The purpose of the project is to examine a conceptual issue in the context of neutron or particle interactions in some depth.

A Sample Student Project

Three Easy Steps to a Perfect Neutron Radiograph (PDF) (Courtesy of Vered Anzenberg. Used with permission.)

Other Student Project Topics

Review of Fermi's Paper on the Critical Chain-Reaction Pile

Neutron-Capture Prompt - Ray Activation Analysis for Explosives Detection

A Presentation of the Quasi-Monte Carlo Method

The Discovery of the Positron

Fast Neutron Resonance Radiography

The Barnes and Hut Tree Method: An Efficient Technique for N-Body Simulations

The Flux of Spontaneous Fission Neutrons at the Surface of a Plutonium-based Nuclear Weapon

Scattering of Slow Neutrons

Determining the Invariant in Bicontinuous Materials Using Small Angle Neutron Scattering

Chadwick's Discovery of the Neutron: A New Look

Postulation of Neutron Stars

Optical Model for Neutron-Nucleon Scattering

CP-1 and the Choice of Graphite as a Moderator