Kate Scholberg

About

Kate Scholberg is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and a Bass Fellow at Duke University. She is actively involved in multiple research projects primarily focused on neutrino physics. Her work includes participation in major neutrino experiments such as Super-Kamiokande, K2K, T2K, and DUNE, which are part of the Duke High Energy Physics Neutrino Group. Additionally, she contributes to the HALO (Helium and Lead Observatory) and the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS), which are dedicated to detecting neutrinos from supernovae. Scholberg is also involved in the COHERENT experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), as well as the CLEAR experiment, which studies neutrinos at the SNS. Her research extends to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and the MACRO experiment, highlighting a broad engagement with particle physics and astrophysics. Beyond her research, Professor Scholberg has a significant teaching role at Duke University, having taught a variety of physics courses ranging from introductory to advanced graduate levels over many years. Her academic presence spans multiple institutions and laboratories, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Kamioka Observatory in Japan, Fermilab, KEK Accelerator Laboratory, and J-PARC in Japan, indicating a collaborative and international approach to her scientific endeavors.

Research topics

• Physics
• Particle physics
• Nuclear physics
• Astronomy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Optics
• Computer Science
• Astrophysics
• Machine Learning
• Data science

Selected publications

• Review of Particle Physics

  Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics · 2022 · 6237 citations

  Abstract The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 2,143 new measurements from 709 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. Particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables. We give num…

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• Review of Particle Physics

  Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics · 2020 · 5181 citations

  Abstract The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 3,324 new measurements from 878 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. Particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables. We give num…

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• Review of Particle Physics

  Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024 · 2768 citations

  The summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 2,717 new measurements from 869 papers, we list, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. We summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. Particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables. We give numerous tables, fi…

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• Constraint on the matter–antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations

  Nature · 2020 · 430 citations

  The charge-conjugation and parity-reversal (CP) symmetry of fundamental particles is a symmetry between matter and antimatter. Violation of this CP symmetry was first observed in 19641, and CP violation in the weak interactions of quarks was soon established2. Sakharov proposed3 that CP violation is necessary to explain the observed imbalance of matter and antimatter abundance in the Universe. However, CP violation in quarks is too small to support this explanation. So far, CP violation has not…

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• Volume I. Introduction to DUNE

  Journal of Instrumentation · 2020 · 401 citations

  A.4 Constraining the flux in the ND A.4.1 Neutrino-electron elastic scattering A.4.2 The low- method A.4.3 Coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering A.4.4 Beam e content A.5 Movable components of the ND and the DUNE-PRISM program A.5.1 Introduction to DUNE-PRISM A.5.2 LArTPC component in the DUNE ND: ArgonCube A.5.3 Multipurpose detector A.5.4 The DUNE-PRISM program A.6 Fixed on-axis component of the DUNE ND A.6.1 Motivation and introduction A.6.2 Three-dimensional projection scintillator tracker spe…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Contributions to HALO, the Helium and Lead Observatory

  NSF · $88k · 2012–2018

• WoU-MMA: Collaborative Research: A Next-Generation SuperNova Early Warning System for Multimessenger Astronomy

  NSF · $105k · 2019–2024

• Collaborative Research: SNEWS: the SuperNova Early Warning System

  NSF · $55k · 2015–2020

Frequent coauthors

• E. Kearns

  The University of Tokyo

  977 shared

• M. R. Vagins

  University of California, Irvine

  883 shared

• C. W. Walter

  Duke University

  883 shared

• Y. Suzuki

  Kobe University

  810 shared

• Y. Takeuchi

  University of Regina

  753 shared

• C. K. Jung

  Stony Brook University

  740 shared

• M. Nakahata

  The University of Tokyo

  670 shared

• Y. Hayato

  666 shared

Awards & honors

• Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics (2018 - P…
• Bass Fellow (2013 - Present)

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