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John Carlton

PhD Student

Research interests

  • Physics

Contact details

Biography

John joined the TPPC group at King's in 2021 after graduating with a master's in Particle Physics from the University of Birmingham where they worked on the phenomenology of new heavy resonances for the ATLAS experiment.

John is a member of the AION collaboration and works on using atom interferometers to probe fundamental physics such as ultra-light dark matter and gravitational waves. Their work so far has been in developing noise characterisation for moving objects and atmospheric fluctuations around the AION-10 experiment, as well as developing the theory of atom interferometers in general. In future, John hopes to work on new models of dark matter probed by AION and similar experiments.

Thesis title

Atom Interferometry for Fundamental Physics

Research interests

  • Atom interferometry theory and noise characterisation

  • Ultra-light dark matter phenomenology​

  • Gravitational waves

  • Novel tests of fundamental physics

PhD supervisor

Principal supervisor: Dr Christopher McCabe

Research

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Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology

The research focus of the TPPC Group is on tests of new models of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry, large extra dimensions and strings.

Research

Physics telescope
Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology

The research focus of the TPPC Group is on tests of new models of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including supersymmetry, large extra dimensions and strings.