Rebecca K. Leane





My research focuses on dark matter phenomenology, astroparticle physics and collider physics. I have a broad interest in physics beyond the Standard Model.

In general, I am interested in finding new ways to optimize the information that can be extracted from any potential detection of new physics, ranging from model building to proposing striking new physics signatures, across different phenomenological settings.

You can find me on inSPIRE, arXiv, and Google Scholar.


Publications

(asterisk indicates alphabetically ordered author list)

13.  Dark Matter Strikes Back at the Galactic Center,
R. K. Leane and T. R. Slatyer
Submitted to PRL, MIT-CTP/5104 [arXiv: 1904.08430 [astro-ph.HE]].

Quanta Magazine Article
Summary on Twitter

12.  The Sun at GeV-TeV Energies: A New Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics,
M. Un Nisa, J. F. Beacom, S. Y. BenZvi, R. K. Leane, T. Linden, K. C.Y. Ng, A. H.G. Peter, B. Zhou
Astro2020 Science White Paper [arXiv:1903.06349 [astro-ph.HE]].

Quanta Magazine Article

11.  Constraints on Spin-Dependent Dark Matter Scattering with Long-Lived Mediators from TeV Observations of the Sun with HAWC,
HAWC Collaboration and J. F. Beacom, R. K. Leane*, T. Linden, K. C.Y. Ng, A. Peter, B. Zhou,
Phys. Rev. D 98 (2018), 123012, MIT-CTP/5038 [arXiv: 1808.05624 [hep-ph]].

10.  First HAWC Observations of the Sun Constrain Steady TeV Gamma-Ray Emission,
HAWC Collaboration and J. F. Beacom, R. K. Leane*, T. Linden, K. C.Y. Ng, A. Peter, B. Zhou,
Phys. Rev. D 98 (2018), 123011, MIT-CTP/5037 [arXiv: 1808.05620 [astro-ph.HE]].

9.  GeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead,
R. K. Leane, T. R. Slatyer, J. F. Beacom, K. C.Y. Ng,
Phys.Rev. D98 (2018) no.2, 023016, MIT-CTP/5020 [arXiv: 1805.10305 [hep-ph]].

8.  Enhancing Dark Matter Annihilation Rates with Dark Bremsstrahlung,
N. F. Bell, Y. Cai, J. B. Dent, R. K. Leane*, T. J. Weiler
Phys. Rev. D96 (2017) no. 2, 023011 [arXiv: 1705.01105 [hep-ph]].

7.  Powerful Solar Signatures of Long-Lived Dark Mediators,
R. K. Leane, K. C.Y. Ng, J. F. Beacom
Phys. Rev. D95 (2017) no. 12, 123016 [arXiv: 1703.04629 [astro-ph.HE]].

6.  Impact of Mass Generation for Simplified Dark Matter Models,
N. F. Bell, Y. Cai, R. K. Leane*
JCAP 01 (2017) 039 [arXiv: 1610.03063 [hep-ph]].

5.  Dark Forces in the Sky: Signals from Z' and the Dark Higgs,
N. F. Bell, Y. Cai, R. K. Leane*
JCAP 08 (2016) 001 [arXiv: 1605.09382 [hep-ph]].

4.  Mono-W Dark Matter Signals at the LHC: Simplified Model Analysis,
N. F. Bell, Y. Cai, R. K. Leane*
JCAP 01 (2016) 051 [arXiv: 1512.00476 [hep-ph]].

3.  Dark matter at the LHC: Effective field theories and gauge invariance,
N. F. Bell, Y. Cai, J. B. Dent, R. K. Leane*, T. J. Weiler
Phys. Rev. D92, no. 5, 053008 (2015) [arXiv:1503.07874 [hep-ph]].

2.  Leptophilic dark matter with Z' interactions,
N. F. Bell, Y. Cai, R. K. Leane*, A. D. Medina
Phys. Rev. D 90, no. 3, 035027 (2014) [arXiv:1407.3001 [hep-ph]].

1.  Les Houches 2011: Physics at TeV Colliders New Physics Working Group Report,
G. Brooijmans et al, (2012) [arXiv:1203.1488 [hep-ph]].
(Note: Contribution 1, “DLHA: Dark Matter Les Houches Agreement”, is heavily based on my bachelor thesis.)


Theses
Phenomenology of Particle Dark Matter,
R. K. Leane, Ph.D. Thesis, School of Physics, University of Melbourne (2017).