Research

2001-present





Precision gravity tests with cryogenic torsion pendulums (www.physics.uci.edu/gravity):
measurement of Newton’s constant G
test of the inverse-square law
test of the weak equivalence principle
Riley D. Newman, UC Irvine
Paul Boynton, University of Washington Seattle (collaborator)
Experiment Site: Battelle Gravitation Physics Laboratory, Hanford, WA (with Pacific Northwest National Lab)
1997-2001





LF/VLF/ELF radio transmitter system design and support, including:
dual-antenna intermodulation distortion study for the US Navy in Cutler, ME
antenna bushing SF6 insulating gas study for the US Navy in San Diego, CA
control system design and programming for the NIST time broadcast (WWWVB) in Fort Collins, CO
antenna and transmitter monitor systems development, installation and support for the US Navy in N. Dakota, central California, and Okinawa/Japan

1995-1996

Search for chaotic escape rates in microwave-assisted tunneling of electrons electrostatically trapped on the
surface of liquid helium at ~0.1 Kelvin (John M. Goodkind, UC San Diego).

1994-1996,
2001, 2005

 Quantum Mechanics Philosophy and Interpretation

1994-1995

Calculational validation of a quaternionic spinor formulation of general relativity with specific focus on
postdiction of the anamalous magnetic moment of the electron (Mendel Sachs, SUNY Buffalo).

1990-1995


PhD Thesis (advisor: Charles D. Buchanan, UC Los Angeles): measured the production rates of  Ko, Lo, X-,
S*±, and W- from the final TPC/two-gamma dataset, compiled world averages for all hadron production rates,
energies, and experiments, and evaluated the best widely-used models.

1992-1993
Medical imaging independent study and observation with PET at UC Los Angeles (Ed Hoffman),
MRI at UC Los Angeles (Roger Woods), and MRI at University of Southern California (Manbir Singh)
1989
E771 fixed target B-physics experiment: scintillation array and pad chamber construction
at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (David B. Cline, UC Los Angeles).
1988-1990

F-factory experiment simulations: CP and CPT violation analysis methods and detector design for
a proposal at UC Los Angeles (Charles D. Buchanan, UC Los Angeles)

1987-1988
B-factory simulations: CP violation detectability dependence on beam asymmetry (Donald Stork, UC Los Angeles)
1987
Stationary state calculation of the quartic potential (Oscar J. Lumpkin, UC San Diego)
1986
FFT and display programming for non-linear oscillations of Pt or Pd catalysis (M. Brian Maple, UC San Diego)
1978-1983 Oceanography, Marine Biology

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