Wei Shi

Postdoctoral Associate

Physics and Astronomy

Office: Physics D 111

Wei Shi

Biography:
I got Ph.D. at Rice University in 2021 with a thesis topic on searching for new bosons using muons at the CMS experiment at CERN LHC. I was also involved in CMS endcap muon triggers. After joining NN group, I spent significant time at DUNE R&D. I am heavily involved in the photon detection system (PDS) for the DUNE far detector modules. I am developing the PDS cold readout at Fermilab and coordinating cold box runs at CERN. I also lead the final PDS production at Stony Brook. One of my physics interests is the DUNE-PRISM program where the LAr and TMS near detectors will both move off-axis to sample neutrino fluxes at different energies. I am developing an analysis to utilize this data to predict neutrinos at the far detector and extract the oscillation parameters with minimum dependence on models. I am also working on a joint fit of samples collected from the beam (T2K) and atmospheric experiments (Super-K) exploiting the fact that the T2K far detector is the same as Super-K. The correlation of detector and interaction systematics at similar energy regions brings improved sensitivities to mass ordering and cp violation effects. I joined the group in 2021.