Undergraduate Oral Session I

Presentations

• Optimizing a pulsed photocathode system for an electron accelerator

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2025, 10:30 AM – Oct. 18, 2025, 10:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Miles O Bryant

    mobryant@ncsu.edu

  Authors

  • Miles O Bryant

    mobryant@ncsu.edu

  • William Charles McCray

    North Carolina State Univeristy, North Carolina State University

  • McKenna R Sleeth

    North Carolina State University

  • Albert Young

    North Carolina State University

  • Clay Fogelman

    North Carolina State University

  • Joseph Fry

    North Carolina State University

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• Employing Machine Learning Techniques to Optimize SECAR Separator Optics for Improved Detection of ⁵⁶Co(p,n)⁵⁶Ni Recoil Products.

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2025, 10:42 AM – Oct. 18, 2025, 10:54 AM

  Publication: A future paper is planned from the results of this presentation.

  Presenters

  • Benjamin H Bucci

    Central Michigan University

  Authors

  • Benjamin H Bucci

    Central Michigan University

  • Georgios Perdikakis

    Central Michigan University

  • Fernando Montes

    Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

  • Pelagia Tsintari

    Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

  • K. Hermansen

    Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

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• Breit-Wigner Transition Form Factors for Baryon Resonances

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2025, 10:54 AM – Oct. 18, 2025, 11:06 AM

  Presenters

  • Sadie Burks

    George Washington University

  Authors

  • Sadie Burks

    George Washington University

  • Michael Doering

    GWU

  • Ron Workman

    GWU

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• Next-Generation Neutron Detector: Study of Position Resolution via Machine Learning

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2025, 11:06 AM – Oct. 18, 2025, 11:18 AM

  Presenters

  • Bishop D Carl

    Hope College

  Authors

  • Bishop D Carl

    Hope College

  • Spencer Hughes

    Hope College

  • Truman Sandy

    Davidson College

  • Kaesy Arlet Diaz Castellanos

    Davidson College

  • Paul A Deyoung

    Hope College

  • Anthony N Kuchera

    Davidson College

  • Thomas Baumann

    Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University

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• Estimating Uncertainties in Neutron Capture Rates for 56-Fe and 57-Fe with TALYS

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2025, 11:18 AM – Oct. 18, 2025, 11:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Lucas Chouinard

    Grand Valley State University

  Authors

  • Lucas Chouinard

    Grand Valley State University

  • Sofia Karampagia

    Grand Valley State University

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• Improving High-Energy Unfolding in Omnifold via Learned Pre-Training Weights

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2025, 11:30 AM – Oct. 18, 2025, 11:42 AM

  Presenters

  • William D Coker

  Authors

  • William D Coker

  • Joseph Isaiah Atchison

    Abilene Christian University

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• Characterizing Detector Response Functions for Isotopic Fission Yield Ratios

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2025, 11:42 AM – Oct. 18, 2025, 11:54 AM

  Publication: These results will appear in a planned paper.

  Presenters

  • Oscar S Kubiniec

    Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Oscar S Kubiniec

    Argonne National Laboratory

  • Jason Allan Clark

    Argonne National Laboratory

  • Adrian A Valverde

    Argonne National Laboratory

  • Guy Savard

    Argonne National Laboratory

  • Maxime Brodeur

    University of Notre Dame

  • Alicen M Houff

    University of Notre Dame

  • William S Porter

    Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame

  • Fabio Rivero

    University of Notre Dame

  • Dwaipayan Ray

    U. Manitoba

  • Kumar S Sharma

    University of Manitoba

  • Biying Liu

    University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

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• Track Completion in TPCs using Transformers

  ORAL

  Oct. 18, 2025, 11:54 AM – Oct. 18, 2025, 12:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Hakan Bora Yavuzkara

  Authors

  • Hakan Bora Yavuzkara

  • Benjamin P Wagner

    Davidson College

  • Michelle Perry Kuchera

    Davidson College

  • Raghuram Ramanujan

    Davidson College

  • Yassid Ayyad

    USC/IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

  • Daniel Bazin

    Michigan State University

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