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Baudis, Laura |
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University of Zurich |
| Primary Field
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Physics |
| Secondary Field
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Astronomy |
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Laura Baudis investigates the fundamental nature of dark matter and neutrinos through rare-event searches in ultra-low-background experiments. Her goals are to detect dark matter particles via their exceedingly rare interactions in terrestrial detectors, and to observe neutrinoless double-beta decay, a discovery that would establish the Majorana nature of neutrinos and demonstrate lepton-number violation. Since her days as a PhD student in Heidelberg, Baudis has developed and operated detectors for both frontiers. She is a co-founder of the XENON program, which uses large liquid xenon detectors to seek dark matter interactions, and of the LEGEND experiment, which searches for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76-Ge. She leads the DARWIN collaboration, which carries out R&D toward an 80-tonne liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics. Baudis is also passionate about new sensor technologies, background suppression techniques and radioassay methods, and she carries out measurements of the scintillation and ionization response of liquid xenon as a radiation detection medium. |
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