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Gamma-Cascade: A Simple Program To Compute Cosmological Gamma-Ray Propagation
Modeling electromagnetic cascades during gamma-ray transport is important in many applications within astrophysics. This document introduces γ-Cascade, a publicly available Mathematica package which allows users to calculate observed gamma-ray fluxes from point sources as well as from a distribution of sources. γ-Cascade semi-analytically computes the effects of electromagnetic interactions during gamma-ray transport. In this thesis defense I will talk about topics related to gamma-ray propagation as well as dark matter and astroparticle phenomenology.
Committee Members:
Dan Hooper (Chair)
Juan Collar
Carlos Wagner
Paul Wiegmann
Carlos will be starting a joint appointment between Princeton University as a NASA Einstein fellow and Stockholm University, Jointly advised by Mariangela Lisanti at Princeton, and Tim Linden & Frank Wilczek at Stockholm. His research will deal with the direct and indirect detection of dark matter as well as axion and astroparticle phenomenology.