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Advisor name: Michael Benson
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Purpose: Although the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was the most devastating in history, tsunamis are a recurring peril for all coastal communities. This experiment evaluated the possibility of using an undersea trench, offset from the shore, to physically reduce wave amplitude at the shoreline.
Procedures: A wave tank of 4.7 x 1 with a depth of 1 meter was utilized. 30 models were created using three different trench depths and widths in all com ...
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The outermost layer of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility consists of an electromagnetic calorimeter (EC). The EC is composed of alternating layers of scintillator strips and lead sheets and covers a large portion of the angular range. The EC is used to detect particles—such as electrons, photons, and neutrons—that meet a certain energy threshold. When a particle enters the EC, it ...
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