Dissertations and Theses
PhD Dissertations:
2019 Daniel Poulson, Interrogation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks Using Cosmic-Ray Muon Computed Tomography
2018 Richard Blakeley, Development of The University of New Mexico Spectrometer for High-Resolution Fission Product Yield Data
2017 Joseph Morris, High Precision Refractive Index Measurement Techniques Applied to the Analysis of Neutron Damage and Effects in CaF2 Crystals
2016 Erin Vaughan, Thin film AlSb carrier transport properties and room temperature radiation response
2015 Shiaw-Der Steven Su, Environmental Radiation Dose Assessment And Validation For Uranium Hexafluoride Storage Management
2013 John Perry, Advanced Applications Of Cosmic-Ray Muon Radiography
2013 Shawn Tornga, Mobile, Hybrid Compton/Coded Aperture Imaging For Detection, Identification And Localization Of Gamma-Ray Sources At Stand-Off Distances
MS Theses:
2023 Tatiana Espinoza, Measurements of scintillation light quenching for protons in rare-earth inorganic scintillators
2020 James Evans, Characterization of Partial Charge Collection Induced by Neutron Damage in High-Purity Germanium Detectors
2019 Brian Jennings, Developing a simulation tool for evaluating in-motion detector systems (LA-UR-18-29139)
2018 Sean Fournier, An exploration of the optical detection of ionizing radiation utilizing modern optics technology
2017 Phoenix Baldez, Design and Characterization of Systems for Direct Spatial Imaging of Low-Energy Gamma-Radiation Sources
2017 Shelby Fellows, Time-Of-Flight And Energy Loss Analysis On The UNM Fission Fragment Spectrometer
2017 Sara Pelka, Examination of color center formation in CaF2 crystals when exposed to gamma and mixed neutron/gamma fields
2016 James Cole, An Ionization Chamber for High Resolution Fission Product Spectroscopy
2015 Lena Heffern, Ionization Chamber Design, Development, and Testing for the UNM Fission Fragment Spectrometer
2014 Erin Vaughan, Examining Thin Film AlSb for Room Temperature Gamma Detectors
2013 Richard Blakeley, A time-of-flight spectrometer for fission fragment identification
2013 Drew Mader, An ionization chamber for fission fragment analysis
2010 Tyler Alecksen, Novel techniques for the detection and localization of attenuated gamma-ray sources
Honors Thesis:
2022 Dominic Lioce, Developments in Muon Imaging Techniques
Nuclear Nonproliferators
Current Students:
Phoenix Baldez Ph.D. student
Work on fission fragment spectrometer
Mark Wetzel Ph.D. student
Work on ionization chamber for fission tagged gamma ray measurements
Jesus Valencia Ph.D. student
Work on muon imaging of used fuel storage casks
Adam Morton M.S. student
Work on benchmarking algorithm for radionuclide ID algorithm comparison
Alexandria Ragsdale M..S. student
Work on fission fragment spectrometer and on perovskite detection materials
John-Ryan Romo M.S. student
Work on machine learning for radionuclide identification
David Byrd Ph.D. student
Work on machine learning for radionuclide identification
Eduardo Padilla Ph.D. student
Work on machine learning in information barrier based materials verification
Tatiana Espinoza M.S. student
Work on pulse defect from charged particles in GAGG and YAG detectors
Phoenix, Mark, Jesus, and Alexandria
Picture yourself here.
(L-R) Paul Gilbreath BS, Corey Vowell BS, Prof. Adam Hecht, James Cole MS, Lena Heffern MS, Rick Blakeley PhD
Marcus Gagliardi (former post doc), Rick Blakeley PhD, Erin Vaughan PhD, Prof. Adam Hecht at the DTRA-TEAMS detector test site at the Sandia National Lab/Kirtland Air Force Base site.
Picture of Drew Mader MS (left) and Rick Blakeley PhD (right)