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Richard Jeremy Gaitskell (born May 2, 1965) is a physicist and professor at Brown University, and a leading scientist in the search for particle dark matter.〔"Inside the hunt for dark matter" (), from Popular Science. Published October 2013〕 He is co-founder, a principal investigator, and co-spokesperson of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, which announced world-leading〔"First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at SURF," Phys. Rev. Lett. () Published March 2014.〕〔“No sign of dark matter in underground experiment” () from Nature. Published October 2013.〕 first results on October 30, 2013. He is also a leading investigator in the new LUX-Zeplin (LZ) dark matter experiment.〔DOE, NSF to fund LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment at Sanford Lab. () August 2014.〕 == Career == Gaitskell received his BA and MA degrees from Oxford University in 1985. He was a scholar at St John’s College. In 1985-1989 Gaitskell worked for the investment bank Morgan Grenfell in London, including a spell as an Assistant Director of Morgan Grenfell International. In 1993 he received his PhD degree from Oxford University. He was awarded a Prize Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1993 and a Center Fellowship at Center for Particle Astrophysics, UC Berkeley in 1995. He was visiting scholar at Stanford University in 1998-2000. He has been a professor at Brown University since 2001. Gaitskell’s academic research focuses primarily on the direct detection of dark matter particles,〔Brown University Research Profile. () Retrieved July 2015.〕 and he has led several large-scale detection experiments. He was principal investigator on the XENON-10 experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, and a senior member of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search from 2000-2005. In 2007, Gaitskell co-founded the LUX experiment, which is currently operating 4,850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead, South Dakota. More than 100 scientists and engineers across 18 institutions in the U.S. and Europe are involved in the LUX search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), the leading theoretical model for dark matter particles. On October 30, 2013, LUX scientists announced the results from the detector’s initial 85-day run.〔First results from LUX experiment in South Dakota. () Press announcement from the LUX collaboration. Issued October 2013.〕 While LUX made no detection consistent with dark matter particles, it demonstrated an unprecedented sensitivity reaching below one zeptobarn (10-45 cm2) WIMP-nucleon cross section for spin-independent couplings.〔 The detector’s sensitivity helps eliminate parameter space in which dark matter particles could exist.〔Dark Matter Search Considers Exotic Possibilities. () Scientific American. Published January 2014.〕 “There are basically thousands of models of particle physics lying bloodied in the gutter,” Gaitskell told the audience at a Brown University colloquium following the results release. “They have been ruled out."〔Brown University Colloquium: Richard Gaitskell. () November 2013.〕 Gaitskell is also a leading investigator in the new LZ (LUX-ZEPLIN) dark matter experiment which will be constructed in the same underground laboratory as LUX. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Gaitskell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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