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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1. Transient Radio Signatures from Neutron Star Encounters with QCD Axion Miniclusters
   T. D. P. Edwards, B. J. Kavanagh, L. Visinelli, C. Weniger
   Submitted to PRL, arXiv:2011.05378
   Code available here (archived on Zenodo)

2. Stellar Disruption of Axion Miniclusters in the Milky Way
   B. J. Kavanagh, T. D. P. Edwards, L. Visinelli, C. Weniger
   Submitted to PRD, arXiv:2011.05377
   Code available here (archived on Zenodo)

3. Integral X-ray constraints on sub-GeV Dark Matter
   M. Cirelli, N. Fornengo, B. J. Kavanagh, E. Pinetti
   Phys. Rev. D 103, 063022 (2021), arXiv:2007.11493

4. Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate
   A. M. Green, B. J. Kavanagh
   J. Phys. G 48 (2021) 4, 043001, arXiv:2007.10722
   Code and constraints available here

5. Measuring the local Dark Matter density in the laboratory
   B. J. Kavanagh, T. Emken, R. Catena
   Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett., arXiv:2004.01621
   Code available here (archived on Zenodo) and here

6. Detecting dark matter around black holes with gravitational waves: Effects of dark-matter dynamics on the gravitational waveform
   B. J. Kavanagh, D. A. Nichols, G. Bertone, D. Gaggero
   Phys. Rev. D 102, 083006 (2020), arXiv:2002.12811
   Code available here (archived on Zenodo), movies available here
   Featured in His Dark CMBlog

7. Impact of substructure on local dark matter searches
   A. Ibarra, B. J. Kavanagh, A. Rappelt
   JCAP 12 (2019) 013, arXiv:1908.00747

8. AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space
   Y. A. El-Neaj et al.
   EPJ Quantum Technology 7, 6 (2020), arXiv:1908.00802
   Signed as a supporting author

9. Gravitational wave probes of dark matter: challenges and opportunities
   G. Bertone, D. Croon, M. A. Amin, K. K. Boddy, B. J. Kavanagh, K. J. Mack, P. Natarajan, T. Opferkuch, K. Schutz, V. Takhistov, C. Weniger, T.-T. Yu
   SciPost Phys. Core 3, 007 (2020), arXiv:1907.10610

10. Paleo-Detectors for Galactic Supernova Neutrinos
    S. Baum, T. D. P. Edwards, B. J. Kavanagh, P. Stengel, A. K. Drukier, K. Freese, M. Gorski, C. Weniger
    Phys. Rev. D 101, 103017 (2020), arXiv:1906.05800
    Code available here (archived on Zenodo)

11. Discovery prospects of dwarf spheroidal galaxies for indirect dark matter searches
    S. Ando, B. J. Kavanagh, O. Macias, et al.
    JCAP 10 (2019) 040, arXiv:1905.07128
    Completed as part of the bachelors 'ITFA Workshop' (Jan 2019)

12. A Unique Multi-Messenger Signal of QCD Axion Dark Matter
    T. D. P. Edwards, M. Chianese, B. J. Kavanagh, S. M. Nissanke, C. Weniger
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 161101 (2020), arXiv:1905.04686
    Featured in University of Amsterdam News

13. Primordial Black Holes as Silver Bullets for New Physics at the Weak Scale
    G. Bertone, A. Coogan, D. Gaggero, B. J. Kavanagh, C. Weniger
    Phys. Rev. D 100, 123013 (2019), arXiv:1905.01238
    Code available here (archived on Zenodo)

14. Searching for low-mass dark matter particles with a massive Ge bolometer operated above-ground
    EDELWEISS Collaboration and B. J. Kavanagh
    Phys. Rev. D 99, 082003 (2019), arXiv:1901.03588

15. 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
    Phys. Rev. D 99, 043541 (2019), arXiv:1811.10549
    Code available here and here (archived on Zenodo)

16. Faint Light from Dark Matter: Classifying and Constraining Dark Matter-Photon Effective Operators
    B. J. Kavanagh, P. Panci, R. Ziegler
    J. High Energ. Phys. (2019) 2019: 89, arXiv:1810.00033

17. 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

18. 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

19. Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap
    L. Barack at al. (B. J. Kavanagh, Section coordinator "Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter")
    Class. Quantum Grav. 36 143001 (2019), arXiv:1806.05195
    White Paper for the COST action "Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, and Fundamental Physics"
    Featured in Physics World

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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)

23. 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
    Completed as part of the bachelors 'ITFA Workshop' (Jan 2018)

24. 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)

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. Discretising the velocity distribution for directional dark matter experiments
    B. J. Kavanagh
    JCAP 07 (2015) 019, arXiv:1502.04224

35. 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

36. Parametrizing the local dark matter speed distribution: a detailed analysis
    B. J. Kavanagh
    Phys. Rev. D 89, 085026 (2014), arXiv:1312.1852

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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