Paul Frederik Depta.
PhD Student at DESY

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Notkestraße 85
D-22603 Hamburg, Germany
Building 2a, Room 301

Phone: +49 (0)40 8998 2358
Mail: frederik.depta@desy.de

INSPIRE-HEP, ORCID


Research Interests
My research is centered around the connections between particle physics and cosmology. In particular, I work on the phenomenology of dark matter, possible production mechanisms as well as astrophysical and experimental probes. I am also interested in resolving the question why there is more matter than anti-matter in our Universe.

Keywords: particle physics — cosmology connection, dark matter, physics of the early Universe, big-bang nucleosynthesis, physics beyond the Standard Model

Curriculum Vitae
I currently work on my PhD thesis in the DESY Theory Group under the supervision of Kai Schmidt-Hoberg. Before moving to Hamburg, I obtained my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in physics from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, in 2015 and 2017 with theses under the supervision of Owe Philipsen.

Publications
An updated list of all publications can be found here. The most recent publications are:
  • P. F. Depta, M. Hufnagel, and K. Schmidt-Hoberg, Updated BBN constraints on electromagnetic decays of MeV-scale particles, [2011.06519].
  • P. F. Depta, M. Hufnagel, and K. Schmidt-Hoberg, ACROPOLIS: A generiC fRamework fOr Photodisintegration Of LIght elementS, [2011.06518].
  • T. Bringmann, P. F. Depta, M. Hufnagel, and K. Schmidt-Hoberg, Precise dark matter relic abundance in decoupled sectors, [2007.03696].
  • P. F. Depta, A. Halsch, J. Hütig, S. Mendizabal, and O. Philipsen, Complete leading-order standard model corrections to quantum leptogenesis, JHEP 09 (2020) 036 [2005.01728].
  • P. F. Depta, M. Hufnagel, and K. Schmidt-Hoberg, Robust cosmological constraints on axion-like particles, JCAP 05 (2020) 009 [2002.08370].
  • P. F. Depta, M. Hufnagel, K. Schmidt-Hoberg and S. Wild, BBN constraints on the annihilation of MeV-scale dark matter, JCAP 04 (2019) 029 [1901.06944].
  • T. Bringmann, P. F. Depta, V. Domcke, and K. Schmidt-Hoberg, Towards closing the window of primordial black holes as dark matter: The case of large clustering, Phys. Rev. D 99 (2019) 063532 [1808.05910].