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M.C. Chu

Ming-chung Chu  ¦¶©ú¤¤ 
BS, PhD (Caltech)

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

    My Course webpage: UGB234M Relativity and Quantum Mechanics  

      CUHK Astrophyics Forum             Info. for Caltech-HKURF


      Daily Solar Photos taken by me

      Recent Popular Science talks and articles

      My current graduate students                             My Ex-graduate students

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: Is the Universe Rotating?
  7.                                   Constraining the Variation of G by Cosmic Microwave Anisotropies
  8.                                   Constraints on f(R) cosmology in the Palatini formalism
  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.                                    Decaying sterile neutrinos as a heating source in the Milky Way centre    
  18.                                    A predicted relation between the temperature and density profile of cluster hot gas
  19.                                    Observational Constraints on Sterile Neutrinos in Galaxies
  20.                                    The Existence of Sterile Neutrino Halos in Galactic Centers as an Explanation of the Blackhole Mass - Velocity dispersion relation
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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
Recent Publications

1. Is the Universe Rotating?, Shi-chun Su and M.-C. Chu, Astrophysical Journal 703, 354 (2009).

2. The Existence of Sterile Neutrino Halos in Galactic Centers as an Explanation of the Blackhole mass - Velocity dispersion relation, M. H. Chan and M.-C. Chu, Astrophysical Journal 692, 212-216 (2009).

3. Observational Constraints on Sterile Neutrinos in Galaxies, M. H. Chan and M.-C. Chu, J. Astrophysics and Space Science 319, 143 (2008).

4. A predicted relation between the temperature and density profile of cluster hot gas, M. H. Chan and M.-C. Chu, J. Astrophysics and Space Science 317, 149 (2008).

5. Decaying sterile neutrinos as a heating source in the Milky Way centre, M. H. Chan and M.-C. Chu, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 389, 297 (2008).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. Decaying sterile neutrinos as a heating source in the Milky Way centre, M. H. Chan and M.-C. Chu, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 389, 297 (2008).

4. Is the Universe Rotating?, Shi-chun Su and M.-C. Chu, Astrophysical Journal 703, 354 (2009).


Hobbies

Sleeping, star-gazing, classical music, volleyball, basketball, tennis, ping-pong, chatting with friends, random walk, Buddhism, philosophy