Peter W. Gorham

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Professor of Physics
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Watanabe Hall 324
808-956-9157 office
808-956-7391 (group secretary)
808-956-2930 fax

 
Recent news:



 
2022: The Comic Ray Lunar Sounder (CoRaLS), led by UHM Physics
selected for a DALI award (Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation). The project has been awarded about $3M of funding to increase the technology readiness level of space flight hardware for a payload with unique capabilities to detect subsurface ice in the lunar polar regions.

Lunar exploration analysis group (LEAG 2021) presentation
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The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna's (ANITA) successor long duration balloon mission to detect the highest energy cosmic neutrinos, the Payload for Ultra-high Energy Observations (PUEO) has been selected in early 2021 for the NASA Astrophysics Pioneers program
  • The first balloon mission ever selected to this new NASA program, which is designed for pathfinder missions with a rapid development cycle.
  • PUEO's first flight will be in December 2024.
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New results from ANITA in 2021: hints of possible cosmic tau neutrino signals: "Unusual Near-Horizon Cosmic-Ray-like Events Observed by ANITA-IV," published in Physical Review Letters
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2020
: Peter Gorham appears in John Michael Godier's Event Horizon YouTube series, for an extended discussion of high energy cosmic neutrinos and ANITA results.

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2020:
Erica Morley and Peter Gorham,  "Evidence for Nanocoulomb Charges on Spider Ballooning Silk," published in Physical Review E, July issue.
  • First measurement of ballooning silk charge, confirms that ballooning spiders can use Earth's electrostatic field to initiate flight, following up earlier work by E. Morley & D. Robert
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2018 ANITA results on Antarctic measurements of cosmic-ray-like particles garner significant press coverage, highlighted by Physical Review Letters, and covered extensively elsewhere
   UH News article here

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The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics awarded to Atsuto Suzuki and the KamLAND collaboration, including UH Physicists
  • For the fundamental discovery and exploration of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Encounters at the End of The World, directed by Werner Herzog, nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary at the 2009 Oscars. Features the ANITA project & Gorham's research in its final segment.
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Research (my very old list):

Radio Detection of High Energy Particles



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 last updated 5.9.2021