Charles B. Chiu
Dept. of Physics, U
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~chiu/, Email: chiu@physics.utexas.edu, (update:
I. Education:
Seattle Pacific College |
Seattle,Wash. |
B.Sc, summa cum laude |
1961 |
Physics & Math |
University of
California |
Berkeley, Calif. |
Ph.D. |
1966 |
High Energy Physics |
II. Carrier
Position:
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Theory, Lawrence Rad. Lab, Berkely, California |
1965-1967 |
Visiting Scientist |
Theory, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland |
1967-1968 |
Senior Research Fellow |
Cavendish Lab, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England |
1968-1969 |
Research Fellow |
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California |
1969-1971 |
Faculty Member |
Center for Particle Theory, U of Texas at Austin |
1971-1996 |
Assistant Professor |
Department of Physics, U of Texas at Austin |
1971-1974 |
Associate Professor |
Department of Physics, U of Texas at Austin |
1974-1981 |
Visiting Professor |
Max Planck Inst. for Phys. & Astrophys,
Munich, Gemany |
1978-1979 |
Professor |
Department of Physics, U of Texas at Austin |
1981-present |
UT Distinguished Teaching Professor |
University of Texas at Austin |
1998-present |
Collaborating Scientist |
Institute for Fusion Studies |
1998-2004 |
Faculty Member |
Center for Particle Theory, U of |
2004-present |
III. Teaching Awards:
Teaching Excellence Award |
College of Natural Science |
1989 |
President’ s associates Teaching Excellence Award |
University of Texas at Austin |
1991 |
Marian-Harris Thornberry Centennial
Professorship |
College of Natural Science |
1994-96 |
Special Award for Excellence in Teaching |
UT College of Engineering |
1995 |
Dad’s Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship |
University of Texas at Austin |
1997-98 |
Friar Centennial Teaching Fellow |
University of Texas at Austin |
1998-99 |
UT Academy of Distinguished Teaching Professor |
University of Texas at Austin |
1998 |
IV. Past
and Present Research
Research in theoretical particle physics/ High energy
heavy-ion physics (from 2004 on)
C.
Chiu and R. C. Hwa, Pedestal and Peak Structure in Jet Correlation, Phys. Rev.
C. 72, 034903(2005), nucl-th/0505014.
C. B. Chiu and R. C. Hwa, “Auto-correlation of
hadrons in jets produced in heavy-ion collisions", (in preparation, 2005)
C. B. Chiu and R. C. Hwa, “Simulation of
away-side azimuthal-distribution in heavy-ion collisions", (work in
progress, 2005)
C. B. Chiu, “Correlation
in high energy heavy-ion physics”, NSF proposal, submitted in
Research in laser-plasma physics (from 1998 to present) Following are selected publications in this area.
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C. CHIU, S. Cheshkov and
T. Tajima, “High energy laser-wakefield collider with synchronous acceleration”, Phys. Rev. Special Topics-Accelerators
and Beams, 3, 101301 (2000).
H. Horton and C. CHIU,
"Laser Z-pinch dipole-target experiments to simulate space physics
acceleration processes", Phys.
Plasmas 11, 1645 (2004).
M. Fomyts'kyi,
C. CHIU, M. C. Downer, F. Grigsby, "Controlled plasma wave generation and
particle acceleration through seeding of the forward Raman scattering
instability," Physics of Plasmas 12, 1 (2005).
M. Fomyts’kyi,
B. N. Breizman, A. V. Arefiev,
C. CHIU, “Harmonic generation in clusters,” Phys. Plasmas 11, 3349 (2004).
C. CHIU, M. Fomytskyi,
F. Grigsby, R. M. Raischel,
M. C. Downer and Tajima T, "Laser electron accelerators for radiation
medicine: a feasibility study," Med. Phys. 31, 2042 (2004).
K. K. Kainz,
K. R. Hogstrom, J. A. Antolak,
P. R. Almond, C. D. Bloch, C. CHIU, M. Fomyts'kyi, F.
Raischel, M C Downer, T. Tajima, "Dose
properties of a laser accelerated electron beam and prospects for clinical
application," Med. Phys. 31, 2053 (2004).
Recipient of AAPM's Farrington Daniels Award.
W. Horton, C. Chiu, T. Ditmire, P. Valanju, R. Presura, T. Cowan, V. Ivanov, N.
Le Galloudec, Laboratory Simulation of Magnetospheric Plasma Shocks and Magnetospheres, Proceedings
of COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France, 6/2004.
Elementary Particle Physics: From mid-60s to mid-90s, my main research area was in
Theoretical Particle Physics. I was a faculty member in center for particle
theory. Most of the reesearch work was sponsored by
Dept. of Energy Grants. For the full
bibliography up to 1996 see: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~itiq/chiudoc/bibs.pdf.
High Energy Experimental
Physics: (1962-1965)
“Pion-Proton
Charge Exchange Scattering from 500 to 1300 MeV"
(with others), Phys. Rev. 156, 1415 (1967). Thesis work.
Theoretical Particle Physics: (1965-present)
Particle Theory:
F. Arbab and C.
Chiu, Association between the Dip in the p-p à p0n High
Energy Angular Distribution and the Zero of the r Trajectory, Phys. Rev.
147, 1045 (1966).
C. Chiu and J. Stack, Regge Pole Model
for High Energy Backward p+p Scattering,
Phys. Rev. 153, 1575 (1967).
C. Chiu and J. Finkelstein, A Hybrid Model
for Elastic Scattering, Nuovo Cimento
57A, 649 (1968).
C.
Chiu and J. Finkelstein, Restrictions on SU(3) Mixing
Implied by Exchange Degeneracy, Physics Letters 27B, 510 (1968).
C. Chiu, Nonforward
Scattering of Hadrons and High Energy Phenomenology, Rev. Mod. Phys. 41,
649 (1969)
C. Chiu, Evidence for Regge
Poles and Hadron Collision Phenomena at High
Energies, Annual Review of Nuclear Science, 22, 1972.
T. E. Kalogeropoulos,
C. Chiu and E. C. G. Sudarshan, Experimental
Confirmation of the Parity of the Antiproton, Phys. Rev. Letters 37, 1037
(1976)
C. Chiu, S. Nandi
and U. Sarkar, Unitarity
Constraints on the nondegenerate Majorana
neutrino
model, Phys. Rev. Letters 55, 2089 (1985)
Unstable Quantum system:
C. Chiu, B. Misra
and E. C. G. Sudarshan, Time Evolution of Quantum Unstable System and
a Resolution to the Zeno's Paradox, Phys. Rev. D16, 520 (1977).
C. Chiu, B. Misra
and E.C.G. Sudarshan, The Time Scale for the Quantum
Zeno Paradox and Proton Decay, Phys.
Letters 117B, 34 (1982).
C. Chiu and E. C. G. Sudarshan,
Decay and Evolution of the Neutral Kaon, Phys. Rev. D42, 3712 (1990).
C. Chiu,
E. C.G. Sudarshan and G. Bhamathi,Hamiltonian
Model for the Higgs Resonance Phys. Rev. 45D,
884 (1992).
C. Chiu, E. C.G. Sudarshan
and G. Bhamathi, The Cascade Model: A Solvable Field
Theory, Phys. Rev. D46, 3508 (1992).
C. Chiu and E. C.G. Sudarshan, A Theory
for the Neutral Kaon System", in “A Gift of
Prophecy”, ed. by E. C.G. Sudarshan, World Scientific
Publishing Company, Singapore (1994), pp. 81-106.
E. C. G. Sudarshan, C.
Chiu and G. Bhamathi,
Unstable Systems in Generalized Quantum Theory, Advances in Chemical Physics vol XCIX, John Wiley Sons, 1997, p121-244.
Quantum Mechanics
E. C.G. Sudarshan,
C. Chiu, and G.
Bhamathi,"Generalized Uncertainty Relations and
Characteristic Invariants for Multimode States" (with E. C. G. Sudarshan and G. Bhamathi), Phys.
Rev. A52, 43 (1995).
Artificial Intelligence (85-88): E.g. B. Kuipers, C. Chiu, D. Dalle Molle & D. Throop, Artif. Intell. 51, 343 (1991).
Acoustic Agglomeration: (94-96) C. Chiu and J. A. Edwards, “Fractal
Dynamics in Orthokinetic acoustic agglomeration
process”, Phys. Rev. E54, 3036 (1996)
VI. Interactive Teaching
support project (1995-Spring05): Partially
supported by an AT&T Grant (1996),
an eInstruction grant (2003-04), Physics
Dept., College of Natural Science. Collaboration with Center
of Instructional Technology and Center for Teaching Effectiveness. See
also: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/
V. Ph. D. and Master students and
Postdocs
·
Ph. D. students: ( Dates given: yr of completion,
yr of last update. )
1)
Eduado Ugaz (1974), Assistant
professor at U. of Barcelona, Spain, 1975.
2)
Momowaar
Hossein (1978), Supervisor, AT & T, 1990.
3)
Xerxes Tata (1981), Professor, U of
4)
Steve Eubank (1986) Research Scientist,
5)
6)
Silas Beane (1994), Research Associate, U of
7)
Mykhailo Fomyskyi (2003), Wachovia Securities,
·
Master students with date of completion: Fred Rolfes
(1994), James Edward (1996)
·
Post docs: K. H. Wang (1972 -1974), Don M. Tow (1976-1978).