Andrew B Cudd- Postdoctoral Research Associate

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Colorado Boulder studying neutrino physics on the T2K experiment and the DUNE experiment. My research is focused on neutrino interactions and cross-section measurements with T2K and DUNE, and working on prototyping and design for the DUNE near detectors, focussing on the ND-LAr 2x2 Demonstrator. The PDF version of my CV can be found at the link above and to the right.
The picture is of me inside the Super-Kamiokande detector while it was drained of water. Super-Kamiokande is a giant 50-kt water Cherenkov experiment located underground inside Mt. Ikeno in Japan that studies neutrino physics and proton decay, and also serves as the far detector for T2K.
Interests: Neutrino Physics, Machine Learning, Detector Hardware, Procedural Generation

Education

2020 Ph.D. Physics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Earned the High Performance Computing graduate certificate through the CMSE department.
2014 B.S. Physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO

Graduated with a Mathematics Minor and Computer Engineering Minor.

Select Publications

K. Abe et al. (The T2K Collaboration) "First T2K measurement of transverse kinematic imbalance in the muon-neutrino charged-current single-pi+ production channel containing at least one proton", Phys. Rev. D vol. 103 p. 112009 (2021)
[doi] [arxiv]
K. Abe et al. (The T2K Collaboration) "Search for CP violance in neutrino and antineutrino oscillations by the T2K Experiment with 2.2 x 10^21 protons on target", Phys. Rev. Lett vol. 121 p. 171802 (2018)
[doi] [arxiv]
K. Abe et al. (The T2K Collaboration) "Measurement of neutrino and antineutrino oscillations by the T2K experiment including a new additional sample of nue interactions at the far detector", Phys. Rev. D vol. 96 p. 092006 (2017)
[doi] [arxiv]
M. Betancourt et al. "Comparisons and challenges of modern neutrino scattering experiments (TENSIONS2016 report)", Physics Reports vol. 773-774 pp. 1-28 (2018)
[doi] [arxiv]
L. Adamczyk et. al. (The STAR Collaboration) "Precision measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for inclusive jet production in polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV", Phys. Rev. Lett vol. 115 p. 092002 (2015)
[doi] [arxiv]
M. Alshammari, K. Alshammari, A. Cudd, R.D. DuBois, K. Tokesi "Exploring new aspects and practical applications of capillary guiding of charged particle beams", Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. B, Beam Interact. with Mat. and Atoms, vol. 354 (2015)
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See my INSPIRE page for the full list.