Prof. Rupak Mahapatra. Principal Investigator

I am a high energy particle physicist, with passion to build particle detectors, design their hardware/software readout and analyze the resulting data. My experiences include building large scale detectors, such as the CsI End Cap calorimeters on CLEOIII to small scale detectors like veto scintillation detectors on CDMSII. I also have extensive experience in developing the data acquisition system for these detectors, from the readout hardware to the software. When I am not building hardware or developing its DAQ, I am engrossed in the data analysis from these experiments. I feel fortunate to have experienced experimental particle physics from both a large scale (CLEO) and a small scale (CDMS) and have realized that the impact of the physics result is more important than the size of the experiment!

Mark Platt

Mark is an electronics/automation engineer with more thn 15 years of experience in semiconductor industry. He is an expert in rengineering and automating ultra high vacuum equipments used in fabrication, such as PVDs and CVDs. He leads the TAMU effort in commissioning, operating and maintaining fabrication tools necessary for CDMS detector fabrication. A part of his effort is also to work on upgrading and automating fabrication equipment at the TAMU AggieFab (with Prof. Rusty Harris).

James Erickson

Jimmy is a 1st year graduate student. He was involved in CDMS experiment as an undergraduate student, working both thin film deposition and cryogenic testing of wafers. He is interested in the detector fabrication aspects at TAMU.