Alumni Profiles

Alexander Kavner

  • Program Years: 2021-2024
  • Academic Institution: University of Michigan
  • Field of Study: Nuclear Science
  • Academic Advisor: Igor Jovanovic
  • Residencies:
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2021)
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2022)
  • Degree(s):
    M.S. Physics, University of Chicago, 2019; B.S. Honors Physics and Pure Mathematics, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 2017

Current Status

  • Research Area: Nuclear Science

Publications

G.B. Kim, A.R.L. Kavner, T. Parsons-Davis, et al. Decay Energy Spectrometry for Improved Nuclear Material Analysis at the IAEA NML. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.05200 Work was submitted to IAEA symposium on nuclear safeguards


Measurement of 254eV Nuclear Recoil with 68.75keV Gamma-Ray: Suggestive Evidence for Quenching Factor Enhancement in Germanium. Currently under preparation with plans to submit to Physical Review-C or D.

A.R.L. Kavner, Q.R. Shollenberger, K.N. Kmak, and et al. Absolute Decay Counting of 146Sm with 4-Pi Cryogenic Microcalorimetry Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,
Volume 1065, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169462.


Efficiency Studies for MAGNETO-v Experiment. A.R.L. Kavner and et al. Currently under peer review with Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Kavner, A.R.L., Lee, D., Boyd, S.T.P. et al. Study of Pile-Up Effects in Decay Energy Spectroscopy. J Low Temp Phys (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02829-2

Kim, G.B., Borg, L.E., Boyd, S.T.P. et al. Absolute Decay Counting of 146Sm and 147Sm for Early Solar System Chronology. J Low Temp Phys (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02798-6

K. Ogren, A. Kavner, S. Dazeley, and I. Jovanovic, Development of 17N as a time-tagged neutron source for calibration of large antineutrino detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 1033, 166654 (2022).

J. Colaresi, J.I. Collar, T.W. Hossbach, A.R.L. Kavner, C.M. Lewis, A.E. Robinson, and K.M. Yocum. First results from a search for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at a reactor site. Phys. Rev. D 104, 072003 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.072003

J.I . Collar, A.R.L. Kavner, C.M. Lewis, Germanium response to sub-keV nuclear recoils: a multipronged experimental characterization, Phys. Rev. D 103, 122003 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.122003

Baxter D., Collar J.I., Coloma, P. Dahl C.E., Esteban I., Ferrario P., Gomez-Canenas J.J., Gonzalez-Garcia M.C., Kavner A.R.L., Lewis C.M., Monrabal F., Munoz Vida J., Privitera P., Ramanathan K., Renner J., Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at the European Spallation Source. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 123 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2020)123

J.I . Collar, A.R.L. Kavner, C.M. Lewis, Response of CsI[Na] to nuclear recoils: Impact on coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. Phys. Rev. D 100, 033003 (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.033003

K. Ramanathan, A. Kavner, A.E. Chavarria, P. Privitera, D. Amidei, T.L. Chou, A. Matalon, R. Thomas, J. Estrada, J. Tiffenberg, and J. Molina, Measurement of low energy ionization signals from Compton scattering in a charge-coupled device dark matter detector, Phys. Rev. D 96, 042002 (2017). DOI: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.042002

A. Aguilar-Arevalo, et. al., (CONNIE Collaboration), Exploring low-energy neutrino physics with the Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Interaction Experiment. Phys. Rev. D 100, 092005 (2019). DOI: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.092005

F. Izraelevitch, et. al., A measurement of the ionization efficiency of nuclear recoils in silicon, JINST 12 P06014 (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/06/p06014

Aguilar-Arevalo A., et. al., (DAMIC Collaboration), Search for low-mass WIMPs in a 0.6 kg day exposure of the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB, Phys. Rev. D 94, 082006 (2016). DOI: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.082006

Awards

University of Michigan Rackham Graduate Research Award, 2022
University of Chicago Eckhardt Graduate Scholarship, 2017
University of Chicago Albert A. Michelson Fellowship, 2017
University of Chicago Robert G. Sachs Fellowship, 2017
University of Michigan, Graduated with High Honors and Distinction, 2017
University of Michigan Tiffany Fellowship, 2015, 2016
University of Michigan James B. Angel Scholar 2014, 2015, 2016
Ford Motor Company Scholarship, 2014
University of Michigan Bell Scholarship, 2013
Michigan Merit Scholarship, 2013