Lynda Canfield's Personal Lab Experience with the NSF Summer Bridge Program
      

After several exciting lab tours at the beginning of the NSF Summer Bridge Program, I found myself very enthusiastic about the ongoing research in the Experimental Particle Physics Group.   Dr. Michael A. Shupe a professor of physics heavily involved in high energy particle research projects, graciously agreed to make a place for me to work with jet simulations under his guidance.

The background research required for my part in the project included familiarizing myself with Physics Analysis Workshop, and histogram creating and plotting programs HBOOK and HPLOT.  I also needed a working knowledge of the PYTHIA event simulating software.  I was then prepared, with a great deal of help and support from Dr. Shupe, to begin coding mathematical algorithms in Fortran to simualte events that included particle jets and their decay processes.

The result?  Some interesting, and I hope, useful data tables and graphs(histogram plots) of what may be expected from these events when the time comes to analyze such collisions in the real world of the ATLAS Forward Calorimeter project of which the University of Arizona is an integral part.