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Jeff Ashenfelter is responsible for overseeing the Wright Lab facilities, including shops and office and laboratory space, and technical personnel at Wright Laboratory. Ashenfelter also ensures safety requirements as established by Yale Environmental Health and Safety are met.
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Science Goal: Precision tests of the standard model and new physics searches; including characterizing the Higgs Boson and using it to probe for new physics.
WL Involvement: The Yale team has critical responsibilities in the ATLAS collaboration for data quality and detector upgrades. Wright Lab has been the host of R&D and now construction of critical elements of the ATLAS tracker upgrade for the hI-LHC era.
The ALPHA axion dark matter experiment reached a milestone with the successful installation of a Bluefors helium dilution fridge at Wright Lab.
Wright Lab’s Eun-Joo Ahn, lecturer in physics and 2023-24 Yale Presidential Visiting Fellow is an astrophysicist and historian of science.
