I am a graduate student fellow at Fermilab, working with Dan Hooper and the particle group. I recently defended my graduate thesis at the University of Michigan as the studentĀ of Kathryn M. Zurek. Previously, I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where I was a member of the student radio station, WQHS. My next position will be as a postdoc at the C. N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University on Long Island.
This is my webpage, and my email is formed by appending umich dot edu to ``mcdermod''.
The Dark Matter Inverse Problem: Extracting Particle Physics from Scattering Events
Here is a support page for a paper
with my advisor, Kathryn Zurek, and Hai-Bo Yu
Curriculum Vitae
Here is a current CV
Publications
10. Lining up the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess
arXiv:1406.6408.
9. Hidden Sector Dark Matter Models for the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess
arXiv:1405.5204,
with Asher Berlin, Pierre Gratia and Dan Hooper. Submitted to PRD.
8. Simplified Dark Matter Models for the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess
arXiv:1404.0022,
with Asher Berlin and Dan Hooper. Published in PRD.
7. Dissecting the Gamma-Ray Background in Search of Dark Matter
arXiv:1312.0608,
with Ilias Cholis and Dan Hooper. Published in JCAP.
6. Constraining Light Dark Matter with Diffuse X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Observations
arXiv:1309.4091,
with Rouven Essig, Eric Kuflik, Tomer Volansky, and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in JHEP.
5. Inspecting the Higgs for New Weakly Interacting Particles
arXiv:1302.0314,
with Cliff Cheung and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in JHEP.
4. Neutrino Phenomenology in a 3+1+1 Framework
arXiv:1205.1791,
with Eric Kuflik and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in PRD.
3. The Dark Matter Inverse Problem: Extracting Particle Physics from Scattering Events
arXiv:1110.4281,
with Hai-Bo Yu and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in PRD.
2. Constraints on Scalar Asymmetric Dark Matter from Black Hole Formation in Neutron Stars
arXiv:1103.5472,
with Hai-Bo Yu and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in PRD.
1. Turning off the Lights: How Dark is Dark Matter?
arXiv:1011.2907,
with Hai-Bo Yu and Kathryn M. Zurek. Published in PRD.
Wine
Anyone know where I can borrow a Geiger counter?