Hands-on construction, integration, startup, testing, troubleshooting and operations across accelerator-driven nuclear and particle-physics systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
800 MeV proton accelerator complex feeding multiple experimental facilities. My work represented here spans the Lujan Center / CCM program and the UCN experimental facility.
At Target 1, stopped π⁺ decay at rest produces prompt monoenergetic 29.8 MeV muon neutrinos. CCM200 used this accelerator source.
The Area B source converts spallation neutrons in cryogenic solid deuterium into ultracold neutrons with energies below about 300 neV (typically on the order of 100 neV), slow enough to guide, polarize and store for precision neutron experiments.
These pages go deeper into what each experiment or facility does, the physics or measurement it supports, and the specific systems I built, integrated, commissioned, operated or supported.
Beamline, cryogenic, vacuum, gas-distribution, magnet and experimental-support systems across Area B.
Neutron-lifetime experiment support spanning vacuum operations, rigging, detector integration, diagnostics and commissioning of the UCNτ+ elevator / vacuum-extension upgrade.
Vacuum chamber, hydraulic neutron-valve actuation, instrumentation, controls and system commissioning.
Cavallo high-voltage multiplier development for nEDM@SNS: cryogenic test infrastructure, instrumentation, integration, diagnostics and full-scale R&D testing.
Large liquid-argon detector construction, installation, commissioning, monitoring, troubleshooting and operations.