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.
Awards and Honors
2017 DOE Early Career Award
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Physics
Associate Professor, Astronomy
Recent Publications
Co, R. T., Fernandez, N., Ghalsasi, A., Harigaya, K., & Shelton, J. (2024). Axion baryogenesis puts a new spin on the Hubble tension. Physical Review D, 110(8), Article 083534. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.083534
Fernandez, N., Foster, J. W., Lillard, B., & Shelton, J. (2024). Stochastic Gravitational Waves from Early Structure Formation. Physical review letters, 133(11), Article 111002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.111002
Antel, C., Battaglieri, M., Beacham, J., Boehm, C., Buchmüller, O., Calore, F., Carenza, P., Chauhan, B., Cladè, P., Coloma, P., Crivelli, P., Dandoy, V., Darmé, L., Dey, B., Deppisch, F. F., De Roeck, A., Drewes, M., Echenard, B., Flambaum, V. V., ... Zurek, K. (2023). Feebly-interacting particles: FIPs 2022 Workshop Report. European Physical Journal C, 83(12), Article 1122. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12168-5
Born, S., Karur, R., Knapen, S., & Shelton, J. (2023). Scouting for dark showers at CMS and LHCb. Physical Review D, 108(3), Article 035034. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.035034
Carena, M., Kozaczuk, J., Liu, Z., Ou, T., Ramsey-Musolf, M. J., Shelton, J., Wang, Y., & Xie, K. P. (2023). Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition with Exotic Higgs Decays. Letters in High Energy Physics, 2023, Article A4. https://doi.org/10.31526/LHEP.2023.432