Katelin Schutz
About
How different would our Universe look if it contained extra particles and forces beyond what we know about already? We already have ample evidence for at least one — dark matter — which has properties unlike any particle we have previously discovered. In my research, I reimagine astrophysical systems as particle physics experiments that already exist “for free” in nature. I harness the most extreme range of systems in the Universe (spanning more than 18 orders of magnitude in distance and time) in order to fully explore the expansive possibilities for the new particles that are just waiting to be discovered.
Awards
- Canada Research Chair in Astrophysics beyond the Standard Model, 2023
- Einstein Fellow, NASA, 2020
- Sakurai Dissertation Award, American Physical Society, 2019
- Pappalardo Fellowship, MIT Department of Physics, 2019
- Hertz Fellow, The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, 2014
Relevant Publications
- Dvorkin, C. & Lin, T. & Schutz, K. (2019). Making dark matter out of light: freeze-in from plasma effects. Physical Review D (Editor's Suggestion), 99, 115009. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.115009
- Schutz, K. (2020). Subhalo mass function and ultralight bosonic dark matter. Physical Review D, 101, 123026. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.123026
- Schutz, K. & Lin, T. & Safdi, B. & Wu, C.-L. (2018). Constraining a Thin Dark Matter Disk with Gaia. Physical Review Letters, 121, 081101. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.081101