Junwu Huang

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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Research Faculty
Areas of research:
Cosmology
Particle Physics
(519) 569-7600 x7581
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I am primarily interested in understanding what lies beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. I am interested in pursuing novel, low-energy experiments for weakly-coupled particles that may make use of small-scale experimental techniques. The main goal is to device sensitive experiments with current technology and understand how and how much it can be improved in the future. I am interested in understanding the dynamics and observational consequences of collective phenomenon in the dark matter fluid, which leads to, for example, formation of topological defects. I am also interested in designing new searches based on astrophysical and cosmological measurements, including aLIGO, CMB, LSS and 21cm cosmology. These searches allow us to look for new physics motivated by string theory, including axions, cosmic strings, and new vacua in the landscape. I am in particularly interested in the new tool of cosmological collider, and how it might allow us to directly probe the string landscape and the multiverse.
  • 2020-2022, Perimeter institute for Theoretical Physics, Senior Postdoc
  • 2017-2020, Perimeter institute for Theoretical Physics, Postdoc
  • 2012-2017, Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, PhD student.
  • New Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter with Superconducting Nanowire Detectors in an Optical Haloscope, Jeff Chiles, Ilya Charaev, Robert Lasenby, Masha Baryakhtar, Junwu Huang, Phys.Rev.Lett. 128 (2022) 23, 231802, 2110.01582
  • Axion string signatures: a cosmological plasma collider, Prateek Agrawal, Anson Hook Junwu Huang and Gustavo Marques-Tavares, JHEP 01 (2022) 103, 2010.15848
  • A CMB Millikan Experiment with Cosmic Axiverse Strings, Prateek Agrawal, Anson Hook, Junwu Huang, JHEP 07 (2020) 138, arXiv: 1912.02823
  • Minimal signatures of the Standard Model in non-Gaussianities, Anson Hook, Junwu Huang, Davide Racco, Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 2, 023519, arXiv: 1908.00019
  • Searches for other vacua. Part II. A new Higgstory at the cosmological collider, Anson Hook, Junwu Huang, Davide Racco, JHEP 01 (2020) 105, arXiv: 1907.10624
  • Searches for other vacua. Part I. Bubbles in our universe, Anson Hook and Junwu Huang, JHEP 08 (2019) 148, arXiv: 1904.00020
  • Axion and hidden photon dark matter detection with multilayer optical haloscopes, Masha Baryakhtar, Junwu Huang, Robert Lasenby, Phys. Rev. D 98, 035006 (2018), arXiv: 1803.11455
  • Probing axions with neutron star inspirals and other stellar processes, Anson Hook and Junwu Huang, JHEP 1806 (2018) 036, arXiv: 1708.08464
  • Dark photon vortex formation and dynamics, William East and Junwu Huang, 2206.12432
  • First indirect detection constraints on axions in the Solar basin, William DeRocco, Shalma Wegsman, Brian Grefenstette, Junwu Huang and Ken Van Tilburg, 2205.05700
  • Ultralight Dark Matter, Invited review, GGI Workshop (Online)
  • Runaway processes in Beyond Standard Model, Theory Colloquium, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford (Online)
  • Cosmic Axiverse Strings, Seminar, UC Davis, Davis
  • Cosmic Axiverse Strings, Seminar, SLAC
  • Axiverse strings: A CMB Millikan Experiment, The University of Chicago, Chicago
  • Axiverse strings: A CMB Millikan Experiment, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  • A CMB Millikan Experiment with Cosmic Axiverse Strings, Conference on "Gravitational- Wave Probes of Dark Universe", Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  • Axiverse strings: A CMB Millikan Experiment, UC Berkeley, Berkeley
  • A CMB Millikan Experiment with Cosmic Axiverse Strings, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara
  • Axiverse strings: A CMB Millikan Experiment, Carleton University, Ottawa
  • Searches for other vacua II: A new Higgstory at the cosmological collider, Cornell University, Ithaca
  • Searches for other vacua II: A new Higgstory at the cosmological collider, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  • Searches for other vacua II: A new Higgstory at the cosmological collider, GGI Workshop on "Next Frontiers in the Search for Dark Matter", Florence
  • Searches for other vacua II: A new Higgstory at the cosmological collider, Harvard University, Boston
  • Searches for other vacua II: A new Higgstory at the cosmological collider, Workshop on Searching for new physics - Leaving no stone unturned, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
  • Searches for other vacua I: bubbles in our universe, New York University, New York
  • Axion and hidden photon dark matter detection with multilayer optical haloscopes, Boston University, Boston
  • Axion and hidden photon dark matter detection with multilayer optical haloscopes, Tsinghua University, Beijing
  • An effective formalism for testing extensions to General Relativity with gravitational waves, Peking University, Beijing
  • Probing axions with neutron star inspirals observed by Advanced LIGO, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Beijing
  • Axion and hidden photon dark matter detection with multilayer optical haloscopes, BCTP, Berkeley
  • Non-lethal searches for bubbles in our universe, SITP, Stanford
  • Axion and hidden photon dark matter detection with multilayer optical haloscopes, Plenary talk, 14th AxionWIMP conference (Patras workshop), DESY, Hamburg
  • Probing axions with neutron star inspirals and other stellar processes, Workshop on Ultralight Dark Matter and Axions, University of Michigan, Michigan
  • Probing axions with neutron star inspirals and other stellar processes, TD Lee institute, Shanghai
  • Probing axions with neutron star inspirals and other stellar processes, Fermilab, Chicago
  • PIRSA:20030117, Physics beyond the Standard Model at the Cosmological Collider, 2020-03-25, Particle Physics
  • PIRSA:19100094, Searches for other vacua II: A new Higgstory at the cosmological collider, 2019-10-18, Particle Physics
  • PIRSA:16090048, A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant, 2016-09-27, Particle Physics