The purpose of the project is to examine a conceptual issue in the context of neutron or particle interactions in some depth.
Listed below are some sample student projects. These projects are courtesy of the student names mentioned and are used with their permission.
Critical Analysis of a Relevant Paper and Comparison with an MCNP Simulation, by Chris Handwerk (PDF)
Radiation Damage: Atom Displacement, by Craig Gerardi (PDF)
Monte Carlo Simulation of Solid State Diffusion (PDF)
Neutron Slowing Down Distances and Times in Hydrogenous Materials, by Erin Boyd (PDF)
Analytic Assessment of Eigenvalues of the Neutron Transport Equation, by Sung Joong Kim (PDF)
Review of Fermi's Paper on the Critical Chain-Reaction Pile
Neutron-Capture Prompt - Ray Activation Analysis for Explosives Detection
A Presentation of the Quasi-Monte Carlo Method
Thermal Flux Distribution
Correlations in the Motion of Atoms in Liquid Argon
The Discovery of the Positron
Fast Neutron Resonance Radiography
Neutron Energy Distribution in an Infinite Medium
The Barnes and Hut Tree Method: An Efficient Technique for N-Body Simulations
The Flux of Spontaneous Fission Neutrons at the Surface of a Plutonium-based Nuclear Weapon
Scattering of Slow Neutrons
Determining the Invariant in Bicontinuous Materials Using Small Angle Neutron Scattering
Chadwick's Discovery of the Neutron: A New Look
Postulation of Neutron Stars
Optical Model for Neutron-Nucleon Scattering
CP-1 and the Choice of Graphite as a Moderator