(December 2021 - Present)
T2K is a large collaboration of scientists, postdocs, and graduate students from around the world. Working on a team to develop data analysis tools in ROOT, C++, and Python to select and reconstruct neutrons in neutrino events that occur in the Super Fine Grain Detector (SFGD). My current work improves neutrino energy calculations and the oscillation analysis fit, the main goal of T2K. Papers are yet to be published on this project.
(October - December 2022)
Worked with 20 people from across the world to assemble a detector made of 2 million scintillator cubes. Assembly took place at JPARC, a high-intensity proton accelerator facility located in Tokai, Japan. Completed the project and delivered the detector a month before the deadline.
(January - December 2021)
Built a Docker container of T2K's oscillation fitter MaCh3 that enabled the first-ever joint collaboration oscillation analysis fit between T2K (with 500+ members in 12 countries) and NOvA (with 250+ members in 8 countries). Recently our collaborations published a paper of the first ever joint collaboration oscillation analysis in Nature! [Nature Paper]
(August 2019 - May 2023)
Created and executed physics studies leading to new measurements of neutron cross-section and an expanded energy range for existing measurements on scintillator. Worked with 61 researchers from 19 universities, with weekly meetings for prototype construction, data taking, and analysis. Prototype construction took place at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) and Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY). Led a data-taking team at Los Alamos National Lab (Los Alamos, NM), and was a major contributor to the analysis. Played a key role in all three stages of the project, from construction (starting 2018) to the most recent publication of the analysis (2023). This work resulted in 4 co-authored publications and an APS April Meeting Talk, forming a significant part of my thesis.