Physics: Schellman Research Group

 Reprinted from Notre Dame College of Science https://science.nd.edu/news-and-media/news/physicist-laura-fields-granted-a-presidential-early-career-award/ January 17, 2025 Laura Fields, associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her research studying the properties of fundamental particles called neutrinos. Fields was among the nearly 400 researchers […]

In October 2024, I was on a review committee for the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) and they gave us a tour of the future home of the DUNE experiment. This post shows how one accesses the underground facilities and what it looks like 4850 ft below the Black Hills. You can learn more about […]

Amit Bashyal’s thesis work on anti-neutrino quasi-elastic scattering has been published as Bashyal et. al., “High-statistics measurement of antineutrino quasielastic-like scattering at Eν ~ 6 GeV on a hydrocarbon target”, Phys. Rev. D 108, 032018 , in the August 1 issue of Physical Review D. This paper uses the full MINERvA medium-energy data sample with 635,592 candidate interactions and […]

https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/news/2022/super-spokesperson-for-supernemo-22-12-16 Our friends at the University of Edinburgh tell us that STFC Rutherford Fellow Cheryl Patrick – who got her doctorate in the Schellman group in 2016 – has now been elected co-spokesperson for the Super-NEMO experiment. 3 present or former spokespeople (Schellman – E665, Patrick – SuperNEMO, Fields – MINERvA). This is Cheryl graduating […]

Oregon State Physics is part of a new $3.2 million consortium funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science to train the next generation of computational high-energy physicists. The new Western Advanced Training for Computational High-Energy Physics (WATCHEP)[https://watchep.org] brings together six public universities and three national laboratories to create a tailored modular curriculum and […]

Jacob Capps successfully defended his dissertation on June 1. His dissertation “Application and Validation of Geant4 Modeling for Optimization of Complex Structures for Fast Neutron Detection” describes and validates a sophisticated simulation of a variety of neutron detection systems. Jake came to OSU from West Point having completed an MS at the Naval Postgraduate School […]

Take a 1/2 to 1 pound salmon fillet Fire the grill up to super hot – Or oven on max Take about 6 feet of foil and fold it over so it’s double thick. Place the salmon in the middle of the foil Pour: fold the foil around the salmon so it’s sealed (means you […]

Sept. 29, 2021 Oregon State Physics is leading a Department of Energy Office of Science funded project to design computing and software infrastructure for the DUNE experiment.   DUNE is a future neutrino experiment that will aim a neutrino beam from Fermilab, in Batavia Illinois, at a very large detector in the Homestake mine in Lead, […]

Amit Bashyal has defended his thesis. You can read all 550 pages here: http://old.inspirehep.net/record/1859505 His thesis combines his work on neutrino fluxes for the DUNE and MINERvA experiments, which has been submitted to JINST and a new high statistics measurement of anti-neutrino quasi-elastic scattering which we’re writing up. He is moving to Argonne National Laboratory […]

Fermilab scientist Laura Fields receives $2.5 million DOE award to study beams of shape-shifting ghost particles (From Fermi News) August 5, 2020 | Zack Savitsky The answer to one of the most fundamental questions in physics may lie in the universe’s most abundant matter particle: the neutrino. But interpreting and verifying data from neutrino experiments […]