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Selected technical portfolio

I bring complex experimental systems from hardware to operation.

Hands-on construction, integration, startup, testing, troubleshooting and operations across accelerator-driven nuclear and particle-physics systems at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

T. J. Schaub working inside the CCM detector
Published project image: T. J. Schaub replacing a photomultiplier tube during a CCM detector upgrade.
Where the work happened

Start with LANSCE, then move into the two experimental areas

The portfolio is organized spatially first. The aerial establishes the scale of the LANSCE accelerator complex; directly below it, the Lujan Center and UCN / Area B sections show where the major experiments and systems in this portfolio were located.

Annotated aerial view of LANSCE showing the Lujan Center and UCN facility
Facility overview

Los Alamos Neutron Science Center — LANSCE

800 MeV proton accelerator complex feeding multiple experimental facilities. My work represented here spans the Lujan Center / CCM program and the UCN experimental facility.

Lujan CenterCCM200UCN FacilitynEDM
Lujan Center

Lujan Center Experimental Area ER1

3D model of the Lujan Center and surrounding Target 1 area
Lujan Center Experimental Area ER1 overview showing the Proton Storage Ring, Target 1, Line D, ER-2 and CCM

The full-width 3D model establishes the larger Lujan / Target 1 geometry. The overview below places CCM within Experimental Area ER1 relative to Target 1, the Proton Storage Ring, Line D and ER-2.

  • Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills / CCM200
  • Target 1 / stopped-pion neutrino source
  • Neighboring neutron flight paths and instruments
UCN Facility / Area B

UCN Experimental Area

CAD overview of UCN Area B showing the source, beamlines and experiments

The Area B CAD shows the UCN source, north and west beamlines, polarizing magnets and the major experiments sharing the hall.

  • LANL nEDM experiment
  • UCNτ experiment
  • UCNA / UCNB experimental area
  • UCN source, beamlines and supporting vacuum / cryogenic systems
Individual projects & systems

From facility scale down to the hardware

These pages go deeper into what each experiment or facility does, the physics or measurement it supports, and the specific systems I built, integrated, commissioned, operated or supported.

Commissioning approach

From individual hardware to integrated operation

Construction
Integration
Startup
Functional Testing
Operations
My strongest work has typically been at the interfaces: tracing what was actually installed, understanding how subsystems interact, instrumenting behavior, isolating faults, coordinating changes and proving that the integrated system operates as intended.