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Priscilla Cushman

Professor

260G Tate, 626-8917/624-1534, email prisca @ physics.umn.edu
http://www.hep.umn.edu/~prisca/
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Cushman

Research Areas: Dark matter searches, novel particle detectors, collaborative work toward a Center for Underground Science through the DUSEL initiative

Current Research

Exploration into the building blocks of matter through complementary approaches: (1) the most sensitive search for a direct signal from the dark matter halo surrounding our galaxy (the CDMS experiment in the Soudan Underground Laboratory in northern Minnesota), (2) the highest energy accelerator (The CMS experiment at the future Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland), and (3) the most precise measurement of the magnetic moment of the muon (g-2 at Brookhaven Lab in New York).

Development of novel detectors for particle physics takes place in our on-site photodetector test facility and a new Low Background Counting Facility has been established at the Soudan Mine.

Selected Publications

P.B. Cushman, Dark matter searches: Technology and backgrounds, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A579 pp 437-442 (2007) [abstract]

P. Cushman, Low Level Counting Infrastructure and Requirements., Deep Science (NSF DUSEL Initiative) (2006) [abstract]

Bennet et al. (Muon g-2 Collaboration), Final report of the E821 muon anomalous magnetic moment measurement at BNL, Phys. Rev. D 73, 072003 (2006) [abstract]

E. Aprile, P. Cushman, K. Ni, P. Shagin, Detection of liquid xenon scintillation light with a silicon photomultiplier, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A556, p.215-218 (2006) [abstract]

Akerib et al. (CDMS Collaboration), Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, Phys. Rev. D 73, 011102(R) (2006) [abstract]

Akerib et al (CDMS Collaboration), Limits on Spin-Independent Interactions of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with Nucleons from the Two-Tower Run of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011302 (2006) [abstract]

P. Cushman, Muon g-2 constraints on SUSY dark matter reviewed and predicted, New Astronomy Reviews Vol 49, Pages 125-131 (2005) [abstract]

Muon g-2 Collaboration (G.W.Bennett et al.), Measurement of the Negative Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.7 ppm, hep-ex/0401008, Physical Review Letters 92, 161802 (2004).

P.B. Cushman and A.J.Heering, Problems and Solutions in High-rate Multi-channel Hybrid Photodiode Design: The CMS Experience, Transactions in Nuclear Science (TNS-00147-2001), IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.49:963-970,2002.

P. Cushman, Chapter 4. Electromagnetic and Hadronic Calorimeters, Book: "Instrumentation in High Energy Physics". edited by F. Sauli, World Scientific (1992), pp. 281-386.

Education

A.B. cum laude in Physics and Philosophy, Harvard University, 1976.

Ph.D. in Physics, Rutgers University, 1985.