Former physicist Dr. Cheng discusses what it means to be an Asian scientist in America.
Type Ia Supernovae are one of the most powerful tools to study the expansion history of our Universe and they are the first cosmological probe that directly measured cosmic acceleration.
The recently concluded Dark Energy Survey SN program (DES-SN) has obtained the largest and deepest high-redshift cosmological SN Ia sample to date.
In my talk, I will give an overview of the current...
Jonathan Jarvis discusses his DOE award-winning accelerator physics work
The Mu2e Cosmic Ray Veto (CRV) is an active shield that detects and rejects Mu2e's largest source of background -- cosmic rays. Segments of the CRV, called modules, are being delivered to Fermilab as we prepare to construct the complete CRV which surrounds the Mu2e Experiment's detector solenoid. Currently, single CRV modules are being tested to measure many properties of this detector. One...
The ICARUS detector is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) that is part of a program dedicated to resolve short baseline neutrino anomalies at the eV mass scale. ICARUS was originally commissioned underground at LNGS in Italy, operating for three years as the first large scale LArTPC. After moving to CERN for upgrades and refurbishments, the ICARUS detector was installed at...
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a Gadolinium-loaded water Cherenkov detector located in the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab with the primary goal of measuring the final state neutron multiplicity of neutrino-nucleus interactions. This measurement will improve our understanding of complex neutrino-nucleus interactions and help to reduce the associated...
Charged Current (CC) coherent neutrino-nucleus pion production is characterized by little momentum transferred to the nucleus, which is left in its ground state. Despite the relatively large uncertainties on the production cross-section, coherent production of mesons by neutrinos represents an important process, as it can shed light on the structure of the weak current and can also constitute...
The Mu2e experiment at the Fermilab will search for a coherent neutrino-
less conversion of a muon into an electron in the field of an aluminum nucleus
with a sensitivity improvement by a factor of 10,000 over existing limits. The
Mu2e Trigger and Data Acquisition System (TDAQ) uses otsdaq framework
as the online Data Acquisition System (DAQ) solution. Developed at Fermi-
lab, otsdaq...
The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) is a 26-ton gadolinium-loaded water Cherenkov detector located on the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab. The experiment has a two-fold motivation: to perform a physics measurement and to advance new detector technologies. The measurement of final state neutron multiplicity from neutrino interactions in water as a function of...