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Jeanne Wilson

Dr Jeanne Wilson

Professor in Particle Physics

  • EPAP Group Postgraduate Admissions Coordinator

Research interests

  • Physics

Biography

Jeanne Wilson is an established researcher in the field of experimental neutrino physics. She graduated from the University of Sheffield with an MPhys in Physics and Astronomy and completed her PhD research at the University of Oxford on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, producing the first energy spectrum of 8B solar neutrinos. She held a PPARC post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Sussex on the COBRA experiment, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford on the SNO+ experiment, both in the field of neutrino less double beta decay. From 2010-2019 she was a Senior Lecturer and Reader at Queen Mary University of London working on the T2K, SNO+ and Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino experiments. She joined King's College in 2019 to help establish the new Experimental Particle Physics group, bringing her research on SNO+, T2K and Hyper-K.

 

Research Interests

Jeanne's research aims to probe the fundamental properties of the neutrino, the most weakly interacting fundamental particle, through measurements of long baseline neutrino oscillations in T2K and Hyper-Kamiokande and a search for neutrino less double beta decay with the SNO+ experiment. For the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment she is currently focusing on the design and installation of the outer detector veto system, and for SNO+ she holds the role of analysis coordinator. 

Her ultimate goal is to answer three main questions: 1) Does CP violation exist in the lepton sector to explain the existence of our matter dominated universe? (T2K and Hyper-Kamiokande) 2) Is the neutrino a Majorana particle that can act as its own anti-particle, rather than a Dirac particle obtaining mass through the Higgs mechanism like all other fundamental particles? (SNO+) 3) What is the absolute mass scale of the neutrino? (SNO+)

    Research

    Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics Group
    Experimental Particle & Astroparticle Physics

    The aim of the EPAP group is to address some of the major open questions in our understanding of matter through the study of the nature of fundamental particles

    News

    Department of Physics receives second Athena Swan Silver award

    The Department of Physics has been awarded the Athena Swan Silver award for the second time.

    Athena Swan Silver Award

    King's researchers contribute to groundbreaking discovery of neutrinos from nuclear reactors

    The King’s Physicists received international recognition for their contribution to the discovery

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    Super-K developments facilitate powerful advancement in particle physics

    King’s physicists hope to be able to make a more detailed study of neutrinos after modifying the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector tank, and introducing the...

    Dr Teppei Katori

    King's physicists herald Big Bang breakthrough in particle physics

    In the first breakthrough of its kind in over 50 years, a team of researchers from King’s Department of Physics have contributed to findings by an...

    The inside of Super-Kamiokande

    Events

    13OctWomen in Physics

    Physics Research Showcase

    Showcasing the latest research from women in the Department of Physics

    Please note: this event has passed.

      Research

      Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics Group
      Experimental Particle & Astroparticle Physics

      The aim of the EPAP group is to address some of the major open questions in our understanding of matter through the study of the nature of fundamental particles

      News

      Department of Physics receives second Athena Swan Silver award

      The Department of Physics has been awarded the Athena Swan Silver award for the second time.

      Athena Swan Silver Award

      King's researchers contribute to groundbreaking discovery of neutrinos from nuclear reactors

      The King’s Physicists received international recognition for their contribution to the discovery

      thumbnail_detector_water

      Super-K developments facilitate powerful advancement in particle physics

      King’s physicists hope to be able to make a more detailed study of neutrinos after modifying the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector tank, and introducing the...

      Dr Teppei Katori

      King's physicists herald Big Bang breakthrough in particle physics

      In the first breakthrough of its kind in over 50 years, a team of researchers from King’s Department of Physics have contributed to findings by an...

      The inside of Super-Kamiokande

      Events

      13OctWomen in Physics

      Physics Research Showcase

      Showcasing the latest research from women in the Department of Physics

      Please note: this event has passed.