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Dan Hooper

Dan Hooper, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is a particle astrophysicist and cosmologist, specializing in the areas of dark matter, neutrino astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy, and cosmic ray physics. He is the author of several books, including Dark Cosmos: In Search of our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy (2006), Nature’s Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force (2008), At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds (2019), and Particle Cosmology and Astrophysics (2024). He also co-hosts the podcast Why This Universe? In September of 2024, he became the director of WIPAC. Hooper’s complete CV is available to download.

Select Publications

The Characterization of the Gamma-Ray Signal from the Central Milky Way: A Case for Annihilating Dark Matter                                     T. Daylan, D. Finkbeiner, D. Hooper, T. Linden, S. Portillo, N. Rodd, and T. Slatyer (Journal Article) Physics of the Dark Universe 12 (2016) 1-23
sciencedirect.com

Dark Matter Annihilation in The Galactic Center As Seen by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope                                                        D. Hooper and L. Goodenough (Journal Article) Physics Letters B 697 (2011) 412-428
sciencedirect.com

Origin Of The Gamma Rays From The Galactic Center                         D. Hooper and T. Linden (Journal Article) Physical Review D 84 (2011) 123005
journals.aps.org

Pulsars as the Sources of High Energy Cosmic Ray Positrons                D. Hooper, P. Blasi, and P. Serpico (Journal Article) Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 01 (2009) 025
iopscience.iop.org

Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints              G. Bertone, D. Hooper, and J. Silk (Journal Article) Physics Reports 405 (2005) 279-390
sciencedirect.com

Honors and Awards

  • Division Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters (2020–present)
  • Head of the International Advisory Committee for the TeV Particle Astrophysics annual conference series (2020–present)
  • American Physical Society Fellow (2017)

CONTACT INFORMATION

University of Wisconsin–Madison
Department of Physics
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Madison, Wisconsin 53706
 
WIPAC
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