Liberal Arts and Sciences
Tanner Lab
Led by David Tanner · Physics
What we study
The Tanner Lab studies dark matter particles called axions, gravitational waves, and optical properties of materials. They build detectors, analyze data, and use advanced equipment like refrigerators cooled to near absolute zero.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Building & testing
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 2
Current projects
Axion search
Building and improving detectors to find hypothetical dark matter particles called axions.
LIGO
Contributing to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory to detect cosmic waves.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Constraints on ultralight bosons from merging binary and remnant black holes observed during the second and third parts of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
2026 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Searches for ultralight vector bosons using black hole merger data from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA.
- Tests of general relativity with GWTC-3
2025 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Tests general relativity using compact binary signals from LIGO-Virgo’s third observing run.
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How to reach out
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