Xenon at Columbia

The Aprile Group

The Aprile Group uses liquid xenon (LXe) to detect and image radiation from a variety of physics phenomena in astrophysics and particle physics. Prof. Aprile has been involved for many years in the development of cryogenic noble liquid detectors and has carried out, with her students, postdocs and colleagues from around the world, many measurements of the properties of liquid argon (LAr), liquid krypton (LKr), and LXe (see publications). Currently the group is focused on the XENON Dark Matter Experiment, while continuing R&D to improve the performance of noble liquid time projection chambers, with a special emphasis on combining the ionization and the VUV scintillation from these materials for precise energy measurement and imaging. See also The LXeGRIT Telescope.

Group Members

• Elena Aprile (Professor)

• Matt Anthony (4th year Graduate Student)

• Patrick de Perio (Postdoctoral Research Scientist)

• Luke Walker Goetzke (Postdoctoral Research Scientist)

• Zach Greene (4th year Graduate Student)

• Joey Howlett(1st year Graduate Student)

• Qing Lin(Postdoctoral Research Scientist)

• Marcello Messina(Research Scientist)

• Guillaume Plante (Associate Research Scientist)

• Alfio Rizzo (Associate Research Scientist)

• Marcela Stern (Research Staff Associate)

• Yun Zhang (3rd year Graduate Student)

• Tianyu Zhu (1st year Graduate Student)

Group Pictures

Former Members

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