My research is in experimental particle physics. I focus on determining the properties of subatomic particles called neutrinos using accelerator-based neutrino sources. I am a collaborator on the T2K experiment, currently taking data in Japan, the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN, and on the DUNE experiment under construction in the US. I have previous experience in measuring solar neutrinos.
The T2K ND280 off-axis pi-zero detector.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment.
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2012
The T2K experiment.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment.
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2011
PHYS 1120 - General Physics 2
Secondary Instructor
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Spring 2022
Three lect., one rec. per week, plus three evening exams in the fall and spring semesters. Second semester of three-semester introductory sequence for science and engineering students. Covers electricity and magnetism, wave motion and optics. Normally is taken concurrently with PHYS 1140. Degree credit not granted for this course and PHYS 1125.
PHYS 2020 - General Physics 2
Primary Instructor
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2023
Includes three lectures, one two-hour laboratory/recitation per week, plus three evening exams in the fall and spring semesters. Covers electricity and magnetism, light and modern physics. Designed for life science majors, including premed students. Natural science majors with a knowledge of calculus and others taking calculus are urged to take the calculus-based courses PHYS 1110, PHYS 1120, PHYS 1140 and PHYS 2130, rather than PHYS 2010 and PHYS 2020.
PHYS 2210 - Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods 1
Primary Instructor
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Fall 2019
Theoretical Newtonian mechanics, including position and velocity dependent forces, oscillation, stability, non-inertial frames and gravitation from extended bodies. Ordinary differential equations, vector algebra, curvilinear coordinates, complex numbers, and Fourier series will be introduced in the context of the mechanics.
PHYS 3210 - Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods 2
Primary Instructor
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian treatment of theoretical mechanics, including coupled oscillations, waves in continuous media, central force motion, rigid body motion and fluid dynamics. The calculus of variations, linear algebra, tensor algebra, vector calculus, and partial differential equations will be introduced in the context of the mechanics.
PHYS 3310 - Principles of Electricity and Magnetism 1
Primary Instructor
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021
Covers mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism, including electrostatics, magnetostatics, and polarized media, and provides an introduction to electromagnetic fields, waves, and special relativity.
PHYS 4420 - Nuclear and Particle Physics
Primary Instructor
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Spring 2021
Introduces structure of the atomic nucleus, spectroscopy of subnuclear particles, scattering, reactions, radioactive decay, fundamental interactions of quarks and leptons.
PHYS 5730 - Particle Physics
Primary Instructor
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2024
Introduces the properties of elementary particles, phenomenology of particle interactions, particle detector, particle accelerators, scattering cross sections, decay rates, electron-positron annihilation, lepton scattering and hadron structure, quantum chromodynamics, electroweak interactions, symmetries and symmetry breaking. Recommended prerequisites: undergraduate courses in quantum mechanics and electricity and magnetism.
