Lunar Soil Strangelet Search(LSSS) Experiment at WNSL, Yale

Alexei Chikanian, Evan Finch, Ke Han, Richard Majka, Jack Sandweiss -- High Energy Physics Group, Yale University
Jeffery Ashenfelter, Andreas Heinz, Peter Parker -- Wright Nuclear Structure Lab, Yale University
Peter Fisher, Benjamin Monreal -- Physics Department, MIT
Jes Madsen -- University of Aarhus, Denmark


Strangeness in Quark Matter 2006 Conference Talks

March, 26~31, 2006, UCLA

Strangelets: Who is Looking (and how?) --- Evan Finch, 25 minutes View/Download
Search for Strangelets in Lunar Soil --- Ke Han, 15 minutes View/Download

Slides and calculation notes

Measuring 17MeV beam stripping probabilities (updated) View/Download
Measuring 17MeV beam stripping probabilities (magnet specs inside) View/Download
SNEAP 2005 Talk (Oct. 18, 2005) View/Download
DOE visit Talk (Aug. 17, 2005) View/Download

LSSS May Run
May 23-28, 2005, WNSL

Run highlight: Installed a Hall Probe Teslameter to measure the Inflector magneticd field. It works very well.

Data Analysis (PDF): View/Download
Histograms: EPS /GIF
Run Log Book (Logbook #1) Page 63-90
Run Summary(PDF) View/Download
Updated!!WNSL Program to calculate Magnet Settings(Excel, by Walt) View/Download

LSSS March Run
March 14-19, 2005, WNSL

Data Analysis (PDF): View/Download
Histograms: EPS /GIF
Run Log Book(PDF, scanned by Dick): View/Download
Run Summary(PDF, by Dick) View/Download
Updated!!WNSL Program to calculate Magnet Settings(Excel, by Walt) View/Download

Meeting on LSSS Experiment
December 15, 2004
Yale University

11:00 AM   WNSL accelerator status and plans 15 min   Jeff Ashenfelter
11:15 WNSL running schedule. When can we run? 15 min Peter Parker
11:30 Lunar soil experiment Physics design 30 min Ke Han
12:00 Lunch    
1:00  PM Lunar soil experiment Instrumentation design 20 min Will Emmet
1:20 Lunar soil experiment Slow controls and calibration   20 min Dick Majka
1:40 Lunar soil experiment D/A and related 20 min Andreas Heinz
2:00 Run plan and discusion 25 min J. Sandweiss
2:30 General discussion 25 min  
2:55 New ideas \ A few words on the Moon 20 min Ben Monreal
3:30 Adjourn    

Meeting on Lunar Soil AMS Experiment
August 12, 2004
Yale University

10:30 am Brief overview of the experiment 20 min. J.Sandweiss
10:50 The WNSL accelerator, operation for strangelet search, etc. 20 min J. Ashenfelter
11:10 Calculation of stripping probabilities 15 min E. Finch
11:25 Calculation of lunar yields and nuclear ranges, etc 15 min N. Murphy
Spreadsheet with Explanations
11:40 Running an experiment at WNSL and Si ctrs. 15 min A. Heinz
11:55 Scintillation counter and calibration source 15 min R. Majka
12:10 pm Lunch (SOM?)
1:30 The D/A system for the experiment 15 min K. Han
1:45 Mechanical design of the experiment 15 min W. Emmet
2:00 A proposed run plan 20 min J. Sandweiss
2:20 Discussion and "responsibilities"
3:00 Adjourn