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Andrew Emerick
Undergraduate
email emerick @ physics.umn.edu
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Current Research
Large Scale Structure
From 2009-2011, I worked under Dr. Lawrence Rudnick studying the large scale structure of the universe in both radio and x-ray. The majority of my work focused on finding faint, diffuse radio halos in x-ray luminous galaxy clusters utilizing a novel "stacking" procedure. Ultimately this is used to explore the source of faint, diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters, and their place in cluster evolution. Results for this work can be found in the publications below.
Theoretical Nuclear Physics
During the summer of 2011, I participated in a REU program at Texas A&M University's Cyclotron Institute, part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. My work there was conducted under Dr. Ralf Rapp, exploring the production of heavy quarkonia (in this case bottomonia) as a probe into the phenomenology of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Selected Publications
A. Emerick, X. Zhao, R. Rapp, Bottomonia in the Quark-Gluon Plasma and their Production at RHIC and LHC, European Physics Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei [abstract]
A. Emerick, T.W. Jones, and D. Porter, Simulation of Turbulence and Magnetic Field Evolution in Astrophysical Plasmas, University of Minnesota Digital Conservatory: Undergraduate Research Presentations [abstract] [download UROP - MHD Poster.pdf]
Andrew Emerick, Ralf Rapp, Bottomonium in the QGP: Production at RHIC and LHC, Bulletin of the American Physical Society: 2011 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Volume 56, Number 12 [abstract]
Brown, S., Emerick, A., Rudnick, L., Brunetti, G., Probing the Off-State of Cluster Giant Radio Halos, ApJL, 740, L28 [abstract]
A. Emerick, S. Brown, L. Rudnick, Stacking Detection of Diffuse Radio Emission in Galaxy Clusters, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #408.26; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011 [abstract] [download Emerick-Brown-Rudnick-AAS218.pdf]
A. Emerick, S. Brown, L. Rudnick, Examination of Radio Halos and Corresponding X-Ray Emission in Galaxy Clusters, University of Minnesota Digital Conservatory: Undergraduate Research Presentations [abstract] [download Emerick-Brown-Rudnick-UROP2011.pdf]