Doojin Kim

About Me

I am a theoretical particle physicist and a member of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Collaboration.

Research Interests

My primary research interests are directed towards theoretical particle physics including dark matter/collider phenomenology, astroparticle physics, cosmology, and new physics model building. A full list of my research papers can be found here.

The Standard Model of particle physics provides a successful description of the known elementary particles and their interactions. Nevertheless, it does not provide an explanation of several phenomena such as dark matter and non-zero neutrino masses, and theory-motivated issues such as the Planck-weak hierarchy puzzle and the strong CP problem. Invisible or elusive particles lie at the heart of these problems, so many of my research activities are deeply connected to addressing phenomenological issues and problems related to such particles. 

A plethora of ongoing and future experiments can provide excellent opportunities for understanding and exploring the physics associated with such invisible particles. I am interested in various physics potentials at particle colliders such as LHC, FCC, and CEPC, neutrino facilities such as DUNE, SK/HK, SBNP, COHERENT, CCM, and IsoDAR, and dark matter detectors such as SuperCDMS, Xenon, LZ, and DarkSide, utilizing theoretical particle physics approaches and computational analyses including machine learning and artificial intelligence.  

Awards and Distinctions

• 2016: OYRA Award

Research in the News

• CERN EP Newsletter (10 December 2022): Hunting for axion-like particles at neutrino detectors. 

• Nature news (20 April 2016): Zoo of theories showcased in publications on LHC anomaly