ED VAN BRUGGEN

Physics PhD student at UMass Amherst, currently working in the nEXO collaboration searching for neutrinoless double beta decay. Detecting this decay for the first time would allow us to directly measure the mass of neutrinos, furthering our understanding of the universe beyond the standard model of particle physics.

In our lab, we characterize Silicon PhotoMultipliers by detecting single photon events.

Previously, I studied new Dark Higgs models to explore direct dark matter production at the Large Hadron Collider, and developed a project to automate truth-level reinterpretations of particle physics analyses. I also did work simulating protein folding for chemically induced dimerization of nanobodies, allowing for the creation of single small molecule biosensors.

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