Simon Knapen

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Simon Knapen is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Knapen has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Simon Knapen's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (28 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (26 papers) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (9 papers). Simon Knapen is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (28 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (26 papers) and Particle Detector Development and Performance (9 papers). Simon Knapen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Simon Knapen's co-authors include Tongyan Lin, Kathryn M. Zurek, Michele Papucci, Tom Melia, Dean J. Robinson, Pietro Longhi, Nathaniel Craig, V. V. Gligorov, Jonathan Kozaczuk and Hou Keong Lou and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Simon Knapen

38 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Light dark matter: Models and constraints 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Light dark matter: Models and constraints
    2017 246 citations Simon Knapen, Tongyan Lin et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Knapen United States 20 1.6k 582 397 85 57 39 1.7k
G. Carosi United States 14 1.5k 0.9× 896 1.5× 658 1.7× 45 0.5× 94 1.6× 28 1.7k
Felix Kahlhoefer Germany 27 2.2k 1.4× 1.4k 2.3× 308 0.8× 35 0.4× 28 0.5× 63 2.3k
Tanner Trickle United States 14 513 0.3× 286 0.5× 268 0.7× 64 0.8× 23 0.4× 24 612
Junwu Huang Canada 13 667 0.4× 553 1.0× 372 0.9× 33 0.4× 29 0.5× 25 938
Robert Lasenby United States 15 1.1k 0.7× 821 1.4× 275 0.7× 32 0.4× 38 0.7× 21 1.3k
Philip Schuster United States 23 1.9k 1.2× 845 1.5× 361 0.9× 13 0.2× 48 0.8× 36 2.1k
D. Kinion United States 15 1.3k 0.8× 797 1.4× 629 1.6× 32 0.4× 91 1.6× 25 1.5k
S. Gninenko Russia 23 1.5k 0.9× 413 0.7× 263 0.7× 28 0.3× 24 0.4× 71 1.6k
Rémy Battesti France 13 358 0.2× 181 0.3× 448 1.1× 69 0.8× 35 0.6× 32 676

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Knapen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Knapen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Knapen, Simon, et al.. (2025). Displaced searches for Axion-Like Particles and Heavy Neutral Leptons at Mu3e. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(6). 3 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon, et al.. (2025). A robust search for lepton flavour violating axions at Mu3e. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(7). 2 indexed citations
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Bloch, Itay M., et al.. (2025). Broadband phonon production from axion absorption. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 3 indexed citations
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Gori, Stefania, et al.. (2025). Spin-dependent scattering of sub-GeV dark matter: Models and constraints. Physical review. D. 112(7).
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Knapen, Simon, et al.. (2024). Angling for insights: illuminating light new physics at Mu3e through angular correlations. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(7). 7 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon, et al.. (2023). Scouting for dark showers at CMS and LHCb. Physical review. D. 108(3). 6 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon & S. Lowette. (2023). A Guide to Hunting Long-Lived Particles at the LHC. Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 73(1). 421–449. 7 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon. (2022). Gauge mediation at the LHC: status and prospects. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon, Jonathan Kozaczuk, & Tongyan Lin. (2021). Migdal Effect in Semiconductors. Physical Review Letters. 127(8). 81805–81805. 59 indexed citations
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Gershtein, Y. & Simon Knapen. (2020). Trigger strategy for displaced muon pairs following the CMS phase II upgrades. Physical review. D. 101(3). 9 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon, Tongyan Lin, Hou Keong Lou, & Tom Melia. (2017). Searching for Axionlike Particles with Ultraperipheral Heavy-Ion Collisions. Physical Review Letters. 118(17). 171801–171801. 136 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon, et al.. (2017). Tracking down quirks at the Large Hadron Collider. Physical review. D. 96(11). 15 indexed citations
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Freytsis, Marat, Simon Knapen, Dean J. Robinson, & Yuhsin Tsai. (2016). Gamma-rays from dark showers with twin Higgs models. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(5). 34 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon, Tom Melia, Michele Papucci, & Kathryn M. Zurek. (2016). Rays of light from the LHC. Physical review. D. 93(7). 137 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon, Diego Redigolo, & David Shih. (2016). General gauge mediation at the weak scale. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(3). 7 indexed citations
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Craig, Nathaniel, Simon Knapen, Pietro Longhi, & Matthew J. Strassler. (2016). The vector-like twin Higgs. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(7). 35 indexed citations
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Craig, Nathaniel, Simon Knapen, & Pietro Longhi. (2015). Neutral Naturalness from Orbifold Higgs Models. Physical Review Letters. 114(6). 61803–61803. 77 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon & Dean Robinson. (2015). Disentangling Mass and Mixing Hierarchies. Physical Review Letters. 115(16). 161803–161803. 22 indexed citations
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Egaña-Ugrinovic, Daniel, et al.. (2015). 125 GeV Higgs from tree-level A-terms. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(6). 7 indexed citations
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Knapen, Simon, et al.. (2012). Diagnosing the top-quark angular asymmetry using LHC intrinsic charge asymmetries. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(1). 13 indexed citations

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