Prof. Zimmerman's research is in neutrino physics. He concentrates on the study of neutrino oscillations, with special emphasis on the production and understanding of neutrino beams. He is spokesperson (along with Prof. Seweryn Kowalski of University of Silesia) of the NA61 experiment, a 140-scientist collaboration at CERN that studies the production of neutrinos using accelerators in order to reduce systematic errors in neutrino experiments. His other major current efforts are part of the T2K collaboration, which studies the oscillations of muon neutrinos produced at the J-PARC accelerator laboratory in Japan and are detected at the Super-Kamiokande detector, the LBNF/DUNE project, a new neutrino experiment under development in the US, and the Eos detector technology development project.
keywords
neutrino physics, accelerator-based physics, deep underground science
The T2K experiment.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment.
106-135.
2011
The MiniBooNE detector.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment.
28-46.
2009
