About Me and My Research

I am a first-generation college-going physicist. I'm deeply interested in fundamental physics, teaching, and learning of all types. Can I help you to achieve your goals within scientific fields?

My research focuses on detector characteristics for fundamental physics measurements, especially those related to the search for dark matter. I am part of the SuperCDMS collaboration and am especially interested in low-energy recoils in cryogenic semiconductor detectors. In addition to these studies I am interested in data analysis for fundamental science in general and backgrounds in low counting-rate experiments.

Selected Publications

The SuperCDMS Collaboration. First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector. Phys. Rev. Lett., 121:051301, 2018

The SuperCDMS Collaboration. Low-mass dark matter search with CDMSlite. Phys. Rev. D, 97:022002, 2018

The SuperCDMS Collaboration. Projected Sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment. Phys. Rev. D, 95:082002, 2017

The SuperCDMS Collaboration. New results from the search for low-mass weakly interacting massive particles with the cdms low ionization threshold experiment. Phys. Rev. Lett., 116:071301, 2016.

The SuperCDMS Collaboration. Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data. Phys. Rev. D, 92:072003, 2015

A. Roberts, A.N. Villano, A.M. Howard, and J.J. Kolata. A simple cosmic-ray veto shield for low-rate neutron measurements. NIMA, 783:28 – 34, 2015.

A. Roberts, A. M. Howard, J. J. Kolata, A. N. Villano, F. D. Becchetti, P. A. DeYoung, M. Febbraro, S. J. Freeman, B. P. Kay, S. A. McAllister, A. J. Mitchell, J. P. Schiffer, J. S. Thomas, and R. O. Torres-Isea. Proton pair correlations and the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76Ge. Phys. Rev. C, 87:051305, 2013.