Delving Deep

Imagine searching for the deepest secrets of the universe, not just with satellites or rockets or by gazing out at the sky with powerful telescopes on starry nights, but by traveling deep underground to perform sensitive experiments on very cold, very quiet, very delicate detectors designed to search for the rarest of events.

This is the research life led by Dr. Danielle H. Speller as she and her colleagues across the globe search for effects from new physics beyond the standard model.  Dr. Speller is a postdoctoral associate at Yale University’s Wright Laboratory in New Haven, Connecticut.    In particular, she works on two primary experiments:  the HAYSTAC experiment, which searches for axion dark matter using tunable microwave cavities in a strong magnetic field; and the CUORE experiment, which searches for lepton number violation through a process called neutrinoless double-beta decay.  Her primary interest is in low-temperature, rare-event searches for physics beyond the standard model.

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