Andre Scaffidi

Biography

I am a PhD student at the University of Adelaide. My primary research focus is dark matter phenomenology, specialising on constraints that the modern state of the art experiments give us on the dark matter properties. Previous studies I have worked on include developing an analysis package that provides the necessary likelihood calculators needed fore the analyst to constrain any general WIMP model using the results of the Large Underground Xenon experiment (LUX). I have also worked on including the O(1%) of radiative muon decays that would arise from DM-DM annihilation and showed that indirect detection constraints from the Fermi-Dwarf galaxies as well as the galactic center are significantly dependent on these corrections for DM models which annihilate to final state muons. My current work is aimed at calculating the predicted sensitivity of modern and future direct detection experiments to multi-component dark matter.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc