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Nuclear Experiment Group at OSU

Current and Former Students

Samuel Corey PhD Student (2023-) working on accessing hadronic light-by-light scattering in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions..


Xihe Han (Daniel) PhD Student (2023-) working on the first measurements of photonuclear $\phi-$meson production in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions..


Nicholas Jindal PhD Student (2023-) Imaging the electromagntic structure of Uranium and exploring soft photon radiation in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions..


Julie Scherzer undergraduate student (2024-). Julie is a research assistant in our group working on the analysis of photonuclear processes in asymetric heavy-ion collisions to explore quantum entanglement and nuclear structure.


Olivia Manger undergraduate student (2025-). Olivia is a research assistant in our group working on the STAR Forward Upgrade and the ePIC nHCAL. She has developed the tile testing stand in our lab for evaluating tile configurations for the ePIC nHCAL.


Amarise Edgell undergraduate student (2024-). Amarise is a research assistant in our group working on the STAR Forward Upgrade and the ePIC nHCAL. She has helped developed the DAQ system in our lab for evaluating tile configurations for the ePIC nHCAL.


Isabel Xu is now an undergraduate student at CalTech University. She worked with me over two summers as a highschool student through Brookhaven National Laboratory's summer research program. Together we developed a new approach to search for heavy Dark Photons using ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions.


Zhen Wang is a PhD student at Sandong University, studying dilepton production as a 'thermometer' of systems produced in ultra-relativisitic heavy-ion collisions


Xiaofeng Wang is a PhD student at Sandong University, studying the energy dependence of the Breit-Weeler process. See her recent paper here: Energy Dependence of the Breit-Wheeler process in Heavy-Ion Collisions and its Application to Nuclear Charge Radius Measurements.


Youqi Song is a PhD student at Yale University. She has worked with me on STAR's forward rapidity upgrade, studying machine learning algorithms for optimizing charged particle tracking. See her talk at DNP here: Optimization of STAR sTGC track finding using boosted decision trees