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The Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter (CEEM) is a multidisciplinary laboratory performing research and development in the areas of accelerator physics, nuclear physics and chemistry, and materials science. Because excellence in academic research is pivotal to CEEM, educational experiences are available to high school through post-doctoral students.

The laboratory is staffed by highly trained scientific, technical, and administrative staff members and serves approximately 60 on-site graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows and physics faculty members. In addition, research and educational activities are available to young scientists and students from throughout the United States and around the world.

Undergraduate Students

Projects at CEEM are accessible to undergraduates through several programs. The largest number of opportunities is available through the Department of Physics at Indiana University. The Applied Physics Program and CEEM provide practical research experiences and internships. Each summer, faculty and staff at CEEM sponsor students enrolled in the Research Experience for Undergraduates.

Graduate Students

Students interested in applying to graduate school are encouraged to direct their inquiries to the department most closely aligned with their interests. Graduate students from the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Psychological & Brain Sciences as well as from the Schools of Medicine, Optometry, and Informatics, Computing and Engineering have all found research opportunities plentiful at the laboratory.

Graduate Thesis Lists:

Name	Year	Title of Thesis
Jorge Morales	2024	Neutron Star Mountains: Theory and Observations
Kevin Quirion	2024	Hadronic Form Factors and Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Sections
Kyle Steffen	2024	Probing Fundamental Symmetry Violations with Neutron Polarimetry
Caleb Hughes	2024	Rare Earth Iron Garnets as Probes of Exotic Spin-Dependent Forces
Patrick Blackstone	2024	A Charged Lepton Flavor Violating Tau Decay, a Meson Pair’s Scalar Form Factors, and a Quantum-Entangled Probe
Hao Lu	2024	Neutron Birefringence Measurements of 129Xe, 131Xe and 3He
Inbum Lee	2024	Development of Polarized 3HE at 4K for Axion Detection
Wyatt Smith	2024	Studies in Hadron Spectroscopy: Amplitude Analysis, Regge Physics and Lattice QCD
Brendan Reed	2023	Neutron Stars and Neutron Skins: A Crossroads in Nuclear Astrophysics
Shufan Lu	2023	Quantum Description of Mode-Entangled Single Neutron Interferometry and Decoherence Analysis of Two-State Neutron Superpositions with Absorption
Douglas Wong	2023	The Nuts and Bolts of the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment (nEDM) Experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jonathan Curole	2023	Parity and Time-Reversal Violation in the Compound Nucleus
Sebastian Marek Dawid	2022	Three-body scattering in the B-matrix formalism
Justin Shortino	2022	Novel Laboratory Searches for Spin-Dependent T-Odd Interactions Using Polarized Gas Magnetometers
James E. Johnstone	2022	The Influence of Shell Structure on Near-Barrier Fusion of Neutron-Rich Nuclei
Daniel Winney	2021	Amplitude studies in hadronic three-body decays and photoproduction
Joseph Kwasizur	2021	Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetries for Dijet Production at Intermediate Pseudorapidity in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at 510 GeV
Francisco Gonzalez	2021	Precision Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime with the UCNtau Experiment
Nathan L. Sherrill	2021	Lorentz and CPT violation in hadrons
William G. Solyst	2021	Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetries for Intermediate Rapidity Inclusive pi0 at STAR
Jacob C. Zettlemoyer	2020	First Detection of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on an Argon Target
Matthew R. Heath	2019	A First Search for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with Liquid Argon
Andrew W. Jackura	2019	Studies in Multiparticle Scattering Theory
Miguel Angel Lopez Ruiz	2019	Confinement and Chiral Phase Transitions in SU(2) Gauge Theory via Topological Objects
Jessica Elizabeth Vadas	2018	Probing the Fusion of Neutron-rich Nuclei with Modern Radioactive Beam Facilities
Nathan B. Callahan	2018	Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime using Trapped Ultracold Neutrons
Sheakha S. Aldaihan	2018	Calculations of Exotic Spin-Independent Long-Range Interactions from Spin-Dependent Couplings in Non-relativistic Higher-Order Perturbation Theory
Zidu Lin	2018	Weak neutral current interaction in nuclei and supernovae
Shuzhe Shi	2018	Soft and Hard Probes of QCD Topological Structures in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Sean J. Daugherty	2018	Neutron Interactions on Xe-136 and Their Impact on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches
Hao Feng	2017	Neutron scattering studies on large length scale sample structures
Blake Wiggins	2017	Sensing the Position of a Single Electron Using Induced Signals
Ting Lin	2017	Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetries for Dijet Production at Intermediate Pseudorapidity in Polarized P+P Collisions at Center of Mass Energy 200 GeV
Evan Weisman	2017	Experimental Searches for Exotic Short-Range Interactions Using Mechanical Oscillators
Eamon Anderson	2017	Precision Neutron Flux Measurement and Advancement using the Alpha- Gamma Technique
Matthew E. Caplan	2017	Astromaterials in Neutron Stars
Remington T. Thornton	2017	Search for Light Dark Matter Produced in a Proton Beam Dump
Evan R. Adamek	2017	Measure of the Neutron Beta Decay Lifetime Using Magnetically Trapped Ultracold Neutrons
Christopher C. Haddock	2016	An Experimental Search for Possible Exotic Long Range Neutron- Nucleon Interactions using Neutron Spin Rotation
Erick C. Smith	2016	Laboratory Searches for New Spin Dependent Forces on the Micron to Centimeter Scale Using Polarized Noble Gas Magnetometers
Hairong Li	2016	Extraction of azimuthal asymmetries in di-hadron production including neutral mesons
Ke Li	2016	Neutron Interferometry with Magnets and Crystals
Tracy K. Steinbach	2016	Near and Sub-Barrier Fusion of Neutron-Rich Oxygen and Carbon Nuclei Using Low-Intensity Beams
Tianhao Wang	2016	CryoCUP – Compact Spherical Neutron Polarimetry device for small angle measurement
Fankang Li	2015	Larmor labeling of neutron spin using superconducting magnetic Wollaston prisms
Jeffrey Eldred	2015	Slip-Stacking Dynamics for High-Power Proton Beams at Fermilab
Tessa N. Johnson	2015	A Search for Exotic Physics Processed in Double Beta Decay with EXO-200
Kilean Hwang	2015	On Intrinsic Nonlinear Particle Motion in Compact Synchrotrons
Hung-Chun Chao	2015	Emittance Evolution in Crossing Walkinshaw Resonance and Envelope Dynamics Simulations
Jason A. Fry	2015	Exploring the Hadronic Weak Interaction with Cold Neutrons in the NPDGamma and n-4He Experiments
Alper Duru	2015	Beam Dynamics Simulations in Laser Electron Storage Rings and Optical Stochastic Cooling
Patrick D. McChesney	2015	Neutron Accelerator Physics
Rakshya Khatiwada	2015	Experimental constraints on exotic spin-dependent interactions using specialized materials
Daniel J. Salvat	2015	A Magneto-Gravitational Neutron Trap for the Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime
Ao Liu	2015	Design and simulations of the nuSTORM facility
Fang Kun	2014	Optics Property Analysis and a Novel Bandwidth Control Scheme for a Terawatt FEL
Timothy John Hobbs	2014	The nonperturbative structure of hadrons
Xiaozhe Shen	2014	Optic Measurement and Correction for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Maciej Karcz	2014	Electric Breakdown and Ionization Detection in Normal Liquid and Superfluid 4He for the SNS nEDM experiment
Zhenghao Gu	2014	Design of Low Emittance Storage Ring
Alfonse N. Pham	2014	Beam Uniformization and Low Frequency RF Cavities in Compact Electron Storage Rings
Timothy R. Prisk	2014	Microscopic Dynamics of Superfluid Helium Confined in Mesopores
Zhaowen Tang	2014	Parity Violation in polarized N-P capture (The NPDGamma Experiment)
Lance Michael Garrison	2014	Measurement of Neutron and Muon Fluxes 100 m Underground with the SciBath Detector
André da Silva Schneider	2013	Phase Transitions in Stars
R. Chad Gillis	2013	The NPDGamma Liquid Parahydrogen Target
Paul J. Stonaha	2013	Studies of Porous Anodic Alumina using Spin Echo Scattering Angle Measurement
Brian S. Page	2013	Di-jet Cross Section and Double Spin Asymmetry at Mid-Rapidity from Polarized p+p Collisions at \sqrt{s} = 200 GeV at RHIC
Adam Washington	2013	Investigating Hard Sphere Interactions Through Spin Echo Scattering Angle Measurement
Honghuan Liu	2013	Design of a Compact Medical Synchrotron and 3D Dose Delivery of Rapid Cycling Beam
Rana Ashkar	2012	Dynamical theory applications to neutron scattering from periodic Nanostructures
Joseph Hughto	2012	How Stars Freeze
Xilin Zhang	2012	Electroweak Interactions and the Delta Resonance in a Chiral Effective Field Theory for Nuclei
Justin Ryan Stevens	2012	Longitudinal Single-Spin Asymmetry and Cross Section for W± Boson Production in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 500 GeV
Young Jin Kim	2011	An Experimental Search for the Experimental Search for the Electron Electric Dipole Moment in a Gadolinium Gallium Garnet Crystal
Tianhuan Luo	2011	Instrumentation and Beam Dynamics Study of Advance Electron-Photon Facility in Indiana University
Yichao Jing	2011	Design of an Ultimate Storage Ring for Future Light Source
Zhengzheng Liu	2011	Linear Optics Correction and Observation of Electron Proton Instability at SNS Accumulator Ring
George A. Noid	2010	The aCORN Experiment
Xin Wang	2010	Space-Charge Nonlinear Resonances
Chenyang Jiang	2010	Development of Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping Systems at Indiana University
Jeffrey Kolski	2010	Lattice Modeling and Application of Independent Component Analysis to High Power, Long Bunch Beams in the Los Alamos Proton Storage
Jianhui Wang	2010	Many-Body Effects in Graphene
Gang Shen	2010	Equation of State for Astrophysical Simulations
Jiawei Mei	2010	Precision Measurement of Parity Violation in Polarized Cold Neutron Capture on the Proton: the N P D γ Experiment
Alan B. McIntosh	2009	Binary and Ternary Breakup of Excited Projectile-like Fragments Produced in Collisions of 124,136-Xe Nuclei With 112,124-Sn Targets at E/A = 50 MeV

Name	Year	Title
Wai-Ming Tam	2009	Characterization of the Proton Ion Source Beam for the High Intensity Neutrino Source at Fermilab
Xiaoying Pang	2009	Independent Component Analysis for Beam Measurement
Chong Shik Park	2009	Investigations of Electromagnetic Space-Charge Effects in Beam Physics
Da Luo	2009	Measurement of the Parity Non-conserving Spin Rotation of Cold Neutrons through a Liquid Helium Target
Crystal Bailey	2009	An Investigation of Four-Body Nuclear Systems: a Measurement of the Cross Section and Analyzing Power for d + d Elastic and d + d → p + t at Intermediate Energies
Teppei Katori	2008	A Measurement of the Muon Neutrino Charged Current Quasielastic Interaction and a Test of Lorentz Violation with the MiniBooNE Experiment
Yan Haiyang	2008	Applications of Polarized 3He Filters in Neutron Scattering
Yue Hao	2008	Beam-Beam Interaction Study in ERL based eRHIC
Qiong Wu	2008	Measurements and Studies of Secondary Electron Emission of Diamond Amplified Photocathode
Yunchang Shin	2008	Studies in Neutron Phase Space cooling for Cold and Ultra-Cold Neutron Sources
Weihong He	2008	Double Spin Asymmetry in Inclusive π0 Production for Longitudinally Polarized Proton Proton Collisions at -s = 200 GeV at the Endcap Electromagnetic Calorimeter at STAR
Fei Wang	2008	Vertical Beam Emittance Correction with Independent Component Analysis Measurement Method
David Christopher Cox	2008	A Measurement of the Neutral Current Neutrino-nucleon Elastic Cross Section at MiniBooNE
Christopher Dale Bass	2008	Measurement of the Parity-violating Spin-rotation of Polarized Neutrons Propagating through Liquid Helium
Xin Tong	2007	Development of 3He as a neutron polarizer and application in polarized neutron diffractometry
Nicholas B. Remmes	2007	Design of the Small Angle Neutron Scattering Instrument at the Indiana University Low Energy Neutron Source: Application to the Study of Nanostructured Materials
Lingyun Yang	2007	Storage Ring Lattice Modeling and its Applications
Fanglei Lin	2007	Towards full preservation of polarization of proton beam in the AGS
Christopher M. Lavelle	2007	Neutronic Performance of the Low Energy Neutron Source (LENS) Target-Moderator-Reflector (TMR) Assembly
Kun Chen	2006	A Study of Spectroscopic, Cold Neutron Radiography
Yoichi Sato	2006	Electron-Proton Dynamics for Long Proton Bunches in High Intensity Proton Rings
Dazhang Huang	2006	The beam dynamics study across transition energy in a proton synchrotron and the study of the photoinjector for the 4th generation light source
Xiaobiao Huang	2005	Beam Diagnosis and Lattice Modeling of the Fermilab Booster
Shaoheng Wang	2004	A Study on Flat Beam Production in an RF Gun Linac
Michael Gericke	2004	The NPDGamma Experiment. The Weak Interaction Between Nucleons and Parity Violation in Polarized Cold Neutron Capture
Damon Todd	2004	The Production of a Low-Energy Proton Beam as a Source of Torque for a Confined Electron Plasma
Greg Hansen	2004	A Radiometric Measurement of Neutron Flux in a Liquid 4He Target
Thomas Whitaker	2004	Measurement of Az(p), Czz,z, and Cy,x − Cx,y in d+p Breakup at 270 MeV
Christopher Beltran	2003	Study of the Longitudinal Space Charge Compensation and Longitudinal Instability of the Ferrite inductive Inserts in the Los Alamos Proton Storage Ring
Weiming Guo	2003	Quadrupole mode perturbation in storage rings
Daniel Hussey	2003	Coherent Effects in X-ray and Neutron Reflectometry
Yunkai Zhang	2003	Optical stochastic cooling and electron beam modulation in electron cooling
Sarah Cousineau	2002	Understanding Space Charge and Controlling Beam Loss in High Intensity Synchrotons
Vahid Ranjbar	2002	Increasing Proton Polarization in AGS and RHIC
Dennis Stoller	2002	Measurements of transverse particle distributions in a cooled proton beam
Christopher Blessinger	2001	Measurement of the parity violating gamma ray asymmetry in polarized neutron capture on 35C1, 113Cd, and 139La
Todd Bredeweg	2001	Heavy-ion-induced ternary fission as a probe of the dynamical decay of excited nuclei
Brian Davin	2001	Development of LASSA: a large area silicon strip array for nuclear reaction studies and investigation of mid-velocity fragment emission in 114Cd + 92,98Mo reactions at E/A = 50 MeV
Zema Chowdhuri	2000	Absolute neutron measurements in neutron decay
Todd Peterson	2000	Development of a Tagged Neutron Facility for Absolute Neutron Scattering Cross Section Measurements
Mei Bai	1999	Overcoming Intrinsic Spin Resonances By Using an RF Dipole
Kehan Jiang	1999	Characterization of the Effective NN Interaction in the Nuclear Medium through 28Si(→p, →p′)28Si Polarization Transfer
Alexander Riabko	1999	Nonlinear beam dynamics with application to space charge dominated beams, double RF systems and quasi-isochronous storage rings
Dennis Rich	1999	Investigation in the Development and Application of Optically Pumped Polarized 3He Neutron Spin FiltersDennis Rich
Chao Yu	1999	A coincidence measurement of in-plane spin transfer coefficients for back-angle p+p elastic scattering at tinc = 200 MeV
Wilbur Franklin	1998	A Complete Set of In-plane Spin-Transfer Coefficients at 200 MeV
Ethan Hull	1998	Charge collection physics in germanium detectors
Xiaojian Kang	1998	The Cooler Injector Synchrotron at IUCF
Georgios Savopulos	1998	Polarization Transfer Measurements of the Quasielastic Region on 3He with the (p,n) Reaction at 200 MeV
Lawrence Warman	1998	Near Threshold Pion Production via 2H(p,π0)3He
Alexander Komives	1997	Parity non-conservation in neutron resonances of natural xenon
Keith Stantz	1997	The search for the rare muon decay μ+ → e+γ
David Bracken	1996	Exclusive light-ion-induced multifragmentation studies using the Indiana Silicon Sphere (ISiS)
William DeZarn	1996	Spin Correlation Coefficients In _p + _p Elastic Scattering at 197.8 MeV
Todd Hamilton	1996	Multifragmentation of highly excited nuclei
Daniel Carman	1995	Inclusing and Exclusive Quasifree (p,Np) Reaction Studies from 2H and 12C at 200 MeV
Shining Chang	1995	Investigation of the Effective NN Interaction in Nuclear Medium through 10B(p,p′)10B Polarization Transfer
Michael Ellison	1995	Investigation of Accelerator Physics Issues at the IUCF Cooler
Haixin Huang	1995	Preservation of polarization of proton beam in the AGS with a partial Siberian snake
Derun Li	1995	Cooler Modeling and Longitudinal and Transverse Nonlinear Resonances in Synchrotrons
Jian Liu	1995	Investigation of the Effective NN Interaction in the Nuclear Medium Through 28Si(p,p′)28Si Polarization Transfer
Sergei Nagaitsev	1995	Space Charge Dominated Beams in the IUCF Cooler
Adam Smith	1995	Spin Observables for Polarized Proton-Polarized 3He Elastic and Quasielastic Scattering at 197, 299 and 414 MeV
Mark Spraker	1995	Dissociation of 260-MeV deuterons
Sonya Bowyer	1994	A Coincidence Measurement of DNN for p+p Elastic Scattering at Tinc = 200 MeV
Theodore Bowyer	1994	A Technique to Calibrate n-p Elastic Scattering Spin Observables Near 183 MeV
Ping Li	1994	Measurements of Spin Observables in (p,2p) Quasifree Scattering From Very Light Nuclei
Kevin Morley	1994	Multifragmentation and Energy Dissipation in the 1.8-4.8 GeV 3He+natAg, 197Au Reactions
Erin Renshaw	1994	Studies of fragment emission in light-ion-induced nuclear reactions
Steven Wells	1994	Simultaneous Measurements of (p, p′γ) Observables For the 15.11 MeV, 1+, T=1 State in 12C at 200 MeV
Guangsheng Xu	1994	Study of Radiative Capture of Polarized Neutrons by Polar
Brian Raue	1993	Investigations of the Isospin Response of the 4He Continuum Using the 4He(p,p′X) Reaction at Tp = 100 MeV
Jeffrey Templon	1993	Study of Resonances in the 12C Continuum via the Reactions 12C(p,p′X)
Curtis Whiddon	1993	Measurement of the Analyzing Power for Coincident n-p Quasifree Scattering from Deuterium, Carbon and Tantalum at 183 MeV
Douglas Fields	1992	Intermediate Mass Fragment Production in Intermediate Energy Nuclear Reactions
Tim Ellison	1991	Electron Cooling
Michiko Minty	1991	Studies of Siberian Snakes and Depolarizing Resonances at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
Allena Opper	1991	Measurements of the Spin Observales D′and P in Inelastic Proton Scattering from 12C and 16O at 200 MeV
Alex Pei	1991	Cooled RF Stacking Injections in the IUCF Cooler
Matthew Ross	1991	Measurements of the p+p→p+π0 Cross Section Near Threshold
John Goodwin	1990	An Experimental Test of the Siberian Snake Concept
Weidong Huang	1990	Polarization Transfer Measurements in the 19F(p, n)19Ne and 39K(p,n)39Ca Reactions at 120 and 160 MeV
Sherry Yennello	1990	Fragmentation in light-ion-induced nuclear reactions
Quan Chen	1989	Study of 180 MeV proton inelastic scattering from the 28Si and 30Si
Salah Aziz	1988	Study of high-spin and three-quasiparticle (p,π) transitions on light targets
Daniel Low	1988	Measurement of the Ayy tensor analyzing power for the 1H(d,pp)n reaction in the symmetric constant relative energy geometry
Vernon Cupps	1987	The reaction mechanism for (d,p) reactions at intermediate energies
Elie Korkmaz	1987	Near-threshold proton-induced positive and negative pion production in the carbon region
William Pitts	1987	Radiative capture of tensor polarized deuterons by the hydrogen isotopes
Zong-Jian Cao	1986	Topics in pion production
Mirek Fatyga	1986	Limits to complete fusion and the evolution of nuclear reaction mechanisms in the E/A = 10-100 MeV energy regime
Moustafa Saber	1984	Processes contributing to the continuum in the inclusive proton spectrum: the role of (p,2p) reaction
Thomas Throwe	1984	Two-nucleon processes in near-threshold (p, π−) reactions in the carbon and calcium regions
Michael Green	1983	The energy dependence near threshold of proton-induced positive pion production in simple spin systems
Joseph Kehayias	1983	Studies of proton-induced π-meson production in atomic nuclei
Mark Pickar	1982	Near-threshold proton-induced neutral pion production from deuterium
John Wiggins	1981	Particle-gamma ray coincidence studies on Ni
Hugon Karwowski	1979	Decay Modes of Heavy Compound Nuclei Formed in 6Li-Induced Fusion Reaction
Marios Tsangarides	1979	Proton-induced positive and neutral pion production; the stripping model
Carlos Castaneda	1978	Reaction mechanisms for the production of fast α particles in lithium-induced reactions far above the Coulomb barrier
Phillip Pile	1978	Near Threshold Positive Pion Production by Protons on Nuclei
Gary Adams	1977	A study of “particle hole” excitations in the reactions 24Mg, 28Si, 40Ca(p,p′) at 80 and 135 MeV
Arunajallum Nadasen	1977	Elastic Scattering of 80-160 MeV Protons from 208Pb, 90Zr, Ca and Si Targets
Michael Sadler	1977	Mechanism of nucleon removal from medium mass nuclei induced by 80-164 MeV protons

Accelerator Physics

The Indiana University Department of Physics has partnered with the US Particle Accelerator School to develop a Master of Science in Beam Physics and Technology degree program.

Pre-college and Advance College programs

Opportunities are also available through the College of Arts and Sciences Pre-college Institute and the Advance College Project (ACP).

CEEM Faculty participate in the Science Olympiad, a yearly competition for high school students who like to do projects and meet challenges in all areas of science and technology.

Mini University

CEEM often offers classes in conjunction with the IU Mini University. This offering is a delightful week of learning at an award-winning vacation college located at IU Bloomington. You need not be an IU graduate to attend - the Mini University is open to anyone interested in lifelong learning.

Research Experience for Undergraduates

Under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, CEEM offers the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). Applications are accepted early each calendar year. Accepted students will receive travel and living expenses as well as summer salary.

Outreach Activities

CEEM offers public tours free of charge at any time during normal working hours. Contact CEEM to arrange individual or group visits to the facility.

Facilities

Low Energy Neutron Source (LENS)

The Low Energy Neutron Source is a pulsed neutron source at the Indiana University CEEM.

Neutron Radiation Effects Facility (NREF)

The Neutron Radiation Effects Facility (NREF) at IU is one of the target stations at LENS.

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