Physics

I have had the privilege of participating in exciting research in nuclear and particle physics as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. My recent work involves simulation studies of polarized proton-proton collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The PHENIX and upcoming sPHENIX experiments aim to more fully understand the structure of the proton, namely, the correlations between its spin and the momentum of its constituent quarks and gluons, by studying transverse single-spin asymmetries (TSSAs), asymmetries in the yield for a given product (e.g. pions) from a pp collision with respect to the direction of the proton's spin. My work constrains partonic momenta and flavors accessed by certain analyses of these collisions, given the process studied.

I am lucky to have received an invitation to present this work at the upcoming October 2022 meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) of the American Physical Society (APS) as a participant in the CEU program. Many thanks to Christine Aidala for granting me the opportunity to work on this project and advising me elsewhere.