SuperCDMS

SuperCDMS Group Members

Robert Calkins: Joining the group in October, 2013, Rob is an Assistant Reseach Professor. His previous experience was in the ATLAS Collaboration, where he conducted measurements of the top quark pair production cross section and branching ratios.

Rob is currently the chair of the backgrounds working group and he served as the the Analysis Coordinator for the SuperCDMS Collaboration from 2016-2018. Robs's current activities include analysis of SuperCDMS data using multivariate techniques, simulations of radiogenic backgrounds which have been used to inform the design of the experiment, project the sensitivity of the experiment and will be used in future data analysis. He also is the documenation technical coordiator for SuperCDMS SNOLAB operations.

Jasmine Liu: Jasmine joined our group in the summer of 2019. She is currently working on SuperCDMS analysis code.

Ishwita Saikia: Ishwita joined our group in the summer of 2019. She is currently working on SuperCDMS simulations.

Michael Litke: Michael joined our group in the fall of 2019. He is currently working on SuperCDMS analysis code.

Taylor Wallace: Taylor is a Hamilton Scholar who joined the group in Fall 2017. She is using a new ORTEC particle counter in our laboratory to study various environmental factors that affect radon plate-out on various materials.

Josphine Kimbrough: Josephine is a Hamilton scholar who joined our group in the spring of 2019. She is studying the effects of magnetic fields on radon.

Alex Stidham: Alex is joined the group in Spring 2020. He is studying alternate modes of operating the XIA alpha counter.

Dissertations and Theses

Name	Degree	Title and Link
Dan Jardin	PhD Dissertation	A Likelihood Search for Low-mass Dark Matter via Inelastic Scattering in SuperCDMS (available here)
Matt Stein	PhD Dissertation	An Analysis of Frenkel Defencs and Backgrounds Modeling for SuperCDMS Dark Matter Searches (pdf)
Hang Qiu	PhD Dissertation	A Search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles Utilizing a Profile Likelihood Ratio Technique with the SuperCDMS Soudan Experiment (pdf)
Andrew Posada	Senior Thesis	Pulse-shape Discrimination Studies of 230Th Decay Alpha Particles Using the XIA UltraLo-1800
Moez Janmohammed	Senior Thesis	Studies on the Reduction of Radon Plate-out on Copper Using Electric Fields
Matthew Bruemmer	Senior Thesis	Studies on the Reduction of Radon Plate-out on Copper Using Electric Fields
Mayisha Nakib	Senior Thesis	Background Characterization and Studies Using the XIA Ultralo-1800 for Dark Matter Experiments

Former Group Members

Name	Years at SMU	Position at SMU	Position upon leaving SMU
Siliva Scorza	2010 - 2013	Postdoctoral Researcher	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Matt Stein	2015 - 2018	Graduate Research Assistant	Satellite Communications Systems Engineer at RT Logic, Colorado Springs, CO
Hang Qui	2010 - 2016	Graduate Research Assistant	Postdoc, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Bedile Kara	2010 - 2013	Graduate Research Assistant
Jared Burleson	2018	Undergraduate Research Assistant	Study Abroad China
Andrew Posasda	2015 - 2017	Undergraduate Research Assistant	Mechanical Engineer at ASC Process Systems
Moez Janmohammad	2015 - 2016	Undergraduate Research Assistant	Network Security Engineer at General Datatech
Robert Schmidt	2016	Undergraduate Research Assistant	Completing Physics Major
Snigdha Smriti	2016	Undergraduate Research Assistant	Applying to Medical School
Ben Wise	2012 - 2013	Undergraduate Research Assistant	Conducting research in the SMU Mechanical Engineering Department
Keith Adler	2012 - 2013	Undergraduate Research Assistant	Employed at AT&T
Matthew Bruemmer	2012 - 2015	Undergraduate Research Assistant	Employed at Texas Instruments
Mayisha Zeb Nakib	2011 - 2015	Undergraduate Research Assistant	Graduate School at University of Illinios - Urbana Champaign
Jonathan Markell	Summer 2015	High School Teacher Summer Intern	Tyler Texas
Kevin Cieszkowski	Summer 2014	High School Teacher Summer Intern	Richardson ISD
Janee Hall	Summer 2013	High School Teacher Summer Intern	Red Oak ISD