PAPER Experiment

The Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization is a radio interferometer designed to detect 21 cm Hydrogen (HI) fluctuations occuring when the first galaxies ionized intergalactic gas at around 500 million years after the Big Bang.  The Penn PAPER team is led by Professor James Aguirre.

 

Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a second generation dedicated solar neutrino experiment which has extended the results of the Penn group with the Kamiokande II detector by measuring three reactions of solar neutrinos to fully resolve the solar neutrino problem.

 

Protein-Nanotube Hybrid

The image depicts a nanobiosensor consisting of a carbon nanotube (gray) covalently attached to the coxsackie-adenovirus receptor (magenta). This device detects the adenovirus, one of the viruses responsible for the common cold, when Knob proteins from the virus capsid (orange) bind to the receptor (magenta). These devices were synthesized in Prof. Charlie Johnson's group.

 

Reflective Self-Assembling Proteins

Prof. Alison Sweeney studies the biophysical properties of reflectin - a highly reflective and self-organizing squid protein found in cephalopods like the Hawaiian Bobtail squid shown here.

 

DES First Light

One of the first images from the DECam (the half-gigapixel camera of the Dark Energy Survey) showing the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365. Penn faculty and staff play a prominent role in leading the DES effort.

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