Dan Hooper

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Daniel Wayne Hooper
Dan Hooper lectures during Fermilab's Saturday Morning Physics lecture on January 7, 2017
Born (1976-12-16) 16 December 1976 (age 48)
Minnesota, United States
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD)
Known forResearch in dark matter, particle physics, and cosmology
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Cosmology, Astrophysics
InstitutionsFermilab, University of Chicago, University of Oxford, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisorFrancis Halzen

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 professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison[1] and the director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC).[2]

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

Hooper received his PhD in physics in 2003 from the University of Wisconsin,[6] 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.[7] He is currently a senior scientist at Fermilab[8] and a professor in the astronomy and astrophysics department at the University of Chicago.[6] He is also a member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago.[9] Since 2017, he has been the head of Fermilab's Theoretical Astrophysics Group.[8]

Hooper has authored or co-authored over 200 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.[10] The most highly cited of these papers includes a 2005 review of dark matter (co-authored by Gianfranco Bertone and Joseph Silk),[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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."[16]

On September 9, 2024, Hooper will begin his role as the director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC). He will hold a joint faculty appointment at the UW-Madison Department of Physics. [17]

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.[18] 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.[19]

Hooper has also written for popular magazines including Astronomy,[20] Sky and Telescope,[21] and New Scientist,[22] and appeared on television and radio programs including Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (season 4), BBC's Horizon,[23] BBC World News, Space's Deepest Secrets,[23] and NPR's Science Friday.[24][25][26]

References

  1. ^ "Daniel W. Hooper". Inspire. Retrieved September 29, 2024.
  2. ^ "Dan Hooper". University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Physics. Retrieved September 29, 2024.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b Jamieson, Valerie (October 1, 2008). "Review: Nature's Blueprint by Dan Hooper". New Scientist. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  5. ^ a b At the Edge of Time. Princeton University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780691183565. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Dan Hooper". The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The University of Chicago. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  7. ^ "Dan Hooper". Dan Hooper. Fermilab. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  8. ^ a b "Dan Hooper". Physics. APS Physics. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  9. ^ "Daniel Hooper". Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. University of Chicago. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  10. ^ "Hooper, Daniel W." INSPIRE HEP. INSPIRE. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  11. ^ Bertone, Gianfranco; Hooper, Dan; Silk, Joseph (2005). "Particle dark matter: Evidence, candidates and constraints". Physics Reports. 405 (5–6). Amsterdam: 279–390. arXiv:hep-ph/0404175. Bibcode:2005PhR...405..279B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2004.08.031. ISSN 0370-1573. S2CID 118979310.
  12. ^ Hooper, Dan; Goodenough, Lisa (2011). "Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center as Seen by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope". Physics Letters B. 697 (5). Amsterdam: 412–428. arXiv:1010.2752. Bibcode:2011PhLB..697..412H. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.02.029. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 118446838.
  13. ^ 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. 12. Amsterdam: Elsevier: 1–23. arXiv:1402.6703. Bibcode:2016PDU....12....1D. doi:10.1016/j.dark.2015.12.005. ISSN 2212-6864. S2CID 55631405.
  14. ^ Hooper, Dan; Linden, Tim (December 15, 2011). "On the Origin of the Gamma Rays from the Galactic Center". Physical Review D. 84 (12). College Park, MD: American Physical Society: 123005. arXiv:1110.0006. Bibcode:2011PhRvD..84l3005H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.123005. ISSN 2470-0010. S2CID 119297851.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS Physics. American Physical Society. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  17. ^ Kassulke, Natasha. "UW–Madison alum and theoretical physicist named WIPAC director".
  18. ^ "Dark Cosmos". Harper Collins Publishers. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  19. ^ "Why This Universe? - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
  20. ^ "5 Questions With David J Eicher: Episode 5 – Dan Hooper". Astronomy. Kalmbach Publishing Co. May 4, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  21. ^ The Editors of Sky & Telescope (November 26, 2012). "Sky & Telescope January 2013". Sky & Telescope. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  22. ^ Hooper, Dan (February 2, 2011). "Dark Matter: The Evidence". New Scientist. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  23. ^ a b "Dan Hooper". IMDB. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  24. ^ "Massive Particle Accelerator Is Ready To Go". NPR WBEZ. National Public Radio. August 29, 2008. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  25. ^ "Magnet Meltdown At The Large Hadron Collider". NPR WBEZ. National Public Radio. September 26, 2008. Retrieved March 9, 2008.
  26. ^ "Dan Hooper". Science Friday. Science Friday Initiative. Retrieved March 9, 2018.