CURRICULUM VITÆ JOCELYN MONROE

ADDRESS: CONTACT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Phone: (617) 253 2332 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 26-561 Email: [email protected] Cambridge, MA 02139 Web: http://molasses.lns.mit.edu/jocelyn

EDUCATION: 2006: Ph.D. (Physics) Columbia University Dissertation Title: “A Combined νµ and νe Oscillation Search at MiniBooNE,” Advisor: Prof. Michael Shaevitz 2002: M.A. (Physics) Columbia University 2002: M.Phil. (Physics) Columbia University 1999: B.A. (Astrophysics) Columbia University

EMPLOYMENT: July 2009-: Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006-2009: Pappalardo Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000-2006: Research Assistant, Columbia University 1999-2000: Engineering Physicist, Beams Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 1997: DOE REU Summer Program, Particle Physics Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

COLLABORATION MEMBERSHIPS: 2008-: CLEAN/DEAP Collaboration (SNOLab, Canada) 2006-: DMTPC Collaboration (MIT, USA) 2006-: SNO Collaboration (SNOLab, Canada) 1999-: MiniBooNE Collaboration (FNAL, USA) 1999-2000: Neutrino Factory Collaboration (FNAL, USA)

COMMITTEES: SNO Physics Interpretation Review Committee Chair (2006-present) SNO Low Energy Threshold Analysis Review Committee Member (2006-2009) Conference Organizer, 2nd CYGNUS Directional Dark Matter Workshop (2009) SNO Collaboration Executive Board Junior Member (2007-2008) Conference Organizer, 5th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories (2003)

Jocelyn Monroe 1 of 11 OUTREACH: 2009 MIT Physics Alumni Magazine article co-author, on dark matter detection 2009 MIT MSRP summer research minority outreach program Faculty Brunch speaker 2009 Mentor in the MIT MSRP summer research minority outreach program 2008 Scientific American “Science Images: Are You in Here Dark Matter?” subject 2008 MIT Tech Talk newspaper article subject, for neutron detector development 2008 “Nova Science Now: Dark Matter” television program appearance 2008 Mentor in the MIT MSRP summer research minority outreach program 2008 Public lecture on dark matter for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Independent Activities Period physics department lecture series 2007 Boston Globe “Meeting of the Minds” newspaper profile subject 2007 MIT Tech Talk newspaper article subject, for MiniBooNE result, as one of the American Institute of Physics Top 10 Science Stories of 2007 2007-2008 MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing interview subject 2006-present MIT Women in Physics group member 2005 Public lecture on neutrino physics for the National Science Teachers of America Regional Meeting, American Association of Physics Teachers Strand Day 2003 Chicago Sun-Times “30 Under 30” newspaper profile subject 2003 “Meet-A-Scientist” participant, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 2002 “Virtual Ask-A-Scientist” participant, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 2002 Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg “Quarks Unbound” radio program guest 2001 APS Meeting Congressional Visiting Committee member, New York delegation 2001 Snowmass Outreach and Education “Science Weekend” volunteer 2000-2001 Young Particle Physicists Outreach to the Public Working Group member 1999 FermiNews article subject, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

TEACHING : Spring 2010 8.022 Electricity & Magnetism Lecturer Fall 2009 8.022 Electricity & Magnetism Recitation Instructor 2008-2009 Senior thesis supervisor to MIT students Richard Eyers and Tom Caldwell 2009-present Advising MIT PhD students Shawn Henderson, Steve Jaditz, Lu Feng 2006-2009 Mentoring MIT PhD students Shawn Henderson and Asher Kaboth 2006-present Supervising MIT UROP program undergraduate students Shawn Westerdale, Maitagorri Schade, Tom Caldwell (now a Physics PhD student at University of Pennsylvania), Esther Raymond, Dianna Cowern, Brett Cornell, Mareena Robinson, Sasha Rahlin (now a Physics PhD student at Princeton University) Eric Quintero, Juan Angel Rodriguez, Javier Duarte, Ian Smith, and Alastair Currie (now a Physics PhD student at Imperial College) 2000-2002 Columbia University Teaching Associate, physics laboratory 1998-1999 Columbia University Teaching Assistant, astronomy laboratory

AWARDS AND HONORS: 2009 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences 2006 Pappalardo Fellowships Competition Winner,Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005 Selvaggi Scholar Award for Doctoral Candidates, Columbia University 2001 Melvyn Month Fellowship for Travel to Snowmass, American Physical Society 2000 Employee Performance Recognition Award, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Jocelyn Monroe 2 of 11 RESEARCH :

CLEAN/DEAP Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiment (2008-present) • Leader of the muon veto system: electronics, high voltage systems, and mechanical assembly integration, advising PhD student Steve Jaditz and mentoring post-doctoral associate Kim Palladino in simulation, electronics testing, deployment.

• Neutron background tagging and calibration: development of d-d neutron calibration source deployment system, advising PhD student Lu Feng in developing neutron tagging algorithms and calibration system hardware, advising undergraduate Maitagorri Schade in charaterizing d-d neutron source with liquid-scintillator detector.

SNO Neutrino Oscillation Experiment (2006-present) • Leader of the systematic uncertainty analysis for alpha backgrounds in the neutral current detector array in the SNO Phase III measurement of the 8B solar neutrino flux. • Simulations development for single-wire proportional counter neutral current interaction detectors in SNO phase III; Monte Carlo tuning and validation with calibration data sets, to reproduce accurately the detailed pulse shape characteristics of neutron and alpha interactions in the NCDs. • Magboltz and Garfield simulation calculations of gas properties and analysis of electron 3 drift physics. Analytical ion mobility calculation in HeCF4 with MIT undergraduate student Ian Smith. • Software and implementation for large scale production of Monte Carlo for NCD pulse shape analysis using the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. • Development of an indirect dark matter search in SNO, seeking dark matter scattering interaction signatures from the sun, the galactic center, and the center of the earth.

Directional Dark Matter R&D (2006-present) • Development, construction, commissioning, and LANL WNR neutron beam test of a liquid scintillator-based neutron detector to measure neutron backgrounds to direct dark matter detection searches in underground laboratories; with undergraduate students Mareena Robinson (FAMU), Brett Cornell (Harvard), Richard Eyers (MIT), Dianna Cowern (MIT), and MIT PhD student Shawn Henderson. • Development of a new statistical method for setting limits in directional dark matter detectors, with MIT PhD student Shawn Henderson. • Calculation of neutrino coherent scattering backgrounds to dark matter searches.

Jocelyn Monroe 3 of 11 RESEARCH, CONTINUED:

• Work with MIT undergraduate students Alastair Currie and Javier Duarte to design, build, and commission a prototype multi-wire chamber detector and vacuum system for investigating 3-dimensional wire chamber read-out. Development and commissioning of associated low noise, low power wire read-out electronics. • Building, commissioning, and operating a proportional counter detector and vacuum system for measurement of electron gain, scintillation photon yield, and drift velocity in CF4 gas with MIT PhD student Asher Kaboth and undergraduate Eric Quintero.

MiniBooNE Neutrino Oscillation Experiment (2000-present)

• Analysis of the νµ charged current quasi-elastic (CCQE) data set for the νµ to νe oscillation search, including event selection and neutrino energy reconstruction.

• νµ CCQE cross section, axial mass, Fermi momentum, and binding energy measurement in the context of the Smith-Moniz relativistic Fermi gas model; 2 measurement of the axial form factor vs. Q using νµ CCQE events, in the context of the Smith-Moniz relativistic Fermi gas model.

+ • Measurement of the background νµ single π to CCQE cross section ratio.

• Development of a ratio method to predict νe from beamμdecay using measured νµ flux, and development of a new combined, simultaneous, νµ and νe oscillation fitting technique.

• Global fit to world charged π and K production data for neutrino flux prediction. • Commissioning, calibration, and data acquisition software for proton beam line toroid system, used to measure proton intensity on target for the MiniBooNE neutrino beam. • Radiation safety calculations for the MiniBooNE target hall. • Development and implementation of an algorithm for proton beam orbit correction in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Booster accelerator.

Neutrino Factory Accelerator R&D (1999-2000) • Simulations development forμbeam ionization cooling, and lattice optimization. • Development of an analytical formalism for studying beam dynamics and the impact of angular momentum growth onμbeam cooling. • Calculations of electro-magnetic form factors forμ-e andμ-p scattering in hydrogen, for exact description of multiple scattering in light elements, without approximations.

Jocelyn Monroe 4 of 11 PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

S. Ahlen et al., “The Case for a Directional Dark Matter Detection and the Status of Current Experimental Efforts,” arXiv: 0911.0323, submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics A (2009)

A. Roccaro et al., “A Background-Free Direction-Sensitive Neutron Detector,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A608:305-309 (2009)

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al., “Measurement of the nu(mu) Charged Current pi+ to Quasi- Elastic Cross Section Ratio on Mineral Oil in an 8 GeV Neutrino Beam,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103:081801 (2009)

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al., “A Search for Muon Neutrino and Anti-neutrino Disappearance in MiniBooNE,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103:061802 (2009)

B. Aharmim et al., “Measurement of the Cosmic Ray and Neutrino-Induced Muon Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory” Phys. Rev. D80:012001 (2009)

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al., “Unexplained Excess of Electron-Like Events from a 1 GeV Neutrino Beam,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102:101802 (2009)

P. Adamson et al., “First Measurement of nu(mu) and nu(e) Events in an Off-Axis Horn- Focused Neutrino Beam,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102:211801 (2009)

B. Aharmim et al., “An Independent Measurement of the Total Active B-8 Solar Neutrino Flux Using an Array of He-3 Proportional Counters at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101:111301 (2008)

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al., “The Neutrino Flux Prediction at MiniBooNE,” Phys. Rev. D79:072002 (2009)

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al., “The MiniBooNE Detector,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A599:28-46 (2008)

D. Dujmic et al., “Charge Amplification Concepts for Direction-Sensitive Dark Matter Detectors,” Astropart. Phys. 30:58-64 (2008)

A. Kaboth, et al., “A Measurement of Photon Production in Electron Avalanches in CF4,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A592:63-72 (2008)

S. Henderson, J. Monroe, and P. Fisher, “The Maximum Patch Method for Directional Dark Matter Detection,” Phys. Rev. D 78:015020 (2008)

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al., “Compatibility of High - Delta m**2 nu(e) and anti-u(e) Neutrino Oscillation Searches,” Phys. Rev. D78:012007 (2008)

Jocelyn Monroe 5 of 11 PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS, CONTINUED:

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al., “First Observation of Coherent pi0 Production in Neutrino Nucleus Interactions with E(nu) < 2-GeV,” Phys. Lett. B664:41-46 (2008)

D. Dujmic, et al., “Observation of the ‘Head-Tail’ Effect in Nuclear Recoils of Low- Energy Neutrons,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A584:327-333 (2008)

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, et al., “Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on Carbon,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 032301 (2008)

I. Chemakin, et al., “Pion Production by Protons on a Thin Beryllium Target at 6,4 GeV/ c, 12.3 GeV/c, and 17.5 GeV/c Incident Proton Momentum,” Phys. Rev. C77:015209 (2008)

J. Monroe and P. Fisher, “Neutrino Backgrounds to Dark Matter Searches,” Phys. Rev. D76:033007 (2007)

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, et al., “A Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance at the Δm2 ~ 1 eV2 scale,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231801 (2007)

M. M. Alsharoa, et al., “Recent Progress in Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Research within the Muon Collaboration,” Phys. ST Accel. Beams 6:081001 (2003)

J. Monroe, et al., “Design and Simulation of Muon Ionization Cooling Channels for the Fermilab Neutrino Factory Feasibility Study,” Phys.ST Accel. Beams 4:041201(2001)

A. Vaitaitis, et al., “Search for Neutral Heavy Leptons in a High-Energy Neutrino Beam,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 83:4943-4946 (1999)

SELECTED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

J. Monroe, “Neutrino Backgrounds to Dark Matter Searches and Directionality,” proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 136:022037 (2008)

J. Monroe, “Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Interactions at MiniBooNE Confront Cross Section Monte Carlos,” hep-ex/0408019, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 139:59-65 (2005)

J. Monroe, “Latest Results from the MiniBooNE Experiment and Updated nu(mu) -> nu (e) Sensitivity,” Proceedings of 39th Recontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, hep-ex/0406048 (2004)

Jocelyn Monroe 6 of 11 SELECTED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, CONTINUED:

L. Coney, J. Monroe, W. A. Pellico, E. J. Prebys, “Fermilab Booster Orbit Correction,” Particle Accelerator Conference Proceedings TPPE017, p. 1587 (2003)

C. Moore, J. Anderson Jr., R. Ducar, R. Ford, T. Kobilarcik, J. Monroe, E. J. Prebys, A. Russell, R. Stefanski, “Initial Operation of the Fermilab MiniBooNE Beamline,” Particle Accelerator Conference Proceedings TPPB013, p. 1652 (2003)

PROPOSALS AND STUDIES:

J. Monroe, “Distinguishing Dark Matter Signals from Neutron Backgrounds,” submitted to the National Science Foundation Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics program (2009)

J. Monroe, “Directional Dark Matter Detection: Characterizing the Backgrounds,” submitted to the Department of Energy Office of Science High Energy Physics ARRA CAREER program (2009)

MAX Collaboration, “Collaborative Research: MAX- Multi-ton Argon and Xenon TPCs,” submitted to the DOE Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory S4 program (2009)

F. Calaprice, et al., “Water Shields for Dark Matter and Other Low Background Detectors in DUSEL,” submitted to the DOE Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory S4 program (2009)

J. Battat, J. Monroe, R. Yamamoto, “Proposal to Measure Gas Quenching for Fundamental Physics and Homeland Security ,” submitted to the DOE Advanced Detector Research program (2008)

J. Monroe, P. Fisher, J. Formaggio, R. Yamamoto, “LANSCE-NS Proposal: Active Neutron Shielding for Dark Matter Searches,” submitted to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Neutron Science Center Program Advisory Committee (2008)

A.A. Aguilar-Arevalo, et al., “Bringing the SciBar Detector to the Booster Neutrino Beam”, arXiv:hep-ex/0601022v1 (2005)

MiniBooNE Collaboration, “Addendum to the MiniBooNE Run Plan: MiniBooNE Physics in 2006”, 2004, http://www-boone.fnal.gov/publicpages/loi.ps.gz.

N. Holtkamp, ed., “A Feasibility Study of a Neutrino Source Based on a Muon Storage Ring,” SLAC-Reprint-2000-054, Fermilab-Pub-00-108-E (2000)

Jocelyn Monroe 7 of 11 TECHNICAL NOTES AND MEMORANDA:

MiniBooNE Technical Note #187, “Constraining Flux Predictions with νµ Data,” J. Monroe (2006)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #161, “CC1π+ Cross Section Measurement Using CCQE Flux Extraction,” J. Monroe, M. Wascko (2005)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #146, “Estimating the Uncertainty on the Electron Neutrino Background from Intrinsic Beam Muon Decay Using the νµ CCQE Data Set,” J. Monroe, M. Shaevitz (2004)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #133, “νµ CCQE Data Results,” J. Monroe, M. Sorel (2004)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #130, “Horn-On vs. Horn-Off Absolute Normalization Comparison of νµ CCQE Data and Monte Carlo,” J. Monroe (2004)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #106, “A Proposal to Create Two Data Streams for the νµ Disappearance Analysis,” J. Conrad, J. Monroe, M. Shaevitz, M. Sorel (2003)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #87, “Measuring Protons on Target at MiniBooNE,” J. Monroe, D. Finley, T. Kobilarcik, H. O. Meyer (2003)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #71, “A Proposal to Select Information from All Beam Events,” J. Monroe, M. Sorel, H. Tanaka (2003)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #62, “MARS Simulations for the MiniBooNE Neutrino Beam Line Shielding Assessment,” J. Monroe, J. Link, C. Bhat, P. Kasper (2002)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #56, “Comparison of MARS vs. Geant3 Simulated Neutrino Flux in the MiniBooNE Detector Acceptance,” J. Monroe (2002)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #39, “Time of Arrival Distribution Differences in Neutrinos from Kaon vs. Pion Decay and Timing Cuts,” M. Novak, J. Monroe, S. Brice (2001)

MiniBooNE Technical Note #33, “Comparison of MARS vs. Geant3 Simulated Particle Production in the MiniBooNE Target and Horn,” J. Monroe, M. Sorel, P. Spentzouris, G. Mills, E. Hawker (2001)

MuCool Note #176, “Multiple Scattering Calculations for Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, and Beryllium,” A. V. Tollestrup, J. Monroe (2000)

MuCool Note #131, “Simulation Results on the Relative Performance of R.F. Cavities Used in Cooling Channels,” P. Lebrun, J. Monroe (2000)

Jocelyn Monroe 8 of 11 TECHNICAL NOTES AND MEMORANDA, CONTINUED:

MuCool Note #125, “The Single Field Flip Cooling Channel for a Neutrino Factory,” V. Balbekov, P. Lebrun, J. Monroe, P. Spentzouris (2000)

MuCool Note #72, “DPGeant and ICOOL Code Comparison,” J. Monroe, P. Lebrun, P. Spentzouris (1999)

MuCool Note #68, “Comparison of the Performance of 3.4T FoFo and 6.3T SFoFo Channels Simulated in DPGeant and ICOOL,” P. Lebrun, J. Monroe, G. Penn (1999)

PRESENTATIONS AT WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, AND SEMINARS:

Kyoto University High Energy Physics Seminar (2009) “Directional Dark Matter Detection and Recent Progress with the DMTPC Detector”

National Academy of Sciences Indo-U.S. Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium (2009) “Neutrino Physics at the Intensity Frontier”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nuclear and Particle Physics Colloquium (2008) “Dark Matter Direct Detection: The Path to Discovery”

American Physical Society April Meeting, parallel session (2008) “A Monte Carlo Simulation of the SNO Neutral Current Detector Array”

Neutrino’08 Conference, plenary session (2008) “Neutrino Backgrounds to Dark Matter Searches and Directionality”

New Mexico State University, Physics Department Colloquium (2008) “Searching for the Dark Matter Wind: A Novel Approach to Dark Matter Detection”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, IAP public lecture (2008) “Seeking the Cosmic Zephyr: a Dark Matter Quest”

High Energy Physics Seminar, Imperial College (2007) “Searching for the Dark Matter Wind: A Novel Approach to Dark Matter Detection”

Physics Department Particle Seminar, Columbia University, (2007) “Searching for the Dark Matter Wind: A Novel Approach to Dark Matter Detection”

Cygnus Workshop, Boulby Underground Laboratory, UK (2007) “Neutrino Backgrounds to Dark Matter Searches”

Jocelyn Monroe 9 of 11 PRESENTATIONS AT WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, AND SEMINARS, CONTINUED:

University of Washington, CENPA Seminar (2007) “First MiniBooNE Oscillation Results”

The Hunt for Dark Matter Workshop, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2007) “Coherent Neutrino Scattering Backgrounds to Dark Matter Experiments”

California Institute of Technology, Kellogg Seminar (2007) “First MiniBooNE Oscillation Results”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Nuclear Science Seminar (2007) “First MiniBooNE Oscillation Results”

Aspen Electroweak Conference, plenary session (2007) “Progress Toward MiniBooNE Oscillation Results”

National Science Teachers Association Regional AAPT Day, public lecture (2005) “Neutrino Physics”

NuFact Conference, parallel session (2005) + “MiniBooNE νµ CC π /CCQE Cross Section Ratio”

Moriond Electroweak Conference, plenary session (2004) “MiniBooNE Progress”

NUINT Conference, plenary session (2004) “CCQE Cross Section Models in Neutrino Event Generators”

PHENO Conference, plenary session (2003) “Oscillation Prospects at MiniBooNE”

Columbia University Graduate Student Seminar (2002) “Accelerator Physics of a Neutrino Factory”

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Annual Users Meeting, plenary session (2000) “Results of the First Feasibility Study for a Neutrino Factory”

Ohio State University Physics Department Brown Bag Seminar (2000) “Neutrino Factory Physics Potential and Design”

Jocelyn Monroe 10 of 11 PRIMARY REFERENCES :

Prof. Peter Fisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: fisherp(AT)mit.edu Department of Physics Phone: (617) 253 8561 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 26-541 Fax: (617) 254 4100 Cambridge, MA 02139

Dr. Andrew Hime Los Alamos National Laboratory Email: ahime(AT)lanl.gov Physics Division Phone: (505) 667 0191 MS H803 Fax: (505) 665 4121 Los Alamos, NM 87545

Prof. Michael Shaevitz Columbia University Email: shaevitz(AT)nevis.columbia.edu Department of Physics Phone: (212) 854 3305 528 W. 120th Street, MC5220, Box 20 Fax: (212) 854 3379 New York, NY 10027

Prof. Arthur B. McDonald Queens University Email: mcdonald(AT)sno.phy.queensu.ca Department of Physics Phone: (613) 533 2702 Kingston, Ontario, Canada Fax: (613) 533 6813 K7L3N6

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES :

Dr. William Louis Los Alamos National Laboratory Email: louis(AT)lanl.gov Physics Division Phone: (505) 667 6723 MS H846 Fax: (505) 665 7920 Los Alamos, NM 87545

Prof. R. G. Hamish Robertson University of Washington Email: rghr(AT)u.washington.edu Department of Physics, CENPA Phone: (206) 685 9060 Box 351560 Fax: (206) 685 0635 Seattle, WA 98195

Prof. Janet Conrad Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: conrad(AT)mit.edu Department of Physics Phone: (617) 324 6281 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 26-537 Fax: (617) 254 4100 Cambridge, MA 02139

Dr. Norbert Holtkamp ITER Email: Norbert.Holtkamp(AT)iter.org Cadarache Joint Work Site, F-13108 Phone: +33 44 225 3437 St. Paul lez Durance Fax: +33 44 225 2600 France

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