Kairui Zhang

Department of Phyiscs and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the High Energy Physics (HEP) group at the Department of Physics, University of Oklahoma, since Fall 2024. My research spans various exciting theoretical topics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), including electroweak symmetry breaking, neutrino physics, baryogenesis, dark matter, axion physics, and supersymmetry under the string landscape.

Before joining OU, I spent a enjoyable summer as a short-term Visiting Scholar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I earned my Ph.D. in Physics in 2023 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the supervision of Vernon D. Barger. My doctoral studies explored various aspects of flavor symmetries, lepton flavor violation, and supersymmetry.

More information about my research interests, career, and experience can be found in my CV. You can also find my full publications at Inspire.

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  1. The LUX-ZEPLIN Event as Hyperfine Spectroscopy of Composite Dark Matter
    Jie Sheng and Kairui Zhang
    Sep 2026
  2. WIMP dark matter from a natural discrete gauge symmetry in the Standard Model
    Jie Sheng, Tsutomu T. Yanagida, and Kairui Zhang
    JHEP, Sep 2026
  3. Aspects of the WIMP quality problem and R-parity violation in natural supersymmetry with all axion dark matter
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Jessica Bolich, Dibyashree Sengupta, and Kairui Zhang
    JCAP, Sep 2025
  4. All axion dark matter from supersymmetric models
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Dibyashree Sengupta, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Sep 2025
  5. Living dangerously with decoupled first and second generation scalars: SUSY prospects at the LHC
    Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, and Kairui Zhang
    Phys. Rev. D, Sep 2025