Dark Matter Detection, Neutrino Physics, and Compact Object Astrophysics
This community investigates the nature of dark matter and neutrinos while studying the extreme physics of neutron stars, white dwarfs, and black holes. The work focuses on direct detection experiments, neutrino oscillations, and the astrophysical consequences of stellar mergers and compact object interactions.
The research is dominated by the development and operation of large-scale detectors using liquid xenon, liquid argon, and germanium crystals to search for dark matter particles and neutrinoless double beta decay. Recurring themes include time projection chambers, coherent elastic scattering, and the analysis of proton-proton collisions. The community also extensively models neutron star mergers, white dwarf evolution, and the gravitational wave signatures of these events. Recent work continues to refine search strategies for weakly interacting massive particles and to analyze data from major observatories like LUX-ZEPLIN and XENONnT.
The community is most heavily represented in xenon research, accounting for 11.0% of all xenon literature, and in helium research, comprising 5.8% of that element's output. It also contributes 5.8% of argon research and 3.2% of germanium research. The total corpus consists of 13,290 papers, published primarily in The Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Instrumentation, and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Recent papers focus on constraints from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, updates to the muon anomalous magnetic moment, and new dark matter search results from XENONnT. Work on neutrino oscillations in core-collapse supernovae and the design of next-generation liquid xenon observatories also appears in the latest literature.
Papers behind this description
- First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment β Physical Review Letters, 2023 β doi:10.1103/physrevlett.131.041002
- First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment β Physical Review Letters, 2023 β doi:10.1103/physrevlett.131.041003
- Dark Matter Search Results from 4.2 Tonne β Years of Exposure of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment β Physical Review Letters, 2025 β doi:10.1103/4dyc-z8zf
- Cosmological phase transitions: From perturbative particle physics to gravitational waves β Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 β doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2023.104094
- First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Testing Astrophysical Models of the Galactic Center Black Hole β The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2022 β doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac6672
- Direct neutrino-mass measurement based on 259 days of KATRIN data β Science, 2025 β doi:10.1126/science.adq9592
- Toward the discovery of matter creation with neutrinoless Ξ²Ξ² decay β Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 β doi:10.1103/revmodphys.95.025002
- Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons β Nature, 2026 β doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09900-4
- WIMP Dark Matter Search Using a 3.1 Tonne-Year Exposure of the XENONnT Experiment β Physical Review Letters, 2025 β doi:10.1103/msw4-t342
- Neutrino Oscillations in Core-Collapse Supernovae and Neutron Star Mergers β Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2025 β doi:10.1146/annurev-nucl-121423-100853
- Search for Majorana Neutrinos with the Complete KamLAND-Zen Dataset β Physical Review Letters, 2025 β doi:10.1103/jkf6-48j8
- New limit on the $${\upmu ^+ \rightarrow e^+ \upgamma }$$ decay with the MEG II experiment β The European Physical Journal C, 2025 β doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14906-3
- Binary Stars Take What They Get: Evidence for Efficient Mass Transfer from Stripped Stars with Rapidly Rotating Companions β The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2025 β doi:10.3847/2041-8213/adfdd4