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@quantanaut.bsky.social
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Particle / nuclear physics PhD candidate RHIC + EIC Rad Worker I certified

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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
My VIRTUE particle collider app is now available on Google Play! ⚛️ 🧪 play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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VIRTUE - Apps on Google Play
A customizable event display for collider experiments like the EIC
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The whole reason why I'm in physics is to try jumping to another timeline
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Sneak peak at an animation I'm working on for PET scan simulations 🧪⚛️
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My VIRTUE particle collider display app is now available on Google Play for alpha testing! If you have an Android phone, please join my group of alpha testers here: groups.google.com/g/virtuetest Google requires all apps to go through an alpha testing phase before being publicly released.
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VIRTUE Alpha Testing - Google Groups
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Tomorrow I'm going to be showing off my VR particle collider display at the Quantum Jubilee event at the Grove of Anaheim. Come by if you can, tickets are free! www.eventbrite.com/e/quantum-ju...
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Quantum Jubilee
Get ready to explore the mind-bending world of quantum physics at our Quantum Jubilee event!
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Confirmed, Randall has never seen the Sun
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Not for commercial use! We're making it for publicly funded research in the future Electron-Ion Collider. We've published a few papers on our results so far! arxiv.org/abs/2501.08586
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First-Ever Deployment of a SiPM-on-Tile Calorimeter in a Collider: A Parasitic Test with 200 GeV $pp$ Collisions at RHIC
We describe the testing of a prototype SiPM-on-tile iron-scintillator calorimeter at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) during its 200 GeV $pp$ run in 2024. The prototype, measuring $20 \times...
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Haha, that is a prototype particle detector designed to measure the energy of hadrons. Uhh, if you're strong enough to pick it up, you could bludgeon someone with it?
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My collider display program got featured by @brookhavenlab.bsky.social! ⚛️🧪 www.bnl.gov/newsroom/new...
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Bringing the Beautiful Data of the Electron-Ion Collider to Life
Sean Preins, a doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a customizable virtual reality program that allows users to journey...
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My advisor just gave me the go-ahead to try turning my VIRTUE collider display program into a phone app... so be on the lookout for that in the near future!
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Just picked up this book from @astrokatie.com! Been looking forward to this since listening to the Crash Course: The Universe podcast
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Made a demo for my particle collider display application, showing simulated collisions in the future Electron-Ion Collider! ⚛️ 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFX6...
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VIRTUE v2.2.0 Demo
YouTube video by Quantanaut
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I also got to work with antimatter! Our group tested our first prototype detector in front of a positron beam at Jefferson Lab. We're testing our third prototype now in the same spot! ⚛️ 🧪
Our research group showing our prototype detector at Jefferson Lab
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
That would be a likely result from a hard-scattering electron positron interaction, so, yes! Of course, even then there is a chance they'll just bounce off each other. It's all probabilistic.
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If I ever say this, usually I mean that the particles are directly exchanging momentum between each other in some hard-scattering process. There's still some distance between them, but it's as direct of an interaction as you can get.
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It is also available on Zenodo, for those who don't have Steam: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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VIRTUE: Virtual Interactive Reality Toolkit for Understanding the EIC
VIRTUE is a standalone customizable event display for collider experiments for desktop or virtual reality (VR). The application is available for free on Zenodo or Steam here, and features a simplified...
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Got to go with what the advisor wants, haha
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
VIRTUE v2.2.0 is online! This is a free particle collider display for desktop and VR I've been working on for a while, please check it out! 🧪⚛️ store.steampowered.com/app/2728380/...
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VIRTUE on Steam
A customizable event display for collider experiments for desktop or virtual reality. Explore electron-proton collisions in the ePIC detector at the future Electron-Ion Collider, or upload your own de...
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Decided to go with a school bus
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I was thinking the engine, but I haven't been able to find many good free 3d models for it
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
That was the first model I used, but I think it was a bit too large in comparison
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Trying to find a good 3D model to show the scale of the ePIC detector at the Electron-Ion Collider. I think this one works well, doesn't it? ⚛️🧪
3D model of the EPIC detector with a freight train next to it
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
As far as we can tell, our group is the first to deploy SiPM-on-tile technology inside a particle collider! We're testing one of our prototypes in RHIC at @brookhavenlab.bsky.social ⚛️🧪
A prototype particle detector inside the STAR experiment hall at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Installing our prototype detector at Jefferson Lab! Now we just have to wait for the positron beam to turn on... ⚛️🧪
A group of students installing a prototype particle detector at JLab
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/02/2025
It was great to visit UC Riverside last week! Thanks @fliptanedo.bsky.social for being a wonderful host!
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I saw this as well! Was not expecting it, just looked up at the right time
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Showing off our lab's prototype particle detector for the EIC with @astrokatie.com! ⚛️🧪
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I got to meet Dr. Katie Mack @astrokatie.com at my university today! She's giving a talk on the particle physics of dark matter ⚛️🧪
A photo of me with Dr. Katie Mack
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Is there any other way to give a talk?
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Energy deposits from a simulated electron-proton collision in the future ePIC detector 🧪⚛️ #SciArt
A 3D render of the result of a simulated electron-proton collision, as viewed from along the beamline
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Here's some other angles that can give you a sense of scale
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I will take this into consideration next time I'm in the hall
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ⚛️🧪
A photo of the STAR detector with the endcap removed to reveal the Time Projection Chamber
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
That's already a whole debate when it comes to quark names
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Someone should write a book about that...
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Quantanaut @quantanaut.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hello! I'm Sean, a physics PhD candidate studying single spin asymmetries at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and calorimetry R&D for the future Electron-Ion Collider www.mdpi.com/2410-390X/7/...
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Beam Test of the First Prototype of SiPM-on-Tile Calorimeter Insert for the EIC Using 4 GeV Positrons at Jefferson Laboratory
We recently proposed a high-granularity calorimeter insert for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) that uses plastic scintillator tiles read out by SiPMs. Among its features are an ASIC-away-from-SiPM str...
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