SNOLAB
Stephen Sekula serves as the Research Group Manager at SNOLAB since September 2022, overseeing Research Scientists and engaging with the SNOLAB user community while conducting audits on policies and procedures. Concurrently, Stephen holds a position as a Professor of Physics at Queen's University, focusing on dark matter and neutrino research. Prior to these roles, Stephen was unemployed for a brief period after a long tenure at Southern Methodist University, where various leadership positions included Professor of Experimental Particle Physics and Department Chair. Stephen also completed postdoctoral research at The Ohio State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The academic journey began with a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. in Physics from Yale University.
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SNOLAB
SNOLAB is an underground science laboratory specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics. Located 2 km below the surface in the Vale Creighton Mine located near Sudbury Ontario Canada, SNOLAB is an expansion of the existing facilities constructed for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) solar neutrino experiment. SNOLAB follows on the important achievements in neutrino physics achieved by SNO and other underground physics measurements. The primary scientific emphasis at SNOLAB will be on astroparticle physics with the principal topics being: Low Energy Solar Neutrinos Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Cosmic Dark Matter Searches Supernova Neutrino Searches These are areas of research where the experiments require great depths to reduce cosmogenic backgrounds. They also require extreme levels of cleanliness to reduce environmental radiological backgrounds to the levels necessary for these very sensitive measurements. SNOLAB achieves these goals by being located 2 km underground and by having the entire laboratory constructed as a single large clean room (class 2000). While particle astrophysics is the principle focus for SNOLAB, there is a growing interest in other scientific fields to exploit deep underground laboratories. In particular, there has been interest expressed in the fields of Seismology and Geophysics interested in precision, long term measurements at depth and in the field of Biology where there is a growing interest in deep under ground life.