Students
St. Francis Xavier University
Current students
2025-2026: Sabbatical leave, Department of Physics, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Graduated students
Kennedy Lawrence
Honours Student
Thesis Project: Calibration & Application of an NaI(Tl) Detector for Environmental Radiation Measurement. Thesis
Summer 2024 and 205 projects: Belle II Experiment (Electromagnetic Calorimeter), NaI Detector Calibration, Data acquisition and analysis
Current position: Graduate student (M.Sc.) on Medical Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Maxwell MacNeil
Advanced Major Student
Thesis Project: Detection of Cosmic Ray Muons with Teachspin and Cosmic Watch Muon Detectors. Thesis
Summer 2024 and 2025 projects: Cosmic Muons: Detector development and calibration, Data acquisition and analysis, Belle II Experiment
Awarded NSERC USRA, Summer 2024
Current position: Electrical Engineering Department, Dalhousie University
Audrey Yang
Summer Research Student (volunteered)
Research Project: Cosmic Muons: Detector development and calibration, Data acquisition and analysis
Current position: Third year Bachelor of Science student at the University of British Columbia (UBC)
Evan Hunt
Honours student
Honours Project: Accounting for the Asymmetry: Boost Vector Measurement in Experiment 26 Data Sets by Belle II Detector. Thesis
Summer 2023 and 2024 projects: Belle II Experiment
Current position: Computer Science Department, StFX
Matthew Penner
Honours student
Honours Project: Cosmic Muons and the Theory of Special Relativity. Thesis
Summer 2021 and 2022 Projects: Muon Physics, Coding, Belle II Experiment
Awarded NSERC USRA and Yogi Joshi Prize
Current position: Graduate student (M.Sc.) on Experimental Particle Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Roman Fisher
Advanced Major student
Advanced Major Project:Revealing Particles Around Us: The Use and Construction of a Cloud Chamber. Thesis
Summer 2021 and 2022 Projects: Detector, Forward-Backward Asymmetry, Belle II Experiment
Current position: Graduate student (M.Sc.) on Medical Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Noah Tessema
L: Partick and R: Noah
Advanced Major with Honours thesis student
April 2019 - April 2021 (graduated)
Project: Boost Vector Measurement in Asymmetric Energy Collisions of the Belle-II Detector.
Awarded Wallbank-Weingartshofer Prize (departmental)
Current position: Graduate student (M.Sc.) at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Patrick O'Brien
Honours student
April 2018 - April 2019 (graduated)
Project: Measurement of the Upsilon 2S Resonance Mass with the BABAR experiment
Awarded Gold Prize in Student Research Day presentation at StFX
Current position: Graduate student (Ph.D.) at the University of Alberta, AB, Canada
Jazan University
- 2016 - 2017: Mohammed Waly, Khalid Mohammed Koriri, and Hussain Alwani: Study of a Particle Physics Detector (Honours thesis).
- 2015 - 2016: Amin Ahmad Amin, Fahd Mohmmed Almahnshi, and Khaled Yahya Aqeli: Black Holes - it's formation, evolution and fate (Honours thesis).
- 2014 - 2015: Ahmed Mosa Ayashi and Basem Ibrahim Kariri: The electromagnetic calorimeter with the BABAR detector (Honours thesis).
- 2013 - 2014: Khalid Jebril Alabdali, Mohanad Saleh Babgi, and Hitham Asere: Electromagnetic Calorimeter in Particle Physics Experiment (Honours thesis).