Josef Pradler

Positions Held

• 10/2009 - present: Perimeter Institute, Postdoctoral Researcher

Awards

• Helmholtz Young Researcher Prize for Astroparticle Physics
• Scholarship for distinguished achievements by the University of Vienna (2002&2003)

Recent Publications

• Elastic scattering signals of solar neutrinos with enhanced baryonic currents, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, Phys. Rev. D 85, 113016 (2012), arXiv: 1203.0545
• Statistical Tests of Noise and Harmony in Dark Matter Modulation Signals, Spencer Chang, Josef Pradler, Itay Yavin, Phys. Rev. D 85, 063505 (2012), arXiv: 1111.4222
• Dark Matter from Minimal Flavor Violation, Brian Batell, Josef Pradler, Michael Spannowsky, JHEP1108, 038 (2011), arXiv: 1105.1781
• Non-Abelian Discrete Dark Matter, Adisorn Adulpravitchai, Brian Batell, Josef Pradler, Phys.Lett.B700, 207-216 (2011), arXiv: 1103.3053
• Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis as a Probe of New Physics, Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.60:539-568,2010, arXiv: 1011.1054
• Primordial beryllium as a big bang calorimeter, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, Phys.Rev.Lett.106:121305 (2011), arXiv: 1010.4079
• Big bang nucleosynthesis as a probe of new physics, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.60:1, 2010, arXiv: 1011.1054
• Metastable GeV-scale particles as a solution to the cosmological lithium problem, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, Phys.Rev.D82:103514 (2010), arXiv: 1006.4172
• Thermal relic abundances of long-lived staus, Josef Pradler, Frank Daniel Steffen, Nucl.Phys.B809:318-346,2009, arXiv: 0808.2462
• Constraints on Supersymmetric Models from Catalytic Primordial Nucleosynthesis of Beryllium, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, Frank Daniel Steffen, JCAP 0811:020,2008, arXiv: 0807.4287
• CBBN in the CMSSM, Josef Pradler, Frank Daniel Steffen, Eur.Phys.J.C56:287-291,2008, arXiv: 0710.4548
• Implications of Catalyzed BBN in the CMSSM with Gravitino Dark Matter, Josef Pradler, Frank Daniel Steffen, Phys.Lett.B666:181-184,2008, arXiv: 0710.2213
• Constraints on the Reheating Temperature in Gravitino Dark Matter Scenarios, Josef Pradler, Frank Daniel Steffen, Phys.Lett.B648:224-235,2007, arXiv: hep-ph/0612291
• Thermal Gravitino Production and Collider Tests of Leptogenesis, Josef Pradler, Frank Daniel Steffen, Phys.Rev.D75:023509,2007, arXiv: hep-ph/0608344
• Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper, K. N. Abazajian, M.~A.~Acero, S.~K.~Agarwalla, A.~A.~Aguilar-Arevalo, C.~H.~Albright, S.~Antusch, C.~A.~Arguelles and A.~B.~Balantekin et al., arXiv: 1204.5379
• The long-lived stau as a thermal relic, PhD Thesis, Josef Pradler, arXiv: 0909.3429
• Electroweak Contributions to Thermal Gravitino Production, Diploma Thesis, Josef Pradler, arXiv: 0708.2786
• Moriond 2012 Electroweak Session, On the Cosmic Ray Muon Hypothesis for DAMA, Josef Pradler, arXiv: 1205.3675

Seminars

• Old Background and New Signals in Dark Matter direct detection, Seminar talk @ CERN, Switzerland
• New Signals and Old Background in Dark Matter direct detection, Moriond 2012 Electroweak session @ LaThuile, Italy
• New Signals and Old Background in Dark Matter direct detection, UCLA Dark Matter 2012 @ Los Angeles, USA
• Shedding (sun)light on dark matter direct detection, Seminar talk @ McGill University, Canada
• Old Background and New Signals in Dark Matter direct detection, Seminar talk @ Los Alamos National Lab, USA
• Direct detection signals of neutrino baryonic forces, Seminar talk @ TRIUMF, Canada
• Signals in Direct Dark Matter. Experiments - I Think You've. Got Sunstroke, Seminar talk @ University of Victoria, Canada
• Non-Abelian Discrete Dark Matter, Progress on old and new themes in cosmology @ Avignon, France
• Recent developments in primordial nucleosynthesis scenarios, Seminar @ University of Victoria, Canada
• Recent developments in non-standard big bang nucleosynthesis scenarios, Seminar @ University of British Columbia, Canada
• Metastable GeV-scale particles as a solutions to the cosmological lithium problem, Planck 2010 @ CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
• BBN implications from a GeV-scale metastable sector, Seminar @ Max Planck Institute of Physics, Munich, Germany
• BBN implications from a GeV-scale metastable sector, Workshop Dark Matter: Its Origin, Nature and Prospects for Detection @ The Gailileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy
• Susy Dark Matter with a Long-Lived stau NLSP, DESY Theory Workshop: Dark Matter at the Crossroads @ Hamburg, Germany
• The long-lived stau as thermal relic, Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation (Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics) @ Los Cabos, Mexico
• Gravitino Dark Matter and Cosmological Constraints with a stau NLSP, Workshop The Dark Side: 2 @ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• Cosmological Constraints in Gravitino Dark Matter Scenarios, Lake Louise Winter Institute @ Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
• Gravitino Dark Matter and Cosmological Constraints, Seminar @ University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• Gravitino Dark Matter and Constraints on the Reheating Temperature, SUSY 2007 Conference @ University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Constraints on the Reheating Temperature in Gravitino Dark Matter Scenarios, Cosmolgy Day @ University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Constraints on the Reheating Temperature in Gravitino Dark Matter Scenarios, DPG Spring Meeting @ Heidelberg, Germany
• PIRSA:11090113, Direct Detection Experiments as Neutrino _b Observatories , 2011-09-23, Unravelling Dark Matter Conference
• Direct Detection experiments as Neutrino_b Observatories, Unravelling Dark Matter Conference
• PIRSA:11020141, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis as a probe of new physics, 2011-02-15, PI-CITA Day 2011
• PIRSA:08050055, Gravitino Dark Matter and Cosmological Constraints with a stau NLSP, 2008-05-31, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Particle Physics