Physics Research for Undergraduates John H. Farley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, DMR 0552989

1. Physics Research for Undergraduates John H. Farley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, DMR 0552989 REU students inserted a diamond anvil cell with a special gasket in the x-ray synchrotron beam of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory to probe the properties of matter at high pressure. The x-rays drove a resonant nuclear transition in 57Fe at 14 keV. Diamond anvil cell produces high pressure

2. Physics Research for Undergraduates John H. Farley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, DMR 0552989 The REU site at UNLV gives students research opportunities that go beyond the classroom. Amad Martin of Xavier University of Louisiana used powder diffraction of x-rays from synchrotron radiation to investigate the properties of zirconium hydride at pressures as high as a half-million atmospheres. Amad Martin of Xavier University of Louisiana