Dr Andrew Blake
Lecturer in Experimental Neutrino PhysicsResearch Overview
My research is centred on experimental neutrino physics. I collaborate a number of large-scale neutrino experiments based at the Fermi Laboratory near Chicago in the USA. My interests include neutrino event reconstruction and the analysis of neutrino oscillation physics. As a collaborating scientist on the MINOS and MINOS+ experiments at Fermilab, I have published precision measurements of accelerator and atmospheric neutrino oscillations. In recent years, I have transitioned into the growing research and development effort using Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr-TPC) technology. I work on the MicroBooNE experiment, which became operational in 2015 and is the largest LAr-TPC detector in the USA. I am also a member of a collaboration that will construct and operate the Short-baseline Near Detector (SBND). MicroBooNE and SBND will measure neutrino interactions with unprecedented precision and search for new physics beyond the Standard Model of neutrino oscillations. Finally, I collaborate on the DUNE experiment, a future neutrino experiment currently in its design phase. DUNE will use Liquid Argon technology to conduct precision measurements of neutrinos using a new high-power beam. Its primary aim is to probe CP symmetry in the neutrino sector.
Particle physics experiments at the high intensity frontier, from new physics to spinoffs.
01/09/2023 → 31/12/2024
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Lancaster Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2022-25
01/10/2022 → 30/09/2025
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Consolidated Grant 2019 - 2022
01/10/2019 → 30/09/2023
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DUNE UK Production Project
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2025
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SBND Travel Grant
01/10/2019 → 31/03/2024
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STFC Travel - MicroBooNE experiment travel
01/12/2018 → 30/09/2019
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DUNE: Pre-Construction Phase
01/11/2017 → 31/03/2020
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MicroBooNE as Risk Mitigation Strategy for MicroBooNE
01/03/2016 → 31/03/2018
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Lancaster Experimental Particle Physics Consolidated Grant 2015-2019
01/10/2015 → 31/03/2020
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Science Community Day
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Neutrino oscillation physics
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