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Novelly led by Dr. Allen Mills, the UCR Positron Lab began its journey of finding a new, environmentally cleaner Positron source through nuclear physics. As we begin our project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), we hope to create mathematical simulations with a soon-expected experimental start.
Once the simulations match the experimental results, we hope to begin our work with The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University (MSU) with the goal of building our own UCR Ionetix Superconducting Cyclotron.
Marcus Asaro and Michelle Wu are currently developing a new simulation based on Monte Carlo methods with C++ toolkits developed by CERN and hope to build and expand in Python. The goal is to apply this approach to model the positron production with an Ionetix Superconducting Cyclotron. While a few proof-of-principle experimental beta-ray theory tests have been previously performed, our current efforts are focused on proving the plausibility of significantly environmentally cleaner Positron emissions from pure Vanadium-48.
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