I was a student of John A. Simpson’s at the University of Chicago (now deceased) and a postdoctoral fellow with James Beatty at the Pennsylvania State University (now at Ohio State University).
John A. Simpson: Link to the Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists J. A. Simpson
Collection
Older Talks
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-Cosmic Ray history slides
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-Radioactives in the Galaxy
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-Introduction for students to the Particle Astrophysics group
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-Pierre Auger status talk, circa 2002
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-CREAM overview
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-Final summary talk (UMN Particle Astrophysics)
Old Papers (mostly pdf format)
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-Syllabus for my Freshman Seminar
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-ANITA Fact Sheet
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-ANITA Overview
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-ANITA SMEX Proposal to NASA
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-CREAM Flowchart Draft
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-Cosmic Ray Conference RF paper
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-2002 OJI Application/Funding Request
My Primary Experiments
- High Energy Telescope (HET) on the Ulysses spacecraft
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-Cosmic Ray Telescopes on CRRES and IMP-8 satellites
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-High Energy Antimatter Telescope (HEAT) balloon experiment
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-Antiproton HEAT balloon experiment (HEAT-pbar)
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-The Pierre Auger Observatory, giant air-shower array detector for both hemispheres, built in Mendoza Province, Argentina, and a northern site starting construction in Colorado, USA
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-Cosmic ray energetics and mass (CREAM) balloon experiment (Animation of trajectory)
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-Antarctic Neutrino Impulsive Transient Array (ANITA) balloon experiment
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-Cosmic Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope (CREST) balloon experiment
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-Test detectors for cosmic-ray radio pulse measurements, atmospheric radio fluorescence measurements, and shower thickness-timing determinations
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-The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) at the South Pole, first test deployments in 2010-2011, upcoming deployments continuing. This experiment utilizes radio pulse detection to search for extremely high energy astrophysical neutrinos.
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-The HAWC (High Altitude Water Cherenkov) experiment is an all-sky TeV gamma ray experiment focused on the gamma ray bursts and other extreme astrophysical systems.
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-LBNE is the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment which will be sited at DUSEL the US Deep Underground Science & Engineering Laboratory.