Riccardo Catena

Professor at Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics

Riccardo Catena is Professor in Physics at the Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden, where he leads a research group consisting of 1 postdoc, 2 PhD students and every year 1-4 master students. Riccardo received the habilitation (venia legendi) at the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 2014 and was promoted to oavlönad docent at Chalmers in 2016. Habilitation and "docentur" represent the highest levels of pedagogical qualification in Germany and Sweden, respectively. He is an elected member of the IUPAP C4 commission on Astroparticle Physics, and a founding member of the council of the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT). Riccardo was an elected member of the board of the Section for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics of the Swedish Physical Society from 2017 to 2021. His research is funded by an individual research project grant of the Swedish Research Council and by a research project grant awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (co-PI).​
Riccardo's field of research is astroparticle physics – the area of basic science lying at the interface of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. His contributions to this field range from the theoretical modelling of physical systems or phenomena which cannot be described by the Standard Model of particle physics, to the interpretation of cosmological and astrophysical data on the origin, composition and evolution of our universe and of its constituents. Currently, his research focuses on dark matter. In this context, Riccardo is especially interested in modelling the microscopic properties of dark matter, in computing their observable consequences, and in designing strategies to experimentally test them. 

His complete list of publications can be found​ here


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Showing 35 publications

2024

Linear response theory for light dark matter-electron scattering in materials

Riccardo Catena, Nicola Spaldin
Physical Review Research. Vol. 6 (3)
Journal article
2023

Direct searches for general dark matter-electron interactions with graphene detectors: Part I. Electronic structure calculations

Riccardo Catena, Timon Emken, Marek Matas et al
Physical Review Research. Vol. 5 (4)
Journal article
2023

Dark matter-electron interactions in materials beyond the dark photon model

Riccardo Catena, Daniel Cole, Timon Emken et al
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2023 (3)
Journal article
2023

Chiral phonons as dark matter detectors

Carl P. Romao, Riccardo Catena, Nicola Spaldin et al
Physical Review Research. Vol. 5 (4)
Journal article
2023

Spin-1 thermal targets for dark matter searches at beam dump and fixed target experiments

Riccardo Catena, Taylor Gray
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2023 (11)
Journal article
2023

Direct searches for general dark matter-electron interactions with graphene detectors: Part II. Sensitivity studies

Riccardo Catena, Timon Emken, Marek Matas et al
Physical Review Research. Vol. 5 (4)
Journal article
2023

A next-generation liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics

J. Aalbers, S. S. Abdussalam, K. Abe et al
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. Vol. 50 (1)
Review article
2022

Prospects for dark matter signal discovery and model selection via timing information in a low-threshold experiment

Riccardo Catena, Vanessa Zema
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2022 (2)
Journal article
2021

Probing P- And CP-violation in dark matter interactions

Riccardo Catena, Joakim Hagel, Carlos E. Yaguna
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2021 (5)
Journal article
2021

Crystal responses to general dark matter-electron interactions

Riccardo Catena, Timon Emken, Marek Matas et al
Physical Review Research. Vol. 3 (3)
Journal article
2021

Measuring the local dark matter density in the laboratory

Bradley J. Kavanagh, Timon Emken, Riccardo Catena
Physical Review D. Vol. 104 (8)
Journal article
2020

Projected sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter of next-generation semiconductor detectors

Erik Andersson, Alex Bökmark, Riccardo Catena et al
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2020 (5)
Journal article
2020

Rejecting the Majorana nature of dark matter with electron scattering experiments

Riccardo Catena, Timon Emken, Julia Ravanis
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2020 (6)
Journal article
2020

Constraints on new scalar and vector mediators from LHC dijet searches

Sebastian Baum, Riccardo Catena, Martin Krauss
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. Vol. 47 (5)
Journal article
2020

Atomic responses to general dark matter-electron interactions

Riccardo Catena, Timon Emken, Nicola A. Spaldin et al
Physical Review Research. Vol. 2 (3)
Journal article
2019

Non-relativistic effective interactions of spin 1 Dark Matter

Riccardo Catena, Kåre Fridell, Martin Krauss
Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2019 (8)
Journal article
2019

Impact of a XENONnT signal on LHC dijet searches

Sebastian Baum, Riccardo Catena, Martin Krauss
Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 2019 (7)
Journal article
2019

Limits on dark matter effective field theory parameters with CRESST-II

G. Angloher, P. Bauer, A. Bento et al
European Physical Journal C. Vol. 79 (1)
Journal article
2019

Quantifying uncertainties in nuclear matrix elements for dark matter searches

Daniel Gazda, Christian Forssen, Riccardo Catena
AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2165
Paper in proceeding
2019

Assessing the sensitivity of PINGU to effective dark matter-nucleon interactions

Anton Bäckström, Riccardo Catena, Carlos Perez de los Heros
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2019 (5)
Journal article
2018

New constraints on inelastic dark matter from IceCube

Riccardo Catena, Fredrik Hellström
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2018 (10)
Journal article
2018

Direct detection of fermionic and vector dark matter with polarised targets

Riccardo Catena, Kåre Fridell, Vanessa Zema
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2018 (11)
Journal article
2018

J-factors for self-interacting dark matter in 20 dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Sebastian Bergstrom, Riccardo Catena, Andrea Chiappo et al
Physical Review D. Vol. 98 (4)
Journal article
2018

Compatibility of a dark matter discovery at XENONnT or LZ with the WIMP thermal production mechanism

Riccardo Catena, Jan Conrad, Martin Krauss
Physical Review D. Vol. 97 (10)
Journal article
2018

Determining dark matter properties with a XENONnT/LZ signal and LHC Run 3 monojet searches

Sebastian Baum, Riccardo Catena, Jan Conrad et al
Physical Review D. Vol. 97 (8)
Journal article
2018

Halo-independent comparison of direct detection experiments in the effective theory of dark matter-nucleon interactions

Riccardo Catena, Alejandro Ibarra, Andreas Rappelt et al
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2018 (7)
Journal article
2018

Dark matter spin determination with directional direct detection experiments

Riccardo Catena, Martin Krauss, Jan Conrad et al
Physical Review D. Vol. 97 (2)
Journal article
2017

WIMP capture and annihilation in the Earth in effective theories

Riccardo Catena
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2017 (1)
Journal article
2017

Direct Detection of Dark Matter Bound to the Earth

Riccardo Catena, Chris Kouvaris
Physical Review D. Vol. 96 (6), p. 063012-
Journal article
2017

Ab initio nuclear response functions for dark matter searches

Daniel Gazda, Riccardo Catena, Christian Forssen
Physical Review D. Vol. 95 (10)
Journal article
2017

Signatures of Earth-scattering in the direct detection of Dark Matter

Bradley J. Kavanagh, Riccardo Catena, C. Kouvaris
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2017 (1), p. 012-
Journal article
2016

WIMP capture by the Sun in the effective theory of dark matter self-interactions

Riccardo Catena, Axel Widmark
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2016 (12), p. Article number 016-
Journal article
2016

Phenomenology of dark matter-nucleon effective interactions

Riccardo Catena
Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol. 718 (4), p. 248179-
Paper in proceeding
2016

DAMA confronts null searches in the effective theory of dark matter-nucleon interactions

Riccardo Catena, Alejandro Ibarra, Sebastian Wild
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Vol. 2016 (5), p. Art. no. 039-
Journal article
2016

New spectral features from bound dark matter

Riccardo Catena, C. Kouvaris
Physical Review D. Vol. 94 (2)
Journal article

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Showing 6 research projects

2023–2026

Susceptibilities and in-medium effects in Dark Matter-electron scattering

Riccardo Catena Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics
Swedish Research Council (VR)

3 publications exist
2022–2023

Computational modeling of Dark Matter-electron interactions

Riccardo Catena Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics
The Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation

2021–2022

Dark Matter electron scattering in detector materials

Riccardo Catena Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics
Einar Urdshals Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics PP
Stiftelsen Wilhelm och Martina Lundgrens Vetenskapsfond

2 publications exist
2020–2025

Light Dark Matter

Riccardo Catena Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

2019–2022

Empirical Determination of the Dark Matter Particle Spin

Riccardo Catena Subatomic and Plasma Physics
Swedish Research Council (VR)

8 publications exist
2014–2019

Discovering Dark Matter Particles in the Laboratory

Christian Forssen Subatomic and Plasma Physics
Riccardo Catena Subatomic and Plasma Physics
Daniel Gazda Subatomic and Plasma Physics
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

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