Lucy Fagan's headshot. She works in the Heeger Group at Wright Lab on CUORE/CUPID muon veto.

Lucy Fagan

Visiting Undergraduate Student
Physics

Biographical Sketch

Lucy Fagan works with the neutrinoless double beta decay experiments CUORE and its successor, CUPID. 

Originally from Boulder, CO, she is a rising senior at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo majoring in Physics. 

Education:

  • B.S. Physics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, expected 2027

Contact Info

PI: Karsten Heeger

Research Website

Research Areas: Astrophysics & Cosmology, Elementary Particles

Research Type: Experimentalist

LinkedIn

CUORE & CUPID

Heeger, Maruyama

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.

Two people in clean room gear building CUORE detector cryostat instrumentation.