Biographical Sketch: Claire Laffan is a graduate student in Reina Maruyama’s group, which she initially joined as a post-baccalaureate researcher during her gap-year after college. Laffan is originally from Summerfield, NC. Outside of research, she enjoys video games, taking care of her 40+ houseplants, reading, and snuggling with her cat, Roo.
Research: Laffan works on two axion dark matter direct detection experiments, HAYSTAC and ALPHA.
Education: B.S., Physics, Yale University, 2021
Honors & Awards:
- 2022 NSF GRFP (2022)
Selected Publications:
- Google Scholar
- Dark Matter Axion Search with HAYSTAC Phase II (Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 151006, 2025)
- New results from HAYSTAC’s phase II operation with a squeezed state receiver (Phys. Rev. D 107, 072007, 2023)
- An improved synthetic signal injection routine for the Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion Cold dark matter (HAYSTAC) (Rev. Sci. Instrum. 94, 054712, 2023)
