The Heeger Group carries out experiments to study the properties of neutrinos, search for dark matter and other rare events to solve some of the greatest mysteries of the Universe:
What does the invisible Universe consist of?
Why does the Universe have more matter than antimatter?
What are the properties of neutrinos?
The lab is led by Prof. Karsten Heeger in the Yale University Department of Physics and is located at Yale’s Wright Lab.
We search for neutrinoless double beta decay, a yet unobserved process that could help answer why we live in a Universe of matter, not antimatter.
We are using a novel cyclotron radiation emission technique to perform a precision measurement of the yet unknown neutrino mass.
We are making precision studies of neutrino oscillations and searching for signs of new physics in the world’s largest neutrino experiment.
We are searching for axion dark matter using microwave technologies and quantum readouts.
Heeger is co-Principal Investigator of the ALPHA experiment grant to search for axion dark matter with quantum sensing technologies.
Diya Naik ‘27 has worked with the Heeger Group on CUORE and CUPID, and now does research on quantum error correcting codes with Professor Kubica.
The ALPHA experiment reached a milestone on February 24 with the successful installation of a Bluefors helium dilution fridge at Wright Lab.
We gratefully acknowledge support from the Department of Energy, Office of Science, Nuclear Physics; High Energy Physics, and Yale University.
