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Will Flanagan, Ph.D.

Affiliated Re搜索 Assistant Professor, 物理

电话: (972) 721-5072

电子邮件: wflanagan@safarinautique.com

Office: Haggerty Science Center #12

Dr. 将H. Flanagan was lured from astronomy re搜索 by the fascinating connection between cosmology and particle physics and began doing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) phenomenology at Texas A&M through a summer Re搜索 Experience for Undergraduates (REU) internship. He then returned to Colorado to begin re搜索 with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector as the LHC became operational.

Upon graduation, he moved to Texas A&M to complete a Ph.D., looking for supersymmetric dark matter particles produced through weak boson fusion. He moved to the dynamic field of neutrino physics during postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin. During this time, he found a love for tinkering with particle detectors and mentoring undergraduate re搜索.
 
All of the projects being conducted by Dr. Flanagan’s group, whether at Fermilab, CERN, or a nearby nuclear reactor, share a common thread of building the latest and greatest particle detectors.

In spring 2020, he was  awarded a $450,000 contract from the Air Force for his work in developing the world’s smallest neutron detector. Of this grant, $135,000 will go to UD to support Flanagan’s work with undergraduate physics students in the 物理 Department at UD; the remainder will go to the small business colleagues in Austin with whom the UD team is collaborating.   了解更多 在这里.
 
教育

Ph.D. 物理 - Texas A&M (2014)
BA 物理, BA Mathematics - University of Colorado (2010)

RECENT COURSES

  • PHY2312 - General 物理 II (Calc)
  • PHY2112 - General 物理 II Lab/Quiz (Calc)
  • PHY3320 - Quantum 物理
  • PHY3120 - Quantum Laboratory
  • PHY3333 - Electronics
  • PHY3133 - Electronics Lab

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • MINER Collaboration, Background Studies for the MINER Co在这里nt Neutrino Scattering Reactor Experiment, NIM A 853, 53–60 (2017).
  • CMS Collaboration, 搜索 for Dark Matter and Supersymmetry with a Compressed Mass Spectrum in the Vector Boson Fusion Topology in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV, PRL 118, 021802 (2017).
  • MINOS Collaboration, Constraints on Large Extra Dimensions from the MINOS Experiment, PRD 94, 111101 (2016).
  • MINOS Collaboration, A 搜索 for sterile neutrinos mixing with muon neutrinos in MINOS, PRL 117, 151803 (2016).
  • MINOS and Daya Bay Collaborations, Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance 搜索es in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments, PRL 117, 151801 (2016).
  • CMS Collaboration, 搜索 for supersymmetry in the vector-boson fusion topology in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8TeV. JHEP 11, 189 (2015).
  • Dutta B., Flanagan W., Gurrola A.约翰·W.——卡蒙·T., Sheldon P.Sinha K.,王 K.、吴生., Probing Compressed Top Squarks at the LHC at 14 TeV. PRD 90, 095022 (2014).
 
 

PRESENTATIONS

  • Lake Louise Winter Institute. `Latest Results from MINOS and MINOS+'. February 2016.
  • International Workshop for the Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detector (NNN15). `ArgoNeuT and LArIAT: Status and Progress on Measurements Relevant for DUNE'. October 2015.
  • Colorado State University Seminar. `Supersymmetry 搜索es Using Vector Boson Fusion, Present and Future'. March 2014.
 
 

  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, URA 访问ing Scholar, Summer 2017
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Neutrino 物理 Center Fellow, Fall 2016
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, LHC 物理 Center Graduate Scholar, September-October 2013
  • 德克萨斯州的一个\&M Division of Re搜索 and Graduate Studies, Graduate Merit Fellow 2010-2012