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Ariel Matalon

Lecturer

Bio

Education: BA, 2016, University of Chicago; MS, 2017, University of Chicago. Awards and Honors: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2016), Society of Physics Students Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research (2015).

Publications

  • “Measurement of low energy ionization signals from Compton scattering in a CCD dark matter detector,” Physical Review D (2017)
  • “First direct detection constraints on eV-scale hidden photon dark matter with DAMIC at SNOLAB,” Physical Review Letters (2017)
  • “Detection of ultra-high energy cosmic ray showers with a single-pixel fluorescence telescope,” Astroparticle Physics Journal (2016)

Current Interests

  • Detector development for astroparticle physics experiments
  • STEM teaching
  • Languages

Courses

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