Dan Hooper
Daniel Wayne Hooper (born December 16, 1976) is an American cosmologist and particle physicist specializing in the areas of dark matter, cosmic rays, and neutrino astrophysics. He is a senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory[1] and a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago.[2]
Daniel Wayne Hooper | |
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Dan Hooper lectures during Fermilab's Saturday Morning Physics lecture on January 7, 2017 | |
| Born | 16 December 1976 Minnesota, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
| Known for | Research in dark matter, particle physics, and cosmology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Cosmology, Astrophysics |
| Institutions | Fermilab, University of Chicago, University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Francis Halzen |
Hooper is the author of several books, including Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy (2006),[3] Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force (2008),[4] and At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds (2019).[5]
Career Edit
Hooper received his PhD in physics in 2003 from the University of Wisconsin,[2] under the supervision of Francis Halzen. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford between 2003 and 2005, and the David Schramm Fellow at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) from 2005 until 2007.[6] He is currently a senior scientist at Fermilab[1] and a professor in the astronomy and astrophysics department at the University of Chicago.[2] He is also a member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago.[7] Since 2017, he has been the head of Fermilab's Theoretical Astrophysics Group.[1]
Hooper has authored or co-authored over 200 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.[8] The most highly cited of these papers includes a 2005 review of dark matter (co-authored by Gianfranco Bertone and Joseph Silk),[9] as well as a series of papers written between 2009 and 2014 on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope's Galactic Center excess and its possible connection to annihilating dark matter.[10][11][12][13] In 2017 he was elected to become a fellow of the American Physical Society, "For pursuing the identity of dark matter by combining careful analysis of observational data with theoretical ideas from both particle physics and astrophysics."[14]
Popular books and podcast Edit
Hooper is the author of two books published by Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins. The first, Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy (2006) was named a notable book by Seed Magazine.[15] His second book, Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force (2008), was called "essential reading" by New Scientist.[4]
Hooper's third book is At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds (2019), published by Princeton University Press.[5]
Since 2020, Dan Hooper and Shalma Wegsman have run the physics podcast Why This Universe? which appears every other week.[16]
In popular culture Edit
Hooper has also written for popular magazines including Astronomy,[17] Sky and Telescope,[18] and New Scientist,[19] and appeared on television and radio programs including Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (season 4), BBC's Horizon,[20] BBC World News, Space's Deepest Secrets,[20] and NPR's Science Friday.[21][22][23]
References Edit
- ^ a b c "Dan Hooper". Physics. APS Physics. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Dan Hooper". The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The University of Chicago. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ Lincoln, Don (December 1, 2006). "Reviewed: Dark Cosmos: In search of our universe's missing mass and energy". Symmetry: Dimensions of Particle Physics. Symmetry Magazine. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ a b Jamieson, Valerie (October 1, 2008). "Review: Nature's Blueprint by Dan Hooper". New Scientist. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ a b At the Edge of Time. Princeton University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780691183565. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
- ^ "Dan Hooper". Dan Hooper. Fermilab. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ "Daniel Hooper". Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. University of Chicago. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ "Hooper, Daniel W." INSPIRE HEP. INSPIRE. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ Bertone, Gianfranco; Hooper, Dan; Silk, Joseph (2005). "Particle dark matter: Evidence, candidates and constraints". Physics Reports. Amsterdam. 405 (5–6): 279–390. arXiv:hep-ph/0404175. Bibcode:2005PhR...405..279B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2004.08.031. ISSN 0370-1573. S2CID 118979310.
- ^ Hooper, Dan; Goodenough, Lisa (2011). "Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center as Seen by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope". Physics Letters B. Amsterdam. 697 (5): 412–428. arXiv:1010.2752. Bibcode:2011PhLB..697..412H. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.02.029. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 118446838.
- ^ Daylan, Tansu; Finkbeiner, Douglas P.; Hooper, Dan; Linden, Tim; Portillo, Stephen K. N.; Rodd, Nicholas L.; Slatyer, Tracy R. (2016). "The Characterization of the Gamma-Ray Signal from the Central Milky Way: A Case for Annihilating Dark Matter". Physics of the Dark Universe. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 12: 1–23. arXiv:1402.6703. Bibcode:2016PDU....12....1D. doi:10.1016/j.dark.2015.12.005. ISSN 2212-6864. S2CID 55631405.
- ^ Hooper, Dan; Linden, Tim (December 15, 2011). "On the Origin of the Gamma Rays from the Galactic Center". Physical Review D. College Park, MD: American Physical Society. 84 (12): 123005. arXiv:1110.0006. Bibcode:2011PhRvD..84l3005H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.123005. ISSN 2470-0010. S2CID 119297851.
- ^ Goodenough, Lisa; Hooper, Dan (October 2009). "Possible Evidence for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Inner Milky Way from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope" (Report). Batavia, IL: Fermilab. arXiv:0910.2998. Bibcode:2009arXiv0910.2998G. FERMILAB-PUB-09-494-A.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS Physics. American Physical Society. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ "Dark Cosmos". Harper Collins Publishers. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ "Why This Universe? - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ "5 Questions With David J Eicher: Episode 5 – Dan Hooper". Astronomy. Kalmbach Publishing Co. May 4, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ The Editors of Sky & Telescope (November 26, 2012). "Sky & Telescope January 2013". Sky & Telescope. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Hooper, Dan (February 2, 2011). "Dark Matter: The Evidence". New Scientist. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ a b "Dan Hooper". IMDB. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ "Massive Particle Accelerator Is Ready To Go". NPR WBEZ. National Public Radio. August 29, 2008. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ "Magnet Meltdown At The Large Hadron Collider". NPR WBEZ. National Public Radio. September 26, 2008. Retrieved March 9, 2008.
- ^ "Dan Hooper". Science Friday. Science Friday Initiative. Retrieved March 9, 2018.