Publications
Please find below my list of scientific publications (also available for download in PDF format).
For citation information, please consult my full listing or my author profile on inSPIRE-HEP.
My ORCID ID is orcid.org/0000-0002-3634-4679.
My profile on ImpactStory can be viewed here.
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Searching for low-mass dark matter particles with a massive Ge bolometer operated above-ground
EDELWEISS Collaboration and B. J. Kavanagh
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D, arXiv:1901.03588 -
Digging for Dark Matter: Spectral Analysis and Discovery Potential of Paleo-Detectors
T. D. P. Edwards, B. J. Kavanagh, C. Weniger, S. Baum, A. K. Drukier, K. Freese, M. Górski, P. Stengel
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D, arXiv:1811.10549
Code available here and here (archived on Zenodo) -
Faint Light from Dark Matter: Classifying and Constraining Dark Matter-Photon Effective Operators
B. J. Kavanagh, P. Panci, R. Ziegler
Submitted to JHEP, arXiv:1810.00033 -
Statistical challenges in the search for dark matter
S. Algeri et al. (Editors: T. D. P. Edwards, B. J. Kavanagh, P. Scott, A. Vincent)
arXiv:1807.09273 -
Bracketing the impact of astrophysical uncertainties on local dark matter searches
A. Ibarra, B. J. Kavanagh, A. Rappelt
JCAP 12 (2018) 018, arXiv:1806.08714 -
Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap
L. Barack at al. (B. J. Kavanagh, Section coordinator “Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter”)
arXiv pre-print, arXiv:1806.05195
White Paper for the COST action “Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, and Fundamental Physics”. -
Black Holes’ Dark Dress: On the merger rate of a subdominant population of primordial black holes
B. J. Kavanagh, D. Gaggero, G. Bertone
Phys. Rev. D 98, 023536 (2018), arXiv:1805.09034
Code available here (archived on Zenodo), movies available here -
Dark Matter Model or Mass, but Not Both: Assessing Near-Future Direct Searches with Benchmark-free Forecasting
T. D. P. Edwards, B. J. Kavanagh, C. Weniger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 181101 (2018), arXiv:1805.04117
Code available here and here
Featured in University of Amsterdam News -
Prospects for exploring New Physics in Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
J. Billard, J. Johnston, B. J. Kavanagh
JCAP 11 (2018) 016, arXiv:1805.01798
Illustrative code available here (archived on Zenodo) -
Precision constraints on radiative neutrino decay with CMB spectral distortion
J. L. Aalberts, S. Ando, W. M. Borg, E. Broeils, J. Broeils, S. Broeils, B. J. Kavanagh, G. Leguijt, M. Reemst, D. R. van Arneman, H. Vu
Phys. Rev. D 98, 023001 (2018), arXiv:1803.00588 -
Earth-Scattering of super-heavy Dark Matter: updated constraints from detectors old and new
B. J. Kavanagh
Phys. Rev. D 97, 123013 (2018), arXiv:1712.04901
Code available here (archived on Zenodo) -
Time-integrated directional detection of dark matter
C. A. J. O’Hare, B. J. Kavanagh, A. M. Green
Phys. Rev. D 96, 083011 (2017), arXiv:1708.02959 -
Prospects for determining the particle/antiparticle nature of WIMP dark matter with direct detection experiments
B. J. Kavanagh, F. S. Queiroz, W. Rodejohann, C. E. Yaguna
J. High Energ. Phys. (2017) 2017: 59, arXiv:1706.07819
Code available here -
Probing Leptophilic Dark Sectors with Hadronic Processes
F. D’Eramo, B. J. Kavanagh, P. Panci
Phys. Lett. B 771 (2017) 339-348, arXiv:1702.00016 -
Signatures of Earth-scattering in the direct detection of Dark Matter
B. J. Kavanagh, R. Catena, C. Kouvaris
JCAP 01 (2017) 012, arXiv:1611.05453
Code (and animations) available here -
Reconstructing the three-dimensional local dark matter velocity distribution
B. J. Kavanagh, C. A. J. O’Hare
Phys. Rev. D 94, 123009 (2016), arXiv:1609.08630 -
You can hide but you have to run: direct detection with vector mediators
F. D’Eramo, B. J. Kavanagh, P. Panci
J. High Energ. Phys. (2016) 2016: 111, arXiv:1605.04917
Code available here -
A review of the discovery reach of directional Dark Matter detection
F. Mayet, A. M. Green, J. B. R. Battat, J. Billard, N. Bozorgnia, G. B. Gelmini, P. Gondolo, B. J. Kavanagh, S. K. Lee, D. Loomba J. Monroe, B. Morgan, C. A. J. O’Hare, A. H. G. Peter, N. S. Phan, S. E. Vahsen
Phys. Rep. 627 (2016) 1, arXiv:1602.03781
Highlighted in Physics Reports -
Re-examining the significance of the 750 GeV diphoton excess at ATLAS
B. J. Kavanagh
arXiv pre-print (2016), arXiv:1601.07330
Code available here
Featured on Résonaances and Syymmetries -
New directional signatures from the non-relativistic effective field theory of dark matter
B. J. Kavanagh
Phys. Rev. D 92, 023513 (2015), arXiv:1505.07406 -
Discretising the velocity distribution for directional dark matter experiments
B. J. Kavanagh
JCAP 07 (2015) 019, arXiv:1502.04224 -
Probing WIMP particle physics and astrophysics with direct detection and neutrino telescope data B. J. Kavanagh, M. Fornasa, A. M. Green
Phys. Rev. D. 91, 103533 (2015), arXiv:1410.8051 -
Parametrizing the local dark matter speed distribution: a detailed analysis
B. J. Kavanagh
Phys. Rev. D 89, 085026 (2014), arXiv:1312.1852 -
WIMP physics with ensembles of direct-detection experiments
A. H. G. Peter, V. Gluscevic, A. M. Green, B. J. Kavanagh, S. K. Lee
Phys. Dark Universe 5-6 (2014) 45-74, arXiv:1310.7039 -
Model independent determination of the dark matter mass from direct detection
B. J. Kavanagh and A. M. Green
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 031302 (2013), arXiv:1303.6868
Featured on Phys.org -
Improved determination of the WIMP mass from direct detection data
B. J. Kavanagh and A. M. Green
Phys. Rev. D 86, 065027 (2012), arXiv:1207.2039