Katelin Schutz Explained

Katelin Schutz
Nationality:American
Workplaces:MIT, McGill
Education:Ph.D. Berkeley, B.S. MIT
Thesis Title:Searching for the invisible: how dark forces shape our Universe
Thesis Url:https://inspirehep.net/literature/1752455
Thesis Year:2019
Doctoral Advisor:Hitoshi Murayama
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Website:https://katelinschutz.com/

Katelin Schutz is an American particle physicist known for using cosmological observations to study dark sectors, that is new particles and forces that interact weakly with the visible world. She was a NASA Einstein Fellow[1] and Pappalardo Fellow[2] in the MIT Department of Physics and is currently an assistant professor of physics at McGill University.[3]

The American Physical Society awarded her the Sakurai Dissertation Award in theoretical particle physics in 2020, citing the highly original contributions from her PhD work.

Early life

Schutz grew up in rural western New York in the Finger Lakes region. In 2010, she graduated from Allendale Columbia School.[4]

Career

Schutz attended MIT, where she did research with Max Tegmark,[5] David Kaiser,[6] and Tracy Slatyer.[7] She was awarded a Hertz Fellowship and NSF Fellowship in 2014.[8] She did her PhD with Hitoshi Murayama at UC Berkeley.[9] She completed her thesis in 2019, titled "Searching for the invisible: how dark forces shape our Universe."[10]

Schutz joined McGill University in Montreal as an assistant professor in August 2021 as part of the Centre for High Energy Physics and in the McGill Space Institute.[11]

Research

Schutz studies extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics known as dark matter that might interact only weakly or indirectly with familiar matter made of quarks and leptons. For example, her research asks whether such dark matter particles might experience new forces outside of the Standard Model, and how we might detect such interactions. In particular, such particles would interact with standard matter via gravity, and such interactions may provide a "gravitational portal between dark and visible matter" that we can observe via astronomy, e.g. stars and galaxies, including nearby dwarf galaxies and the Milky Way itself, and also large-scale cosmological structures, such as the CMB, the Lyman-alpha forest, and the cosmological 21 cm line.[12] Schutz and colleagues have pointed out that if dark matter consists of particles that are far lighter than electrons, then particles in the Standard Model could create dark matter through feeble interactions at low temperature known as freeze-in.[13] [14] [15] [16] She has also studied strongly interacting massive particles as a dark matter candidate.[17]

Her research has also identified mechanisms for directly detecting dark matter particles through a two-excitation process in superfluid helium[18] [19] as well as for detecting primordial black holes using pulsar timing.[20]

She and her colleagues also simulate galactic halos,[21] and have used data from Gaia to observationally constrained the existence of a dark matter disk in the Milky Way.[22] [23]

Awards

As a graduate student, Schutz was a NSF Fellow and Hertz Foundation Fellow.[24] She was named a 2019 Rising Star in physics by the Stanford and MIT Departments of Physics.[25] In 2020 she was the first woman to receive the American Physical Society Sakurai Dissertation Award in theoretical particle physics.[26]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NASA Awards Prize Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2020 . Katelin Schutz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dark Sectors in High-Redshift Observations . March 25, 2020 . .
  2. Web site: Katelin Schutz, Pappalardo Fellow » MIT Physics. 2021-04-06. MIT Physics. en-US.
  3. Web site: People Detail - Trottier Space Institute at McGill . 2024-03-04 . tsi.mcgill.ca.
  4. Web site: Beyond the Birches - News for the Allendale Columbia School Community . Fall 2014 . KATELIN SCHUTZ '10 After graduating this spring from MIT, Katelin has continued on to UC Berkeley for a Ph.D. in cosmological phenomenology. For her undergraduate work, she earned four prestigious awards: a Hertz Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Fellowship, an Apker Award, and a Fellowship from UC Berkeley. .
  5. Zheng. H.. Tegmark. M.. Buza. V.. Dillon. J. S.. Gharibyan. H.. Hickish. J.. Kunz. E.. Liu. A.. Losh. J.. Lutomirski. A.. Morrison. S.. 2014-12-01. MITEoR: a scalable interferometer for precision 21 cm cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 445. 2. 1084–1103. 10.1093/mnras/stu1773. 0035-8711. free. 1405.5527.
  6. Multifield Inflation after Planck: Isocurvature Modes from Nonminimal Couplings . Katelin . Schutz . Evangelos I. . Sfakianakis . David I. . Kaiser . 2013-10-30. . 89 . 6 . 064044 . 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.064044 . 1310.8285 . 1721.1/89005 . 54016557 .
  7. Self-Scattering for Dark Matter with an Excited State . Katelin . Schutz . Tracy R. . Slatyer . Tracy Slatyer . 2014-09-09 . . 2015 . 021 . 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/01/021. 1409.2867 . 119199238 .
  8. Web site: 2015-06-10. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award Recipients, 2014. 2021-01-18.
  9. Web site: 2020 J.J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient - Katelin Schutz . 2020 . American Physical Society.
  10. PhD . Searching for the invisible: how dark forces shape our Universe . Katharine . Schutz . . 2019-08-29 .
  11. Web site: Katelin Schutz . 2021-01-12 .
  12. Web site: March 5, 2020 . Katelin Schutz . Searching for the Invisible – How Dark Forces Shape Our Universe . .
  13. Web site: October 15, 2020 . Katelin Schutz . Making dark matter out of light: the cosmology of sub-MeV freeze-in . .
  14. Web site: Dark Matter from Light Itself . March 5, 2019 . .
  15. Making dark matter out of light: freeze-in from plasma effects . Cora . Dvorkin . Cora Dvorkin . Tongyan . Lin . Katelin . Schutz . 2019-02-22 . . 99 . 11 . 115009 . 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.115009 . 1902.08623 . 2019PhRvD..99k5009D . 119247835 .
  16. Cosmology of Sub-MeV Dark Matter Freeze-In . Cora . Dvorkin . Cora Dvorkin. Tongyan . Lin . Katelin . Schutz . Physical Review Letters . 2021 . 127 . 11 . 111301 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.111301 . 34558939 . 2011.08186 . 2021PhRvL.127k1301D . 226976117 .
  17. Yonit Hochberg . Eric Kuflik . Robert Mcgehee . . Katelin Schutz . Strongly Interacting Massive Particles through the Axion Portal . Physical Review D . 98 . 2018 . 11 . 115031 . 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.115031 . 1806.10139 . 2018PhRvD..98k5031H . 127399422 .
  18. Detectability of Light Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium . Katelin . Schutz . Kathryn M. . Zurek . . 2016-09-14 . 117 . 12 . 121302 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.121302 . 27689261 . 1604.08206 . 2016PhRvL.117l1302S . 36465591 .
  19. Spotting Dark Matter with Supermaterials - Superconducting aluminum or superfluid helium could be used to detect superlight dark matter particles. . Physics . 2016-09-14 . 9 . .
  20. Schutz. Katelin. Liu. Adrian. 2017-01-11. Pulsar timing can constrain primordial black holes in the LIGO mass window. Physical Review D. 95. 2. 023002. 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.023002. 1610.04234. 2017PhRvD..95b3002S. 119206621. free.
  21. Mark Vogelsberger . Jesus Zavala . Katelin Schutz . . Evaporating the Milky Way halo and its satellites with inelastic self-interacting dark matter . 10.1093/mnras/stz340 . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 484 . 4 . April 2019 . 5437–5452 . . 1805.03203 . 2019MNRAS.484.5437V . 1721.1/127821 . 119449216 .
  22. Katelin Schutz . Tongyan Lin . Benjamin R. Safdi . Chih-Liang Wu . Constraining a Thin Dark Matter Disk with Gaia . Physical Review Letters . 121 . 2018 . 8 . 081101 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.081101 . 30192577 . 1711.03103 . 2018PhRvL.121h1101S . 52175218 .
  23. Web site: Deathblow Dealt to Dark Matter Disks - New data tracking the movements of millions of Milky Way stars have effectively ruled out the presence of a "dark disk" that could have offered important clues to the mystery of dark matter. . Natalie Wolchover . 2017-11-17 . .
  24. Web site: Hertz Fellow Profile: Katelin Schutz. 2021-01-13.
  25. Web site: Rising Stars In Physics 2019 . April 10–11, 2019 . .
  26. Web site: J. J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics. 2021-04-06. www.aps.org. en.

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