{"id":3380,"date":"2024-07-11T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/?post_type=profiles&#038;p=3380"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:36:18","slug":"karina-khusainova","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/profiles\/karina-khusainova\/","title":{"rendered":"Karina Khusainova"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1443\" height=\"1443\" src=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/KhusainovaKarina.jpg\" alt=\"Karina, Headshot\n\" class=\"wp-image-3779\" style=\"width:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/KhusainovaKarina.jpg 1443w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/KhusainovaKarina-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/KhusainovaKarina-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/KhusainovaKarina-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/KhusainovaKarina-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1443px) 100vw, 1443px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>MIT Department: <\/strong>Physics<br><strong>Faculty Mentor:<\/strong> Prof. Ronald Garcia Ruiz<br><strong>Research Supervisors:<\/strong> Arian Jadbabaie, Sepehr Ebadi<br><strong>Undergraduate Institution:<\/strong> Vanderbilt University<br><strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Orsk, Russia<br><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kkhusainova\" data-type=\"URL\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Karina Khusainova is a rising junior at Vanderbilt University. Originally from Orsk, Russia, she is a Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholar majoring in Physics with a minor in Scientific Computing. At Vanderbilt, Karina is a part of the Applied Optical Physics Group led by Professor Richard F. Haglund, where she explores nonlinear optics and topological materials. As a part of the RaX collaboration between MIT and Harvard this summer, Karina examines automated laser ablation of radium targets for making cold molecules in a cryogenic buffer gas cell. In addition, Karina enjoys working as a Teaching Assistant and mentoring other students. She collaborates with academic departments, on-campus organizations, and Nashville community activists to organize open lectures with an interdisciplinary approach to science. Karina aspires to pursue PhD in Physics and use optical tools to explore new exotic states of matter and advance the search for Beyond the Standard Model physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Automated Laser Ablation for a Cryogenic Buffer Gas Beam Source<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Karina Khusainova<sub><sup>1<\/sup><\/sub>, Arian Jadbabaie<sup>2,3<\/sup>, Sepehr Ebadi<sup>2,3<\/sup>, John M. Doyle<sup>3<\/sup> and Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><br><sup>1<\/sup>Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University<br><sup>2<\/sup>Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br><sup>3<\/sup>Department of Physics, Harvard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Precision measurements of cold, exotic molecules can provide sensitive tests of the violation of fundamental symmetries and the exploration of physics beyond the Standard Model. Recent studies have shown that radium-containing molecules, such as 225RaF and 225RaOH, amplify both parity and time-reversal violating nuclear properties and have a structure favorable for laser cooling. The cryogenic buffer gas beam (CBGB) method offers a generic approach to producing and cooling molecules in the few Kelvin regime as the first step toward laser cooling of them. In these experiments, the target species are introduced into the buffer gas through laser ablation, where a high-energy pulsed laser is focused onto the solid target to eject gas-phase molecules or atoms. With the aim of improving the efficiency of molecular production, we present the development of an automated laser ablation system for the precise control of the laser beam pointing, triggered rastering, and mapping of the laser position. We will use this system to optimize manufacturing of radioactive ablation targets and develop off-line means to predict target performance prior to use in the apparatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3779,"template":"","profile_category":[22],"class_list":["post-3380","profiles","type-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profile_category-2024-interns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profiles"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/3380\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profile_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_category?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}