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Jeffery Ashenfelter

Senior Technical and Operations Advisor—ATLAS
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Biographical Sketch: 

Jeff Ashenfelter is the Senior Technical and Operations Advisor for the ATLAS experiment efforts at Yale Wright Lab.

Jeff Ashenfelter was previously the associate director of operations of Yale Wright Laboratory from 2013-2026. He was responsible for overseeing the Wright Lab facilities, including shops and office and laboratory space, and technical personnel at Wright Lab. Ashenfelter also ensured safety requirements as established by Yale Environmental Health and Safety were met.

From 1988-2013, Ashenfelter was the director of accelerator operations at Yale’s Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory.

Education: 

Quinnipiac University - School of Business, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance and Financial Management Services

University of New Haven, Master of Occupational Safety and Health Management, Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene

University at Albany, Bachelor’s of Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Power Technology

Contact Info

jeffery.ashenfelter@yale.edu

+1 (203) 432-5755

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Research Areas: Elementary Particles

Research Type: Experimentalist

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Experiments

ATLAS

Baker, Demers, Tipton

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.

Inside of ATLAS detector.

PROSPECT

Heeger

Science goal: Precision measurements of antineutrinos, search for sterile neutrinos, & develop technology for monitoring nuclear reactors for safeguard and non-proliferation.

WL involvement: PROSPECT was designed and built at Wright Lab in collaboration with national labs and other universities.

Four people working on PROSPECT experiment in Wright Lab clean room.

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