Publications

Physical Signatures of Fermion-Coupled Axion Dark Matter

The axion-fermion coupling induces spin-dependent forces and torques, which can lead to macroscopic currents. “Magnetized multilayer” setups can use these currents to probe orders of magnitude beyond existing bounds.

Interactions of Particles with "Continuous Spin" Fields

Observed long-range forces are traditionally assumed to be mediated by fields with exactly zero spin scale. We present the first theory of matter particles interacting with “continuous spin” fields with arbitrary $\rho$, and show that there are calculable, universal, observable $\rho$-dependent modifications from familiar gauge theories.

Discovering QCD-Coupled Axion Dark Matter with Polarization Haloscopes

QCD axion dark matter induces oscillating EDMs, yielding physical currents that can be amplified in a microwave cavity. This setup has the unique ability to test whether a cavity haloscope signal arises from the QCD axion.

Probing Invisible Vector Meson Decays with NA64 and LDMX

Electron beam fixed target experiments such as NA64 and LDMX can improve constraints on invisible light vector meson decays by $5$ orders of magnitude, enhancing their sensitivity to dark matter of mass $m_\chi \gtrsim 0.1 \ \mathrm{GeV}$.

Stellar Shocks From Dark Matter Asteroid Impacts

When macroscopic dark matter passes through a star, the resulting shock waves cause a distinctive UV transient. Existing telescopes could probe orders of magnitude in dark matter mass in one week of observation.

Heterodyne Broadband Detection of Axion Dark Matter

We propose a new broadband search strategy for ultralight axion dark matter covering fifteen orders of magnitude in mass, including astrophysically long-ranged fuzzy dark matter.

Axion Dark Matter Detection by Superconducting Resonant Frequency Conversion

We propose an approach to search for axion dark matter with a superconducting radio frequency cavity, using axion-induced transitions between nearly degenerate resonant modes of frequency $\sim \text{GHz}$.

Casimir Meets Poisson: Improved Quark/Gluon Discrimination with Counting Observables

We introduce new IRC-safe counting observables whose discrimination performance exceeds that of jet mass and approaches that of track multiplicity.

Generalized Fragmentation Functions for Fractal Jet Observables

We introduce a broad class of fractal jet observables that recursively probe the collective properties of hadrons produced in jet fragmentation.

Minimum Energetic Cost to Maintain a Target Nonequilibrium State

We use the stochastic thermodynamics of Markov jump processes to compute the minimum rate at which energy must be supplied and dissipated to maintain an arbitrary nonequilibrium distribution in a given energy landscape.