Physics: Schellman Research Group

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Postdoc Mateus Carneiro has moved on to a position at Brookhaven National Laboratory but he left us with a really nice paper in Physics Review Letters. M.Carneiro et al. [MINERvA], “High-Statistics Measurement of Neutrino Quasielasticlike Scattering at 6 GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, no.12, 121801 (2020), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.121801 Graduate Student Amit Bashyal did […]

Amit Bashyal joined the OSU neutrino group in September 2015 after getting his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Arlington working with Jaehoon Yu.  Prior to coming to OSU he was an International Fellow at Fermilab for a year working with Laura Fields and Alberto Marchionni on physics studies for the DUNE/LBNF neutrino […]