Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) Activity

At Brookhaven Lab, scientists are developing cutting-edge techniques to detect and study tiny particles called neutrinos. In this lecture, Worcester will describe the properties of neutrinos, including neutrino oscillation in which neutrinos change flavor as they propagate, and explain what we can learn from studying these unusual particles. She will introduce some of the technologies that used to detect neutrinos, the unknowns that make these measurements difficult, and the techniques we use to overcome these difficulties to make precision measurements of neutrino oscillation. About the Speaker: Elizabeth Worcester is a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago for the study of matter–antimatter differences in kaon decay. After completing her Ph.D., she spent several years at home with her young children. Since joining BNL in 2011, she has worked primarily on neutrino experiments, including Daya Bay, Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals (ICARUS), Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermi National Accelerator Lab, and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). She has served as one of the physics coordinators of DUNE and as one of the conveners of the Snowmass Neutrino Frontier. She is currently leading neutrino oscillation analyses at the SBN as one of the physics coordinators of ICARUS.