James Wetzel, Ph.D.

"We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to me.”

- Maya Angelou

 
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Résumé

James Wetzel, Ph.D. Scientist, Professor, Entrepreneur, Musician

Experience

Animal Lamps, LLC
Owner and Founder
2019 - Present

Adjunct Assistant Professor
The University of Iowa
2015 - Present

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Coe College
2015 - Present

Research Manager
Experimental Particle Physics Group
2014 - Present

CERN Affilliation
2004 - Present

Fermilab Affiliation
2004 - Present

xDose Technologies, LLC
CTO
2021 - Present

Corridor Design Company
Owner and Founder
2015 - Present

Fermi News
Contributor
2019 - Present

Visiting Assistant Professor
Augustana College, Physics
2018 - 2020

Director of R&D
FarrPro, Inc.
2018 - 2018

KONE Elevator Assembly
Harrington Signal
2003 - 2004

 
 

Education

Ph.D. Experimental Particle Physics
The University of Iowa
2014

B.Sc Physics
The University of Iowa
2004

Certificate in Entrepreneurial Management
The University of Iowa JPEC
2004

 
 

Publications/Proceedings

Beam Test Results of the RADiCAL—A Radiation Hard Innovative EM Calorimeter
J. Wetzel et al. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, VOL. 70, NO. 7, JULY 2023
2023 (PDF)

Radiation Damage and Recovery Mechanisms in Scintillating Fibers
J. Wetzel et al. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2374 012121
2022 (PDF)

Measurement of Light Yield, Timing and Radiation Damage and Recovery of Common Plastic Scintillators
Y. Onel et al. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2374 012108.
2022 (PDF)

Secondary Emission Calorimetry
B. Bilki et al. 19th International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics CALOR 2022
2022 (PDF)

RADiCAL—Precision Timing, Ultracompact, Radiation-Hard Electromagnetic Calorimetry
R. Ruchti et al. Instruments 2022, 6,27.
2022 (PDF)

Very Forward Calorimetry at the FCC
J. Wetzel et al. The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2021)
2021 (PDF)

Radiation Damage and Recovery Mechanisms of Various Scintillators and Fibers
J. Wetzel et al. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)
2021 (PDF)

Results From In Situ Monitoring of Radiation Damage of Scintillation Fibers
J. Wetzel et al. NSS/MIC, NSS 13 - Radiation Damage Effects and Rad-Hard Devices
2020 (PDF)

Performance Measurements of Optical Scintillating Fibers after Repeated Exposure to Radiation
J. Wetzel et al. NSS/MIC, NSS 13 - Radiation Damage Effects and Rad-Hard Devices
2020 (PDF)

Measuring the Scintillation Decay Constant of PEN and PET with 120 GeV Proton Beam Excitation
J. Wetzel et al. NSS/MIC, NSS 06 - Organic Scintillators (Growth, new materials, applications
2020 (PDF)

Scintillation Timing Characteristics of Common Plastics for Radiation Detection Excited With 120 GeV Protons

J. Wetzel et al. Turk J Phys (2020) 44:437-441
2020 (PDF)

UV-LED Induced Recovery of Radiation Damage in Glass and Plastic Scintillators
J. Wetzel et al. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)
2019 (PDF)

Simulation of a High Granulation Quartz-based Cherenkov Calorimeter
J. Wetzel et al. NSS/MIC, NSS 04 - Computing and Simulation
2019 (PDF)

Brightness and uniformity measurements of plastic scintillator tiles at the CERN H2 test beam
HCAL Collaboration JINST 13 P01002
2018 (PDF)

Development of radiation-hard scintillators and wavelength-shifting fibers
B. Bilki et al. Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 13
2018 (PDF)

Using LEDs to Stimulate the Recovery of Radiation Damage to Plastic Scintillators
J. Wetzel et al. NIM B 2017.01.081
2017 (PDF)

Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in e±e± + jets and e±µ± + jets events in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV
CMS Collaboration JHEP 04 (2016) 169
2016 (PDF)

Liquid Scintillator Tiles for Calorimetry
M. Amouzegar et al. JINST 11 P11018   
2016 (PDF)

Development of Radiation Hard Scintillators
Proceedings, 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016)
2016 (PDF)

Radiation damage studies of new intrinsically radiation-hard scintillators
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor
B. Bilki et al. Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD)
2016 (PDF)

New radiation-hard wavelength shifting fibers
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor
B. Bilki et al. Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD)
2016 (PDF)

Radiation Damage and Recovery Properties of Common Plastics PEN and PET Using a 137Cs Gamma Ray Source Up To 1.4 MRad and 14 MRad
J. Wetzel et al. JINST 11 P08023    
2016 (PDF)

Characterization of photomultiplier tubes in a novel secondary ionization mode for Secondary Emission Ionization Calorimetry
E. Tiras et al. JINST 11 P10004
2016 (PDF)

Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in µ±µ± + jets events in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV
CMS Collaboration Phys. Lett. B 748 (2015) 144
2015 (PDF)

Quartz plate calorimeter prototype with wavelength shifting fibers
U. Akgun et al. JINST 7 (2012) P07004
2012 (PDF)

Search for new physics with the dijet angular ratio
CMS-PAS-EXO-11-026 - CMS PAS
2012 (PDF)

CMS hadronic endcap calorimeter upgrade studies for SLHC `p-terphenyl deposited quartz plate calorimeter prototype'
U. Akgun et al. IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci. 57 (2010) 754-759 (2010-02-18)
2010 (PDF)



Skills

Design

Analysis

Research

CAD/Productivity/Programming

Organized

Patient

Communicative

Empathetic

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