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Current and Proposed Projects (Click below for more details.)

	KamLAND Measuring the anti-neutrino flux from a large number of commercial nuclear reactors in Japan.
	MuCAP High precision measurement of the singlet muon capture rate on the proton to dertermine the induced pseudoscalar form factor
	MuLAN High precision mesaurement of the positive muon lifetime to determine the Fermi coupling constant
	CUORE and Cuoricino Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with cryogenic bolometers at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy.
	Parity Violation in Stable Atoms Precision measurements of electroweak interaction parameters on a tabletop scale by measuring the parity-nonconserving transitions in ytterbium atoms. In collaboration with Prof. Budker.
	Facility for Exotic Trapped Atoms: Sodium21 Measuring the beta-neutrino correlation using magneto-optically trapped radioactive atoms
	Boron-8 Beta-Decay Alpha and Neutrino Spectra from Boron-8 Beta-Decay
	emiT emiT tests a fundamental symmetry, time-reversal invariance, by measuring the correlations between the neutron spin and the momenta of the electron and proton. The experiment is located at the NIST cold neutron facility in Gaithersburg, MD.
	Oxygen-14 Lifetime Lifetime Measurement of Oxygen-14 as a Test of the Unitarity of the CKM Matrix
	Experiments with Positronium There are several experiments with positronium underway in our group. Among proposed are: invisible decays of positronium
	NPDGamma Measuring the weak nucleon-nucleon coupling, conducted at the Los Alamos Neutron Facility.
	The Last Neutrino Mixing Angle (proposed) Existing experiments have observed two of the mixing angles, but the final angle, theta-13, has not yet been determined. This experiment is a proposal to measure this final mixing angle with two moderately sized liquid scintillator detectors located near a nuclear reactor.