Steve Sundbeck
Steve Sundbeck
Hope College
Dr. DeYoung, Dr. Peaslee, Dr. Mader (Nuclear Group)
Supported by NSF-RUI
This summer, I worked in the Nuclear Physics Summer Research Group at Hope
College. I was a kind of "utility infielder" this summer, working for the
triumvirate of Dr. Paul DeYoung, Dr. Catherine Mader, and Dr. Graham Peaslee.
At the start of the summer, I finished analysis and modeling of 16O + 27Al
@640 MeV data taken in 1991 at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
at Michigan State University. When this was done I aided Matt Barton with
preparational calculations for his experiment at Notre Dame's Nuclear Structure
Laboratory. I also was on staff for the data collection of that experiment.
Toward the end of this summer and into the fall, I started preparing neutron
detectors for another experiment at Notre Dame.
All of this data analysis and calculation was done using the statistical model code MODGAN. In an effort to make this code clearer, more reliable, and easier to use, I, along with my colleagues Casey Carney, Mary MacDermaid, and Stephen Coll, have been editing the FORTRAN code of MODGAN. Our goals are to increase the efficiency of the code and make it easier to understand through use of "pretty" code and increased commenting. We have largely accomplished this test, having edited almost 100 subroutines, and are now commencing on the main code. I have given a Hope College Physics Department seminar on this work, and have plans to take a version of this talk to the Pew Consortium conference later this year.
sundbecks@hope.edu