Tao Han
Some Research Highlights
"Renowned papers" (600+ citations):
- Field-theoretic formulation for large extra-dimension:
Lykken-Han-Zhang (1999, 1100+ citations)
- Heavy Majorana neutrino phenomenology:
Atre-Han-Pascoli-Zhang (2009, ~1000 citations)
- Phenomenological layout for SUSY R-parity violating interactions:
Barger-Giudice-Han (1989)
- Phenomenological layout for Little-Higgs model:
Han-Logan-McElrath-Wang (2003)
"Famous papers" (250+ citations):
- First calculation for QCD correction to Higgs boson production pp -> WZ/ZH:
Han-Willenbrock (1991)
- "Structure-function approach" for QCD correction to Vector-Boson-Fusion:
Han-Valencia-Willenbrock (1992)
- WW scattering at hadron colliders:
(1). The renowned "Bagger et al." (1994)
(2). LHC extension (1995)
- Collider search for a Majorana neutrino:
Han-Zhang (PRL, 2006)
- Collider test for Type-II neutrino mass model:
Pavel Fileviez-Peres et al. (2008)
- Phenomenological layout for "Hidden Valley" models:
Han-Si-Zurek-Strassler (2007)
- Astrophysical constraints on extra-dimensions:
Barger-Han-Kao-Zhang (1999)
- Review: Physics opportunities of a Future Circular Collider (hh):
Arkani-Hamed-Han-Mangano-Wang (Phys. Report, 2016)
- Review: Phenomenology for Majorana neutrino seesaw models:
Cai-Han-Li-Ruiz (Front. in Phys., 2018)
Other selected publications:
- "Cluster Transverse-Mass" first introduced:
Barger-Han-Ohnemus (1988) ,
and used for Higgs discovery h-> WW!
- "Forward jet-tagging" early work:
foundation for VBF kinematics (1988)
- "Central jet-vetoing" first introduced and named:
foundation for VBF kinematics (1990)
- Physics motivation for muon colliders (1995-1997): (1). The Higgs factory: The "Muon-Collider Quartet" (PRL, 1995) ,
(PRL, 1997) ,
(Phys. Rept, 1997) ,
Update (PRD, 2013) ,
(2). TeV muon collider: WW scattering (PRD, 1997)
- gg -> h -> mu tau first proposed:
Han-Marfatia (PRL, 2001)
- gg -> h -> mu+ mu- first proposed:
Han-McElrath (PLB, 2002)
- Collider test for neutrino mass Type-I seesaw:
Han-Ruiz (JHEP, 2015)
- Collider test for neutrino mass Type-II seesaw:
Pavel Fileviez Peres et al. (PRD, 2008)
- Collider test for neutrino mass Type-III seesaw:
The "magnificent-seven" (PRD, 2010)
- Top-quark pairs at high mass:
Boosted tops from heavy resonances (PRL, 2008)
- Kinematic cusps for measuring dark matter mass: Han-Kim-Song (PLB, 2010) ,
"Antler topology" (PRD, 2013) ,
Cascad decay (PRD, 2013)
- QCD classification of most general color-resonances:
Han-Lewis-Liu (JHEP, 2010)
- Electroweakinos at the LHC:
DM aspect: Giudice-Han-Wang-Wang (PRD, 2010) ,
Higgs aspect: Han-Padhi-Su (PRD, 2013) ,
Collider overview: Canepa-Han-Wang (Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci., 2020)
- Higgs bosons at the LHC:
in MSSM (PRD, 2012) ,
in NMSSM (JHEP, 2013)
- Dark matter and the Higgs boson:
Han-Liu-Natarajan (JHEP, 2013) ,
Han-Liu-Su (JHEP, 2014)
- Top quark as a parton:
Han-Sayre-Westhoff (JHEP, 2015)
- Electroweak splitting functions and showering - EW sector at high energies:
Chen-Han-Tweedie (JHEP, 2016)
- Off-Shell Higgs Probe of Naturalness:
Goncalves-Han-Mukhopadhyay (PRL, 2018) ,
Extended version (PRD, 2018)
- Higgs boson pair production at future colliders:
Goncalves-Han-Kling-Plehn (PRD, 2018)
- Dark Matter Blind Spots at One-Loop:
Han-Liu-Mukhopadhyay-Wang (JHEP, 2019)
- Non-Standard neutrino interactions (NSI) at the LHC:
Han-Liao-Liu-Marfatia (JHEP, 2019) ,
Scalar and tensor (JHEP, 2020)
- "Leptonic scalar" at the LHC:
Andre de Gouvea et al. (JHEP, 2020)
- EW PDFs in leptonic collisions:
Han-Ma-Xie (2020)
- High-energy muon colliders:
Higgs couplings: HLLW (2020) ,
WIMP Dark matter: HLWW (2020)
- EW phase transition and gravitational waves:
GGHL (2020) , Z' Models (2023)
- Quantum Information in HEP:
(1). Early work on top quark (2023) ,
(2). Elucidation on the "Fictitious states" (2024) ,
(2025) ,
(3). Introducing the "Kinematic Approach" (2024) ,
(4). Quantum tomography in flavor-oscillations (2025) ,
(5). QIS: Quantum Discord (2025)
- Early works on the Higgs boson at the ILC:
Han-Jiang (PRD, 2001) ,
Han-Liu-Sayre (PRD, 2014)
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