Department of Physics, Syracuse University
Last week was the culmination of the 2023 Syracuse University Research in Physics (SURPh) program. Mitch and Denver each worked with two high school students from the Syracuse City School District on various projects related to experimental particle physics. They were all fantastic, and it was a lot of fun having them around this summer. See the article from SU for more info.
Check out this interesting story from Fermilab, highlighting a new paper from Steven Gardiner of Fermilab about the MARLEY program and its potential applications for supernova neutrino studies. The story highlights recents low-energy LArTPC reconstruction tools developed first on ArgoNeuT, then on MicroBooNE by our own Avinay Bhat! Let’s hope we get lucky and have DUNE up and running when the next galactic supernova burst passes our way 😉
Continuing with the theme of highlighting group activities in the past year… Three of our graduate students presented posters at this past summer’s Neutrino 2020 conference! This is the most significant conference in the field of neutrino physics, and even though it was completely virtual due to the covid pandemic, it managed to be as engaging and interesting as ever. The posters were given by:
Avinay Bhat – MeV Scale Physics in MicroBooNE. (Bonus reading: MICROBOONE-NOTE 1076-PUB)
Ohana Benevides Rodrigues – Novel Ion Trap Design Concept as a LAr Purity Monitor
Abhilash Yallappa Dombara – Wrong Sign Contamination in NOvA
Great job all around!
We’re very happy to highlight the success stories of a few of our group alumni!
Former postdoctoral researcher Jonathan Asaadi is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, doing great things with pixel readout for LArTPCs, and we were happy to have him back last week for the SU Physics Department colloquium. It was a great presentation, and gave everyone lots of fun ideas to consider for the possibilities with pixels in future huge LArTPCs.
Former graduate student Jessica Esquivel is now a postdoctoral researcher at Fermilab, working on g-2, and aside from the awesome science she is doing she is also one of the organizers of the Black In Physics group which is organizing a week of great events NEXT WEEK. Check it out:
Here's a list of all of our sweet sweet #BlackInPhysics week events! First up our summary professional and social events calendars! pic.twitter.com/43yoOyWwkh
— BlackInPhysics (@BlackinPhysics) October 14, 2020
Avinay Bhat took home the 3rd place prize for his entry in the poster session at the 52nd Annual Fermilab Users Meeting last week. Congrats to Avinay!
