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Precision Experimental Particle Astrophysics Group (PEAG)

Dept. of Physics, and Dept. of Astronomy - University of Washington / Seattle

Current Projects:

Former Projects:

People & Contact Info:

Prof. Toby Burnett
Prof. Miguel Morales
Prof. Leslie Rosenberg
Prof. Jeffrey Wilkes
Wiki for PEAG proposal items

Dark Matter Experiment (Rosenberg)

ADMX: The Axion Dark Matter Experiment

Observational Cosmology (Morales)

MWA: Murchison Widefield Array
CARPE:Cosmological Acceleration and Radio Pulsar Experiment

Miguel Morales' research is in radio cosmology to observe the Epoch of Reionization, the formation of structure, dark energy, and gravity waves with the MWA and CARPE telescopes.

Cosmic Ray / Particle Physics Outreach (Burnett, Wilkes)

WALTA: Washington Large Area Time Coincidence Array

A project to investigate the highest energy cosmic rays with the participation of middle and high school students and teachers throughout the Seattle area.

Gamma Ray Astrophysics (Burnett)

Gamma Ray Large Area Satellite Tracker (GLAST)

An initiative to develop a large acceptance spacecraft detector for high energy astrophysical gamma rays (T.H. Burnett).

Neutrino Astrophysics (Wilkes)

Super-Kamiokande

The world's largest underground Cherenkov neutrino detector at Kamioka, Japan.
See also ICRR's Super-Kamiokande Official Home Page.

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T2K (J-PARC)

Tokai to Kamioka - long-baseline neutrino oscillations experiment, directing a high intensity neutrino beam from the J-PARC accelerator in Tokai, Japan, through the earth to Super-Kamiokande.
See also the T2K UW Home Page.

Want to join the team?
Push back the frontiers of human knowledge, with break for tea at 3:30 pm?
Click here for info on graduate study at UW.
Maintained by: RJW, last update: 4/9/2010.
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