Experimental Neutrino Physics
and Astroparticle Physics


our research

We are conducting research in experimental neutrino physics. Neutrinos are amongst the most mysterious elementary particles. They were postulated by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930 and have puzzled particle and astrophysicists ever since. For the longest time neutrinos were thought to be massless. Recent disvoveries have shown that neutrinos have mass and can undergo oscillation -- a quantum mechanical process that allows them to change flavor on their voyage through time and space. Neutrinos carry no charge and may be their own antiparticles. Our group works on precisely measuring neutrino oscillation with the KamLAND and Daya Bay experiments using antineutrinos produced in nuclear power plants in Japan and China. We are also involved in the search for neutrinoless double beta decay with the CUORE experiment at Gran Sasso in Italy to probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos and measure their effective mass. We are collaborators on MARE, a bolometric experiment to measure the absolute neutrino mass with microcalorimeters.

We offer research opportunities for graduate, undergraduate, and summer students.

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of DOE HEP, DOE NP, NSF, and the University of Wisconsin.