Joachim Kopp

Main Research Interests:

• Theory and phenomenology of neutrinos
• Dark matter
• Physics beyond the standard model
• Collider physics
• Numerical techniques
• ...

Selected publications and pre-prints:

R. Harnik, JK, P. Machado
Exploring ν signals in dark matter detectors
arXiv:1202.6073 [hep-ph]

P. Fox, R. Harnik, JK, Y. Tsai
Missing energy signatures of dark matter at the LHC
arXiv:1109.4398 [hep-ph]

M. Buckley, D. Hooper, JK, E. Neil
Light Z' bosons at the Tevatron
arXiv:1103.6035 [hep-ph], Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 115013

JK, M. Maltoni, T. Schwetz
Are there sterile neutrinos at the eV scale?
arXiv:1103.4570 [hep-ph], Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 (2011) 091801

P. Fox, R. Harnik, JK, Y. Tsai
LEP shines light on dark matter
arXiv:1103.0240 [hep-ph], Phys. Rev. D 84 (2011) 014028

JK, V. Niro, T. Schwetz, J. Zupan
DAMA/LIBRA and leptonically interacting Dark Matter
arXiv:0907.3159 [hep-ph], Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 083502

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

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:

The missing 95%: Theory and phenomenology of dark matter and dark energy [PDF]
Plenary talk given at the 2012 spring meeting of the German Physical Society in Göttingen, Germany (March 1, 2012).

Collider searches for Dark Matter [PDF]
Invited seminar talk given at SLAC (Oct 5, 2011) and at MIT (Nov 15, 2011). Part of this work also presented at the Rencontres de Moriond 2011, at Michigan State University (Mar 29, 2011) and at the University of Cincinnati (Apr 18, 2011).

Phenomenology with sterile neutrinos [PDF]
Invited talk given at Fermilab (Feb 2, 2011). Part of this work also presented at UC Berkeley (Oct 3, 2011), at Boston U (Nov 14, 2011), at SUSY 2011, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (Apr 22, 2011), and at the Perimeter Institute (May 27, 2011).

Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory of Neutrino Oscillations [PDF]
Invited seminar talk at Virginia Tech (Nov 15, 2010); parts also presented at the INT workshop on Long Baseline Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Aug 2010, U of Washington, Seattle

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.

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.

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)

Public lecture:

The Invisibles - Stories from the wondrous world of neutrinos [PDF]

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 co-organizing the Theoretical Particle Physics Seminar at Fermilab.

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.