Research Areas
Astrophysics & Cosmology; Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics; Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics; Quantum Physics
Research Type
Experimentalist
Research Website
Current Projects
Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE), IceCube Neutrino Observatory, CUORE Upgrade with Particle IDentification (CUPID), ATLAS, COSINE-100, DM-Ice, Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion CDM (HAYSTAC)
Biographical Sketch
Bio: Professor Reina Maruyama is an experimental particle/atomic/nuclear physicist. She is exploring new physics in nuclear and particle astrophysics, in particular, in dark matter and neutrinos. Her group is carrying out experiments in direct detection of dark matter with terrestrial-based detectors for both axions and WIMPs and searches for neutrinoless double beta decay. The current experiments include COSINE-100, DM-Ice, IceCube, CUORE, and HAYSTAC.
Professor Maruyama graduated with a B.S. in Applied Physics from Columbia University. She obtained her Ph.D. in atomic physics for atom trapping and fundamental symmetries at the University of Washington. She was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She joined the faculty at UW-Madison in 2011, and subsequently Yale in 2013.
She is an author of 200+ publications and has presented her work in numerous conferences and workshops. She is often quoted in popular science press such as APS News, Nature News, Science News, and Symmetry Magazine for her work on dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay.
CV (pdf file)
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 2003
Honors & Awards
Maruyama is the recipient of several awards, including Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, Yale Public Voices Fellowship, and Woman Physicist of the Month from CSWP. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Selected Publications
- “A quantum-enhanced search for dark matter axions”, HAYSTAC Collaboration, Nature 590, 238-242 (2021).
- “Improved Limit on Neutrionless Double-Beta Decay in 130Te with CUORE”, CUORE Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 122501 (2020).
- “A Search for solar axion Induced signals with COSINE-100”, COSINE Collaboration, Astropart. Phys. 114 (2020).
- “Search for a Dark Matter-Induced Annual Modulation Signal in Nat(Tl)with the COSINE-100 Experiment”, COSINE Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 031302 (2019).
- “An experiment to search for dark-matter interactions using sodium iodide detectors,” COSINE-100 Collaboration, Nature 566 (2019) no.7742.
- “Search for a Dark Matter-Induced Annual Modulation Signal in NaI(Tl) with the COSINE-100 Experiment,” COSINE-100 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett 123 (2019) 031302.
- “Results from phase 1 of the HAYSTAC microwave cavity axion experiment,” HAYSTAC Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 97 (2018) 092001.
- “First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via 0νββ Decay of 130Te”, CUORE Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 132501.
- “First data from DM-Ice17,” DM-Ice Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 092005.
- “Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector,” IceCube Collaboration, Science 342 (2013) 1242856.
- “Measurement of the beta-nu correlation of Na-21 using shakeoff electrons,” P.A. Vetter et al., Phys. Rev. C 77 (2008) 035502.
- “Investigation of sub-Doppler cooling in an ytterbium magneto-optical trap,” R. Maruyama et al., Phys. Rev. A 68 (2003) 011403(R).
An expanded list of publications.