Natalie Klco standing in front of an LED light calibration setup at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics Section of Genoa, Italy
Two summers ago, after traveling west across the continental United States to attend and perform in the Zeltsman Marimba Festival in Arcata, Calif., Natalie Klco ’15 HTC Physics wrote about the beauty she found in marimba music and festival performers who displayed clarity and oneness between their instruments, their bodies, and their minds.
In summer 2014 she headed east across the Atlantic to Italy and France, where a world of similar beauty revealed itself to her in the field of nuclear physics. She participated in physics experiments with scientists whose relationships with the world are delving deeper with each new discovery.
Klco began her summer in Genoa, Italy, where she worked on the Forward Tagger project, supervised by researchers at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics Section of Genoa. The Forward Tagger project involves designing hardware to detect electron scattering at a U.S. experiment to be held at Jefferson Lab. Once the Forward Tagger is installed, it will be possible to investigate the kinds of particles that can be formed from quarks when high-energy electrons are scattered from protons and neutrons.
After spending a month in Italy, Natalie traveled to CEA/ Saclay, to participate in a second month-long project, under the supervision of researchers at CEA. She assisted in the testing and documentation of a new style of detector that will track particles produced in particle physics experiment at Jefferson Lab.
Comments