Institute of research into the fundamental laws of the Universe

Claudia NONES Service de Physique des Particules +33 1 69 08 45 56 +33 1 69 08 64 28

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Position: 

Physicist at the particle physics division of CEA, Saclay, France 

CEA/IRFU/SPP, Bâtiment 141, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette

 

Research Interests

I have been involved mainly in three fields in astroparticle physics: (i) neutrinoless double beta decay (2004 – today), (ii) direct search for dark matter (2007 – today) and (iii) axion physics (2012 – today). In this activity I had the opportunity to develop several multidisciplinary skills:
• Design, fabrication and operation of low temperature detectors for astroparticle physics
• Thermometry at very low temperatures
• Cryogenics, also at dilution-refrigerator temperatures (<20 mK)
• Analysis and interpretation of background radioactivity spectra
• Measurements of low-level signals at low noise
• Basic neutrino properties
• Cold dark matter candidates
• Axion models and their relevance in astrophysics and cosmology

I'm involved in the following projects :

- EDELWEISS

- LUMINEU

- LUCIFER

- CUORE

 

CV

2011 - Today Researcher at the Particle Physics Division (IRFU/SPP) at CEA Saclay, France

2010 Marie-Curie researcher (Intra European Fellowship – FP7) at the Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM/CNRS), Orsay, France

2008 – 2009 Post-doctoral researcher at the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Insubria University, Como, Italy (supervisors: A. Giuliani – V. Gorini)

2007 Joint PhD in Physics (Mention tres honorable) Physics Department G. Occhialini – University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy (supervisor: Prof. Ettore Fiorini) and University of Paris XI, France (supervisor: DR-CNRS Louis Dumoulin)
PhD thesis title: Identification of surface events in bolometers for the search for rare events in the CUORE and EDELWEISS experiments
PhD thesis URL: http://brain.dipscfm.uninsubria.it/deposito/NONES_phd_thesis.pdf

2004 Master in Physics (Mark: 110/110 cum laude)
Physics Department, University of Milan, Italy
Master thesis title: Development of innovative bolometers for neutrino physics with an active background discrimination (supervisor: Prof. M. Meroni)
 

Publications

The publication records can be found for example in IN SPIRE: http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/C.Nones.1

Talks at conferences

• “Axion searches with the EDELWEISS Ge bolometers ”, The 9th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs -  Mainz, Germany – 24-28 June 2013.
• " The bolometric way towards the direct dark matter detection: the EDELWEISS-3 setup and the EURECA project", 4th International Conference Current Problems in Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy - Kyiv, Ukraine - 3-7 September 2012.
• "Le neutrino : histoire et perspectives, science et défis technologiques", DRTBT2012 : 7ème école thématique: Perspectives nouvelles des détecteurs cryogénique, 21-25 May 2012, La Londe les Maures, France.
• “LUCIFER, a background-free approach to 0nbb”, NOW2010, 04-11 September 2010, Otranto, Italy.
• “Direct search for Dark Matter with the EDELWEISS-II experiment: status and results”, TeVPa-2010, 19-23 July 2010, Paris, France.
• “From Cuoricino to CUORE: the bolometric path to the inverted hierarchy region of the neutrino mass”, 11^th  ICATPP Conference, 5-9 October 2009 Como, Italy.
• “Détection des évènements rares”, DRTBT09 : 6ième école thématique: Perspectives des détecteurs cryogénique, 10-15 May 2009, Frejus, France.
• “Status of Cuoricino and CUORE”, IDEA Meeting (in the context of ILIAS), 1-3 December 2008, Geel, Belgium.
• “Surface radioactivity, a common problem in bolometric Dark Matter and Doble Beta Decay searches: a joint solution”  IDM2008, 18-22 August 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.
• “Study of surface radioactivity with film-equipped bolometers: status and prospects”, IDEA Meeting (in the context of ILIAS), 28-29 April 2008, Heidelberg, Germany.
• “Surface sensitive TeO₂  detectors”, 5th ILIAS Annual Meeting, 19-21 February 2008, Jaca, Spain.
• “Surface event tagging with NbSi film equipped TeO₂ bolometer”, EDELWEISS Collaboration Meeting, 6 December 2007, Paris, France.
• “Surface event tagging with NbSi films”, IDEA Meeting (in the context of ILIAS[1]), 19-20 November 2007, Paris, France.
• “Methods to identify and eliminate surface background events in bolometric detectors for very rare events search”, TAUP2007, 11-15 September 2007, Tokyo, Japan.
• “From Cuoricino to CUORE towards the inverted hierarchy region”, 13th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, 23-29 August 2007, Moscow, Russia.
• “A "must" for a double beta decay experiment: the reduction of the background”, CIPANP2006, 30 May-3 June 2006, Portorico.
• “An update of Cuoricino results: are we now able to confirm the Heidelberg Moscow claim of evidence?”, DoubleBetaDecay06, 28-29 April 2006, Valencia, Spain.
• “Status of Cuoricino and prospects for CUORE”, VIDMAN Students Workshop, 1-2 December 2005, Hamburg, Germany.
• “Development of new bolometers for rare events with background active discrimination”, seminar given  at the "International School of Nuclear Physics" - 27th course - Neutrinos in Cosmology, in Astro, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicilia, Italy, 16-24 September 2005.
• “A new method for background rejection with surface sensitive bolometers”, 11th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD-11), Tokyo, Japan, 31 July - 5 August 2005.
• “La ricerca del Doppio Decadimento Beta con CUORE: la riduzione del fondo”[2], XC Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Fisica, 23 September 2004, Brescia, Italy.

Posters at conferences

1. “CUORE and the inverted hierarchy region: the reduction of the surface background” presented at NDM06, 3-9 September 2006, Paris, France.
2. “New TeO₂ NbSi Detectors for Rare Event Search” presented at 12th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors -  LTD12, 22-27 July 2007, Paris, France.
3. "Superconducting Aluminum layers as pulse shape modifiers: an innovative solution to fight against surface background in neutrinoless Double Beta Deacy experiments", LTD14 -  Heidelberg University -  August 1-5, 2011.
4. "EDELWEISS detectors: from R&D to Dark Matter search", 12th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics -  5,9 September 2011, Munich, Germany.
5. “HARD, The EDELWEISS approach to the low-mass WIMPs”, WOLTE10 - 10th International Workshop On Low Temperatures Electronics - October 14-17, 2013 Paris, France.

Teaching

2013 Co-responsible for the Laboratory for muon lifetime measurement, NPAC Master 2, Paris Sud University, France
2010 Qualification as Maître de Conférence
2006 Co-responsible of the light speed measurement laboratory in the framework of a joint action between Insubria University, Como, Italy and high schools – 15 hours
2005 – 2006 Teaching assistant, Laboratory of General Physics, Physics and Mathematics Department, Insubria University, Como, Italy – 66 hours
2005 – 2006 Teaching assistant, Introduction to General Physics, Chemistry Department, Insubria University, Italy – 30 hours
2005 – 2006 Teaching assistant, Nuclear and Particle Detectors, Physics and Mathematics Department, Catholic University of Brescia, Italy – 10 hours

 

 

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