Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Dept of Physics
Faculty URL
http://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/Matt-C-Pyle
Email
mpyle1@berkeley.edu
Phone
(650) 224-0446
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Research Expertise and Interest
astrophysics, nuclear physics
Research Description
Many of the questions that we would like to ask about the nature of the universe today, for?example?"could dark matter be composed of particles with mass less than that of a proton?", are simply impossible to answer with present technology. My goal is to develop these new detector technologies and then employ it to find answers to these questions. Currently, my group is focused on optimizing the design of massive?low temperature?calorimeters for the SuperCDMS low mass experiment as well as for other nuclear physics applications (primarily neutrinoless double beta decay).