A Journey in Fundamental Physics

eigen* colloquium series | Friday, March 4, 12:30 p.m. EST, Haughey Hall 133

Joshua L. Barrow is the speaker for this week's eigen* colloquium series, held on Friday, March 4, at 12:30 p.m. EST in Haughey Hall 133.

A Journey in Fundamental Physics: The Path Toward Baryon Number Violation
A collection of interconnected, ongoing experimental and simulation developments across particle and nuclear physics will be discussed as a means toward finally measuring baryon number violation, the last remaining Sakharov condition. From Monte Carlo generator development and background calculations to cross section measurements and automatic detector triggers, this talk will explore how distributed investigations across computational, beyond standard model, neutrino, and charged lepton physics are coming together toward this ultimate goal.

Bio
Josh graduated from Southern Adventist University (SAU) in 2015 with BS degrees in physics and mathematics along with minors in chemistry and biology. While at SAU, he was the last to study quantum and computational chemistry under the late Professor Emeritus Ray “Doc” Hefferlin. He received his masters and PhD in elementary particle physics at the University of Tennessee under Professor Yuri Kamyshkov, spending time at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory focusing on neutron and neutrino physics and their applications to beyond standard model searches of baryon number violation via neutron-antineutron transformations. After graduating in May 2021, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University as a Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar under Professors Or Hen and Adi Ashkenazi to study neutrino, electron, and muon interactions on nuclei and how these might inform simulation and reconstructed efforts key to the upcoming long-baseline neutrino oscillation program.