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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. |
The Aprile Group at Nevis Lab - July 2007
From left to right:
Roberto Santorelli, Bin Choi, Masaki Yamashita, Marc Miskin (2007 REU
student), Maria Elena Monzani, Aaron Manalaysay (U. of Zurich), Kyungeun
Elizabeth Lim, Jason Brodsky (Summer student, Harvard U.), Juliette Alimena (2007 REU
student), Joe Gennaro (Summer student, Columbia U.), Elena Aprile, Corey
Bregman (Rabi scholar, Columbia U.), Guillaume Plante. Not shown: Karl Giboni.
The Aprile Group at Gran Sasso Lab (Italy) - May 2006
From left to right:
Masaki Yamashita, Roberto Santorelli, Karl Giboni, Guillaume Plante,
Hannah Yevick (2006 REU student), Alison Andrews (2006 REU student),
Elena Aprile. Not shown: Maria Elena Monzani.
The Aprile Group at Nevis Lab - July 2005
From left to right:
Charles Makanka (2005 REU student), Peter Shagin (now at Rice University), Guillaume Plante,
Aravindhan Sriharan (Columbia College, 2005 Rabi Scholar), Elena Aprile, Pawel Majewski (now
at University of Sheffield, UK), Karl Giboni, Masaki Yamashita (back), Bhartendu Singh (front,
now at Banaras Hindu University, India), Marsela Jorgolli (2005 REU student)