Last week, graduate student Sierra Thomas successfully defended her dissertation titled “Machine-Learning Classification of Gamma-Producing Neutral Current Interactions in Liquid Argon from a Supernova Neutrino Burst.” Congratulations, Sierra!
Visit the Subatomic Particle Zoo
A new interactive subatomic physics experience, the Particle Zoo, is now live! Intended as part of a future MOST exhibit, this software was crafted by undergraduate Sahana Anand and Prof. Whittington. Take a look, and build some particles!
SURPh 2023!
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.
Cool Story
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 😉
Neutrino 2020 Posters
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!
