ELIZABETH WORCESTER
Adjunct Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy
etw@bnl.gov
Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2023 Mar 27)

Biography
Elizabeth Worcester is a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech and did her dissertation research at University of Chicago, studying CP violation in kaon decay at KTeV, a fixed target experiment at Fermilab. She joined the staff at BNL in 2011 and the SBU faculty in 2016. Her research at BNL/SBU has been focused primarily on neutrino oscillation as a member of the Daya Bay, DUNE, SBND, and ICARUS collaborations.

Research Statement
My primary research is the study of neutrino oscillation, with a particular interest in oscillation of neutrinos produced by accelerators. I am a member of the SBND and ICARUS collaborations, which are the near and far detectors for the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. This program is designed to be sensitive to possible oscillation at short baseline, which could not be explained by the three known neutrino flavors - if oscillation is observed in this experiment, it would be evidence for previously unknown particles and/or interactions! I am also deeply involved in the design of and planning for DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment), which will study oscillation at a baseline of about 1300 km, with the beam originating at Fermilab and the far detector located at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. This experiment will be able to make precise measurements of the parameters governing neutrino oscillation, making it possible to determine the neutrino mass ordering, observe CP violation if it is present in neutrino mixing, and test the three-flavor neutrino oscillation paradigm as part of a broad physics program. This next-generation experiment will begin collecting data later this decade. I also maintain an interest in quark flavor physics, with connections to pion and kaon decay experiments that search for evidence for new physics via precision branching ratio measurements.