Curriculum Vitae                   TA-PEI CHENG

     Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri - St. Louis

    St. Louis, MO 63121. Voice mail: 1-314-516-5020,  e-mail: tpcheng@umsl.edu

    Degrees

    A.B. Dartmouth College 1964  Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum Laude, Highest Distinction in Physics

    Ph.D. Rockefeller University 1969  Advisor: A. Pais

    Employment

     Regular positions:

    1969-71       Postdoctoral Member, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)

    1971-73       Research Associate, Rockefeller University

1973-76       Assistant Prof,  1976-78  Associate Prof,  1978-07 Professor

    2007-           Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri - St. Louis

    Concurrent positions:

    1977-78       Visiting Associate Professor of Physics, Princeton University

    1977-78       Member, Institute for Advanced Study

    1978-79       Chairman, Department of Physics, Univ. of Missouri - St. Louis

    1979-80       Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota

    1982-83       Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Univ. of California

    1987-88       Member, Institute for Advanced Study

    1991-92       Visiting Professor of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

    2002-08       Honorary Professor of Physics, University of Hong Kong      

    Awards

     Book Publications

    Refereed Article Publications in Journals and Conference Proceedings

 My publications have been cited well over 2,000 times as recorded by the "Science Citation Index". They have pioneered new directions in particle physics research:

      ¶ Presented the first evidence for a possibly significant strange quark content of the proton; proposed new model of the nucleon's quark structure.

The Zweig Rule and the πN Sigma Term, T. P. Cheng, Physical Review D 13, 2161 (1976).

Is SU(2)×SU(2) a Better Symmetry than SU(3)?, T. P. Cheng and R. F. Dashen, Physical Review Letters 26, 594 (1971).

Chiral Symmetry and the Higgs-Boson Nucleon Couplings, T. P. Cheng, Physical Review D 38, 2869 (1988).

Flavor and Spin Contents of the Nucleon in the Quark Model with Chiral Symmetry, T. P. Cheng and L. F. Li, Physical Review Letters 74, 2872 (1995).

Why Naive Quark Model Can Yield a Good Account of the Baryon Magnetic Moments,  T. P. Cheng and L. F. Li, Physical Review Letters 80, 2789 (1998).

The Proton Spin and Flavor Structure in the Chiral Quark Model,   L. F. Li and T. P. Cheng, in Computing Particle Properties, Lectures at the 36th International University School of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Schladming, Austria, (eds.) H. Gausterer and C. B. Lang (Lecture Notes in Physics 512, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1998), p115-160

Non-perturbative QCD Spin Studies, (Plenary talk), T. P. Cheng and L. F. Li, in SPIN 98 -- Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics, 8 - 12 September 1998, Protvino, Russia (eds.) N E Tyurin et al. (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999), p.192-209

       Lepton-quark flavor changing processes as sensitive probes of new physics: presented the first gauge theories of muon number nonconservation, quark flavor                      changing Higgs couplings.

Nonconservation of Separate μ- and e- Lepton Numbers in Gauge Theories with V+A Currents, T. P. Cheng and L. F. Li, Physical Review Letters 38, 381 (1977).

Muon Number Nonconservation Effects in a Gauge Theory with V+A Currents and Heavy Neutral Leptons, T. P. Cheng and L. F. Li, Physical Review D 16,1425 (1977).

Muon Number Nonconservation in Gauge Theories, T. P. Cheng and L. F. Li, in Deeper Pathways in High Energy Physics, Proc. of Orbis Scientiae 1977, Coral Gables, (eds.) B. Kursunoglu et al. (Plenum Press, New York, 1977), p 659-671

Mass-Matrix Anzatz and Flavor Nonconservation in Models with Multiple Higgs Doublets, T. P. Cheng and M. Sher, Physical Review D 35, 3484 (1987).

 Among the first gauge theory papers on neutrino masses and oscillations.

Hierarchy of Lepton Masses in Vector-like Theory with Majorana Particles, T. P. Cheng, Physical Review D 14,1367 (1976).

Neutrino Masses, Mixings, and Oscillations in SU(2)×U(1) Models of Electroweak Interactions, T. P. Cheng and L. F. Li, Physical Review D 22, 2860 (1980).

Suppression of Flavor Changing Neutral Current Effects due to Mixings with a Heavy Singlet Fermion, T. P. Cheng and L. F. Li, Physical Review D 45, 1708 (1992).

 Proved low-energy theorems of radiative correction, which also facilitated the subsequent development of chiral perturbation theory.

Low-Energy Theorem for e4 Compton Scattering Amplitudes, T. P. Cheng, Physical Review 176, 1674 (1968).

Low Energy Theorem on Radiative Corrections, T. P. Cheng, Physical Review 184, 1805 (1969).

       ¶  Systematic study of the renormalization group structure of gauge theories with scalar particles.

Higgs Phenomena in Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories, T. P. Cheng, E. J. Eichten, and L. F. Li, Physical Review D 9, 2259 (1974).  

 

Oral Presentations (Over 100 seminars and colloquia at physics departments and invited presentations at conferences.)

 Rockefeller Univ (1967, 69, 71, 73), Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen (1967), New York Univ (1968), Princeton Univ (1969, 70, 77), SLAC, Stanford Univ (1969, 77), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1970, 88), City College of New York (1971), U Pennsylvania (1971), Cornell Univ (1971), Rochester U (1971), Univ Rome (1972), CERN, Switzerland (1972, 77, 96), Dartmouth College (1972, 78), SUNY-Buffalo (1973), Wayne State Univ (1973), Univ Missouri - St.Louis (dept colloquia, 1973, 75, 76, 95, 00), U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1973, 80), Enrico Fermi Institute, U Chicago (1973), Northwestern Univ (1974), Purdue U (1974, 77), University of Missouri - Rolla (1974, 76, 86, 96, 01), Saint Louis University (1975, 99), University of Washington, Seattle (1975), University of Toronto (1975), U Hawaii, (1975), Institute of Nuclear Study, U Tokyo (1975), U Kyoto (1975), Chinese Univ of Hong Kong (1976, 91, 92), Fermilab (1976, 79, 89), Aspen Center of Physics (1976, 90), U Maryland (1976), Lawrence Berkeley Lab, U California, (1977, 82), California Institute of Technology (1977), plenary talk at Coral Gables Conference, Orbis Scientiae (1977), Los Alamos Scientific Lab (1977), Brookhaven National Lab (1977), Rutherford Lab, Oxford, UK (1977), invited talk, American Physical Society Spring Washington Meeting (1978), invited talk, 1980 Guangzhou Conference on Theoretical Particle Physics, PRC (1980), U Minnesota (1980), U Missouri – Columbia (1981, 95), Southern Illinois Univ – Edwardsville (1981), U California – Davis (1983), U California - Santa Cruz (1983, 98), invited seminar, Berkeley SSC Workshop (1984), invited talk,18th MASUA Symposium, Iowa State U (1985), Iowa State U (1987), U Kansas (1989), Benedictine College (1989), invited talk, APS Division of Particles and Fields Meeting at Rice Univ (1990), invited talk, APS Division of Particles and Fields Meeting at U British Columbia, (1991), Univ Hong Kong, (1992, 94, 01, 03), invited talks, International Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physics, Iowa State U (1994), Washington U - St. Louis (1994), Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei (1994), National Chung-Cheng Univ (1994), Madison Phenomenology Symposium, Ames, IA (1995), invited talk, First Shantou International Conference on the Frontier of Physics, PRC (1995), invited talk, Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Brussels (1995), Argonne National Lab (1996), lecture series, Schladming Winter International School of Particle Physics, Austria (1997), U Kentucky (1998), plenary talk,13th International Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics, Provino Russia (1998), invited talk, mini-symposium, APS Centenary Meeting, Atlanta (1999), St. Louis Astronomy Society (2000, 2005), U Missouri - Kansas City (2001), Kalamazoo College (2001), Truman State Univ, MO, (2001), Ohio Univ (2005), Denison Univ (2005).