Yashodhan's Research
My research experience at IITM & TIFR-BARC
In our third semester, my friend and I joined prof. Aravind G.'s laboratory in the physics department. Here we were lab assistants, helping out in lab, running around between fabrication and lab, making tools etc.In December of 2017 I had the opportunity to work as an assistant in a high energy molecular dynamics experiment at the TIFR-BARC Pelletron Facility. Here I learned a lot about practical aspects of experimental physics.
In our experiment, Carbon-Nitrogen compounds were accelerated to incredibly high speeds through a series of extremely high voltage coils in a vacuum tube, then passed through a magnetic mass selector, followed by beam calibration into a chamber where Argon was released. We were studying the effect of collision with Argon, the end-products would fall into a detector, where we could scan across the kinetic energy with voltage, a histogram of KE for a particular mass (hence a particular CN compound out of the family) was produced on the computer.
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