Biographical Sketch:
Bryan Burnell is a PhD candidate in Michelle Dolinski’s group at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Before joining CUPID, his research as part of the EXO-200 collaboration focused on the analysis of alpha and beta decay ions in liquid xenon. He is visiting Wright Lab to work on the CUPID muon veto system.
PI: Karsten Heeger
Science goal: Search for neutrinoless double beta decay, which could answer why we live in a Universe of matter, not antimatter.
WL involvement: Yale is responsible for detector calibration, the study of cosmogenic backgrounds, double beta decay analysis, & the search for solar axions. Heeger and Maruyama are CO-PIs of CUORE & CUPID.
