My Current Research
I am based at the Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) where my current work focuses on modeling the environmental impacts of nuclear testing, and on applying techniques from high-energy physics to challenges in global security. I am particularly interested in understand human and environmental impacts of the British nuclear weapons program in Australia and the Pacific. I am also interested in exploring the potential of new detection techniques in promoting the peaceful use of outer space.
My Doctoral Research
My work focuses on measuring particle production with LHCb experiment, which is one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The high-energy proton-proton collisions in the LHC provide the ideal conditions to study the physical mechanisms which produce matter and antimatter particles.
These production mechanisms shed light on the basic rules which govern the formation of (anti)matter, providing information into how our universe formed. In particular, I am interested in experimental measurements that improves our understanding of the strong nuclear force which is encapsulated in the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which governs the interactions between quarks and gluons.