Particle Astrophysics Laboratory
Principal investigator
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Ben Monreal Assistant Professor of Physics bmonreal@physics.ucsb.edu 5123 Broida Hall Personal home page |
Postdocs
Michelle Leber Marian GhileaGraduate students
Matthew Bahr Ben Laroque
Undergraduates
We have projects for physics majors as well as for chemists, engineers, statisticians, computer scientists ... or people who want to be a little of each of the above. Please contact Ben if you are interested in doing undergraduate research with us. Current:- Kamal Singhrao is working on fabricating liquid-crystal cells which will eventually be used as TPC pixel amplifiers.
- Greg Courville is testing the electrical and vacuum behavior of our first Rear Wall prototypes.
- Xin Xiang is integrating cameras and optics into several dark-matter detectors.
- Lucie Tvrznikova is simulating a ring-imaging detector with very high time resolution.
- Max Wiedmann
- Pitam Mitra
- Andrew Merrill
- Yu-Cian Hong
- Tyler Huntley
Collaborators and affiliates
- The rest of the High-Energy Physics Group at UCSB
- The Astrophysics & Cosmology group at UCSB
- The UCSB Nanofabrication Facility
- The SNO collaboration
- The DEAP/CLEAN collaboration
- The KATRIN collaboration
- The Project 8/Cosmoneut collaboration
- The DMTPC collaboration