Chung Kao
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Education: | B.S. 1980 National Taiwan Normal University |
| Ph.D. 1990 The University of Texas | |
| Office: | 331 Nielsen Hall |
| Phone: | 405-325-3961, ext. 36331 |
| Email: | kao@nhn.ou.edu |
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My research interests are in theoretical high energy physics, astrophysics and cosmology, especially: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB), Supersymmetry, Unification of Fundamental Interactions, CP Violation, Dark Matter, and Theories with Extra Dimensions.
One of the most important goals of future colliders is to discover the Higgs bosons or to prove their nonexistence. In the Standard Model of electroweak interactions, the Higgs field condenses (disappears into the vacuum), spontaneously breaking the electroweak symmetry and generating masses for the elementary particles. Weak scale supersymmetry is the most compelling extension of the Standard Model to preserve the elementary nature of the Higgs bosons. In most supersymmetric models, the lightest neutralino can be a good cold dark matter candidate if R-parity is conserved.
Recently I have been investigating direct and indirect signatures of new physics in present and future experiments to pursue interesting physics of electroweak symmetry breaking, supersymmetry and CP violation. In addition, I am employing particle physics to explain astrophysical and cosmological phenomena as well as applying astrophysical and cosmological observations to test and constrain particle theories.
