{"id":3451,"date":"2019-05-13T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=3451"},"modified":"2019-05-13T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:31:30","slug":"ana-machado","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/ana-machado\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Machado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\">\n<div class=\"photoshadow\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/18-0245-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\">\n<div class=\"infobox\">\n<div class=\"infoboxtop\"><strong>Ana Machado<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxmiddle\"><strong>ARAPUCA Photon Detection System<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<strong>University of Campinas, Brazil<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoboxbottom\">\n<blockquote><p>Arapuca is a Brazilian word \u2013 it\u2019s an indigenous Guarani word that means &#8216;a trap to catch birds.&#8217; Our ARAPUCA is a technology used for photon detection, and it\u2019s an idea my husband and I had as we returned from the lab to our house about three years ago. We did some calculations and simulations, and then some trap tests. The light from particle interactions can enter the box, reflect around, and eventually hit the photosensor. This technology is already installed in the DUNE test detector, ProtoDUNE, and I\u2019m responsible for the installation in the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermilab and am working on production in Brazil. We\u2019re doing studies of different geometries to improve the efficiency, and it seems to be getting more efficient. I have spent a lot of time in my scientific career working on scintillation light, so I\u2019m enjoying this.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div class=\"learnmore\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnal.gov\/pub\/science\/lbnf-dune\/index.html\">Curious about the project? Learn more about DUNE, LBNF and PIP-II<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana Machado ARAPUCA Photon Detection System University of Campinas, Brazil Arapuca is a Brazilian word \u2013 it\u2019s an indigenous Guarani word that means &#8216;a trap to catch birds.&#8217; Our ARAPUCA is a technology used for photon detection, and it\u2019s an idea my husband and I had as we returned from the lab to our house&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/ana-machado\/\" title=\"Ana Machado\" rel=\"alternate\"> Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3451","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3451\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}