Port Jeff Student Presents Research At Prestigious Science Fair

Port Jefferson NY

16 March, 2022

9:34 AM

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Press release from Port Jefferson School District: March 15, 2022 Earl L. Vandermeulen High School sophomore Katherine Ranjbar attended the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair, a competition for the most advanced high school projects. Katherine's research poster, "Impact of Imperfection Spin Resonance Strength on Depolarization in RHIC," was presented at the fair to experts in their subject areas from scientific institutions, local universities, professionals and peers from other high schools. RHIC (Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) is used to study the fundamental properties of matter and is the only machine that can collide beams of polarized protons to investigate the "missing" spin of the proton. Katherine was mentored by her father, Dr. Vahid Ranjbar, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Katherine was the only student from the school to attend the prestigious event, accompanied by science teacher Melissa Garcia. She earned an honorable mention for her work. Citing the wonderful learning experience, Ms. Garcia noted that Katherine is already planning what she might do differently in next year's competition. This press release was produced by Port Jefferson School District. The views expressed here are the author's own.