Dr. Frank McNally

Education

• Ph.D., Physics, University of Wisconsin – Madison
• B.A., Physics, Carleton College

Specialty

Particle astrophysics

Professional Interests

Dr. McNally’s lab studies cosmic rays — high-energy charged particles bombarding the Earth from space — in an effort to identify their sources. He works with the IceCube Observatory to detect cosmic rays via the showers of secondary particles they produce after hitting Earth’s atmosphere. Specific areas of interest include cosmic ray anisotropy, spectrum, and composition, as well as the application of machine learning to air-shower reconstruction.

Recent Publications

• F. McNally, R. Abbasi, P. Desiati, J.C. Díaz Vélez, T. Aguado*, K. Gruchot*, A. Moy*, A. Simmons**, A. Thorpe**, and H. Woodward* for the IceCube Collaboration, “Observation of Cosmic Ray Anisotropy with Nine Years of IceCube Data,” Proceedings of Science (ICRC2021) 320 (arXiv:2107.11454)
• E. Bechtol, K. Bechtol, S. BenZvi, C. Bleve, D. Castro, B. Cenko, L. Corlies, A. Furniss, C. M. Hui, D. Kaplan, J. S. Key, J. Madsen, F. McNally, M. McLaughlin, R. Mukherjee, R. Ojha, J. Sanders, M. Santander, J. Schlieder, D. H. Shoemaker, S. Vigeland, “Towards Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Science Collaborations: The Multimessenger Diversity Network,” Proceedings of Science (ICRC2021) 395 (arXiv.2107.12179)
• M. G. Aartsen, et al. (IceCube Collaboration), “Detection of a Particle Shower at the Glashow Resonance with IceCube,” Nature 591 (2021) 220-224 (arXiv:2110.15051)
• M.G. Aartsen, et al. (IceCube Collaboration), “Cosmic ray spectrum and composition from PeV to EeV using 3 years of data from IceTop and IceCube,” Phys. Rev. D. 100, 082002 (2019) (arXiv:1906.04317)
• M.G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration), “Anisotropy in Cosmic-Ray Arrival Directions in the Southern Hemisphere with Six Years of Data from the IceCube Detector,” Astrophys. J. 826 (2016) no.2, 220 (arXiv:1603.01227)

* undergraduate author
** Mercer undergraduate author

Contact Dr. Frank McNally

(478) 301-2747
mcnally_ft@mercer.edu
Office: Science and Engineering Building, Room 208