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Ming-chung Chu  朱明中 
BS, PhD (Caltech)

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   Go to my astro page             Info. on the Daya Bay and Aberdeen Tunnel experiments

Education

1. BSc, California Institute of Technology, 1983
2. PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1987

Position

1. 2002-now, Professor, Physics Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fields

1. Astrophysics, Cosmology
2. Nuclear/Particle Physics
3. Theoretical and Computational physics

Current Research Interests

1. Physics of extra dimensions
           Recent Papers: Cosmological constraints on radion evolution in the universal extra dimension model
2.                                    Dark Energy as a Signature of Extra Dimensions
3.                                    Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Constraints on Universal ExtraDimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants
4.                                    Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with an Evolving Radion in the Brane World Scenario
5. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
6.         Recent Papers: Constraining the Variation of G by Cosmic Microwave Anisotropies
7.                                   Constraints on f(R) cosmology in the Palatini formalism
8.                                   CMB and Matter Power Spectra of Early f(R) Cosmology in the Palatini Formulation
9.                                   CMB constraint on radion evolution in the brane world scenario
10. Neutrino Oscillations  (Info. on the Daya Bay and Aberdeen Tunnel experiments)
11. Quark Stars
    
12.         Recent Papers:  Cooling of a newborn compact star with a QCD phase transition 
13.                                     Signatures of QCD Phase Transition in a Newborn Compact Star
14.                                     Gravitational Waves from Phase-Transition Induced Collapse of Neutron Stars
15. Neutrino Stars
16.         Recent Papers: Heating of the Intergalactic Medium by the Radiative Decay of Neutrinos
17. Quantum geometric phase
18.         Recent Papers:  The Quantum Geometric Phase between Orthogonal States
    
19.                                     The Quantum Mechanical Geometric Phase of a Particle in a Vibrating Cavity
20. Quantum Entanglement
            Recent Papers:  S-wave Quantum Entanglement in a Harmonic Trap
21. Earthshine
22.         Recent Papers: Earthshine and the Earth's Albedo I: Precise and Large-Scale Nightly Measurements
23.                                    Earthshine and the Earth's Albedo II: Observations and Simulations Over Three Years
24.                                    Earthshine and the Earth's Albedo III: Long-Term Variations in Reflectance

Major Research Grants

1. Earmarked Grant (96-98): Theoretical and Computational Study of Sonoluminescence
2. Earmarked Grant (97-00): General Relativistic Astrophysics: Coalescences of Neutron Star Binaries
3. Earmarked Grant (01-03): Dynamics of a Driven Bose-Einstein Condensate: Coherent Structures and Control
4. Earmarked Grant (03-05): Probing the Early Universe with Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies
5. Earmarked Grant (04-06): Entanglement Production in Interacting Massive Two-particle Systems
6. Earmarked Grant (06-08): Neutrino Oscillation Study at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant
7. Earmarked Grant (07-09): Studying Cosmic Muons in Aberdeen Tunnel
8. Earmarked Grant (08-10): Constraining Alternative Gravity Theories with Cosmological Observables
9. Central Allocation Grant (08-11): Research and Development for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

1. Cosmological constraints on radion evolution in the universal extra dimension model, K.-C. Chan and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 77, 063525 (2008).

2. CMB Constraint on Radion Evolution in the Brane World Scenario, K.-C. Chan and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 76, 043525 (2007).

3. Constraints on f(R) cosmology in the Palatini formalism, B. Li, K.-C. Chan and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 76, 024002 (2007).

4. Constraining the Variation of G by Cosmic Microwave Anisotropies, Kwan-Chuen Chan and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 75, 083521 (2007).

5. Heating of the Intergalactic Medium by the Radiative Decay of Neutrinos, M. H. Chan and M.-C. Chu, Astrophysical Journal 658, 859 (2007).

6. CMB and Matter Power Spectra of Early f(R) Cosmology in the Palatini Formulation, B. Li and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 74, 104010 (2006).

7. Loss of purity by wave-packet scattering at low energies, J. Wang, C. K. Law, and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. A 73, 034302 (2006).

8. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with an Evolving Radion in the Brane World Scenario, B. Li and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 73, 023509 (2006).

2. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Constraints on Universal Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants, B. Li and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 73, 025004 (2006).

3. Constraints on f(R) cosmology in the Palatini formalism, B. Li, K.-C. Chan and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 76, 024002 (2007).

4. Constraining the Variation of G by Cosmic Microwave Anisotropies, Kwan-Chuen Chan and M.-C. Chu, Phys. Rev. D 75, 083521 (2007).

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E-mail: mcchu@phy.cuhk.edu.hk