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Christian Michael Capanelli
Position
Project Researcher (from 2026/09/01 )
Research Field
Theoretical Physics (Cosmology)
E-Mail
<christian.capanelli _at_ ipmu.jp> 
URL
https://www.christiancapanelli.com/
PHOTO

I am a theoretical physicist working at the intersection of particle physics and cosmology. I work primarily on topics in dark sector (beyond the Standard Model) physics. An interesting possibility is that the dark matter is completely dark, or that the dark sector is entirely secluded, meaning it couples to the Standard Model via gravity alone. To this end, I work on both novel production mechanisms of dark particles as well as the potential imprints on observables across large and small scales. A compelling example is ultra-light dark matter, which could exhibit wave-like behaviour at astrophysical scales. In principle, this picture might be complicated by various model extensions (interacting fuzzy dark matter, string-axiverse, fuzzy dark sectors, etc.) which remain largely unconstrained.

Last Update 2026/09/08

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