MoNA graduate student Nico Mendez and PI Thomas Baumann attended the 26th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research & Industry (CAARI 2022) from October 30 to November 3, 2022 in Denton, Texas. The application and detector focused conference brings together scientists, engineers, professors, physicians, and students from all over the world who use particle accelerators in their research and industrial applications. Nico showed “Simulations of the Multi-layer Active target for MoNA Experiments (MAME) with Garfield++” and Thomas talked about the “Next Generation Fast Neutron Detector With High Position Resolution” in their contributed presentations. It was 20 years earlier that Thomas introduced “MoNA The Modular Neutron Array at the NSCL” at this conference!
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The Collaboration is honored to welcome Adriana Banu from James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Virginia) and Belen Monteagudo from Hope College (Holland, Michigan) as the group's newest PIs.
The annual MoNA Collaboration retreat was held at Michigan State University from August 15 - 16, 2022. Participants included Primary Investigators (PIs), graduate students, undergraduate students, and high school students that contributed to the MoNA research program over the last calendar year as shown in the picture below (not pictured: James Brown from Wabash College and Belen Monteagudo from Hope College). The two days were packed with discussions of research projects by collaborators, PAC1 approved experiment preparation, future research plans, and discussion of PAC2 proposal ideas. In addition to great physics discussions, the major events during the retreat included welcoming a new PI Adriana Banu (James Madison University) as a full member of the Collaboration, electing a new Executive Director Thomas Redpath (Virginia State University), and welcoming back PI Michael Thoennessen (Michigan State University).
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