Dr. Emrah Tiras and his group from the Physics Department at Erciyes University (ERU) joined the ANNIE and NOvA international neutrino collaborations at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the US. Fermilab is one of the 17 national laboratories funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) of the US and, after CERN, it is the second-largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

ERU signed a user agreement with Fermilab and it became the first institution from Turkey in the NOvA and ANNIE international neutrino collaborations. Dr. Tiras' group will continue contributing to the neutrino physics effort at Fermilab and working on the detector research and development (R&D) studies for future neutrino experiments. ERU will soon be one of the host institutions of a Remote Operation Center (ROC) for the ANNIE and NOvA experiments. The ROC will allow Turkish physicists to operate the ANNIE and NOvA detectors and monitor the BNB and NuMI neutrino beamlines at Fermilab.

Dr. Tiras is also holding an affiliated scientist position at the University of Iowa (UI) in the US, and he is working on the detector R&D projects with the UI high-energy physics group for the CMS experiment at CERN. The neutrino physics group at Erciyes is in collaboration with several physicists from different universities around the world, and Dr. Tiras is also aiming to contribute to the future neutrino experiments; DUNE and THEIA.

For more details of the ANNIE and NOvA experiments at Fermilab, please click the links below:

https://annie.fnal.gov/

https://novaexperiment.fnal.gov/