REU Topic: Nuclear Physics
Dr. Heather Crawford
Berkeley’s development of the cyclotron under the leadership of Lawrence arguable gave birth to modern subatomic physics. The 88” cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley Lab continues to be used for nuclear physics experiments [...]
Prof. Wick Haxton
The discovery of neutrino oscillations requires neutrinos to be massive, and the small scale of neutrino mass is suggestive of new physics residing at energy scales far beyond the Standard Model [...]
Prof. Gabriel Orebi Gann
A full understanding of large (10–100 kton) detectors requires precision Monte Carlo modelling, tracking every individual photon from production to detection [...]