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
- Rockefeller
Institute Graduate Fellow 1964-69
- Fellow
of the American Physical Society 1982-
- Principal
Investigator, National
Science Foundation research grants (continuous funding
1975-1996)
Book Publications
- Relativity,
Gravitation & Cosmology: A Basic Introduction, Ta-Pei Cheng, (Oxford University Press, 2005)
xii + 336pp.
- Gauge
Theory of Elementary Particle Physics, Ta-Pei Cheng and L. F. Li, (Oxford University
Press, 1984) xi + 550pp; Russian translation (Mir, Moscow; 1987) 624
pp.
- Gauge
Theory of Elementary Particle Physics: Problems & Solutions, Ta-Pei Cheng and L. F. Li, (Oxford
University
Press, 2000) x + 340 pp.
- Gauge
Invariance, An anthology with introduction
and annotated bibliography, T.
P. Cheng and L. F. Li (eds.), American Assoc. of Physics Teachers,
(College Park MD, 1990) l06 pp
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).