Professional Service/Activities – Susquehanna University

Phi Mu Delta Fraternity – Academic Advisor (Aug 2021 – Present)
Colloquium Guest Speaker – Jim Napolitano – Organizer (Nov 19, 2021)
3+2 BS/MS Collaboration with Temple University – Proposal and contact point (In Progress, started Oct 2021)

Susquehanna University Break Through: “Maximize Your Summer” – Moderator (Feb 7 and 19, 2022)
Faculty Lunch with President and Provost: Math, Physics, and Comp Sci – Participant (Feb 15, 2022)
Board of Trustees Lunch – Participant (Feb 28, 2022)
iEngineer Camp – Ran one session with camp students on building DC motors (Jul 20, 2022)

Middle States Committee: Section 7 - Committee member - (Summer 2022 – present)
Director of Retention Search - Committee member (Nov 2022 – Jan 2023)
Edward S and A Rita Schmidt Lecture in Ethics - speaker search - Committee member (Oct 2022)
SOAR Admitted Student Day : Meet and Greet – Faculty ambassador (Nov 11, 2022)
Common Reading Advisory Board – Board member (Nov 2022)

Temple Alumni STEM session – Panel Member (Mar 29, 2022)

• Spoke to Temple University STEM graduate students on careers after graduate school

SVUR Symposium Poster Judge (Summer 2022)

• Judged posters for Susquehanna Valley Undergraduate Research (SVUR) Symposium in the Health and Wellness Science category

Professional Development: Teaching

DEI Curriculum “DIAL” Certification (Susquehanna University) - Conferred Spring 2022

• INCE-120-A: The Cognitive Science of Bias (Nov 2, 2021)
• INCE-110-C: Everyone Has Implicit Bias (Nov 11, 2021)
• INCE-108-A: Addressing Bias in the Classroom or Workspace (Mar 3, 2022)

CTL Sessions

• New Faculty Mentoring – All sessions (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)
• Setting up IDEA Evals – Participant (Nov 18, 2021)
• Open Discussion on Student Expectations – Participant (Feb 17, 2022)
• First Generation Student Panel – Attendee (Feb 22, 2022)

Pre-Tenure Support Circle – Participant (Fall 2021 - Present)

New Faculty Mentor – Junior Mentor to 3 new faculty members (Fall 2022 – Present)

Professional Development: Research

PROSPECT Conceptual Design Review Panel – Reviewer (one of four) (Nov 15-18, 2021)
Neutrinos at ORNL – Attendee - virtual workshop (Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2021)
Various Snowmass Agora Meetings – Attendee – (Bi-monthly Nov 2021 - present)
Snowmass Agora on Future Colliders: Muon Colliders – Attendee – Virtual workshop (Feb 16, 2022)
Snowmass: Future Colliders – Attendee – Virtual Workshop (Feb 26, 2022)
Neutrino Frontier Meeting at Oak Ridge National Lab – Attendee – Virtual Workshop (Mar 16-18, 2022)
Second Snowmass Neutrino Colloquium: BSM with Neutrinos – Attendee – Virtual Meeting (Apr 20, 2022)

Internal Grants:

• SU Mini-Grant: Small Scale Cosmic Ray Detector Prototyping ($950, Feb 2022)
• SU NSS Summer Research Student Funding: Small Scale Cosmic Ray Detector Prototyping ($4220, Summer 2022)
• SU Mini-Grant: Small Scale Cosmic Ray Detector Prototyping ($1000, Mar 2023)
• SU NSS Summer Research Student Funding: Small Scale Cosmic Ray Detector Prototyping ($4220, Summer 2023)

Research Interests:

PROSPECT Collaboration: Ongoing work with the PROSPECT collaboration investigates the phenomenon of short baseline neutrino oscillations to probe the potential existence of sterile neutrinos (neutrinos that don’t interact via the weak force). In addition to these oscillations, PROSPECT aims to resolve the discrepancies between the calculated and measured flux of reactor antineutrinos, as well as better define the antineutrino energies via the isotopic contributions from reactor fuel. My contributions to the PROSPECT collaboration include analyzing neutron response data and advising on calibration and absolute flux measurement subgroups.

Individual Interests: The Earth is constantly bombarded by particles we refer to as “cosmic rays”. Near surface particle detector experiments (such as PROSPECT) must deal with these events (considered background) with various shielding efforts and event subtraction methods. Recently, the Cosmic Watch project has developed a desktop sized cosmic ray detector with inexpensive materials. The utility of this project is easily expanded with more R&D effort. The large-scale purpose of this project is to understand and catalog the various influences (barometric pressure/temperature, elevation, shielding, etc.) on high energy cosmic events, and the angular distribution via a detector assembly array. At present, I am in the research and prototyping phase on individual detector designs. At present, this prototyping is the focus of summer research projects with undergraduate students.

Publications

Andriamirado, M., et al. “Final Measurement of the U235 Antineutrino Energy Spectrum with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR” arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.10669 (2022). - In Peer Review

Andriamirado, M., et al. “Calibration strategy of the PROSPECT-II detector with external and intrinsic sources.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.09582 (2022). - In Peer Review

An, F. P., et al. “Joint Determination of Reactor Antineutrino Spectra from U235 and 239Pu Fission by Daya Bay and PROSPECT.” Physical Review Letters 128.8 (2022): 081801.

Almazán, Helena, et al. “Joint Measurement of the U235 Antineutrino Spectrum by PROSPECT and STEREO.” Physical Review Letters 128.8 (2022): 081802.

Andriamirado, M., et al. “PROSPECT-II physics opportunities.” Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 49.7 (2022): 070501

Andriamirado, M., et al. “Physics Opportunities with PROSPECT-II.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.12343
(2022). White paper for Snowmass Proceedings.

Andriamirado, M., et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration) “Limits on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment.” Physical Review D 104 (2021); 012009

Andriamirado, M., et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration) “Improved Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Search and Energy Spectrum Measurement with the PROSPECT Experiment at HFIR.” Physical Review D 103.3 (2021); 032001

Balantekin, A. B., et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration) “Nonfuel antineutrino contributions in the ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR).”Physical Review C 101.5 (2020): 054605.

Ashenfelter, J. et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration) “The Radioactive Source Calibration System of the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Detector.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment 944 (2019)

Ashenfelter, J. et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration) “Lithium-Loaded Liquid Scintillator Production for the PROSPECT Experiment.” Journal of Instrumentation 14.03 (2019)

Ashenfelter, J. et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration) “Measurement of the Antineutrino Spectrum from ²³⁵U Fission at HFIR with PROSPECT.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 122.25 (2019)

Ashenfelter, J. et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration) “The PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 922 (2019)

Ashenfelter, J. et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration) “First Search for Short-Baseline Neutrino Oscillations at HFIR with PROSPECT.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 121.25 (2018)

Ashenfelter, J. et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration) “Performance of a Segmented 6Li-Loaded Liquid Scintillator Detector for the PROSPECT Experiment.” Journal of Instrumentation 13.06 (2018)

Name attached, but little direct involvement on the following:

Acero, M.A., et al. “White Paper on Light Sterile Neutrino Searches and Related Phenomenology” arXiv preprint arXiv: 2203.07323 (2022)

Akindele, O. A., et al. “High Energy Physics Opportunities Using Reactor Antineutrinos” arXiv preprint arXiv: 2203.07214 (2022)

Presentations

“Muon and Neutrino detection, Big and Small” - Short Talks on Faculty Scholarship, Susquehanna University (Sept 29 ,2022)

“Simulating Calibrations and IBD for the PROSPECT Detector“ - APS April Meeting 2018, April 14-17 2018; Columbus, OH

Awards, Fellowships & Organizations

• American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) (Sept 2020 – Present)
• American Physical Society (APS) (January 2017 - Present)
• Summer Research Grant, University Fellowship Committee of the Graduate Board of Temple University (summer 2016)
• Teaching Assistant of the Year Nomination – Lehigh University (2012 & 2013)
• GAANN Teaching Fellowship – Lehigh University (2011-2012)

• FYSE-101: FYSE: Dungeons & Scholars
• FYSE-101: FYSE: Dungeons and Scholars
• FYSE-110: Dungeons and Scholars
• PHYS-101: Digital and Analog Electronics
• PHYS-201: Introductory Physics I Lab
• PHYS-202: Introductory Physics I: Algebra-Based
• PHYS-205: Introductory Physics II: Algebra-Based
• PHYS-206: Introductory Physics II: Calculus-based
• PHYS-207: Introductory Physics II Lab
• PHYS-302: Electric and Magnetic Fields
• PHYS-302L: Electric and Magnetic Fields Lab
• PHYS-305: Topics in Physics
• PHYS-405: Mathematical Physics
• PHYS-551: Physics Capstone I
• PHYS-552: Physics Capstone II