Stephen Boose
Principal Electrical Engineer, sPHENIX, Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physics Department
Bldg. 510C, Room 2-204
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-2897
boose@bnl.gov
Following fifteen years in the electronics industry BNL hired me in 1992 to design and develop electronics for the Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometer (FRR) in support of the DOE Ocean Margins and NASA SeaWiFS programs. The FRR, invented by Zbigniew Kolber and Paul Falkowski, provided researchers with a minimally intrusive method for probing photosynthetic processes in situ. A particularly fun project offshoot of the FRR was the SCUBA FRR, a handheld device that we decided to build into a standard SCUBA underwater flashlight case. The high speed flasher, data acquisition system and LCD display were all squeezed into the flashlight case and tested on coral in the carribean. While at the Oceanographic and Atmospheric Sciences division (OASD) I also developed sensors for remote land sites and ocean profiling in support of the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program. When the BNL Oceanography program was dissolved in the late 90's I transferred to the Physics Department to work on the design of power distribution and SCADA controls for the PHENIX detector at RHIC. Once PHENIX had run to its completion I went to work designing and developing the front end and control electronics for the sPHENIX calorimeters. Over the years I have produced hundreds of custom electronics designs and continue to do so in support of sPHENIX and related Physics projects.
Expertise | Education | Publications | Awards
Expertise
Electronics design and control software.
Education
New York Institute of Technology BSEE/Electrical Engineering 1996, Magna cum Laude
SUNY Farmingdale AAS/Electronics Technology 1976
Selected Publications
- Aidala CA, Bailey V, Beckman S, et al (2018) Design and Beam Test Results for the sPHENIX Electromagnetic and Hadronic Calorimeter Prototypes. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 65:2901–2919. https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2018.2879047
- Aidala C, Anaya L, Anderssen E, et al (2014) The PHENIX Forward Silicon Vertex Detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 755:44–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.04.017
- Vaska P, Woody CL, Schlyer DJ, et al Initial Performance of the RatCAP, a PET Camera for Conscious Rat Brain Imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1109/nssmic.2005.1596971
- Vaska P, Krishnamoorthy S, Stoll S, et al An improved anger detector approach for PET with high resolution and sensitivity. IEEE Symposium Conference Record Nuclear Science 2004. https://doi.org/10.1109/nssmic.2004.1466632
- Adler SS, Allen M, Alley G, et al (2003) PHENIX on-line systems. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 499:560–592. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-9002(02)01957-5
- Adcox K, Adler SS, Aizama M, et al (2003) PHENIX detector overview. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 499:469–479. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-9002(02)01950-2
- Allen M, Bennett MJ, Bobrek M, et al (2003) PHENIX inner detectors. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 499:549–559. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-9002(02)01956-3
Awards & Recognition
Louis Liss Memorial Award 1996
Brookhaven Engineering Award 2004
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physics Department
Bldg. 510C, Room 2-204
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-2897
boose@bnl.gov
