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Insertion of STC into TRT at the Department of Physics, Oxford
Credit: CERN

Wenbo Ma

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Particle astrophysics & cosmology
  • Fundamental particles and interactions

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

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  • LUX-ZEPLIN
wenbo.ma@physics.ox.ac.uk
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 504
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Inspirehep

I am working in the world's largest liquid xenon experiment LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration. Our latest world's best WIMP search result is PRL 135.011802 2025. My major focus is the search for solar B8 neutrino and light dark matter. These analyses go into the tiniest energy regions (2-fold and S2-only channels) of LXeTPCs and require a series of novel low-threshold techniques. 

Beyond state-of-the-art routines of dark matter searches, I am interested in creating the electron topological reconstruction (eTopoDM Project) to precisely identify every electron and scatter for dark matter candidate events with information in (E,x,y,z,t,v) space, in which v stands for waveform shape information in hundreds of dimensions. The classical physics methods based on likelihood, minimizer, templates, and Monte Carlo simulation, will be compared with those of AI methods: based on CNN, GNN, transformer, and auto agents for physics discoveries. I place my vision, effort, and hope in this approach to improve the detection of a wide range of particles in LXe detectors.

I am interested in AI for science topics, including using the diffusion method to improve the statistics of the precise waveform simulation, and achieving the hyper-resolution 3D topological reconstruction. Essential AI infrastructures and well-trained physics agents based on pre-trained LLM models are required to achieve such a goal. 

I am also on the field cage design and PTFE material selection for the next-generation LXe experiment with 60-80 tonnes of xenon: XLZD.

All publications see: INSPIRE-HEP. 

I look forward to collaborating with more researchers on these topics.

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