Prof. Brooke Russell

Brooke Russell is an experimental nuclear and particle physicist. Her research focuses on elucidating the landscape of beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics brought about by massive neutrinos. Neutrinos are the most abundant massive particle in the universe. Ubiquity notwithstanding, much remains unknown about their underlying properties. With the DUNE experiment, the Russell group aims to make high precision measurements of neutrino mixing to provide unique insights into fundamental neutrino properties.

The Russell group research focus also highlights the mystery of the particle nature of dark matter. The Russell group is searching for low mass particle dark matter using quasiparticle detectors in the underground Kamioka Cryolab. Leveraging quantum sensing device readout coupled to varying detector payloads, the Russell group is targeting model-complementary dark matter searches below the GeV-scale, a region of parameter space largely eluded by traditional weakly interacting massive particle detection limits.