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Kaixuan Ni is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2006. His research focuses on investigating challenging questions in particle physics, particularly concerning dark matter and heavy neutrinos. He is involved in developing sensitive particle detectors and advanced data analysis techniques to address these questions experimentally. His current project includes the XENONnT located at the Gran Sasso National Underground Laboratory in Italy, which is the world’s largest dark matter detector utilizing liquid xenon time projection chamber technology and is operational, continuously collecting data. Future projects include the XLZD, aimed at probing 'neutrino fog' and serving as a multi-purpose experiment to study neutrino-less double beta decay and observe astrophysical neutrinos. He has also participated in significant experiments such as XENON10, XENON100, and PandaX-I/II, which are pivotal in demonstrating the advantages of liquid xenon detector technology for dark matter searches.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).