Particle Physics Research

For over a decade, I studied particle physics with a number of excellent collaborators. The following publications are available via my inSpire HEP. Many are also available via my Google Scholar profile. And in case it matters to you, my ORCiD is 0000-0001-5513-1938.

The arXiv category for the following papers is hep-ph unless noted.

48. A Phantom Menace: On the Morphology of the Galactic Center Excess arXiv:2209.00006 [astro-ph], with Yi-Ming Zhong and Ilias Cholis. Accepted as a MNRAS Letter. Publicly available code at this github repository.

47. Axion Instability Supernovae arXiv:2203.06160, with Djuna Croon and Jeremy Sakstein. Published in PRD.

47. The Return of the Templates: Revisiting the Galactic Center Excess with Multi-Messenger Observations arXiv:2112.09706 [astro-ph], with Ilias Cholis, Yi-Ming Zhong, and Osip Surdutovich. Published in PRD. Publicly available templates are provided at this Zenodo link.

45. Cosmologically Degenerate Fermions. arXiv:2108.02785, with Marcela Carena, Nina Coyle, Yingying Li, and Yuhsin Tsai. Published in PRD.

44. The Milky Way, Coming into Focus: Precision Astrometry Probes its Evolution, and its Dark Matter arXiv:2106.13284 [astro-ph], with Susan Gardner and Brian Yanny. Published in PPNP.

43. Neutron Star Quantum Death by Small Black Holes arXiv:2105.06504, with Pierce Giffin, John Lloyd, and Stefano Profumo. Published in PRD.

42. Find the Gap: Black Hole Population Analysis with an Astrophysically Motivated Mass Function arXiv:2104.02685 [astro-ph], with Eric Baxter, Djuna Croon, and Jeremy Sakstein. Published in ApJL.

41. Dark Matter Daily Modulation With Anisotropic Organic Crystals arXiv:2103.08601, with Carlos Blanco, Yonatan Kahn, and Benjamin Lillard. Published in PRD.

40. Late-Time Dark Matter Oscillations and the Core-Cusp Problem arXiv:2010.12583, with Jim Cline, Guillermo Gambini, and Matteo Puel. Published in JHEP.

39. Beyond the Standard Model Explanations of GW190521 arXiv:2009.01213 [gr-qc], with Jeremy Sakstein, Djuna Croon, Maria Straight, and Eric Baxter. Published in PRL.

38. Missing in Action: New Physics and the Black Hole Mass Gap arXiv:2007.07889 [gr-qc], with Djuna Croon and Jeremy Sakstein. Published in PRD. Selected as an Editor's Choice.

37. Missing in Axion: Where are XENON1T's Big Black Holes? arXiv:2007.00650, with Djuna Croon and Jeremy Sakstein. Published in PotDU.

36. Supernova Muons: New Constraints on Z' Bosons, Axions, and ALPs arXiv:2006.13942, with Djuna Croon, Gilly Elor, and Rebecca Leane. Published in JHEP.

35. Constraints on Primordial Black Holes From Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Revisited arXiv:2006.03608 [astro-ph], with Celeste Keith, Dan Hooper, and Nikita Blinov. Published in PRD.

34. Hot Gravitons and Gravitational Waves From Kerr Black Holes in the Early Universe arXiv:2004.00618 [astro-ph], with Dan Hooper, Gordan Krnjaic, John March-Russell, and Rudin Petrossian-Byrne.

33. Dark Photon Dark Matter in the Presence of Inhomogeneous Structure arXiv:2003.13698 [astro-ph], with Samuel J. Witte, Salvador Rosauro-Alcaraz, and Vivian Poulin. Published in JHEP.

32. A New Mask for An Old Suspect: Testing the Sensitivity of the Galactic Center Excess to the Point Source Mask arXiv:1911.12369 [astro-ph], with Yi-Ming Zhong, Ilias Cholis, and Patrick J. Fox. Published in PRL.

31. The Cosmological Evolution of Light Dark Photon Dark Matter arXiv:1911.05086, with Samuel J. Witte. Published in PRD.

30. Implications of BBN Bounds for Cosmic Ray Upscattered Dark Matter arXiv:1908.00007, with Gordan Krnjaic. Published in PRD.

29. Constraining the Self-Interacting Neutrino Interpretation of the Hubble Tension arXiv:1905.02727 [astro-ph], with Nikita Blinov, Kevin J. Kelly, and Gordan Krnjaic. Published in PRL.

28. Dark Radiation and Superheavy Dark Matter from Black Hole Domination arXiv:1905.01301, with Dan Hooper and Gordan Krnjaic. Published in JHEP.

27. Nuclear Kinetic Equilibrium During Big Bang Nucleosynthesis arXiv:1811.04932, with Michael Turner.

26. A Deeply Bound Dibaryon is Incompatible with Neutron Stars and Supernovae arXiv:1809.06765, with Sanjay Reddy and Srimoyee Sen. Published in PRD.

25. Constraining Dissipative Dark Matter Self-Interactions arXiv:1809.01144, with Rouven Essig, Hai-Bo Yu, and Yi-Ming Zhong. Published in PRL.

24. WIMPflation arXiv:1807.03308, with Dan Hooper, Gordan Krnjaic, and Andrew J. Long. Published in PRL.

23. Severely Constraining Dark Matter Interpretations of the 21-cm Anomaly arXiv:1803.02804, with Asher Berlin, Dan Hooper, and Gordan Krnjaic. Published in PRL. Selected as an Editor's Choice.

22. Analyzing the Gamma-ray Sky with Wavelets arXiv:1803.01952 [astro-ph], with Bhaskaran Balaji, Ilias Cholis, and Patrick J. Fox. Published in PRD.

21. Supernova 1987A Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Sectors, Millicharged Particles, the QCD Axion, and an Axion-like Particle arXiv:1803.00993, with Jae Hyeok Chang and Rouven Essig. Published in JHEP.

20. Robust Constraints and Novel Gamma-Ray Signatures of Dark Matter That Interacts Strongly With Nucleons arXiv:1802.03025, with Dan Hooper. Published in PRD.

19. Is Self-Interacting Dark Matter Undergoing Dark Fusion? arXiv:1711.00857,
fully aware of Hinchliffe's Rule. Published in PRL. Selected as an Editor's Choice.

18. Dark Photon Decay Beyond the Euler-Heisenberg Limit. arXiv:1705.00619, with Hiren H. Patel and Harikrishnan Ramani. Published in PRD.

17. Prospects for Distinguishing Dark Matter Models Using Annual Modulation. arXiv:1612.07808, with Samuel J. Witte and Vera Gluscevic. Published in JCAP.

16. Revisiting Supernova 1987A Bounds on Dark Photons. arXiv:1611.03864, with Jae Hyeok Chang and Rouven Essig. Published in JHEP.

15. Singlet Scalar Resonances and the Diphoton Excess. arXiv:1512.05326, with Patrick Meade and Harikrishnan Ramani. Published in PLB.

14. Wavelet-Based Techniques for the Gamma-Ray Sky. arXiv:1512.00012 [astro-ph], with Paddy Fox, Ilias Cholis, and Samuel K. Lee. Published in JCAP.

13. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dark Matter Elastic Scattering Through Higgs Loops But Were Afraid to Ask. arXiv:1508.05390, with Asher Berlin and Dan Hooper. Published in PRD.

12. Inflatable Dark Matter arXiv:1507.08660,with Hooman Davoudiasl and Dan Hooper. Published in PRL. Selected as an Editor's Choice.

11. Identifying the Theory of Dark Matter with Direct Detection arXiv:1506.04454, with Vera Gluscevic, Moira Gresham, Annika H. G. Peter, and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in JCAP. Associated code available here.</b>

10. Lining up the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess arXiv:1406.6408</a>. Published in Physics of the Dark Universe.

9. Hidden Sector Dark Matter Models for the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess arXiv:1405.5204, with Asher Berlin, Pierre Gratia and Dan Hooper. Published in PRD.

8. Simplified Dark Matter Models for the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess arXiv:1404.0022, with Asher Berlin and Dan Hooper. Published in PRD.

7. Dissecting the Gamma-Ray Background in Search of Dark Matter arXiv:1312.0608 [astro-ph], with Ilias Cholis and Dan Hooper. Published in JCAP.

6. Constraining Light Dark Matter with Diffuse X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Observations arXiv:1309.4091, with Rouven Essig, Eric Kuflik, Tomer Volansky, and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in JHEP.

5. Inspecting the Higgs for New Weakly Interacting Particles arXiv:1302.0314, with Cliff Cheung and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in JHEP.

4. Neutrino Phenomenology in a 3+1+1 Framework arXiv:1205.1791, with Eric Kuflik and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in PRD.

3. The Dark Matter Inverse Problem: Extracting Particle Physics from Scattering Events arXiv:1110.4281, with Hai-Bo Yu and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in PRD.

2. Constraints on Scalar Asymmetric Dark Matter from Black Hole Formation in Neutron Stars arXiv:1103.5472, with Hai-Bo Yu and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in PRD.

1. Turning off the Lights: How Dark is Dark Matter? arXiv:1011.2907, with Hai-Bo Yu and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in PRD.

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