Data Mining for Dark Matter

In addition to my work on cold molecules, a portion of my PhD research is on the repurposing of existing data, for fundamental physics purposes. Specifically, I showed how the archived data from the International Geodynamics and Earth Tide Services (IGETS) network of precision gravity sensors, and the LIGO observatory, are sensitive to a specific type of Dark Matter. This was a fun result, because typical dark matter searches require expensive new equipment, and I showed that similar results can be achieved with creative uses of existing data. The code used for all these searches can be found on my GitHub account. This work was published as a hilighted result in EPJD's topical issue on quantum gravity, and I was interviewed about this work in 2020. It appeared in a few online news sources.


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