Kyra Mossel receives the "Prize for Outstanding Theses"

We are excited to share that Kyra Mossel, a master student in the NuDoubt⁺⁺ experiment, has received the prestigious "Prize for Outstanding Theses in Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science" for her excellent master’s thesis. Her work has greatly contributed to improving event reconstruction in our experiment.

Kyra’s thesis focuses on event reconstruction for the NuDoubt⁺⁺ experiment, using new methods to reduce background and improve energy resolution. She created a simulation for the opaque scintillator part of the detector, achieving impressive positional resolution of better than 1 mm and photon number resolution of 4% at 1 MeV. She also studied hybrid scintillators and showed their strong potential for identifying particle events by using the ratio of Cherenkov to scintillation light to separate background signals. This work highlights the NuDoubt⁺⁺ experiment’s potential in the search for rare neutrinoless double beta decay. The Master thesis can be found here.

We warmly congratulate Kyra Mossel on this well-deserved award and thank her for her valuable contributions to the NuDoubt⁺⁺ experiment.

Kyra Mossel will now continue her work in the NuDoubt⁺⁺ experiment as part of her PhD, focusing on advanced reconstruction techniques for hybrid-opaque scintillators.