Summer as a Student Teacher and Researcher Fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory E.B.I.T. Facility

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Abstract

We will briefly describe the STAR (Student Teacher and Researcher) program as well as the research we participated in as STAR Fellows at Lawrence Livermore National Lab E.B.I.T. facility. The STAR Program allows pre-service teachers to intern at research facilities while attending weekly courses to review teaching standards. The E.B.I.T. or Electron Beam Ion Trap, is an instrument that allows us to probe into electron transitions of complex highly charged ions by use of a mono-energetic beam of electrons. X-rays are emitted from the electron excitations in these highly charged ions and can be detected by an assortment of X-ray spectrometers. Over the summer, we were able to characterize a High Resolution Spherically Bent Crystal Spectrometer for use at the Atomic Weapons Establishment and measure transition energies of highly charged Aluminum ions for the planned Astro-H mission.

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Authors

  • Dominique Davenport

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Grecia Ramos

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • V.V. Shlyaptseva

    California State University, Dominguez Hills, Univ of California - Irvine, University of Chicago, UC Merced, NINT, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, MIT, NASA/GSFC, CRESST/UMBC \& NASA/GSFC, LLNL, MPI for Plasma Physics, Remeis-Sternwarte/ECAP/FAU, Humboldt State University, University of Nevada Reno, The University of Michigan, University of Nevada, Reno, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Univ of Nevada - Reno, University of Nevada, Reno - Physics Department, Jilin University, China, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Department of Physics \& Astronomy, California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, University of California at Merced, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Universit\'e Paris Sud), Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557 USA, University of Nevada-Reno