Contact Information
1110 W. Green St.
M/C 704
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Professor Shelton received her PhD from MIT in 2006, after undergraduate work at Princeton. She held postdoctoral appointments at Rutgers, Yale, and Harvard before arriving at the University of Illinois in 2014, and has won awards from MIT and from the LHC Theory Initiative.
Research Interests
Astrophysics/Cosmology
High Energy Physics (theoretical)
Research Description
Shelton works on a broad range of topics in particle physics beyond the Standard Model, with particular interests in the cosmology of particle dark matter and new physics at the Large Hadron Collider.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Physics
Honors & Awards
2017 DOE Early Career Award
Recent Publications
Adshead, P., Ralegankar, P., & Shelton, J. (2022). Dark radiation constraints on portal interactions with hidden sectors. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(9), [056]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/09/056
Erickcek, A. L., Ralegankar, P., & Shelton, J. (2022). Cannibalism's lingering imprint on the matter power spectrum. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(1), [017]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/017
Fernandez, N., Kahn, Y., & Shelton, J. (2022). Freeze-in, glaciation, and UV sensitivity from light mediators. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(7), [44]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2022)044
Gaidau, C., & Shelton, J. (2022). Singularities in the gravitational capture of dark matter through long-range interactions. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(1), [016]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/01/016
Yeh, T. H., Shelton, J. F., Olive, K. A., & Fields, BD. (2022). Probing physics beyond the standard model: limits from BBN and the CMB independently and combined. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(10), [046]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/10/046