Glenn Horton-Smith

Glenn Horton-SmithChapin Professor
32B Cardwell Hall
(785) 532-6476
gahs@k-state.edu
Personal Webpage

Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998
B.S. California Institute of Technology, 1989

Research Area

Experimental Particle Physics

I study indivisible particles of matter called neutrinos. Neutrinos are created in nuclear reactions in stars, cosmic rays, and other places. They interact so weakly with matter that only one in six trillion solar neutrinos passing through a mile of lead would interact. Yet a neutrino will oscillate to and from different states without interacting with any other matter or energy.

The more we learn about neutrinos, the more we understand about their role in the universe, and the better we can use them in the study of processes in the sun, on earth, and in the cosmos.

I'm currently active in several neutrino experiments, including MicroBooNE, Mu2e, and DUNE.

Research Support

  • Department of Energy

Graduate Advisees

  • Geonwood Kim, PhD
  • Jennifer Tyler PhD

Postdoctoral Advisee

  • Varuna Meddage

Recent Selected Publications

Abratenko P, and others (MicroBooNE collaboration). Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final-State Topologies. PhysRevLett. 2022 June 17; 128:241801. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.241801

Abud A, and others (DUNE collaboration). Design, construction and operation of the ProtoDUNE-SP Liquid Argon TPC. JINST. 2022; 17(01):P01005. DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/01/P01005

Abratenko P, and others (MicroBooNE collaboration). Measurement of space charge effects in the MicroBooNE LArTPC using cosmic muons. JINST. 2020; 15(12):P12037. DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/12/P12037

Abi B, and others (DUNE collaboration). First results on ProtoDUNE-SP liquid argon time projection chamber performance from a beam test at the CERN Neutrino Platform. JINST. 2020; 15(12):P12004. DOI: 10.1088/1748- 0221/15/12/P12004

Abi B, and others (DUNE collaboration), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume IV: Far Detector Single-phase Technology. JINST. 2020; 15(08):T08010. DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/08/T08010

Adams C, and others (MicroBooNE collaboration). Calibration of the charge and energy loss per unit length of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber using muons and protons. JINST. 2020; 15(03):P03022. DOI: 10.1088/1748- 0221/15/03/P03022