Matthew P. Green – Associate Professor
Dr. Green earned his PhD from Stanford University in 2010. Following graduation he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill until 2013, when he was appointed a Wigner Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Dr. Green joined the faculty at NC State in the Fall of 2015, in a joint appointment with ORNL.
Graduate Students
Ethan Blalock
Ethan joined our group as an NCSU undergraduate and has continued working with us as an NCSU graduate student. Ethan has performed Monte Carlo simulations of the Majorana Demonstrator neutrinoless double beta decay experiment, and is currently searching for Beyond the standard model physics that can distort the energy spectr
Jesus Herrera
Jesus joined our group after graduating with his BS from MIT. He is constructing a liquid argon cryostat to assess signal shapes and suppression of backgrounds arising from Ar-42 in LEGEND-200 and LEGEND-1000.
Nicholas Meredith
Nick joined our group after earning his BS from East Tennessee State during which he interned on the COHERENT experiment at ORNL. He is performing measurements of CEvNS in germanium detectors at the SNS as a member of COHERENT.
Undergraduate Students
Benn
et Casar
Bennet has been supporting our efforts to measure CEvNS at the SNS with Germanium by assessing muon-induced backgrounds with a set of portable muon detectors.
Kaleb Harr
ison
Kaleb has been working to determine the appropriate parameters for LEGEND-200 simulations to enable multi-site event discrimination in our Monte Carlo, necessary for background modeling efforts.
Paul Toolan
Paul has developed a new statistical framework for understanding projected LEGEND-1000 backgrounds, by incorporating realistic probability distributions for assay results and simulation output.
Former Graduate Students
Keith Mann
Keith’s dissertation detailed the design of COHERENT’s GE-mini detector system, and projected its expected backgrounds and signal sensitivity, as well as the sensitivity of a larger future detector system. Keith successfully defended his dissertation entitled Measuring the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Neutron Scattering Cross Section in Germanium in August, 2023
James Browning
James work at NCSU comprised the deployment, commissioning, operation, and analysis of the Ge-mini germanium detector array at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His dissertation, entitled Measurement of CEvNS with Germanium: First Light with Ge-Mini and Beyond, details the world’s first measurement of CEνNS in germanium, and was successfully defended in the Summer of 2024.
Rushabh Gala
Rushabh developed much of the early LEGEND simulation infrastructure that has been necessary to make projections of background performance and to analyze acquired data in both LEGEND-200 and LEGEND-1000. Rushabh’s dissertation, entitled A Projected Background Model for the LEGEND-1000 Experiment, is a comprehensive model of projected backgrounds in LEGEND-1000 validated by LEGEND-200 data
Dr. Green is seeking talented graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in building experiments to study the properties of neutrinos!