Theoretical High Energy Physics

The Standard Model relies on a single Higgs to give masses to all particles.  The large spectrum of masses is attributed to families of 3 x 3 complex Yukawa coupling matrices.

What if the Higgs is not a solitary field, but belongs to a bigger family ?

We enrich the SM by reducing the Yukawa coupling matrices to a single Yukawa coupling constant, and endowing it with a family of Higgs fields.

We present a study based on the maximally symmetric Higgs potential in a leading hierarchy scenario.

(arxiv:1408:1174; IJMPA 29, 1444008 (2014))

Tritium beta decay experiments hint at  tachyonic mass for electron neutrinos. 

(http://www.physik.uni-mainz.de/exakt/neutrino/en_experiment.html )

m_n² c⁴ = - 1.6 ± 2.5_stat   ± 2.1_sys  eV²

Is there a consistent  field theory for such faster-than-light neutrinos ?  The answer is yes.

( http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0105153   Modern Phys Letters A 16, 2129 (2001) )

How does a tachyonic mass affect the endpoint of tritium β-decay ?

See http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0410175  for a complete field-theoretic treatment of the decay spectrum, including the complex energy modes of the tachyon pole. (new)

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1963

B.Sc., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1959

Professor, Physics Department, City College of CUNY, New York (1966 - )

Visiting Professor, Physics Department, City College of CUNY, New York (1965 - 1966)

Research Associate, Rockefeller University, New York (1964 - 1965)

Research Associate, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (1963 - 1964)

Research Associate, Columbia University, New York (1962 - 1963)

Senior Fellow   Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (06-19)

Distinguished Honorary Inst of Physics, Singapore Fellow 2015

Nanyang Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (05-06, 07-09)

Visiting Professor, Inst Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei (7/93 - 8/93)

Visiting Professor, Max Planck Physics, Munich (6/92 - 7/92)

Visiting Professor, KEK, Japan (6/90 - 7/90)

Visiting Professor, Inst Estructura Materia, Madrid (6/85 - 7/85)

Visiting Professor, National U of Singapore (7/84 - 8/84)

Visiting Professor, KEK, Japan (7/83 - 1/84)

Visiting Scientist, CERN, Geneva (7/82 - 8/82)

Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (2/82 - 6/82)

Fellow, Japan Society Promotion Science, U of Tokyo (3/74 - 5/74)

Fellow, Japan Society Promotion Science, Yukawa Inst, Kyoto (6/74 - 8/74)

Visiting Professor, Max Planck Physics, Munich (2/73 - 8/73)

Professor Etranger, CTP, CNRS, Marseilles (1972 Summer )

Member, Committee on International Scientific Affairs, APS, 1994 - 1996

Chair, Committee on International Scientific Affairs, APS, 1997

Editor, International Journal Modern Physics A, Modern Physics Letters A, 1994 -

Founder, Overseas Chinese Physics Association, 1990

Chair, Overseas Chinese Physics Association, 1991 - 1992, 1997-98

Vice-Chair, Asian-American Higher Education Council, 1994 –2000

Director , CCNY – China Exchange, 1981 - 

             Exchange relations with Chinese Academy of Sciences, and 5 key universities:

                                                Fudan, Shandong, Southeast, Xibei, and Zhongshan

Founder & Advisor, CCNY Asian Alumni Group, 1981 -

External Examiner, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (93-95)

Inspiring Interest in and Curiosity for Physics: Looking Beyond the Stars, The Physics Educator, Vol 1, No. 3, (2019), 1920005, World Scientific Publishing Co.

Yang-Mills gauge theory and the Higgs boson family, Mod Phys Lett A 31 (2016)  1630006

Yang-Mills Gauge Theory and the Higgs Boson Family, Proceedings of the Conference on 60 Years of Yang-Mills Gauge Theories, NTU, Singapore 2015.

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Oscillations of Faster than light Majorana Neutrinos: A Causal Field Theory, Modern Phys Letters A 16, 2129 (2001) ; hep-ph/0105153

Broken chiral symmetry in hot QCD: The Pion halo
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Decoupling Renormalization and Hierarchies, Phs Rev D30 (1984) 421

Dynamical Generation of Fermion Masses, with D.X. Li, Phys. Rev. D30, 790 ('84)

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Neutron Oscillation in Grand Unification (1982)
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Polya Distribution in a Parton Picture of High Energy Scattering, with L.N. Chang, Phys. Rev. D9, 660 ('74)

Gauge Model of Weak and Electromagnetic Interaction with No Neutral Current or Heavy Leptons, with E. Ma, Phys. Rev. D7, 3808 ('73)

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Feynman Rules for an O(4) Family with No Ghosts, with C.A. Nelson, Phys. Rev. D2, 959 ('70)

Impact Parameter Representations & the Coordinate-Space Description of Scattering Amplitudes, with K. Raman, Phys. Rev 181, 2048 (’69)

High-energy large angle proton-proton scattering, Phys Rev 175 (1968) 1741-1748

Impact Parametrisation of the Scattering Amplitude, Phys. Rev. 172, 1796 (’68)

Impact Parametrisation and Daughter Trajectories, with K.T. Mahanthappa, Nucl. Phys. B6, 200 ('68)

Kinematics at Infinite Momentum, with H. Bacry, Annals Phys. 47, 407 ('68)

On a Generalized Definition of P and C, Phys. Rev. Lett. 16, 337 ('66)