Rebecca Leane

Theoretical physicist @SLAClab @Stanford. Working on dark matter and astroparticle physics. Aussie living in the US. | @rkleane.bsky.social

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@innesbigaran Haha border security, did you see the cameras? Looking forward to summer too, see you back in Melb soon!

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@BeiZhouPhys @PedroANMachado I managed to get in now, apparently they made space by reassigning some people as "panelists"

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@SmirnovJuri Thanks for visiting and for the nice talk!

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@RisaWechsler @americanacad Congrats Risa! :D

[Elena Pinetti @elena_pinetti]

Workshop on Next Generation Gamma-ray Searches for Dark Matter kicking off on May 30 in Chicago. Registration is officially open! #DarkMatter #Chicago #workshop

https://t.co/rXH2V5pFXd

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

At the Aspen Physics Winter Conference this week. Currently -11°C and snowing! Ready for a week of good physics and ski.

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@innesbigaran @LoyolaChicago @waltertangarife Great photo!

[Javier F Acevedo @JavierFAcevedo1]

12/ The significance of our results is that they open up a much wider mass window for DM searches in celestial objects previously not considered. In light of this, experiments searching for DM in celestial bodies should consider the entire mass range that is accessible to them!

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

What is the minimum dark matter mass for many signals in stars and planets? To find out, check out Javier's nice thread on our new paper below!

[Javier F Acevedo @JavierFAcevedo1]

New paper day! https://t.co/ruHhvZ9uO0
With Rebecca Leane (@RKLeane) and Juri Smirnov (@SmirnovJuri), we investigate a process known as dark matter (DM) evaporation in celestial objects, and show how these objects could probe much lighter DM than previously thought. Thread:

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@theory_dad Haha! Know that feel...

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@elena_pinetti @JavierFAcevedo1 Thanks for the great talk and visit!

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

Welp.
https://t.co/jmqZVN0uou

[Darius @DarFaroughy]

Ouch

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@duetosymmetry Not surprised. 😀

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@KimBerghaus Very interesting work, congrats!

[Djuna Croon @DjunaCroon]

Excited to announce that we’re recruiting postdocs!

https://t.co/LxUXRiEOfz

Please spread the word & apply if you are interested in astroparticle physics, gravitational waves, machine learning, quantum computing or any of the other subjects we specialise in at the @IPPP_Durham!

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@toomanyspectra Peak cursed energy...

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

@SmirnovJuri Haha!

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

Maybe in the end, they will in part turn out to be DM. But for now, better systematic studies are really needed to understand these devices, which we motivate in our work.

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

New paper out today!

Dark Matter Induced Power in Quantum Devices
https://t.co/siIKqmdPEx
with my awesome SLAC colleagues Anirban Das and Noah Kurinsky (@nkurinsky)

We present single quasiparticle devices as new DM detectors, and obtain new DM limits. Thread:

[Rebecca Leane @RKLeane]

Going forward, these quantum devices have potential for improved sensitivities. On the more spicy side, there is already the fact that these devices have quasiparticle densities that have unknown origin.