Alexander Merle


	Dr. Alexander Merle Postdoc in the group of Prof. Ohlsson at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics (TEPP) Contact: AlbaNova University Center KTH Royal Institute of Technology Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics (FAO Alexander Merle) SE - 106 91 Stockholm Sweden Room: A4:1049 Phone: +46/8/5537-8176 Email: amerle (AT) kth.se This is a personal webpage. More information.
Journal Club:
The Homepage of the TEPP Journal Club can be found here!
SUtree:
Together with Roman Zwicky, I have developed the software package and database SUtree, which can be used to investigate finite subgroups of SU(3).
Research Interests:
Neutrino Physics Physics beyond the Standard Model Lepton Flavour Violation Dark Matter Cosmology Mathematical Physics ...
Selected publications and pre-prints (full list can be found at INSPIRE):
Warm Dark Matter from keVins (together with S. F. King): 1205.0551 (hep-ph) Running of Radiative Neutrino Masses: The Scotogenic Model (together with R. Bouchand): 1205.0008 (hep-ph) Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper (together with 186 other authors): 1204.5379 (hep-ph) Probing the Concept of Extra Dimensions with Carbon Nanotubes (together with J. de Woul and T. Ohlsson): 1203.3196 (hep-ph) Explicit and spontaneous breaking of SU(3) into its finite subgroups (together with R. Zwicky): JHEP 02 (2012) 128; 1110.4891 (hep-ph) Deriving Models for keV sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism (together with V. Niro): JCAP 07 (2011) 023; 1105.5136 (hep-ph) On the Quantitative Impact of the Schechter-Valle Theorem (together with M. Dürr & M. Lindner): JHEP 06 (2011) 091; 1105.0901 (hep-ph) Constraining New Physics with a Positive or Negative Signal of Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay (together with J. Bergström & T. Ohlsson): JHEP 05 (2011) 122; 1103.3015 (hep-ph) Soft L_e-L_mu-L_tau flavour symmetry breaking and sterile neutrino keV Dark Matter (together with M. Lindner & V. Niro): JCAP 01 (2011) 034; 1011.4950 (hep-ph) Radiative Inflation and Dark Energy (together with P. Di Bari, S. F. King, C. Luhn, & A. Schmidt-May): Phys. Rev. D84: 083524,2011; 1010.5729 (hep-ph) Enhancing Dark Matter Annihilation into Neutrinos (together with M. Lindner & V. Niro): Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 123529; 1005.3116 (hep-ph) Radiative Transmission of Lepton Flavor Hierarchies (together with A. Adulpravitchai, M. Lindner, & R. Mohapatra): Phys. Lett. B 680 (2009) 476-479; 0908.0470 (hep-ph) Why a splitting in the final state cannot explain the GSI-Oscillations: Phys. Rev. C 80 (2009) 054616; 0907.3554 (hep-ph) The GSI anomaly (together with H. Kienert, J. Kopp, & M. Lindner): J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 136: 022049, 2008; 0808.2389 (hep-ph) The Elements of the Neutrino Mass Matrix: Allowed Ranges and Implications of Texture Zeros (together with W. Rodejohann): Phys. Rev. D 73 (2006) 073012; hep-ph/0603111
Ph.D. thesis:
"The Mysteries of Leptons: New Physics and unexplained Phenomena" (December 2009)
Diploma thesis:
"Neutrino Masses and Mixings in Future Experiments" (July 2006)
Selected posters:

"The Mysteries of Neutrino Masses: Theory & Phenomenology": Neutrino 2010 Conference, Athens/Greece, 14-19 June 2010
"The GSI anomaly" (A4 format; together with H. Kienert, J. Kopp, & M. Lindner): Neutrino 2008 Conference, Christchurch/New Zealand, 25-31 May 2008
Selected talks:

Neutrino Model Building & keV sterile Neutrino Dark Matter, Ecole International Daniel Chalonge Workshop CIAS Meudon 2011 "Warm Dark Matter in the Galaxies: Theoretical and Observational Progresses", CIAS Observatoire de Paris, Meudon/France, 9 June 2011
Radiative Inflation and Dark Energy, Nordita Workshop "The Return of de Sitter", Stockholm, 16 March 2011
Neutrino mass and lepton flavour aspects of the Ma-model, Friday Seminar of the SHEP Group, Southampton/U.K., 30 October 2009
Why the GSI anomaly cannot be explained by Quantum Beats, SFB Transregio 27 Meeting, Heidelberg, 9 July 2009
Dark Matter in the MSSM (blackboard talk, handwritten notes are available here), Group seminar on Dark Matter, Heidelberg, 8 May 2009
The GSI anomaly, Laboratory seminar of the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics (JINR), Dubna/Russia, 5 February 2009
Longitudinal Vector boson scattering & Strongly interacting Higgs sector (blackboard talk, handwritten notes are available here), Group seminar on LHC, Heidelberg, 23 September 2008
Twin-Higgs models (blackboard talk, handwritten notes are available here), Group seminar on Higgs and Alternatives, Heidelberg, 5 October 2007
Neutrino Pair Emission from excited Atoms, Journal Club on hep-ph/0611362, Heidelberg, 16 April 2007
Cosmic Microwave Background Part 1 & Part 2 (blackboard talk, pictures are available here), T30d Group Seminar "Neutrinos & Cosmology", Munich, 2 & 9 December 2005
Teaching (in German; parts based on the corresponding books by Fließbach and Schwabl):

Die Postulate der Quantenmechanik, Quantenmechanik WS 2006/07, Uni Heidelberg
Die algebraische Lösung des harmonischen Oszillators, Quantenmechanik WS 2006/07, Uni Heidelberg
Themodynamische Zustände und Variablen, Statistische Mechanik SS 2007, Uni Heidelberg
Allgemeine Definition der Entropie, Statistische Mechanik SS 2007, Uni Heidelberg
Thermodynamische Potentiale, Statistische Mechanik SS 2007, Uni Heidelberg
Statistische Ensembles, Statistische Mechanik SS 2007, Uni Heidelberg

Dr. Alexander Merle