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Millicharged dark matter particles can be efficiently captured by the Sun, where they annihilate into tau leptons, leading to the production of high-energy neutrinos. In [...]
17 October 2024 |
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I present a collection of forecasting, analysis, and instrumentation work related to the science cases and detector development for an upcoming camera for the 10-meter So [...]
2024-12 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Dissertation |
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In models featuring extra spatial dimensions, particle collisions in the early Universe can produce Kaluza-Klein gravitons. Such particles will later decay, potentially i [...]
24 October 2024 |
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The near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Neptune exoplanet GJ 1214 b has been observed to be flat and featureless, implying a high metallicity atmosphere w [...]
05 July 2023 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Article |
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Models developed for Earth are often applied in exoplanet contexts. Validation in extraterrestrial settings can provide an important test of model realism and increase ou [...]
18 August 2023 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics; Geophysical Sciences; Physics |
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We explore the physics of relativistic gapless phases defined by a mixed anomaly between two generalized conserved currents. The gapless modes can be understood as Goldst [...]
01 October 2024 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Article |
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Accelerator-based experiments reliant on charged pion and kaon decays to produce muon-neutrino beams also deliver an associated powerful flux of muons. Therefore, these e [...]
23 September 2024 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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Thermal relic dark matter below0 $∼10 GeV$ is excluded by cosmic microwave background data if its annihilation to visible particles is unsuppressed near the epoch [...]
12 August 2024 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Article |
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Millicharged particles appear in several extensions of the standard model, but have not yet been detected. These hypothetical particles could be produced by an intense pr [...]
13 August 2024 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics; Enrico Fermi Institute |
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In this thesis, I will cover the fabrication, testing, and analysis of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) for both THz and mm-wave spectroscopy. MKIDs are a d [...]
2024-08 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Dissertation |
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In this paper, we present an open-source software (Simulator of Asteroid Malformation Under Stress, SAMUS) that simulates constant-density, constant-viscosity liquid bodi [...]
03 May 2023 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics; Geophysical Sciences |
Article |
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The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is the outermost, gaseous envelope of a galaxy, spanning beyond the visible stellar disk and dominates the galaxy's baryonic mass. This ex [...]
2024-08 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Dissertation |
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In my thesis, I use state-of-the-art simulations to model and quantitatively resolve several of the important systematics for cluster cosmology. First, I quantify the imp [...]
2024-06 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Dissertation |
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Strong gravitational lensing occurs when light from a distant source is deflected by a massive object along its line of sight to an observer, causing the source image to [...]
2024-06 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Dissertation |
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Due to shielding, direct detection experiments are in some cases insensitive to dark matter candidates with very large scattering cross sections with nucleons. In this pa [...]
05 June 2018 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Article |
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We discuss the cosmological implications of the string swampland conjectures for late-time cosmology, and test them against a wide range of state of the art cosmological [...]
18 April 2019 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics; Enrico Fermi Institute; Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics |
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We propose to test the light sterile neutrino solution to the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) and MiniBooNE anomalies by measuring the coherent elastic scatt [...]
29 April 2020 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics; Physics |
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We extend the effective field theory of inflation to a general Lagrangian constructed from Arnowitt-Deser-Misner variables that encompasses the most general interactions [...]
23 April 2020 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Article |
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High to ultrahigh energy neutrino detectors can uniquely probe the properties of dark matter $𝜒$ by searching for the secondary neutrinos produced through annihilation [...]
01 October 2021 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics; Enrico Fermi Institute |
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In models of baryogenesis based on grand unified theories (GUTs), the baryon asymmetry of the Universe is generated through the CP and baryon number violating, out-of-equ [...]
01 February 2021 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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We study the role of the Standard Model Higgs condensate, formed during cosmological inflation, in the epoch of reheating that follows. We focus on the scenario where the [...]
26 October 2021 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics; Enrico Fermi Institute |
Article |
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It has recently been shown that a subdominant hidden sector of atomic dark matter in the early Universe provides a novel avenue toward resolving the Hubble ($H_0$) tensio [...]
10 May 2022 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Article |
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In twin Higgs models that contain the minimal particle content required to address the little hierarchy problem (i.e., fraternal models), the twin tau has been identified [...]
25 February 2022 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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In light of recent results from low-threshold dark matter detectors, we revisit the possibility of a common dark matter origin for multiple excesses across numerous direc [...]
01 June 2022 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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Recent theoretical work has explored dark matter accumulation in the Earth and its drift toward the center of the Earth that, for the current age of the Earth, does not n [...]
18 March 2022 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Article |
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