Zhen Liu

Zhen Liu
Assistant Professor, School of Physics and AstronomyContact
John T. Tate Hall Room 375-22 116 Church Street SeMinneapolis, MN 55455
Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2015
M.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2011
B.S., Zhejiang University, 2009
My current research focus is on theoretical particle physics, especially phenomenology at high energy colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other future collider programs (ILC, CLIC, CEPC/SPPC, FCC-ee/hh, muon colliders, etc), spanning over interesting Standard Model (SM) phenomenology in particular the Higgs boson (exotic decays, Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPT) and Baryogenesis (EWBG), Effective Field Theory (EFT) ), Beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics such as Supersymemtry, Dark Matter (including other probes, DM direct/indirect detection), Long-Lived Particles, Heavy Resonances (e.g., Z', W', Colored, Higgs), and in terms of Simplified Models. I am also proposing and conducting innovative small-scale experiments in searches for exotic particles, such as dark photons, axion-like particles and millicharged particles.