Richard J. Creswick

Richard J. Creswick serves as a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina. His research centers on experimental particle astrophysics with international collaborations.

His primary research focuses on neutrino-less double beta decay through the CUORE collaboration at Italy's LNGS underground laboratory, where he operates a ton-scale tellurium dioxide bolometer detector at 10-20 mK temperatures. This work aims to determine whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles and explain cosmic matter-antimatter asymmetry. He simultaneously investigates axions as dark matter candidates through both CUORE detector observations of solar axions and laboratory experiments using strong magnetic fields to convert photons to axions. His research bridges particle physics, cosmology, and detector technology development.

Professor Creswick actively collaborates on experimental setups for axion detection and contributes to fundamental questions in particle physics through the CUORE collaboration's cryogenic detector systems.