sciences, Class of 2020) The meson is a particle made from one quark and one antiquark.  The strong force between quarks allows mesons with different masses to exist, each with unique quantum numbers.  The f1(1285) meson has a mass of 1285 […]

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May 23, 2019 at 3:19 pmIn Class Research