People

We are currently looking for postdocs. If you're interested, reach out to Shawn Westerdale at shawn.westerdale@ucr.edu

Alec (he/him) has previously worked with the ALICE collaboration at CERN and now works under UCR's Dr. Shawn Westerdale, prospectively on the DarkSide-20k experiment.  Alec is continuing research into direct detection of dark matter particles and includes the development of the outer veto for the next generation DarkSide experiment.

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We are currently looking for graduate students. If you're interested, reach out to Shawn Westerdale at shawn.westerdale@ucr.edu

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Jared Hudnall (he/him) is a current undergraduate physics major. He is currently working on the mechanical design of the DarkSide-20k outer veto.

Ryan is a current undergraduate physics and astronomy major at the University of Washington, participating in an astrophysics REU at UCR. He is using GEANT4 to simulate and characterize energy spectra of backgrounds that occur in a LArTPC placed near a nuclear reactor.

Andrew (he/him) is a current undergraduate physics major. He is currently working on a search for 8B solar electron neutrinos capturing on 40Ar using the DEAP-3600 detector. He is focusing on backgrounds due to the pile-up of gamma-ray signals in the detector.  He can be contacted at andrewfleblanc@gmail.com

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Leo is an undergraduate student from West Virginia University working with the UCR dark matter lab as part of the Physics and Astronomy REU. His research project involves finding and correcting errors in the way Geant4, a particle physics simulation software, simulates neutron capture reactions and the resulting de-excitation cascades an isotope undergoes.

Matthew Lugatiman is a junior who switched his major from biology to physics starting sophomore year. He is working on the theoretical work for Dark Matter and serves as an undergraduate research assistant under Dr. Westerdale and Dr. Tanedo. He also plans to work on the firmware for the dark matter detector. He can be contacted at mluga002@ucr.edu

We are currently looking for undergraduate students. If you're interested, reach out to Shawn Westerdale at shawn.westerdale@ucr.edu

Dhruv is a high school senior at the Haker School in San Jose, California. He is working on Neucbot and updating it so it is compatible with the latest python version.

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Vignesh is a high school senior at Foothill High School in Pleasanton, California. He worked on creating the internal page and updating the experiments section for the Darkside-20k, DarkSide-LowMass, DUNE, and Scintillating Bubble Neutrinos. He also helped fix bugs in NeuCBOT and update it to Nudat3.