Quantanaut
@quantanaut.bsky.social
Particle / nuclear physics PhD candidate
RHIC + EIC
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Quantanaut
@quantanaut.bsky.social
· May 7
VIRTUE - Apps on Google Play
A customizable event display for collider experiments like the EIC
play.google.com
My VIRTUE particle collider app is now available on Google Play! ⚛️ 🧪 play.google.com/store/apps/d...
My VIRTUE particle collider app is now available on Google Play! ⚛️ 🧪 play.google.com/store/apps/d...
VIRTUE - Apps on Google Play
A customizable event display for collider experiments like the EIC
play.google.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My VIRTUE particle collider app is now available on Google Play! ⚛️ 🧪 play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Sneak peak at an animation I'm working on for PET scan simulations 🧪⚛️
April 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Sneak peak at an animation I'm working on for PET scan simulations 🧪⚛️
My VIRTUE particle collider display app is now available on Google Play for alpha testing!
If you have an Android phone, please join my group of alpha testers here: groups.google.com/g/virtuetest
Google requires all apps to go through an alpha testing phase before being publicly released.
If you have an Android phone, please join my group of alpha testers here: groups.google.com/g/virtuetest
Google requires all apps to go through an alpha testing phase before being publicly released.
VIRTUE Alpha Testing - Google Groups
groups.google.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
My VIRTUE particle collider display app is now available on Google Play for alpha testing!
If you have an Android phone, please join my group of alpha testers here: groups.google.com/g/virtuetest
Google requires all apps to go through an alpha testing phase before being publicly released.
If you have an Android phone, please join my group of alpha testers here: groups.google.com/g/virtuetest
Google requires all apps to go through an alpha testing phase before being publicly released.
Tomorrow I'm going to be showing off my VR particle collider display at the Quantum Jubilee event at the Grove of Anaheim. Come by if you can, tickets are free!
www.eventbrite.com/e/quantum-ju...
www.eventbrite.com/e/quantum-ju...
Quantum Jubilee
Get ready to explore the mind-bending world of quantum physics at our Quantum Jubilee event!
www.eventbrite.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tomorrow I'm going to be showing off my VR particle collider display at the Quantum Jubilee event at the Grove of Anaheim. Come by if you can, tickets are free!
www.eventbrite.com/e/quantum-ju...
www.eventbrite.com/e/quantum-ju...
My collider display program got featured by @brookhavenlab.bsky.social! ⚛️🧪
www.bnl.gov/newsroom/new...
www.bnl.gov/newsroom/new...
Bringing the Beautiful Data of the Electron-Ion Collider to Life
Sean Preins, a doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a customizable virtual reality program that allows users to journey...
www.bnl.gov
March 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My collider display program got featured by @brookhavenlab.bsky.social! ⚛️🧪
www.bnl.gov/newsroom/new...
www.bnl.gov/newsroom/new...
My advisor just gave me the go-ahead to try turning my VIRTUE collider display program into a phone app... so be on the lookout for that in the near future!
March 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My advisor just gave me the go-ahead to try turning my VIRTUE collider display program into a phone app... so be on the lookout for that in the near future!
Just picked up this book from @astrokatie.com! Been looking forward to this since listening to the Crash Course: The Universe podcast
March 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Just picked up this book from @astrokatie.com! Been looking forward to this since listening to the Crash Course: The Universe podcast
Made a demo for my particle collider display application, showing simulated collisions in the future Electron-Ion Collider! ⚛️ 🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFX6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFX6...
VIRTUE v2.2.0 Demo
YouTube video by Quantanaut
www.youtube.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Made a demo for my particle collider display application, showing simulated collisions in the future Electron-Ion Collider! ⚛️ 🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFX6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFX6...
I also got to work with antimatter! Our group tested our first prototype detector in front of a positron beam at Jefferson Lab. We're testing our third prototype now in the same spot! ⚛️ 🧪
March 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I also got to work with antimatter! Our group tested our first prototype detector in front of a positron beam at Jefferson Lab. We're testing our third prototype now in the same spot! ⚛️ 🧪
If I ever say this, usually I mean that the particles are directly exchanging momentum between each other in some hard-scattering process. There's still some distance between them, but it's as direct of an interaction as you can get.
A scicomm subtlety here: Is it ever permissible to talk about particles "touching"? What does it mean to "touch" in that context? When you "touch" something with your hand, you're allowing electron interactions to occur. Is there "space" between or not?
(I think the term is fine, in this context.)
(I think the term is fine, in this context.)
If you let an electron touch a positron (anti-matter version of electron) they'll both annihilate into gamma rays but if you are VERY careful and let them get close but NOT touch then they can form a bound state called positronium that acts kinda like a hydrogen atom for a few hundred nanoseconds 💫
February 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If I ever say this, usually I mean that the particles are directly exchanging momentum between each other in some hard-scattering process. There's still some distance between them, but it's as direct of an interaction as you can get.
VIRTUE v2.2.0 is online! This is a free particle collider display for desktop and VR I've been working on for a while, please check it out! 🧪⚛️
store.steampowered.com/app/2728380/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2728380/...
VIRTUE on Steam
A customizable event display for collider experiments for desktop or virtual reality. Explore electron-proton collisions in the ePIC detector at the future Electron-Ion Collider, or upload your own de...
store.steampowered.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
VIRTUE v2.2.0 is online! This is a free particle collider display for desktop and VR I've been working on for a while, please check it out! 🧪⚛️
store.steampowered.com/app/2728380/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2728380/...
Trying to find a good 3D model to show the scale of the ePIC detector at the Electron-Ion Collider. I think this one works well, doesn't it? ⚛️🧪
February 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Trying to find a good 3D model to show the scale of the ePIC detector at the Electron-Ion Collider. I think this one works well, doesn't it? ⚛️🧪
As far as we can tell, our group is the first to deploy SiPM-on-tile technology inside a particle collider! We're testing one of our prototypes in RHIC at @brookhavenlab.bsky.social ⚛️🧪
February 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
As far as we can tell, our group is the first to deploy SiPM-on-tile technology inside a particle collider! We're testing one of our prototypes in RHIC at @brookhavenlab.bsky.social ⚛️🧪
Installing our prototype detector at Jefferson Lab! Now we just have to wait for the positron beam to turn on... ⚛️🧪
February 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Installing our prototype detector at Jefferson Lab! Now we just have to wait for the positron beam to turn on... ⚛️🧪
Reposted by Quantanaut
It was great to visit UC Riverside last week! Thanks @fliptanedo.bsky.social for being a wonderful host!
@astrokatie.com gave a great talk on dark matter here at UCR—why it’s mysterious and why we think it’s there. Super interesting!
February 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It was great to visit UC Riverside last week! Thanks @fliptanedo.bsky.social for being a wonderful host!
Showing off our lab's prototype particle detector for the EIC with @astrokatie.com! ⚛️🧪
February 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Showing off our lab's prototype particle detector for the EIC with @astrokatie.com! ⚛️🧪
I got to meet Dr. Katie Mack @astrokatie.com at my university today! She's giving a talk on the particle physics of dark matter ⚛️🧪
February 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I got to meet Dr. Katie Mack @astrokatie.com at my university today! She's giving a talk on the particle physics of dark matter ⚛️🧪
The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ⚛️🧪
November 30, 2024 at 2:45 PM
The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ⚛️🧪