Research with Prof. Robicheaux
My first research experience at Purdue was in computational atomic physics. Below gives a brief over of the work I completed with Prof. Robicheaux.
I worked under Prof. Francis Robicheaux as an Ascarelli Fellow on the trapping of antihydrogen in a solenoidal trap. I collaboratively coded an annealing program in C++ to trap the hydrogen atoms into the ground state within the solenoid by lowering magnetic field. Different methods of lowering the magnetic field as a function of time were tested in order to find the optimal annealing to keep the ions trapped. My colleague and I were in the process of compiling our results by the end of the semester, but the semester-long fellowship ended before we could fully collect together our findings