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Welcome to the Maruyama Lab

Prof. Maruyama and her group develop technologies for and carry out experiments to probe nature at the most fundamental level. The group studies underlying physics of fundamental symmetries, origins of the universe, and nature of neutrinos and dark matter. We use techniques being developed in the fields of quantum sensor development, atomic, astrophysics, particle, and nuclear physics to solve some of the greatest mysteries of the evolution of the Universe – what is the Universe made of, and why does it have more matter than anti-matter? The group is led by Professor Maruyama, and is located in the Department of Physics located at the Wright Laboratory at Yale University.

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  • Dark Matter

    We undertake several experiments to search for dark matter candidates, including axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).

  • Why Matter?

    We search for neutrinoless double beta decay, a yet unobserved process that could help answer why we live in a Universe of matter, not antimatter.

  • Neutrinos

    We search for neutrinos by studying exploding stars, gamma-ray bursts, black holes, and neutron stars.

  • Quantum Sensing

    We have a record of success in quantum sensor development in axion dark matter searches and are developing quantum sensors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay.

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Funding

We gratefully acknowledge support from the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Nuclear Physics; DOE QuantiSED; National Science Foundation; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; John Templeton Foundation; Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation; Simons Foundation; Swedish National Space Agency; Swedish Research Council; Yale Wright Laboratory; and Yale University.