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  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: 6-8
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'Yes'
  confirmation_1: '1'
  contact_email_fsu_email: ''
  contact_email_fsu_email2: ''
  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: dpershey@fsu.edu
  fsu_college: 'Arts and Sciences'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: Physics
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  if_the_project_location_is_off_campus_does_the_student_need_to_p: ''
  mentoring_philosophy: |-
    Like any other interaction, mentoring is only worthwhile when both sides feel the experience is positive and rewarding.  Both the student and mentor need to be treated as humans deserving respect and be able to communicate expectations and boundaries freely before starting a project.  When beginning a new project with a student, I cover expectations on technical aspects, communication, and workload which I adapt to each student.  These are not static, but adaptable throughout the duration of the project.

    Additionally, making a student research project that is thematically connected and introduces the student to new skills plays a vital role.  I design projects that both develop skills required across many careers and invoke a curiosity and desire to ask compelling questions about how the natural world works.  When charting out a research project, I maintain significant flexibility to make the work adaptable so a student has freedom to reach a specific goal or to pursue a particular aspects of the science they may find intriguing.  Each interaction with the student is an opportunity to course-correct in a direction that student would find more fulfilling.  
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  name_of_other_faculty_collaborator_if_applicable_: ''
  number_of_assistants_needed_faculty_postdoc_max_6_graduate_stude: '2'
  other_faculty_collaborator_s_preferred_pronouns: ''
  overall_research_project_description: |-
    When we picture a telescope, we might first think of looking through a lens to witness light reflected off the surface of the moon or a planet.  But, not all telescopes collect light.  Some telescopes look for neutrinos, very light subatomic particles found abundantly throughout the universe.  Neutrinos interact with matter very rarely, so that neutrinos, unlike light, produced deep inside dense objects like stars can escape and be detected on Earth.  In this project, we will study the neutrino signal observable in a future particle detector that was produced inside a dying star's core during a supernova.

    The 100 billion stars in the Milky Way shine steadily throughout their roughly billion-year lifespan by fusing light nuclei within their cores into heavier elements.  But, a couple times a century, one of the most massive stars in the galaxy exhausts its fusible fuel supply, and the star's life will end in a matter of seconds in a supernova: a violent collapse of the star's core into a neutron star or a black hole.  Light produced during this collapse is trapped by the outer envelop of the star, but a huge number of neutrinos are produced which can be detected on Earth.  Understanding the dynamics of the stellar collapse using the observed neutrino pulse from this exotic phenomenon is on the boundary of particle and astrophysics.

    Through this project, we will investigate the potential to observe neutrinos from a supernova within our galaxy with future neutrino detectors built by the COHERENT experiment at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee.  We will use computer programs to estimate what neutrino signals we can expect for the next supernova in our galaxy.  This will explore how the signal changes with different stellar masses and what information about the dynamics of the collapse we can glean from the neutrino signal.  We will also develop visualization tools to convey our results and share findings with collaborators.  
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  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: ''
  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: 'Partially Remote'
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'During Business Hours'
  position_title: Faculty
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Dan Pershey'
  project_keywords: 'physics astronomy supernova particle neutrino'
  relevant_student_major_s_: |-
    Computational science
    Physical science
    Physics
    Secondary science and/or mathematics teaching
  research_mentor_preferred_pronoun2: ''
  research_mentor_pronouns: he/him/his
  research_mentor_supervisor_if_different_from_above_: ''
  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: |-
    Literature review
    Learning the basics of data analysis in high-energy physics
    Coding in python or c++
    Clearly communicating and presenting technical results
  roundtable_times_and_zoom_links: 'Tuesday, Sep 5, 4-4:30 pm: https://fsu.zoom.us/my/pershey'
  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: 'Some coding experience is recommended but can be developed'
  title_of_the_project: 'Neutrino emission during the supernova of a massive star: determining the observable signal in terrestrial detectors'
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  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
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  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: ''
  year: '2023'