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Arthur B. McDonald

Appointment

  • Associate Fellow
  • Gravity & the Extreme Universe

About

Arthur McDonald is a particle physicist whose current work seeks to further our understanding of neutrinos.

The addition of tellurium to the scintillator in the newly configured SNO+ detector should allow the study of neutrinoless double beta decay, giving important insights into whether neutrinos serve as their own antiparticles and perhaps providing a measure of the absolute mass of neutrinos. McDonald is also participating in the DEAP-3600 experiment, a new argon-based dark matter detector to be constructed in SNOLAB and predicted to be 10 times more sensitive than current measurements.

Awards

  • Companion of the Order of Canada, 2016
  • Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental (with the SNO Collaboration), 2016
  • Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2015
  • Officer of the Order of Canada, 2006
  • Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, 2003
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1997
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 1997

Relevant Publications

  • Ahmad, Q.R. et al. “Direct evidence for neutrino flavor transformation from neutral-current interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, no. 1 (June 2002): 011301.

Institution

  • Queen's University

Department

Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy

Education

  • PhD (Physics), California Institute of Technology
  • MA (Physics), Dalhousie University

Country

  • Canada

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