EVAN K. PEASE, PH.D.
Owen Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow & Dark Matter Hunter @ Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Data Enthusiast @ SF Bay Area
WELCOME
Thanks for stopping by! I am a postdoc in the Physics Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where I work on the LUX and LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiments. I received my Ph.D. from Yale University in 2017 in the research group of Professor Daniel McKinsey. My interests include data analysis in Python, the direct detection of dark matter, the duck curve, the Boston Red Sox, and the Maine coast.
MY RESEARCH
I am active member of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) and LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaborations. LUX and its successor LZ are cutting-edge particle detectors that have led (and will lead) the search for as-of-yet elusive dark matter particles. I have led analyses related to the data quality and event selection for LUX's world-leading dark matter search, the sensitivity of LUX to a possible neutrinoless double-beta decay by xenon-134, and the LUX measurements of light, charge, and electron-ion recombination in liquid xenon. For LZ I have been involved in design and testing of high voltage components for the new detector, which is due to turn on early 2020.
The U in LUX stands for underground--check out the video below to see the unusual morning commute of a dark matter physicist to a lab one mile below ground!
