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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

5th year grad student Amit Bashyal’s team won a group presentation prize at the International Neutrino Summer School for their study of magnetization of DUNE experiment far detectors. Students were divided into groups given a short time to do an original study and then present it! Congratulations Amit and team! 3 other Schellman group members […]

Jen Hobbs worked in the Schellman group as an undergraduate and beginning grad student at Northwestern.  She and Howard Budd (Rochester) built the testing system for all 32,000 scintillating fibers for the MINERvA experiment using LabView.  I knew she was good when she got frustrated with the slow device drivers and rewrote them during her […]

Former student Cheryl Patrick does it again.  Her SUPERNEMO the Musical won the day at the UCL christmas show and was featured in Symmetry News. Her thesis also won a Springer Thesis Award of 500 EU and is now out as a lovely book.  

The much anticipated paper version of Cheryl Patrick’s thesis has been accepted by Physical Review D.   Check it out at: http://inspirehep.net/record/1646253?ln=en The data release is available at http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~schellmh/data_release/qelike.html Update:  It is published in Phys. Rev. D which is now open access: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.052002