Biographical Sketch:
Glenn Richardson is a 5th year PhD student at Yale University working in collaboration with the FPD group at SLAC national labs. He received his undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2019. After graduation he worked as a research assistant in the Warp-X group at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before applying to graduate schools. In 2020 he began his PhD at Yale University working with David Moore. From 2023-2024 Glenn was at SLAC national labs and Stanford University, working with Brian Lenardo and Giorgio Gratta.
Research:
Glenn’s research focuses on the development of new technology and techniques for liquid xenon time projection chambers (LXe TPCs). In particular, Glenn has worked on designing and prototyping the charge readout system for the proposed nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay detector. He has also developed new techniques for studying solar neutrinos and dark matter with LXe TPCs via charged-current interactions which make use of the isomeric states of 136Cs to tag the interaction. As part of this work, Glenn is making improved measurements of the nuclear structure of 136Cs using the GRIFFIN array at TRIUMF.
Education:
BA Physics & BA Mathematics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, 2019
Honors & Awards:
In 2023, Glenn was awarded the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) fellowship which supported his work at SLAC national labs.
Experiments:
nEXO and GRIFFIN
