Philip von Doetinchem

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1 Philip von Doetinchem Institution: Physics & Astronomy Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa Address: 2505 Correa Rd, Honolulu, HI 98622, USA Phone: Homepage: philipvd Education 2009 Ph.D Physics [Dr. rer. nat.] Ph.D Thesis: Search for Cosmic-Ray Antiparticles with Balloon-borne and Space-borne Experiments Advisors: Stefan Schael and Klaus Lübelsmeyer 2004 Diploma Physics Diploma Thesis: Separation of Leptons and Hadrons with the Transition Radiation Detector of AMS-02 using neural Networks Advisors: Frank Raupach and Stefan Schael Appointments 09/01/13- Assistant Professor Physics & Astronomy Department University of Hawaii at Manoa 02/01/10-08/31/13 Postdoctoral Researcher Space Sciences Laboratory University of California at Berkeley 05/01/09-01/31/10 Postdoctoral Researcher I. Physics Institute B 01/01/05-04/30/09 Research Assistant I. Physics Institute B 04/01/05-03/31/08 Research Assistant Fellow of the DFG Graduate College Elementary Particle Physics at the TeV Scale 10/01/03-12/31/04 Student Assistant I. Physics Institute B 12/1/00-09/30/03 Student Assistant Institute of Plastics Processing Awards Fellow of the DFG Graduate College Elementary Particle Physics at the TeV Scale 1

2 Graduate student summer schools 2007 The International School on Astro-Particle Physics, Seillac, France, June 2006 The 2006 European School of High-Energy Physics, Aronsborg, Sweden, June th Fall school for high energy physics Maria Laach, Maria Laach, Germany, September Research experience Participation in the space-based cosmic-ray experiment AMS-02 in collaboration with numerous international universities and NASA: Hardware: AntiCoincidence Counter (development, integration, operation, monitoring tools); 1:1 mock-up of the Transition Radiation Detector Analysis: coordinator of the AMS antideuteron analysis; analysis of AMS data using multiple subdetectors to study the AntiCoincidence Counter detection efficiency; data analysis of Transition Radiation Detector testbeam data Participation in the balloon-borne cosmic-ray experiment GAPS in collaboration with Columbia University, UCLA, NASA and JAXA: Prototype detector: data analysis, flight operations, integration, development Full payload: instrument simulation, instrument design, development of physics objectives Validated Monte Carlo simulations of cosmic ray interactions with Earth s atmosphere using GEANT4 applied to the GAPS, NCT, and PEBS payloads. Conferences & invited talks 2014 Development of the General AntiParticle Spectrometer and General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Hunt for dark matter using cosmic ray antideuterons (presented by C. Hailey), 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Moscow, August, Overview and status of cosmic ray antideuteron searches, Identification of Dark Matter 2014, Amsterdam, June 23, The General AntiParticle Spectrometer Hunt for dark matter using cosmic-ray antideuterons, CosPa 2013, Honolulu, HI, November Dark Matter and charged particles, INPAC 2013, Pacific Grove, CA, April Hunt for Dark Matter using cosmic-ray antideuterons, Colloquium, Physics Department, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, April General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS), Cosmic Frontier Workshop, Menlo Park, CA, March Hunt for Dark Matter using cosmic-ray antideuterons, Colloquium, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Hawai i at Manoa, November General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Hunt for Dark Matter using low energy antideuterons, Identification of Dark Matter 2012, Chicago, IL, July The search for antideuterons with GAPS, UCLA Dark Matter 2012, Marina del Rey, CA, February The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Dark Matter search using cosmicray antideuterons, Colloquium, Department of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, October 25 2

3 2011 The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Dark Matter search using cosmicray antideuterons, Seminar, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, Oct The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Dark Matter search using cosmicray antideuterons, Colloquium, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, October GAPS Dark Matter search using cosmic-ray antideuterons, INPAC 2011, Pacific Grove, CA, April The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Dark Matter search using cosmicray antideuterons, Seminar, Astroparticle Physics Department, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, Dec The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Dark Matter search using cosmicray antideuterons, 25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Heidelberg, Germany, December Background simulations with Geant4 for the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) balloon experiment, 7th Geant4 Space Users Workshop, Seattle, WA, Aug The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Hunt for Dark Matter using low energy antideuterons, Identification of Dark Matter 2010, Montpellier, France, July Search for new phenomena in cosmic rays with new balloon-borne and space-borne experiments, Colloquium, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Aug The AntiCoincidence Counter system of AMS-02 and Search for cosmic-ray antiparticles with balloon-borne experiments, 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference, Poland, July 2009 The AMS-02 AntiCoincidence Counter, DPG Spring Meeting, Munich, Germany, March 2008 The AMS-02 AntiCoincidence Counter, 11th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors, Siena, Italy, Oct The AMS-02 AntiCoincidence Counter, DPG Spring Meeting, Freiburg, Germany, March 2007 Simulation of cosmic-ray interactions with Earth s atmosphere and AMS-02 Anti- Coincidence Counter: Production & Performance, DPG Spring Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany, March 2006 Identification of high-energy positrons with the TRD of AMS-02, DPG Spring Meeting, Dortmund, Germany, March 2005 Identification of positrons with the help of neural networks for the Transitions Radiation Detector of AMS-02, DPG Spring Meeting, Mainz, Germany, March Publications M. Aguilar et al., Electron and Positron Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station, Physical Review Letters 113, (2014). L. Accardo et al., High Statistics Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of GeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station, Physical Review Letters 113, (2014). 3

4 T. Aramaki et al., Precision Measurement of Low-Energy Antiprotons with GAPS for Dark Matter and Primordial Black Hole Physics, Astroparticle Physics 59, 12 (2014). P. von Doetinchem et al., The flight of the prototype GAPS experiment, Astroparticle Physics 54, 93 (2014). J.J. Beatty et al., Snowmass Cosmic Frontiers 6 (CF6) Working Group Summary - The Bright Side of the Cosmic Frontier: Cosmic Probes of Fundamental Physics, arxiv: , Report of the CF6 Working Group at Snowmass (2013). I. Mognet et al., The Prototype GAPS (pgaps) Experiment, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 735, 24 (2014). accepted by Advances in Space Research: H. Fuke et al., The pgaps experiment: an engineering balloon flight of prototype GAPS, arxiv: (2013). C. Hailey et al., Dedicated Indirect Searches for Dark Matter Using Antideuterons, arxiv: , White paper prepared for the Snowmass Community Summer Study (2013). M. Aguilar et al., First Result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station: Precision Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of GeV, Physical Review Letters 110, (2013). C.Hailey et al., Antideuteron based Dark Matter search with GAPS: Current progress and future prospects, Advances in Space Research, 51(22), 290 (2013). accepted by Proceedings of the 10th UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe 2012: T. Aramaki et al., The search for antideuterons with GAPS, Proceedings of UCLA Dark Matter 2012 (2013). T. Aramaki et al., The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Dark Matter search using cosmic-ray antideuterons, Proceedings of Science (Texas 2010) 238 (2010). T. Aramaki et al., The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Hunt for Dark Matter using low energy antideuterons, Proceedings of Science (IDM 2010) 063 (2010). S. Reibe et al., A new simulation-based model for calculating a post mortem interval using development data of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Parasitology Research, 107, 9 (2010). P. von Doetinchem et al., Search for Cosmic-Ray Antiparticles with Balloon-borne Experiments, arxiv: , ICRC Proceedings (2009). P. von Doetinchem et al., The AntiCoincidence Counter System of AMS-02, arxiv: , ICRC Proceedings (2009). A. Bachlechner et al., A New Instrument for Testing Charge-Sign Dependent Solar Modulation, ICRC Proceedings (2009). B. Beischer et al., Perspectives for indirect Dark Matter search with AMS-2 using cosmic-ray electrons and positrons, New Journal of Physics (2009). P. von Doetinchem et al., The AMS-02 AntiCoincidence Counter, Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplement) 197 (1), 15 (2009). G. Roper Yearwood et al., A Scintillating Fiber Tracker With SiPM Readout, Nuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplement) 197 (1), 245 (2009). H. Gast et al., PEBS Positron Electron Balloon Spectrometer, ICRC, volume 2, 293, (2008). 4

5 H. Gast et al., Comparison of Geant4 transition radiation and ionization loss simulation to testbeam data, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 583, 485 (2007). P. von Doetinchem et al., PEBS - Positron Electron Balloon Spectrometer, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 581, 151 (2007). P. von Doetinchem et al., Performance of the AMS-02 Transition Radiation Detector, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 558, 526 (2006). Teaching experience 2014 Fall: ROOT Analysis Framework Introduction, University of Hawaii at Manoa 2014 Fall: General Physics II (Phys 272), University of Hawaii at Manoa 2014 Spring: General Physics II (Phys 272), University of Hawaii at Manoa 2009 teaching assistant of discussion sessions for elementary particle physics, RWTH Aachen University 2009 introductory lecture on the ROOT analysis framework for students starting their bachelor thesis, RWTH Aachen University leading of physics laboratory courses for undergraduate physics students in block courses twice a year, RWTH Aachen University 2007 supervision and mentoring of student seminar talks in the class Dark Matter New experiments in particle and astro particle physics, RWTH Aachen University observer in Diploma exams, RWTH Aachen University Synergistic activities Initiator and organizer of the 1 st dedicated cosmic ray antideuteron workshop, which was held in June 2014 and attracted 29 experimental and theoretical experts in the field of (cosmic ray) antibaryon physics: Physics & Astronomy Open House at the University of Hawaii at Manoa 2013: Presentation on balloon experiments for middle school and high school students. Collaboration with forensic entomologist S. Reibe on modeling of post mortem interval determinations for criminal cases using common green bottle flies. Publication: S. Reibe et al., A new simulation-based model for calculating a post mortem interval using development data of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Parasitology Research, 107, 9 (2010), Girl s Day at : Presentation on particle physics in space for female high school students with the goal to increase diversity at universities in physics. 5

6 Student mentoring 2014 graduate student A. Bowers Antideuteron simulations for the GAPS an AMS experiment 2013 graduate student C. Kierans Testing of the NCT anticoincidence shields 2012 graduate student K. Kamdin Data analysis and software development for the GAPS prototype 2011 summer student M. Lopez-Thibodeaux Data analysis and integration for the GAPS prototype Diploma Thesis A. Goerres Calibration and Integration of the AMS-02 AntiCoincidence Counter 2009 Bachelor Thesis A. Bachlechner Simulation of interactions of charged cosmic rays with Earth s atmosphere September 22,