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Liang Yang is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0νββ) and dark matter detection. He has played a leading role in the construction, operation, detector upgrades, and data analysis of the EXO-200 experiment, which has produced sensitive searches for 0νββ processes in 136Xe. Currently, he is involved with the proposed nEXO experiment, aiming to increase the experimental sensitivity to the 0νββ half-life by several orders of magnitude. The UCSD group is leading research and development for low-noise, low-background cold readout electronics for nEXO and is exploring innovative techniques to tag the 0νββ decay daughter nucleus, 136Ba, in situ to completely eliminate radioactivity-induced backgrounds, facilitating a background-free experiment.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA
Professorship in the Department of Physics focusing on experimental particle physics.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).