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Clarke A. Hardy

Postdoctoral Physicist
Yale University
clarke.hardy [at] yale.edu


About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in physics at Yale, where I work on searches for sterile neutrinos using levitated nanoparticles. This project lies at the intersection of neutrino physics and levitated optomechanics, the two main topics of my PhD research.

During my PhD at Stanford, I worked on nEXO, a planned tonne-scale experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta decay, and on a search for new interactions at the micron scale using optically levitated microspheres. My work consisted of data analysis, software development, detector R&D, and lab management.

Beyond research, I am passionate about teaching math and physics. I have served as volunteer faculty at Mount Tamalpais College, which offers degree programs to the incarcerated population at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. There, I have taught precalculus and physics, and worked as a substitute instructor and tutor for other math courses.

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Selected Publications

  1. arXiv
    Gautam Venugopalan, Clarke A. Hardy, Kenneth Kohn, Yuqi Zhu, Charles P. Blakemore et al.
    Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2024)

  2. JINST
    B. G. Lenardo, C. A. Hardy, R. H. M. Tsang, J. C. Nzobadila Ondze, A. Piepke et al. (nEXO Collaboration)
    Journal of Instrumentation 17, P07028 (2022)

  3. PRD
    D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, S. K. Alsum, C. S. Amarasinghe, A. Ames et al. (LZ Collaboration)
    Phys. Rev. D 104, 092009 (2021)