Biographical Sketch:
Research:
Dr. Yoo’s scientific interests are in experimental particle and astroparticle physics with a focus on the invisible mass component of the universe which includes dark matter and neutrino. Existence of dark matter and massive neutrinos lead to profound consequences for the evolution of the Universe. The two are similar in many ways as they both exist everywhere and interact weakly. The Standard Model of particle physics does not accommodate a suitable dark matter candidate. Therefore the presence of dark matter is a crucial phenomenological evidence for physics Beyond the Standard Model. Our approach to these profound subjects is to probe the particle nature of dark matter through direct detection and to study neutrino physics using state-of-the-art technologies.
Education:
Ph.D., Seoul National University, 2004
Honors & Awards:
Selected Publications:
- Extended Axion Dark Matter Search Using the CAPP18T Haloscope (PRL 131 801801) 2023.
- Axion Haloscope Using an 18 T High-Temperature Superconducting Magnet (PRD 106 092007) 2022.
- Searching for invisible axion dark matter with an 18 T magnet haloscope (PRL 128, 241805) 2022.
- Search for sterile neutrino oscillation using RENO and NEOS data (PRD 105, L111101) 2022.
- Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at RENO (PRD 104, L111301) 2021.
- First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon (PRL 126 012002) 2021.
- Sensitivity of the COHERENT experiment to accelerator-produced dark matter (PRD 102, 052007) 2020.
- Search for Sub-eV Sterile Neutrino at RENO (PRL 125, 191801) 2020.
- First constraint on coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in argon (PRD 100, 115020) 2019.
- Fuel-composition dependent reactor neutrinos from RENO experiment (PRL 122, 232501) 2019.
- Neutrino oscillation study from RENO experiment (PRL 121, 201801) 2018.
- Observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (Science 357, 6356) 2017.