Charles B. Chiu

Dept. of Physics, U Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, 512-471-1707(office), 512-471-9637(fax)

http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~chiu/,    Email: chiu@physics.utexas.edu,  (update: 9/6/10)

 

 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, Germany

1978-1979

Professor

Department of Physics, U of Texas at Austin

1981

UT Distinguished Teaching Professor

U of Texas at Austin

1998-present

Affiliated faculty member

Institute for Fusion Studies, U of Texas at Austin

1998 -2004

Faculty Member

Center for Particles and Fields, U of Texas at Austin

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

Dr. Chiu did his doctoral work in high energy experimental physics. After he completed his dissertation he joined the theory group at Lawrence Radiation to be trained as a theorist. Below is a list various research areas he has worked on after he left the theory group in 1967.

o    After that Dr. Chiu worked in CERN, in University of Cambridge and  in Caltech, and he became a faculty member at UT at 1971. Up to mid-80s, Dr. Chiu main research interest was in the applications of Regge theory, the eikonal model, and the dual resonance model to strong interaction phenomena. During this time he contributed two review articles (one in Reviews of Modern Physics and the another in Annual Reviews of Nuclear Science) in the field. 

o    Dr. Chiu also collaborated with Professor E. C. G. Sudarshan and their collaborators in the study of the Quantum Zeno effect, and in the formulation of the Generalized Quantum theory which involves unstable quantum systems. Their work led to a  review article in Advances in Chemical Physics. 

o    Dr. Chiu also had interest in Artificial Intelligence research. He collaborated with Professor Benjamin Kuipers of UT Computer Science Department in the latter part of 80s.

o    In mid-90s, Dr. Chiu worked on air-pollution related research in the area of acoustic agglomeration phenomena.

o    Since then Dr. Chiu has collaborated with Professors Toshi Tajima and Mike Downer in the investigation of laser-wakefield acceleration and its application to radiation medicine. In  his collaboration with Professor Wendell Horton, they worked on electron acceleration in the outer space.

o    Since 2004, he has been collaborating with Professor Rudolph Hwa. They investigate various aspects of two-particle correlation phenomena in relativistic heavy ion collisions, and the application of  recombination model.

o    Dr. Chiu has graduated 7 Ph.D and 2 master students. He has also hosted 2 post docs and two visiting scientists. Currently he is supervising two doctoral students. Their research is mainly exploring different aspects of QCD phenomenology, such as the saturation physics, eikonal unitarization schemes,  Froissart Bound and other features in QCD-parton physics.

Dr. Chiu has published over 140 journal papers and several review articles.  Selected papers among his publications in the various fields over t his research career are included below.  The ISI citation index to this date on several recent papers will be included in Sec VI. 

 

IV.1.  Relativistic heavy Ion physics, and Particle physics.

1)       C. CHIU and R. C. Hwa, “Pedestal and Peak Structure in Jet Correlation” Phys. Rev. C 72, 034903 (2005) ; arXiv:nucl-th/0505014.

2)       C. CHIU and R. C. Hwa, “Autocorrelation of hadrons in jets produced in heavy-ion collisions”, Phys. Rev. C 73, 014903 (2006) ; arXiv:nucl-th/0510055.

3)       Charles B. Chiu, Rudolph C. Hwa, “Suppression of statistical background in the event structure of away-side \Delta\phi distribution”,  Acta Phys.Polon.B39:911-922,2008; arXiv:nucl-th/0605054.

4)       C. CHIU and R. C. Hwa, “Away-side distribution in a parton multiple scattering model and background-suppressed measures”,Nucl.Phys. A783 (2007) 531-534;  arXiv:nucl-th/0608077. 

5)       C. CHIU and R. C. Hwa,  “Away-side azimuthal distribution in a Markovian parton scattering model”, Phys. Rev. C74, 064909(2006); arXiv:nucl-th/0609038.

6)       C.CHIU and R C. Hwa, “Particles associated with Ω produced at intermediate pT”, Phys. Rev. C 76, 024904 (2007) ; arXiv:0704.2616.

7)       C. CHIU, R. C. Hwa, C. B. Yang, “Azimuthal Anisotropy: Ridges, Recombination and Breaking of Quark Number Scaling”, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C 78,  044903 (2008); arXiv: 0801.2183 (Revised version)

8)       C. CHIU and R. C. Hwa, “Dependence of Ridge Formation on Trigger Azimuth: Correlated Emission Model”, Phys.Rev.C79:034901, 2009; arXiv:0809.3018.

IV.2 Laser-plasma physics:  (Selected papers)

For more details: see the link under full publication list: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~chiu

1)       B. Hu, W. Horton, C. CHIU. and T. Petrosky, "Coulomb Scattering in a Strong Magnetic Field", Phys. Plasmas 9, 1116 (2002).

2)       H. Horton and C. CHIU, "Laser Z-pinch dipole-target experiments to simulate space physics acceleration processes", Phys. Plasmas 11, 1645 (2004).

3)       M. Fomyts'kyi, C. CHIU, M. C. Downer, F. Grigsby, "LWFA with Low Energy Raman Seeded Pulses," Proceedings of Advanced Accelerator Concept 2004, Stony Brook, July 2004.

4)       M. Fomyts’kyi, B. N. Breizman, A. V. Arefiev, C. CHIU, “Harmonic generation in clusters,” Phys. Plasmas 11, 3349 (2004).

5)       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). Selected for the July 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Utrafast Science.

6)       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 the AAPM's Farrington Daniels Award as one of the top papers published in that journal during 2004, presented at the Americal Association of Physicists in Medicine Meeting, July 25, 2005.

7)       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)

8)       W. Horton, C. CHIU and T. Ditmire, "Laboratory Simulation of Bow Shocks and Magnetospheres", Proceedings of HEDLA Conference, Tucson, AZ, 2004; published in Astrophysics and Space Science, 298, 395 (2005).

9)       W. Horton, C. CHIU, T. Ditmire, P. Valanju, R. Presura, T. Cowan, V. Ivanov, N. Le Galloudec, "Laboratory Simulation of Magnetospheric Plasma Shocks", Advances in Space Research, Volume 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 358-369.

IV.3. Past research in elementary Particle Physics: Selected papers. (For the full publication list up to 1995 see the link under full publication list: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~chiu )

  IV.3.1. High Energy Experimental Physics: Selected paper

“Pion-Proton Charge Exchange Scattering from 500 to 1300 MeV" (with others), Phys. Rev. 156, 1415 (1967).  Thesis work.

IV.3.2. Theoretical Particle Physics: Selected papers

Particle Theory:

1)       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).

2)       C. CHIU and J. Stack,   Regge Pole Model for High Energy Backward p+p Scattering, Phys. Rev. 153, 1575 (1967).

3)       C. CHIU and J. Finkelstein, A Hybrid Model for Elastic Scattering, Nuovo  Cimento 57A,  649 (1968).

4)       C. CHIU and J. Finkelstein, Restrictions on SU(3) Mixing Implied by Exchange Degeneracy, Physics Letters 27B, 510 (1968).

5)       C. CHIU, Nonforward Scattering of Hadrons and High Energy Phenomenology, Rev. Mod. Phys. 41, 649 (1969)

6)       C. CHIU, Evidence for Regge Poles and Hadron Collision Phenomena at High Energies, Annual Reviews of Nuclear Science, 22, 1972.

7)       T. E. Kalogeropoulos, C. CHIU and E. C. G. Sudarshan, Experimental Confirmation of the Parity of the Antiproton, Phys. Rev. Letters 37, 1037 (1976)

Unstable Quantum system:

1)       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).

2)       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).

3)       C. CHIU and E. C. G. Sudarshan, Decay and Evolution of the Neutral Kaon, Phys. Rev. D42, 3712 (1990).

4)       C. CHIU,  E. C.G. Sudarshan and G. Bhamathi,Hamiltonian Model for the Higgs Resonance Phys. Rev. 45D,  884 (1992).

5)       C. CHIU,  E. C.G. Sudarshan and G. Bhamathi, The Cascade Model: A Solvable Field Theory, Phys. Rev. D46, 3508 (1992).

6)       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.  

7)       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

o    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).

IV. 4. Artificial Intelligence (85-88):  Selected paper

o    B. Kuipers, C. CHIU, D. Dalle Molle & D. Throop, Artif. Intell. 51, 343 (1991).

IV. 5. Acoustic Agglomeration:  (94-96) Selected paper

o    C. CHIU and J. A. Edwards, “Fractal Dynamics in Orthokinetic acoustic agglomeration process”, Phys. Rev. E54, 3036 (1996)

IV. 6. Physics Education:

1)       Charles CHIU, “Augmenting large class teaching using the Classtalk system and web”,  JingShin theoretical Physics Symposium in honor of Professor Ta-You Wu”, ed. by J. P. Hsu and L. Hsu, World Scientific, 1998.

2)       Wireless response technology in college classrooms, by H. Arthur Woods and Charles CHIU (Originally appeared at online journal: The Technology Source. See also http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/talks/woodschiu.htm)

3)       Teaching engineering physics  at UT by CHIU (http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~chiu/pub/essay.html, not published)

4)       Interactive Teaching support project (1995-Spring05):  Partially supported by an AT&T Grant (1996),    by an eInstruction grant (2003-04), by UT Physics Dept., by UT College of Natural Science. Collaborated with Center of Instructional Technology and Center for Teaching Effectiveness. See also: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/

5)       Experimental use of Matter & Interactions Text Book in teaching Engineering Physics: Please visit the links under MI-curriculum on website: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~itiq/303KMI/chiu/. , especial the survey results of sp10.