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Douglas Cowen

Douglas Cowen — Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics — Faculty
Office: 303D Osmond Laboratory
Address: 0104 Davey Laboratory University Park, PA 16802 US
dfc13@psu.edu
+1 814 863 5943
Douglas Cowen
Physics IceCube AMON Multimessenger Astrophysics Neutrinos Dynamic Universe CMA
Publications
  1. R. Abbasi, others “Improved Characterization of the Astrophysical Muon–neutrino Flux with 9.5 Years of IceCube Data.” Astrophys. J. 928 1 (2022) doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac4d29
  2. R. Abbasi, others “Search for GeV-scale dark matter annihilation in the Sun with IceCube DeepCore.” Phys. Rev. D 105 6 (2022) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.062004
  3. M. Aartsen, others “IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe.” J. Phys. G 48 6 (2021) doi:10.1088/1361-6471/abbd48
  4. M. Aartsen, others “Detection of a particle shower at the Glashow resonance with IceCube.” Nature 591 7849 (2021) doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03256-1

Douglas Cowen's research group

Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
Kayla DeHolton Kayla DeHolton Postdoc Physics kld5938@psu.edu – 303A Osmond Laboratory CMA Neutrinos
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Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

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