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Niah O'Briant

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Program Year:
1
University:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Field of Study:
Physics
Advisor:
Julieta Gruszko
Degree(s):
B.S. Physics, and B.S. Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025

Publications

Idoko, F. E.; Ayangeakaa, A. D.; Sensharma, N.; Chiara, C. J.; Zhu, S.; McCutchan, E. A.; et al. O’Briant, N. N. “High-spin spectroscopy and the onset of quasicollective structures in 69Ga.” (preprint; arXiv:2510.01423 [nucl-ex], 2025).

LEGEND Collaboration; Acharya, H. et al. O’Briant, N. “First Results on the Search for Lepton Number Violating Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the LEGEND-200 Experiment.” (preprint; arXiv:2505.10440 [hep-ex], 2025).

Eingorn, M.; O’Briant, Niah; Arzu, K.; Brilenkov, M.; Zhuk, A. “Gravitational potentials and forces in the Lattice Universe: a slab.” Eur. Phys. J. Plus 136, 205 (2021). (arXiv:2112.14281 [gr-qc]).
O’Briant, Niah. “Investigating the Structure of 69Ga.” National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) Conference, Knoxville, TN, November 9–12, 2023. (Oral presentation; abstract id. 87.)

O’Briant, Niah. “Investigating the Structure of 69Ga.” DOE Nuclear Physics Traineeship (TUNL) End-of-Program Research Symposium, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), Durham, NC, July 2023. (Oral presentation.)
Niah O’Briant. Exploring the Dynamics of Neutral Halo Clouds in Galactic Rain Models. UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research (Poster), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024. Faculty Advisor: Fabian Heitsch.

Niah O’Briant. Investigating the Structure of 69Ga. Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) (Poster), Clemson University, 2024.

Awards

NC MilVet Scholarship (recipient).

Travel Support Award — National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) Conference (recipient; conference travel funding).

LEGEND Collaboration Meeting Travel Support — attended collaboration meeting in Italy (March 2025) as part of LEGEND research activities.

DOE Nuclear Physics Traineeship (TUNL) — trainee (Summer 2023).