Andrew T. Yue, a rising senior at Hamilton College, received a stipend from the LUCAS Fund to research a way to size down a neutron polarizer into a more practical volume for application in the field. The LUCAS Fund helps support summer science research at Hamilton College. His faculty advisor is Assistant Professor of Physics and nuclear physicist Gordon L. Jones.
Yue is focusing primarily on building a helium-3 polarizer, which currently can only be found in a size comparable to a four-drawer filing cabinet, into a working model that can fit into a tube about 20cm in diameter. A polarizer aligns nuclei in the same direction thus allowing neutrons to be polarized. Polarized neutrons can be used to examine magnetic structures in materials.
Yue, son of Cheung and Janet Yue of Partridge Trail in Brecksville and a graduate of Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School, is majoring in physics.
Yue is focusing primarily on building a helium-3 polarizer, which currently can only be found in a size comparable to a four-drawer filing cabinet, into a working model that can fit into a tube about 20cm in diameter. A polarizer aligns nuclei in the same direction thus allowing neutrons to be polarized. Polarized neutrons can be used to examine magnetic structures in materials.
Yue, son of Cheung and Janet Yue of Partridge Trail in Brecksville and a graduate of Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School, is majoring in physics.
