Contact Information
1110 W. Green
M/C 704
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Professor Adshead received his PhD in Physics in 2010 from Yale University after receiving his BSc. with first class honors at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2004. He was a KICP fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago and a postdoctoral associate at the University of Cambridge before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois in 2014.
Research Interests
Astrophysics/Cosmology
Research Description
Professor Adshead works on a broad range of topics in the very early universe, focussing primarily on the physics of inflation and their imprint on the cosmic microwave background radiation, the reheating phase transition that must end inflation and begin the hot Big Bang, and the connections between high-energy particle physics and the early universe.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Physics
Associate Professor, Astronomy
Recent Publications
Adshead, P., Giblin, J. T., Grutkoski, R., & Weiner, Z. J. (2024). Gauge preheating with full general relativity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024(3), Article 017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/03/017
Adshead, P., Lozanov, K. D., & Weiner, Z. J. (2023). Dark photon dark matter from an oscillating dilaton. Physical Review D, 107(8), Article 083519. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.083519
Abazajian, K., Addison, G. E., Adshead, P., Ahmed, Z., Akerib, D., Ali, A., Allen, S. W., Alonso, D., Alvarez, M., Amin, M. A., Anderson, A., Arnold, K. S., Ashton, P., Baccigalupi, C., Bard, D., Barkats, D., Barron, D., Barry, P. S., Bartlett, J. G., ... Zonca, A. (2022). CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves. Astrophysical Journal, 926(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1596
Adshead, P., & Lozanov, K. D. (2022). Axion anomalies. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(8), Article 77. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2022)077
Adshead, P., Ralegankar, P., & Shelton, J. (2022). Dark radiation constraints on portal interactions with hidden sectors. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(9), Article 056. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/09/056