Monthly Archives: August 2018

I have a paper out with my advisor, Peter Graham:

preprint link (arXiv)

journal link (Physical Review D)

In a sentence: Really light QCD axions don’t have to be fine-tuned; you can avoid overclosure naturally if inflation is long enough and slow enough.

This went up on arXiv in May and was published in PRD last week. In the meantime, I’ve given talks on it at two conferences: the Patras Axion-WIMP at DESY in Hamburg*, and IDM (Identification of Dark Matter) at my alma mater, Brown University.

Talk slides (IDM edition): PDF, PPT

The PPT version has a cute animation, which I left out of the PDF because my laptop can’t display PDF animations anyway.

If you’re curious about my work but aren’t a specialist in axion dark matter, let me know and maybe I’ll write a post explaining all of this with less jargon 🙂

*If you’re ever in Hamburg, check out the gardens (Planten un Blomen) and the model train museum (Miniatur Wunderland). And DESY, of course.

I’m reactivating this blog after half a decade.

All of the posts prior to this one are random odds and ends from high school and college. Going forward, I’ll probably be using this for updates on my research and such. Maybe some fun side projects, too.