FRANK T. AVIGNONE III, Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of South Carolina
712 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
(803) 777-6933
For further information visit my homepage
waters@mail.psc.sc.edu

Research Interest

Experimental Elementary Particle Physics with present emphasis on neutrino oscillations, neutrino-nucleus cross sections, neutrinoless double beta decay, searches for cosmic dark matter candidates and solar axions.

Spokesman for the proposal to construct the Oak Ridge Laboratory for Neutrino Detectors (ORLaND) at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Member of the MINOS collaboration that is building a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment to detect neutrinos in the Souday Iron Mine in Minnesota that come from Fermilah in Batavia, IL. International coordinator of the IGEX ⁷⁶Ge double beta decay experiment, and the COSME dark matter search in the Canfranc Underground laboratory in northern Spain. All of these experiments are designed to answer fundemental questions in elementary particle physics, astrophysics and cosmolgy.

The IGEX experiment is an international collaboration involving the University of South Carolina (USC), the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the University of Zaragoza (UZ), the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) Moscow, and the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow.

He was the spokesman of the now completed DEMOS Cold Dark Matter Search and the SOLAX search for solar axions in Argentina involving, USC, PNNL, UZ, and the TANDAR Laboratory in Bueuas Aires, Argentina.

For further information visit High Energy Physics.

Selected Publications

"Theory for Dricet Detection of Solar Axions by Coherent Primakoff Conversion in Germanium Detectors," R. J. Creswick, F. T. Avignone III, H. A. Farach, J.I. Collar, A. O. Gattone, S. Nussinov, and K. Zioutas, Phys. Lett. B 427 (1998) 235.

"First IGEX ⁷⁶Ge Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Results", C. E. Aalseth, F. T. Avignone III, R. L. Brodzinski, J. I. Collar, E. Garcia, D. Gonzalez, F. Hasanbalg, W. K. Hensley, I. V. Kirpichnikov, A. A. Klimenko, H. S. Miley, A. Morales, J. Morales, A Ortiz de Solorzano, S. B. Osetrov, V. S. Pogosov, J. Piumedon, J. H. Reeves, A. Salinas, M. L. Sarsa, A. A. Smolnikov, A. S. Starostin, A. G. Tamanyan, A. A. Vasenko, S. I. Vasiliev, J. A. Villar, Phys. Rev. C 59,2108 (1999)

"Search for an Annual Modulatoin of Dark-Matter signals with a Germanium Spectrometer at the Sierra Grande Laboratory", D. Abriola, F. T. Avignone III, R. L. Brodzinski, J. I. Collar, D. E. DiGregorio, H. A. Farach, E. Garcia, A. O. Gattone, C. K. Guerard, F. Hasenbalg, H. Huck, H. S. Miley, A. Morales, J. Morales, A. Oritz-Solozano, J. Puimedon, J. H. Reeves, A. Salinas, M. L. Sarsa, J. A. Villar, Astroparticle Physics 10, 133 (1999).

ORLaND: A large Neutrino Detector Facility at the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, F. T. Avignone III, B. D. Anderson, S. Berridge, E. Bilpuch, W. M. Bugg, R. L. Burman, J. Busenitz, H. K. Carter, L. Chattrejee, A. K. Cochran, L. DeBrackeleer, Yu. V. Efemenko, M. A. Elaasar, A. R. Fazely, T. A. Gabriel, . R. Gould, V. Gudkov, R. Gunnasingha, E. L. Hart, T. Handler, R. L. Mezzacappa, F. Placil, A. Piepka, J. Reidy, C. Rosenfeld, D. Smith, I. Stancu, T. D. S. Stanislaus, R. Steinberg, R. Svoboda, R. Tashakkori, W. Tornow, G. VanDalen, J. W. Watson, J. Wolf, D. H. Wright, W. M. Zhang, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Prospectivesi n Nuclear Physics, Paradise Island, Bahamas.

"A decommissioned LHC model magnet as an axion telescope", K. Zioutas, C.E. Aalseth, D. E. Abriola, F. T. Avignone III, R. L. Brodzinski, J. I. Collar, R. Creswick, D. E. Di Gregorio, H. Farach, A. O. Gattone, C. K. Guerand, F. Hasenbalg, M. Hasinoff, H. Huck, A. Liolios, H. S. Miley, A. Morales, J. Morales, D. Nikas, S. Nussinov, A. Ortiz, E. Savvidis, S. Scopel, J. A. Villar, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. in Phys. Research A425480 (1999).

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