Padraic Finnerty - Particle Astrophysics Graduate Student

My Stuff

Preliminary Oral Exam Presentation:

• Astroparticle Physics with Prototype Broad Energy Germanium Detectors (4/16/2010) (NEW!)

Some of my presentations:

• Extracting Dark Matter Sensitivities From Low-Energy Spectra (UNC Nuclear Seminar, 10/05/2009) (NEW!)
• Nuclear Physics at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility (UNC Nuclear Seminar, 11/17/2008)
• Commissioning of a Low-Background Counting Facility at the Kimballton Mine (Masters Defense, 8/20/2008)
• Cosmogenic Activation Rate Measurements at Kimballton (APS April Meeting, 4/12/2008)
• Gamma Counting Facilities for Majorana (MAJORANA Collaboration Meeting, 3/8/2008)
• Spin Independent Neutralino Detection and Cross Sections (UNC Nuclear Seminar, 12/3/2007)
• Counting Facilities at Kimballton and Gran Sasso (MAJORANA Collaboration Meeting, 8/7/2007)

Some scientific papers I have written:

• MAJORANA Cross Calibration Sample Activity Measurements (NEW!)
• Sensitivity of the KURF Low-Background Counting Facility (NEW!)
• WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections and the Prospects for Detection
• Interior Models of Europa and Callisto
• Dynamics of the 47 Ursae Majoris Planetary System
• Gravitational Instabilities in Protoplanetary Disks and the Formation of Substellar Companions
• Dynamical Evolution of Planetesimals:  The Key to Terrestrial Planet Formation

Solutions:

• Nuclear Reactions Homework 1 - Physics 861
• Nuclear Reactions Homework 2 - Physics 861
• Reif Statistical Physics Solutions
• Sakurai Solutions

Miscellaneous:

• When Black Holes Collide (Collaborator)
• Collisions of Black Holes & Neutron Stars (Collaborator)
• Planetary Formation Notes (Midterm)
• Planetary Formation Notes (Final)
• Learn LaTex
• Physics GRE Practice Book
• 2006 UNC-Chapel Hill Physics PhD Qualifier

Sample Lab Report:

• Speed of Light Lab Report