QuIPS Experiment

The QuIPS (Quantum Invisible Particle Sensor) is a novel table-top quantum sensing experiment currently being developed in a collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Yale University, and the Colorado School of Mines. QuIPS will search for beyond-standard-model particles produced in nuclear decays, using optomechanically levitated nanospheres surrounded by an array of particle physics calorimeters. See this reference for further detail.

For this project, I have been conducting Monte Carlo particle physics simulations in the Geant4 software. Our first experimental search for massive sterile neutrinos is currently being developed!