Aprile Group

Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory

Noble Liquids

Dark Matter Search

Research

General Info: belongs to CAL in CU. The Aprile Group uses liquid xenon (LXe) to detect and image radiation from a variety of physics phenomena in astrophysics and particle physics.

Intro that we use noble liquids since many years. modify paragraph slightly: Prof. Aprile has been involved for many years in the development of cryogenic noble liquid detectors and has carried out, with her students, postdocs and colleagues from around the world, many measurements of the properties of liquid argon (LAr), liquid krypton (LKr), and LXe (see some selected publications).  LINKS

XENON intro, founding by EA, involvement by group in R&D for Xe10 and X100:Currently the group is focused on the XENON Dark Matter Experiment, while continuing R&D to improve the performance of noble liquid time projection chambers, with a special emphasis on combining the ionization and the VUV scintillation from these materials for precise energy measurement and imaging. LINKS

Contribution to XENON1T HW + SW wise:Currently the group is focused on the XENON Dark Matter Experiment, while continuing R&D to improve the performance of noble liquid time projection chambers, with a special emphasis on combining the ionization and the VUV scintillation from these materials for precise energy measurement and imaging. LINKS

Currently working on XENONnT: HW+SW: the group is focused on the XENON Dark Matter Experiment, while continuing R&D to improve the performance of noble liquid time projection chambers, with a special emphasis on combining the ionization and the VUV scintillation from these materials for precise energy measurement and imaging. LINKS

Recently joined Darkside, coming back to LAr: Currently the group is focused on the XENON Dark Matter Experiment, while continuing R&D to improve the performance of noble liquid time projection chambers, with a special emphasis on combining the ionization and the VUV scintillation from these materials for precise energy measurement and imaging. LINKS

 

Meet The Team

Summer 2022

Summer 2022

Clockwise from upper left: Michael Murra, Guillaume Plante, Zihao Xu, Knut Dundas Mora, Sylvia Green, Chloe Liebenthal, Jingqiang Ye, Elena Aprile. Missing: Joseph Howlett, Tianyu Zhu, Shenyang Shi, Marcela Stern.

Summer 2021

Summer 2021

Clockwise from upper left: Amalia Badohu, Salvatore Zerbo, Zihao Xu, Marcela Stern, Tianyu Zhu, Guillaume Plante, Elena Aprile, Knut Dundas Morå, Nadine Wong, Joseph Howlett and Jingqiang Ye

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