WIMPS may be down, but they’re not out. A nearly 4-ton tank of xenon will start a two-year run in March at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. And a team in South Korea, the Cosine-100 collaboration, seeks to check a controversial claim from another Gran Sasso experiment called DAMA. In that experiment, an […]
Katherine Freese is a theoretical physicist and her area of focus is dark matter. Yes, just like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. She is currently a professor at The University of Texas, Austin. She was one of the first women to earn a BA in Physics from Princeton University. She also has an MA […]
The Longhorns being honored during this special Tower lighting include: Katherine Freese – Elected to National Academy of Sciences
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Astrophysicist Katherine Freese, professor at the Department of Physics, Stockholm University, and at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences.
Freese, who holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics, works on a wide range of topics in theoretical cosmology and astroparticle physics. She has been working to identify the dark matter and dark energy that permeate the universe as well as to build a successful model for the early universe immediately after […]
Freese, Katherine; Jeff and Gail Kodosky Professor of Physics, department of physics, The University of Texas at Austin; professor, Stockholm University
Florian Kühnel and Katherine Freese studied the impact of quantum fluctuations of the scalar field driving inflation on primordial black hole formation. They calculated the power and mass spectra for a field with inflection points, and found that primordial black hole formation is significantly enhanced. Hence, the effects of quantum fluctuations need to be taken […]
A confirmation that DAMA is indeed seeing dark matter would open another gold mine of sorts. Katherine Freese, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Texas, first proposed the technique of searching for an annual modulation of the dark matter signal in the galactic halo in 1986. Freese says that if the DAMA signal is […]
