Céline Bœhm

Céline Bœhm FInstP is a Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Sydney. She works on astroparticle physics and dark matter.

Céline Bœhm

FInstP
Born1974 (age 45–46)[1]
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
Pierre and Marie Curie University
École Polytechnique
Scientific career
FieldsDark matter
InstitutionsUniversity of Sydney
Durham University
University of Oxford
Perimeter Institute
Paris Observatory
Websitewww.ippp.dur.ac.uk/profile/cboehm

Early life and education

Bœhm studied fundamental physics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, graduating in 1997.[2] She joined École Polytechnique, where she was ranked first in the year for a Masters in engineering in 1998.[2] She earned the highest distinction for a postgraduate diploma in theoretical physics.[2] She completed her PhD at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 2001, working with Pierre Fayet. She worked on supersymmetry and was the first to predict the 4-body decay of the stop particle. She studied light scalar top quark and supersymmetric dark matter.[3] She looked at collisional damping, which considers the impact of dark matter and standard model particles with the cosmic microwave background.[4]

Career and research

In 2001 Bœhm joined Joseph Silk at the University of Oxford. Here she worked on light dark matter particles which couple to light Z′ bosons.[5] She proposed new candidates for scalar dark matter, in the form of heavy fermions or light gauge bosons.[6] When the SPI spectrometer onboard INTEGRAL identified a 511 keV line in the Galactic Center, Bœhm predicted that this could have been the signature of dark matter.[7] She has continued to search for new signatures of dark matter, including examining the GeV excess in the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope data.[8][9][10] In 2004 Bœhm joined the Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique, where she was promoted to senior lecturer in 2008.[11] She was awarded the Centre national de la recherche scientifique Bronze Medal.[11]

She looked at the analysis of the CoGeNT direct detection method, and found that it could have suffered from a large background.[12] In 2015 Boehm was nominated as Fellow of the Institute of Physics. She is the Principal investigator of the Theia mission, a space observatory which will allow Bœhm and her team to test the dark matter predictions that arise due to the Lambda-CDM model.[13][14]

Boehm was made an Emmy Noether Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2016, where she continued to work on dark matter.[15][16] That year, she was promoted to Professor in the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at Durham University. She gave a TED talk, The Invisible is All What Matters, at Durham in 2017.[17] Alongside her work in astroparticle physics, she works on non-crystallographic Coxeter groups.[18][19] She led the dark matter working package of the Euclid Consortium. In 2017 Bœhm spent two months as a visiting professor at Columbia University, as well as working at the Paris Observatory. She proposed using circular polarisation to study dark matter and neutrinos.[20] She joined the University of Sydney as Head of School for physics in 2018.[21][2] Bœhm has written for The Conversation.[22] She has taken part in Pint of Science.[23]

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References
  1. VIAF 197788028
  2. "News | The University of Sydney". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  3. Boehm, C.; Djouadi, A.; Drees, M. (2000-07-12). "Light Scalar Top Quarks and Supersymmetric Dark Matter". Physical Review D. 62 (3). arXiv:hep-ph/9911496. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.035012. ISSN 0556-2821.
  4. "Celine Boehm | Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology". www.ippp.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  5. Boehm, C.; Ensslin, T. A.; Silk, J. (2004-03-01). "Can annihilating Dark Matter be lighter than a few GeVs?". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 30 (3): 279–285. arXiv:astro-ph/0208458. doi:10.1088/0954-3899/30/3/004. ISSN 0954-3899.
  6. Boehm, C.; Fayet, P. (2004). "Scalar Dark Matter candidates". Nuclear Physics B. 683 (1–2): 219–263. arXiv:hep-ph/0305261. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.01.015.
  7. Boehm, Celine; Hooper, Dan; Silk, Joseph; Casse, Michel (2004-03-12). "MeV Dark Matter: Has It Been Detected?". Physical Review Letters. 92 (10). arXiv:astro-ph/0309686. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.101301. ISSN 0031-9007.
  8. Boehm, Celine; Dolan, Matthew J.; McCabe, Christopher; Spannowsky, Michael; Wallace, Chris J. (2014-05-08). "Extended gamma-ray emission from Coy Dark Matter". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2014 (05): 009–009. arXiv:1401.6458. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/009. ISSN 1475-7516.
  9. Lacroix, Thomas; Boehm, Celine; Silk, Joseph (2014-08-08). "Fitting the Fermi-LAT GeV excess: On the importance of including the propagation of electrons from dark matter". Physical Review D. 90 (4). arXiv:1403.1987. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.043508. ISSN 1550-7998.
  10. Boehm, Celine; Dolan, Matthew J.; McCabe, Christopher (2014-07-22). "A weighty interpretation of the Galactic Centre excess". Physical Review D. 90 (2). arXiv:1404.4977. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.023531. ISSN 1550-7998.
  11. "celineboehm@lapth". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  12. Davis, Jonathan H.; McCabe, Christopher; Boehm, Celine (2014-08-06). "Quantifying the evidence for Dark Matter in CoGeNT data". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2014 (08): 014–014. arXiv:1405.0495. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/014. ISSN 1475-7516.
  13. The Theia Collaboration; Boehm, Celine; Krone-Martins, Alberto; Amorim, Antonio; Anglada-Escude, Guillem; Brandeker, Alexis; Courbin, Frederic; Ensslin, Torsten; Falcao, Antonio (2017-07-02). "Theia: Faint objects in motion or the new astrometry frontier". arXiv:1707.01348. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. "Theia meeting | Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology". www.ippp.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  15. "Celine Boehm | Perimeter Institute". www.perimeterinstitute.ca. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  16. Wonders of Physics (2016-05-09), Dark Matter with Dr Celine Boehm, retrieved 2018-09-28
  17. TEDx Talks (2017-01-26), The Invisible is All What Matters | Dr. Celine Boehm | TEDxDurhamUniversity, retrieved 2018-09-28
  18. Dechant, Pierre-Philippe; Boehm, Celine; Twarock, Reidun (2013). "Affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups induced by projection". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 54 (9): 093508. arXiv:1110.5228. doi:10.1063/1.4820441. ISSN 0022-2488.
  19. Dechant, Pierre-Philippe; Boehm, Celine; Twarock, Reidun (2012-07-20). "Novel Kac-Moody-type affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 45 (28): 285202. arXiv:1110.5219. doi:10.1088/1751-8113/45/28/285202. ISSN 1751-8113.
  20. Bœhm, Céline; Degrande, Céline; Mattelaer, Olivier; Vincent, Aaron C. (2017). "Circular polarisation: a new probe of dark matter and neutrinos in the sky". Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2017 (05): 043. arXiv:1701.02754. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/043. ISSN 1475-7516.
  21. "Subscribe to The Australian | Newspaper home delivery, website, iPad, iPhone & Android apps". www.theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  22. "Celine Boehm". The Conversation. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
  23. "Science on the Grand Scale". Pint of Science. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
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