Prof. Barbeau Receives DOE Early Career Research Award

Prof. Barbeau Receives DOE Early Career Research Award

Prof. Phil Barbeau, assistant professor in Physics, has been awarded a Department of Energy Early Career Research Award from the Office of High Energy Physics. The program supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in thier careers and also stimulates research careers in the areas supported by the DOE Office of Science. Barbeau is one of 44 early career selectees this year; there were 27 from universities and 17 from national laboratories.

The grant will help fund Barbeau's research effort searching for Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering. Predicted over forty years ago, it has long been one of the “hard” problems in neutrino physics due to the technological challenges in detector construction. A precision measurement of the process can open the door to a number of searches for New Physics. More information about the program can be found here.

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