Robert Kehoe

Professor of Experimental Particle Physics
Physics Department Chair

Physics

Email

kehoe@physics.smu.edu
Office Location

037 Fondren Life Science Building
Phone

214-768-1793
Website

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Education

Ph.D., High Energy Physics, University of Notre Dame
B.A., Physics, Earlham College

Areas of Expertise

Cosmological modeling
Supernovae
Robotic Telescopes

Courses Taught

PHYS 4371/6371 Stellar Astrophysics
PHYS 1311 Introduction to Astronomy
PHYS 3305 Modern Physics
PHYS 1304 Electricity and Magnetism
PHYS 7361 Elementary Physics

Research Interest

Supernovae
Galaxies
Dark Energy
Variable stars
Experimental Instrumentation

Select publications

  • Adame, A. Et al. (DESI Collab.), “DESI 2024 VI: cosmological constraints from the measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations,"" JCAP 2025:021 (2025).

  • Prada, F. Et al. (DESI Collab.), “The DESI One-Percent Survey: Modelling the clustering and halo occupation of all four DESI tracers with UCHUU,"" Astron. & Astroph. 698:A170 (2025).

  • Cosmological Distance Measurements of 12 Nearby Supernovae IIP with ROTSE-IIIb,’ G. Dhungana, R. Kehoe et al., Astrophys. Journal 962:60 (2024).

  • Precise measurement of the top quark mass in dilepton decays using optimized neutrino weighting, Abazov et al., Phys. Lett. B 752:18 (2016).

  • Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. G. Aad et al., Phys. Lett. B 716:1 (2012).

Robert Kehoe