Dr Alexander Goldsack

Alex Goldsack is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Experimental Particle & Astroparticle Physics group at King’s College London, working in the field of neutrino physics. After graduating with an MPhys in Physics with Particle Physics & Cosmology from Lancaster University, Alex completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford on a joint Oxford & Kavli IPMU scholarship.

During this time, he was partly based at the Kamioka Observatory in Japan, working hands-on with the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov detector. Alongside this, he worked on a search for neutrinos produced in nuclear reactors during Super-K's gadolinium-loaded phase, the topic of his thesis. His work on reactor neutrinos continues at King's, and his experience gained during his time working hands-on with SK feeds into his primary work as a postdoc, revolving around the upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. More specifically, he is working on the design and installation process of its outer detector, to be used as a cosmic muon veto.

Research interests

• Large-scale water Cherenkov detectors, especially those with gadolinium doping.
• The monitoring of nuclear reactor activity at a distance via neutrino flux measurements.
• Machine learning-based event classification and reconstruction techniques.
• Inverse beta decay searches and other low-energy neutrino physics.
• High-performance computing and intelligent trigger systems.