Phillip S. Barbeau, Associate Professor  

Phillip S. Barbeau

Office Location: 426 TUNL, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 660 2629
Email Address: phil.barbeau@duke.edu
Web Page: http://sites.duke.edu/barbeaugroup/

Specialties:
Experimental nuclear physics
Experimental high energy physics

Education:
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2009
S.B. Mathematics, University of Chicago, 2001
A.B. Physics, University of Chicago, 2001

Research Categories: Experimental Nuclear & Particle Astro-Physics, Double Beta Decay, Neutrinos and Dark Matter

Current projects: COHERENT, EXO & nEXO, CoGeNT

Research Description: Professor Barbeau’s research interests are predominantly in the fields of neutrino and astroparticle physics. His efforts are focused on (but not limited to) three major areas of research: work towards the first observation of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering; novel searches for the dark matter in our universe; and searches for zero neutrino double beta decay. The unifying aspect of the work is the common need for new and creative detector development in order to solve some of the “hard” problems in low-background rare-event detection.

Areas of Interest:
Neutrinoless double-beta decay:
- neutrino mass and its Majorana character
Coherent neutrino scattering:
- Sterile neutrino searches
- Probes of the electroweak and nuclear structure
- Searches for non-standard neutrino interactions
- Neutrino magnetic moments Searches
- Reactor safeguards applications
Dark matter searches:
- WIMPs (Galactic and Solar bound)
- Axions (dark matter and Solar)
- SIMPs, Nuclearites, etc.
Other exotica:
- Di- and Tri-nucleon decay
- electron decay
- Pauli Exclusion Principle violation

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Physics 151l.001, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 128, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • Physics 151l.002, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 128, WF 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
  • Physics 151l9.01l, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 141, Tu 01:30 PM-03:30 PM
  • Physics 151l9.02l, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 157, Tu 01:30 PM-03:30 PM
  • Physics 151l9.03l, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 141, Tu 03:45 PM-05:45 PM
  • Physics 151l9.04l, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 157, Tu 03:45 PM-05:45 PM
  • Physics 151l9.05l, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 141, Tu 06:00 PM-08:00 PM
  • Physics 151l9.06l, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 157, Tu 06:00 PM-08:00 PM
  • Physics 151l9.07l, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 141, W 01:30 PM-03:30 PM
  • Physics 151l9.09l, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 141, W 03:45 PM-05:45 PM
  • Physics 151l9.11l, Introductory mechanics Synopsis
    Physics 141, W 06:00 PM-08:00 PM
  • Physics 151l9d.01d, Introductory mechanics (dis) Synopsis
    Physics 130, M 01:30 PM-03:30 PM
  • Physics 151l9d.03d, Introductory mechanics (dis) Synopsis
    Physics 130, M 03:45 PM-05:45 PM
  • Physics 151l9d.04d, Introductory mechanics (dis) Synopsis
    Bio sci 155, M 03:45 PM-05:45 PM
  • Physics 151l9d.05d, Introductory mechanics (dis) Synopsis
    Physics 154, M 06:00 PM-08:00 PM
  • Physics 151l9d.06d, Introductory mechanics (dis) Synopsis
    Physics 150, Tu 01:30 PM-03:30 PM
  • Physics 151l9d.07d, Introductory mechanics (dis) Synopsis
    Physics 047, Tu 01:30 PM-03:30 PM
  • Physics 151l9d.08d, Introductory mechanics (dis) Synopsis
    Physics 150, Tu 03:45 PM-05:45 PM
  • Physics 151l9d.09d, Introductory mechanics (dis) Synopsis
    Physics 154, Tu 03:45 PM-05:45 PM
  • Physics 151l9d.10d, Introductory mechanics (dis) Synopsis
    Physics 154, Tu 06:00 PM-08:00 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Cintas, D; Hedges, S; Thompson, WG; An, P; Awe, C; Barbeau, PS; Souza, EBD; Jo, JH; Li, L; Martínez, M; Maruyama, RH; Rich, GC; Runge, R; Sarsa, ML, A measurement of the sodium and iodine scintillation quenching factors across multiple NaI(Tl) detectors to identify systematics (February, Preprint, 2024) .
  2. An, P; Awe, C; Barbeau, PS; Becker, B; Belov, V; Bernardi, I; Bock, C; Bolozdynya, A; Bouabid, R; Brown, A; Browning, J; Cabrera-Palmer, B; Cervantes, M; Conley, E; Daughhetee, J; Detwiler, J; Ding, K; Durand, MR; Efremenko, Y; Elliott, SR; Fabris, L; Febbraro, M; Gallo Rosso, A; Galindo-Uribarri, A; Germer, AC; Green, MP; Hakenmüller, J; Heath, MR; Hedges, S; Hughes, M; Johnson, BA; Johnson, T; Khromov, A; Konovalov, A; Kozlova, E; Kumpan, A; Kyzylova, O; Li, L; Link, JM; Liu, J; Mahoney, M; Major, A; Mann, K; Markoff, DM; Mastroberti, J; Mattingly, J; Mueller, PE; Newby, J; Parno, DS; Penttila, SI; Pershey, D; Prior, CG; Rapp, R; Ray, H; Raybern, J; Razuvaeva, O; Reyna, D; Rich, GC; Ross, J; Rudik, D; Runge, J; Salvat, DJ; Sander, J; Scholberg, K; Shakirov, A; Simakov, G; Sinev, G; Skuse, C; Snow, WM; Sosnovtsev, V; Subedi, T; Suh, B; Tayloe, R; Tellez-Giron-Flores, K; Tsai, Y-T; Ujah, E; Vanderwerp, J; van Nieuwenhuizen, EE; Varner, RL; Virtue, CJ; Visser, G; Walkup, K; Ward, EM; Wongjirad, T; Yoo, J; Yu, C-H; Zawada, A; Zettlemoyer, J; Zderic, A, Measurement of Electron-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on ^{127}I with the COHERENT NaIνE Detector., Physical review letters, vol. 131 no. 22 (December, 2023), pp. 221801 [doi]  [abs].
  3. Al Kharusi, S; Anton, G; Badhrees, I; Barbeau, PS; Beck, D; Belov, V; Bhatta, T; Breidenbach, M; Brunner, T; Cao, GF; Cen, WR; Chambers, C; Cleveland, B; Coon, M; Craycraft, A; Daniels, T; Darroch, L; Daugherty, SJ; Davis, J; Delaquis, S; Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, A; Devoe, R; Dilling, J; Dolgolenko, A; Dolinski, MJ; Echevers, J; Fairbank, W; Fairbank, D; Farine, J; Feyzbakhsh, S; Fierlinger, P; Fu, YS; Fudenberg, D; Gautam, P; Gornea, R; Gratta, G; Hall, C; Hansen, EV; Hoessl, J; Hufschmidt, P; Hughes, M; Iverson, A; Jamil, A; Jessiman, C; Jewell, MJ; Johnson, A; Karelin, A; Kaufman, LJ; Koffas, T; Krücken, R; Kuchenkov, A; Kumar, KS; Lan, Y; Larson, A; Lenardo, BG; Leonard, DS; Li, GS; Li, S; Li, Z; Licciardi, C; Lin, YH; MacLellan, R; McElroy, T; Michel, T; Mong, B; Moore, DC; Murray, K; Njoya, O; Nusair, O; Odian, A; Ostrovskiy, I; Perna, A; Piepke, A; Pocar, A; Retière, F; Robinson, AL; Rowson, PC; Runge, J; Schmidt, S; Sinclair, D; Skarpaas, K; Soma, AK; Stekhanov, V; Tarka, M; Thibado, S; Todd, J; Tolba, T; Totev, TI; Tsang, R; Veenstra, B; Veeraraghavan, V; Vogel, P; Vuilleumier, JL; Wagenpfeil, M; Watkins, J; Weber, M; Wen, LJ; Wichoski, U; Wrede, G; Wu, SX, Search for two-neutrino double-beta decay of 136Xe to the excited state of 136Ba with the complete EXO-200 dataset, Chinese Physics C, vol. 47 no. 10 (October, 2023) [doi]  [abs].
  4. Bernard, EP; Mizrachi, E; Kingston, J; Xu, J; Pereverzev, SV; Pershing, T; Smith, R; Prior, CG; Bowden, NS; Bernstein, A; Hall, CR; Pantic, E; Tripathi, M; Mckinsey, DN; Barbeau, PS, Thermodynamic stability of xenon-doped liquid argon detectors, Physical Review C, vol. 108 no. 4 (October, 2023), American Physical Society (APS) [2209.05435], [doi]  [abs].
  5. An, P; Awe, C; Barbeau, PS; Becker, B; Belling, SW; Belov, V; Bernardi, I; Bock, C; Bolozdynya, A; Bouabid, R; Brown, A; Browning, J; Cabrera-Palmer, B; Cervantes, M; Conley, E; Daughhetee, J; Detwiler, J; Ding, K; Durand, MR; Efremenko, Y; Elliott, SR; Fabris, L; Febbraro, M; Gallo Rosso, A; Galindo-Uribarri, A; Green, MP; Hakenmüller, J; Heath, MR; Hedges, S; Hughes, M; Johnson, BA; Johnson, T; Khromov, A; Konovalov, A; Kozlova, E; Kumpan, A; Kyzylova, O; Li, L; Link, JM; Liu, J; Major, A; Mann, K; Markoff, DM; Mastroberti, J; Mattingly, J; Miller, K; Mueller, PE; Newby, J; Parno, DS; Penttila, SI; Pershey, D; Prior, CG; Rapp, R; Ray, H; Raybern, J; Razuvaeva, O; Reyna, D; Rich, GC; Ross, J; Rudik, D; Runge, J; Salvat, DJ; Salyapongse, AM; Sander, J; Scholberg, K; Shakirov, A; Simakov, G; Sinev, G; Snow, WM; Sosnovtsev, V; Subedi, T; Suh, B; Tayloe, R; Tellez-Giron-Flores, K; Ujah, E; Vanderwerp, J; Van Nieuwenhuizen, EE; Varner, RL; Virtue, CJ; Visser, G; Walkup, K; Ward, EM; Wongjirad, T; Yoo, J; Yu, CH; Zettlemoyer, J, Measurement of Pb nat (νe, Xn) production with a stopped-pion neutrino source, Physical Review D, vol. 108 no. 7 (October, 2023) [doi]  [abs].

Highlight:
Professor Barbeau’s research interests are predominantly in the fields of neutrino and astroparticle physics. His efforts are focused on (but not limited to) three major areas of research: studying the physics of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering; novel searches for the dark matter in our universe; and searches for zero neutrino double beta decay. The unifying aspect of the work is the common need for new and creative detector development in order to solve some of the “hard” problems in low-background rare-event detection.

Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Justin Raybern  
  • Grayson Rich