Hubert van Hecke's homepage  
LHCb
p-3 and los alamos lab
outreach
aerogel
other
building the FVTX silicon tracker in 2011
 
I (mostly) retired in 2017.


 

LHCb
Our team is a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN. My involvement is with the proposed Magnet Station detector. I do hardware design and construction.
Local LHCb pages

 

Phenix and the FVTX, VTX, MVD, MuTR detectors
The PHENIX detector, one of 2 large experiments at RHIC, a versatile accelerator at Brookhaven National Lab, operated from 2000 through 2016. Over the years, we built several components of this detector, The Muon tracking system (MuTr), the Multiplicity and Vertex detector (MVD), and finally, The Forward Vertex detector (FVTX).





 

P-3
P-3 (formerly P-25, an before that, P-2) is our group, the High Energy Nuclear Physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.



 

Aerogel
From 1985 to 1996 we were involved in experiments at CERN. For one of these, NA44, we did some nice R&D on the use of aerogel for imaging Cherenkov detectors. Since then, I've maintained a few pages about aerogel.

In 2014, I picked up this thread again. R&D funds were available for development of detectors for the future EIC (electron-ion collider). I proposed to work on the development of a modular Cherenkov detector. When I retired, the baton was passed to GSU.



 

Outreach
I've been doing science outreach for a long time, ever since our kids were in kindergarten. Here are the outreach links.

Mr. Science Weekly science hours in 5th or 6th grade classes
Equipment you can borrow
Posters you can borrow
WG tech club After-school weekly tech activities, including 3D design and printing. Box, penguin, Skeleton
SF Children’s Museum Monthly Science Saturdays, since 2016.
The Santa Fe Alliance for Science A large group of science and engineering volunteers working in the Santa Fe schools
Science videos we made during 2020 and 2021. Some tools we used
SFAFS docs in Dropbox
Adopt-a-School One of the SFAFS programs, where we concentrate efforts on one particular school.
AAS overview
Make Santa Fe This Maker Space has educational activities. I also use the equipment there for some LANL work. (A bit of history)


 

Other

Astro pic of the day,   ScienceNOW,   New Scientist,   APS Physics,   Phys Rev Focus,   Cern Courier
Cartoons, logos etc.
The family home page
science logos
Science is art



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