Mark Murdy

Biography and Interests

I am a fourth year physics PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working on the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) direct detection dark matter experiment.

My research:

I am engaged in several analysis projects in the LZ experiment, including a search for Be7 solar neutrino interactions within our liquid xenon target. In addition, I perform calibrations for the LZ experiment, specifically position-based pulse area corrections and electric field mapping.

My expertise is:

Python data analysis and scripting.

A problem that I am grappling with:

ML-based data analysis: can I use machine learning algorithms to improve the efficiency of solar neutrino detection in LZ?

I’ve got my eyes on:

Graduating! Only two years out….

I want to know more about:

Software-hardware code design, including GPUs and FPGAs!