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Aleena Rafique

Assistant Physicist

Aleena is an Assistant Physicist in the High Energy Physics Division at Argonne. The focus of her research is to understand the properties and interactions of neutrinos with various target experiments.

Biography

Aleena is an Assistant Physicist in the High Energy Physics Division at Argonne. She joined ANL in August 2018 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The focus of her research is to understand the properties and interactions of neutrinos with various target experiments. She is a member of DUNE, MicroBooNE and NOvA experiments. Her current research is based on DUNE experiment focusing on the understanding and design of the Temporary Muon Spectrometer magnet system for the DUNE Near detector. She is also interested in understanding the neutrino interactions within DUNE Near detector.  As a postdoctoral fellow, she worked on ProtoDUNE Single Phase experiment situated at CERN, Switzerland to understand the electromagnetic shower identification and reconstruction. She also served as an expert for the ProtoDUNE photon detector system. As a graduate student at Kansas State University, she worked on the charged-particle multiplicity measurement using MicroBooNE detector. She has also served as a Time Projection Chamber and High Voltage subsystem expert for the MicroBooNE experiment.