u.washington.edu
My graduate education came to an end with a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Princeton in July 2003. My thesis focused on the development of novel, electron transparent proton detectors for next generation ultra-cold neutron decay experiments. Relevant publications:
Since August 2003 I have studied as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Experimental Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics at the University of Washington and am involved in several projects.
With Prof. Alejandro Garcia I am studying ultra-cold neutron decay at Los Alamos National Laboratory; I have built and characterized ultra-cold neutron detectors at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, and I assisted with a measurement of a branching ratio of the beta decay of a Tc isotope at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
As part of the Eot-Wash group at CENPA, led by Profs. Eric Adelberger and Blayne Heckel, I am building a new experiment to look for the hypothesized axion. The axion arises from the breaking of the Peccei-Quinn symmetry as the early universe cools, and remains a promising dark matter candidate. We have acheived a preliminary improvement of ten orders of a magnitude on an axion mediated, Parity and Time violating force for an axion mass of 1 milli-eV. Recent invited presentations on our axion search:
Contact: sethhu.washington.edu