Joachim Kopp

Main Research Interests:

• Theory and phenomenology of neutrino oscillations
• Dark matter
• Physics beyond the standard model
• Simulation techniques and computational physics
• ...

Selected publications and pre-prints:

JK, A. Merle
Ultra-low Q values for neutrino mass measurements
arXiv:0911.3329 [hep-ph]

JK, V. Niro, T. Schwetz, J. Zupan
DAMA/LIBRA and leptonically interacting Dark Matter
arXiv:0907.3159 [hep-ph]

JK
Mössbauer neutrinos in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory
arXiv:0904.4346 [hep-ph], JHEP 0906 (2009) 049

JK, T. Ota, W. Winter
Neutrino factory optimization for non-standard interactions
arXiv:0804.2261 [hep-ph], Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 053007

E. Akhmedov, JK, M. Lindner
Oscillations of Mössbauer neutrinos
arXiv:0802.2513 [hep-ph], JHEP 0805 (2008) 005

JK, M. Lindner, T. Ota, J. Sato
Non-standard neutrino interactions in reactor and superbeam experiments
arXiv:0708.0152 [hep-ph], Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 013007

P. Huber, JK, M. Lindner, M. Rolinec, W. Winter
New features in the simulation of neutrino oscillation experiments with GLoBES 3.0
hep-ph/0701187, Comput. Phys. Commun. 177 (2007) 432-438

JK
Efficient numerical diagonalization of hermitian 3x3 matrices
physics/0610206, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 19 (2008) 523-548,
accompanied by a software library

Selected talks and posters:

Leptophilic Dark Matter in Direct Detection Experiments and in the Sun [PDF]
Invited seminar talk at Northwestern University, 26 October 2009

Mössbauer neutrinos [PDF]
Invited seminar talk at IFIC Valencia, 8 January 2009. Shortened version given at the Workshop on Neutrinos in Particle, in Nuclear and in Astrophysics in Trento, Italy, 16 - 21 November 2008.

GLoBES - General Long Baseline Experiment Simulator [PDF]
(together with P. Huber, M. Lindner, W. Winter),
Poster presented at NuFact 2008 in Valencia, Spain, 30 June - 5 July 2008.

Optimization of a neutrino factory for non-standard interactions [PDF]
Talk given at the IDS-NF Meeting at Fermilab, 10 - 12 June 2008..

The GSI anomaly [PDF]
(together with H. Kienert, M. Lindner, A. Merle),
Poster presented at Neutrino 2008 in Christchurch, New Zealand, 25 - 31 May 2008. Also published as arXiv:0808.2389 [hep-ph], J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 136 (2008) 022049.

Non-standard interactions in future neutrino oscillation experiments [PDF]
Talk given at the Euro-GDR SUSY 2007 Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, 12 - 14 November 2007.

Detecting oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos in ATLAS [PDF]
Talk given at SUSY 2007 in Karlsruhe, Germany, 26 July - 1 August 2007.

Physics Potential of Future Reactor Neutrino Experiments [PDF]
(together with P. Huber, M. Lindner, A. Merle, M. Rolinec, T. Schwetz, W. Winter),
Poster presented at Neutrino 2006 in, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 13 - 19 June 2006.

The Boltzmann Equation [PDF]
Talk given at the Summer Academy of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), St. Johann/Ahrntal, Italy, 28 August - 10 September 2005.

Ph.D. Thesis:

New phenomena in neutrino physics. [Abstract] [PDF]
(Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2009)

Diploma Thesis:

Phenomenology of Three-Flavour Neutrino Oscillations [PDF]
(TU München, 2006)

Teaching:

Winter 2007/08: Tutorials in Theoretical Mechanics.

Winter 2006/07: Tutorials in Quantum Mechanics.

Winter 2005/06: Physics lab course for chemistry students

General: Unofficial site about the lab courses for physics students at TUM, including numerous hints and reports on the experiments (in German).

Further Links:

I'm working on the GLoBES Project, a sophisticated software package for the simulation of future neutrino oscillation experiments.

Website of the MPIK student seminar on dark matter, 6 - 8 May 2009.

From 24 - 26 January 2007, an international workshop on GLoBES - Physics and Applications was held in Heidelberg.