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Pisin Chen

Research Groups

LeCosPA Position Director
Home Institution Department of Physics & Graduate Institute of Astrophysics, NTU
Education (1) Ph.D. in Physics, UCLA
(2) B.S. in Physics, NTU
Web
Office R806, New Physics Building, NTU
E-Mail (1) pisinchen(at)phys.ntu.edu.tw
(2) chen(at)slac.stanford.edu
Tel (1) 886-2-3366-5187
(2) 01-(650) 926-3384
Honors
  • J. J. Sakurai Memorial Fellowship in Theoretical Particle Physics, 1983
  • Fellow of American Physical Society, 1994
  • 4th Prize in Essay Competition on Gravitation, Gravity Research Foundation, 1995
  • 3rd Prize in Essay Competition in Gravitation, Gravity Research Foundation, 2001
  • Ministry of Education Outstanding Scholar Fellowship (the Carry-On Position), Taiwan, R.O.C., 2006
  • Y.T. Lee Chair Professor, Outstanding Scholar Foundation, 2007-2008
  • Outstanding Faculty Research Award, National Taiwan University, 2007
  • NTU C.C. Leung Chair Professor of Cosmology, since 2008
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    Current Research Interests
  • Theoretical cosmology, including the nature of dark matter and dark energy, inflation and cosmic evolution in early universe
  • Theoretical particle astrophysics, such as ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and cosmic neutrinos
  • Laboratory investigation of critical issues in high energy astrophysics and cosmology using high intensity particle and photon beams
  • Experimental detection of ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos
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    Selected Publications
    ． "Stability of Horava-Lifshitz Black Holes in the Context of AdS/CFT"
    Yen Chin Ong, Pisin Chen
    Phys. Rev. D 84, 104044 (2011)
    [arXiv: 1106.3555]
    ． "Constraining PCP Violating Varying Alpha Theory Through Laboratory Experiments"
    Debaprasad Maity, Pisin Chen
    Published in Phys.Rev.D84:026008,2011.
    [arXiv: 1105.1981]
    ． "Corrections to the apparent value of the cosmological constant due to local inhomogeneities"
    Antonio Enea Romano, Pisin Chen
    JCAP 1110 (2011) 016
    [arXiv: 1104.0730]
    ． "Cosmological Imprints of a Generalized Chaplygin Gas Model for the Early Universe"
    Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez, Pisin Chen, Yen-Wei Liu
    Phys. Rev. D 84, 023505 (2011)
    [arXiv: 1104.0676]
    ． "Cosmological Behavior of a Parity and Charge-Parity Violating Varying Alpha Theory"
    Debaprasad Maity, Pisin Chen
    Phys.Rev.D83:083516,2011
    [arXiv: 1005.5104]
    ． "A Naturally Minute Quantum Correction to the Cosmological Constant Descended from the Hierarchy"
    Shu-Heng Shao, Pisin Chen
    Physical Review D 82, 126012 (2010)
    [arXiv: 1005.1920]
    ． "Stress-Energy Tensor Induced by Bulk Dirac Spinor in Randall-Sundrum Model"
    Shu-heng Shao, Pisin Chen, Je-An Gu
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084036
    [arXiv: 0910.3150]
    ． "Testing Strict Hydrostatic Equilibrium in Abell 1689"
    S. M. Molnar, I.-N. Chiu, K. Umetsu, P. Chen, N. Hearn, T. Broadhurst, G. Bryan, C. Shang
    submitted to APJL
    [arXiv: 1002.4691]
    ． "Constraints on the Phase Plane of the Dark Energy Equation of State"
    Chien-Wen Chen, Pisin Chen, Je-An Gu
    Phys.Lett.B682:267-273,2009
    [arXiv: 0905.2738]
    ． "Consistency Test of Dark Energy Models"
    Chien-Wen Chen, Je-An Gu, Pisin Chen
    Mod. Phys. Lett. A24, 1649 (2009)
    [arXiv: 0903.2423]
    ． "A New Type of Plasma Wakefield Accelerator Driven by Magnetowaves"
    Pisin Chen, Feng-Yin Chang, Guey-Lin Lin, Robert J. Noble, Richard Sydora
    Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51 (2009) 024012
    [arXiv: 0808.3036]
    ． "Influence of Plasma Collective Effects on Cosmological Evolution"
    Kwang-Chang Lai, Pisin Chen
    Submitted to Mod. Phy. Lett
    [arXiv: 0807.0282]
    ． "A New Approach to Testing Dark Energy Models by Observations" Je-An Gu, Chien-Wen Chen, Pisin Chen
    New J. Phys. 11, 073029 (2009)
    [arXiv: 0803.4504]
    ． "Magnetowave Induced Plasma Wakefield Acceleration for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays"
    Feng-Yin Chang, Pisin Chen, Guey-Lin Lin, Kevin Reil, Richard Sydora
    Phys.Rev.Lett.102:111101,2009
    [arXiv: 0709.1177]
    ． "Air fluorescence measurements in the spectral range 300-420 nm using a 28.5 GeV electron beam"
    R. Abbasi, T. Abu-Zayyad, K. Belov, J. Belz, Z. Cao, M. Dalton, Y. Fedorova, P. Huentemeyer, B. F. Jones, C. C. H. Jui, E.C. Loh, N. Manago, K. Martens, J. N. Matthews, M. Maestas, J. Smith, P. Sokolsky, R. W. Springer, J. Thomas, S. Thomas, P. Chen, C. Field, C. Hast, R. Iverson, J. S. T. Ng, A. Odian, K. Reil, D. Walz, D. R. Bergman, G. Thomson, A. Zech, F-Y. Chang, C-C. Chen, C-W. Chen, M. A. Huang, W-Y.P. Hwang, G-L. Lin
    Astropart.Phys.29:77-86,2008
    [arXiv: 0708.3116]
    ． "Plasma Suppression of Large Scale Structure Formation in the Universe"
    Pisin Chen, Kwang-Chang Lai
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 231302 (2007)
    [arXiv:0707.1340]
    ． "Observation of the Askaryan Effect in Ice"
    ANITA Collaboration (P.W. Gorham et al.)
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 171101 (2007)
    [arXiv:hep-ex/0611008]
    ． "A Possible Connection between Dark Energy and the Hierarchy"'
    Pisin Chen and Je-An Gu
    Mod. Phys. Lett. A22, 1995 (2007)
    ． "Brane Inflation, Solitons and Cosmological Solutions: 1"
    Pisin Chen, Keshav Dasgupta, K. Narayan, Marina Shmakova, Marco Zagermann
    JHEP 0509, 009 (2005)
    [arXiv:hep-th/0501185]
    ． "Black Hole Remnants and Dark Matter"
    Pisin Chen and Ronald J. Adler
    Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 124, 103 (2003)
    Also in *Marina del Rey 2002, Dark matter* 103-106
    [arXiv:gr-qc/0205106].
    ． "Plasma Wakefield Acceleration for Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays"
    Pisin Chen, Toshiki Tajima, Yoshiyuki Takahashi
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 161101 (2002)
    [arXiv:astro-ph/0205287].
    ． "The Generalized Uncertainty Principle and Black Hole Remnants"
    Ronald J. Adler, Pisin Chen, David I. Santiago
    Gen. Rel. Grav. 33, 2101 (2001)
    [arXiv:gr-qc/0106080]
    Winner of 3rd place in the 2001 Gravity Research Foundation essay competition.
    ． "Testing Unruh Radiation with Ultraintense Lasers"
    Pisin Chen and Toshi Tajima
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 256 (1999)
    ． "Resonant Photon-Graviton Conversion and Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations"
    Pisin Chen
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 634 (1995)
    ． "Differential Luminosity under Multiphoton Beamstrahlung"
    Pisin Chen
    Phys. Rev. D46,1186 (1992)
    ． "Coherent Pair Creation in Linear Colliders"
    Pisin Chen and Valery I. Telnov
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 1796 (1989)
    ． "A Possible Final Focusing Mechanism for Linear Colliders"
    Pisin Chen
    Part. Accel. 20, 171 (1987)
    ． "Acceleration of Electrons by the International of a Bunched Electron Beam and a Plasma"
    Pisin Chen, J.M. Dawson, Robert W. Huff, T. Katsouleas
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 693 (1985)
    Biography    Due to life's unexpected twists and turns, I have worked in various fields of physics including particle physics, plasma physics, beam physics, and cosmology and astrophysics. While some of these transitions were planned, many others were unexpected. Whether planned or not, eventually I enjoy every field of physics that I have the fortune to learn and to contribute. By now influence of my past experiences can be found in every new direction that I have launched into. I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to appreciate the unity of physics and the wholeness of life.
        Recent revolutionary breakthroughs in particle astrophysics and cosmology have created new and puzzling questions in physics at the most fundamental level. Cosmology has become one of the most challenging frontiers of science in the 21st century. Using LeCosPA as a platform, I wish to promote cosmology and particle astrophysics in Taiwan so as to make contributions to the understanding of the origin, the composition and the evolution of our universe, or even multiverse.
      Outside of my physics activities, I am an amateur artist, musician and playwright. I have been a member of a fine arts group in Taipei since my teenage, and through it have staged several group exhibitions over the last several decades. The latest, where my more recent paintings were exhibited, was held in 2002 in Dr. Sun Yet-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei. I conducted choruses since my student days. I was the founding music director and conductor of the North Peninsula Philharmonic Chorus in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1990 to 2007. In 1980s, together with Prof. Wei-Hsin Sun of NTU and a Fellow of LeCosPA, we transcribed the popular Chinese novel “Blue and Black” into a play, which was regarded by the original author, Wang Lan, as the best rendition and has been put on stage in Los Angeles (1984), Taipei (1985, 1998), and San Francisco (1988).