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Jack Genovesi

Jack Genovesi — Eberly Research Scholar — Postdoc
Office: 320A Osmond Laboratory
Address: 0104 Davey Laboratory University Park, PA 16802 US
jgg27@psu.edu
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Jack Genovesi
Physics LZ Dark Matter IGC

I am a Eberly Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics at Penn State. My research involves xenon purity physics and nuclear recoil (NR) calibrations of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment. Sufficient understanding of xenon purity is needed for event reconstruction in the xenon time projection chamber (TPC) and NR calibrations allow understanding of detector response for an anticipated Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) signal, which is expected to occur via nuclear recoils. LZ is located nearly a mile underground in South Dakota and features 10 tonnes of xenon for operation. LZ achieved a world-leading sensitivity to WIMP-like dark matter and continues to take data to further improve sensitivity.

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Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.