The Saab Group
Current Group Members
Moaaz Elwan
Graduate Student
Currently working on determining the nuclear recoil ionization yield energies with the IMPACT measurement in silicon detectors.
David Sadek
Graduate Student
Currently working on determining the nuclear recoil ionization yield energies with the IMPACT measurement in silicon detectors.
Huanbo Sun
Graduate Student
Currently working on electron recoil dark matter searches with high resolution cryogenic detectors operated at the NEXUS underground facility at Fermilab.
Weigeng Peng
Graduate Student
Graduate Student
Currently working on understanding the calibration facility at NEXUS for measuring the nuclear recoil ionization yield in SuperCDMS HV detectors.
Loida Rosado Del Rio
Graduate Student
Currently working on understanding the science reach of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment.
Meet the previous group members
Corey Bathurst
Graduate Student
Worked on electron recoil dark matter searches with high resolution cryogenic detectors operated at the NEXUS underground facility at Fermilab.
Graduated 2023
Harrison Coombes
Graduate Student
Worked on Monte Carlo simulations of the phonon / electron propagation processes for the IMPACT ionization yield measurement in silicon detectors.
Graduated 2023
Tyler Reynolds
Graduate Student
Worked on calculation of the scientific reach of the SuperCDMS experiment, and on Monte Carlo simulations of the IMPACT ionization yield measurement in silicon detectors. Currently assumed a postdoctoral position at University to Toronto.
Graduated 2021
Rob Agnese
Graduate Student
Worked on implementing a detector Monte Carlo simulation by extending the Geant4 particle physics framework to include low energy condensed matter physics processes.
Graduated 2017
Brad Welliver
Graduate Student
Worked on the search of massive dark matter particles with the SuperCDMS Soudan data. Took up a postdoctoral position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working in the CUORE experiment.
Graduated 2016
Zachary Speaks
Undergraduate Student
Currently working on understanding phonon and ionization behavior in cryogenic detectors using a Geant 4 based Monte Carlo, as well as updating and automating the dark matter limit plotter plotter tool.
Cesar Arguello Martinez
Undergraduate Student
Currently working on understanding particle backgrounds at the NEXUS underground facility at Fermilab using a Geant 4 based Monte Carlo.
Jason Pioquinto
Undergraduate Student
Worked on calculating the effect of neutrino backgrounds on the scientific reach of the SuperCDMS dark matter search. Currently pursuing graduate studies in physics at U. Virginia.
Graduated 2020
Andrew Zeolla
Undergraduate Student
Graduated 2020
Worked on understanding the operational details of the IMPACT ionization yield measurement in silicon detectors. Currently pursuing graduate studies in physics at Penn State.
SuperCDMS Collaborators
The SuperCDMS collaboration consists of over 100 scientists from 30 universities and national laboratories in the United States, Canada, Europe, and India.