CHU Ming Chung
Professor
Professor
Education:
- PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1987
- BSc, California Institute of Technology, 1983
Current Position:
- Professor (2002-now), Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Fields:
- Astrophysics, Cosmology
- Nuclear/Particle Physics
- Theoretical and Computational physics
Research Interests:
- Physics of extra dimensions
- Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
- Neutrino Oscillations (Link to the Daya Bay and Aberdeen Tunnel experiments)
- Quark Stars
- Neutrino Stars
Major Research Grants:
- Central Allocation Grant (08-11): Research and Development for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
- Earmarked Grant (08-10): Constraining Alternative Gravity Theories with Cosmological Observables
- Earmarked Grant (07-09): Studying Cosmic Muons in Aberdeen Tunnel
- Earmarked Grant (06-08): Neutrino Oscillation Study at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant
- Earmarked Grant (04-06): Entanglement Production in Interacting Massive Two-particle Systems
- Earmarked Grant (03-05): Probing the Early Universe with Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies
- Earmarked Grant (01-03): Dynamics of a Driven Bose-Einstein Condensate: Coherent Structures and Control
- Earmarked Grant (97-00): General Relativistic Astrophysics: Coalescences of Neutron Star Binaries
- Earmarked Grant (96-98): Theoretical and Computational Study of Sonoluminescence
Selected Recent Publications:
- Shi-chun Su and M.-C. Chu, "Is the Universe Rotating?", Astrophysical Journal 703, 354 (2009).
- M. H. Chan and M.-C. Chu, "Decaying sterile neutrinos as a heating source in the Milky Way centre", Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 389, 297 (2008).
- Kwan-Chuen Chan and M.-C. Chu, "Constraining the Variation of G by Cosmic Microwave Anisotropies", Phys. Rev. D 75, 083521 (2007).
- B. Li and M.-C. Chu, "Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Constraints on Universal Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants", Phys. Rev. D 73, 025004 (2006).
| Office: | Room 106, 1/F, Science Centre North Block |
| Phone: | (852) 39436364 |
| E-mail: | mcchu@phy.cuhk.edu.hk |
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