The Maryland Particle Astrophysics group is involved in three pioneering experiments in this exciting field. The water Cerenkov detector, called Milagro, the Super Kamiokande experiment which is designed to study nucleon decay, solar neutrinos and supernovae neutrinos and our newest endeavor, the IceCube Experiment which is a one-cubic-kilometer international high-energy neutrino observatory being built and installed in the clear deep ice below the South Pole Station.
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Particle Astrophysics News
Kara Hoffman Named Chair of Department of Physics
Professor Kara Hoffman was named chair of the Department of Physics, effective July 1, 2026. “Kara Hoffman brings to this role a record of scholarly achievement and an understanding of the...
Summer at Summit Station
For most graduate students, research trips primarily mean conferences. For Aishwarya Vijai, it meant a month at Summit Station, Greenland, deep inside the Arctic Circle. Summit Station is located...
A Cosmic Photographer: Decades of Work to Get the Perfect Shot
John Mather , a College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and a senior astrophysicist at NASA, has made a career of looking to the heavens. He has led projects that have...
