Headshot of Pablo Macias Lopez, a Yale Wright Lab undergrad working with Reina Maruyama, surrounded by cosmic filaments.

Pablo Macias Lopez

Undergraduate
CUORE/CUPID
Yale College

Biographical Sketch

Pablo Macias Lopez, originally from North Las Vegas, NV, is a rising senior at Yale double majoring in Physics and Film and Media Studies. 

Between immersive scientific visualization and storytelling, his work comprises research in ocean-based neutrino observatories, nuclear non-proliferation, as well as marine conservation research in Pacific coral reef atolls. 

In Professor Maruyama’s lab, he works with the neutrinoless double beta decay experiments CUORE and its successor, CUPID. His contributions entail the muon veto panel system’s CAD modeling, 3D printing prototypes, testing and characterization of SiPMs/PMTs, and preparing the R&D for the upcoming production phase of over 100 muon veto panels.

Education:

  • B.S. Physics, Yale University, expected 2027
  • B.A. Film and Media Studies, Yale University, expected 2027

Contact Info

pablo.maciaslopez@yale.edu

WLC 254C

Experiments

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

CUORE & CUPID

Science goal: Search for neutrinoless double beta decay, which could answer why we live in a Universe of matter, not antimatter.

Group involvement: Yale is responsible for detector calibration, the study of cosmogenic backgrounds, double beta decay analysis, & the search for solar axions. Maruyama and Karsten Heeger are CO-PIs of CUORE & CUPID.

Close up of faces of people working on the CUORE cryostat in clean room garb.