CSABA BALAZS

Senior Lecturer and Physics Honours Coordinator Ph.D. Theoretical Particle Physics, Michigan State University, 1999 Phone +61 (3) 9902 0328 FAX +61 (3) 9905 3637 Email:Csaba.Balazs @sci.monash.edu.au

A false-color computer reconstruction of the mass distribution in the cluster CL0024+1654. Individual galaxies in the cluster appear as mass pinnacles. The wide envelope, containing over 300 billion billion times the mass of the Earth, is dark matter (CREDIT: Greg Kochanski, Ian Dell'Antonio, and Tony Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Recent experiments and observations have shown that 95% of the Universe's energy density seemingly lies in a dark sector comprising dark matter, a form of yet undiscovered matter, and dark energy, whose origin is unknown. My research priority is to shed light on this dark side of the Universe, piecing together the outstanding puzzle of dark energy and dark matter.

Working on the field of elementary particle theory, my research goal is to understand how to extend the standard model of theoretical particle physics and cosmology to accommodate the dark sector. In my dark matter search I currently focus on supersymmetry, which relates the traditional matter particles to carriers of various forces, resulting in the most powerful extensions of the standard model. My dark energy research is underpinned by the recognition of the central role of entropy, which could lead to deep connections between particle and gravitational physics.

I examine the experimental consequences of these extensions. The next round of particle collider and astrophysical experiments are expected to shed light on some of the deepest mysteries of particle physics: the origin of matter, and the origin of dark energy.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Supersymmetry parameter analysis: SPA convention and project.
J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra et al.
Published in Eur.Phys.J.C46:43-60,2006.
e-Print: hep-ph/0511344. Cited 59 times.

SUSY Les Houches accord: Interfacing SUSY spectrum calculators, decay packages, and event generators.
P. Skands et al.
Published in JHEP 0407:036,2004.
e-Print: hep-ph/0311123. Cited 88 times

Direct detection of dark matter in supersymmetric models.
Howard Baer, Csaba Balazs, Alexander Belyaev, Jorge O'Farrill.
Published in JCAP 0309:007,2003.
e-Print: hep-ph/0305191. Cited 52 times.

Updated reach of the CERN LHC and constraints from relic density, b ---> s gamma and a(mu) in the mSUGRA model.
Howard Baer, Csaba Balazs, Alexander Belyaev, Tadas Krupovnickas.
Published in JHEP 0306:054,2003.
e-Print: hep-ph/0304303. Cited 79 times.

Chi**2 analysis of the minimal supergravity model including WMAP, g(mu)-2 and b ---> s gamma constraints.
Howard Baer, Csaba Balazs.
Published in JCAP 0305:006,2003.
e-Print: hep-ph/0303114. Cited 105 times.

Updated constraints on the minimal supergravity model.
Howard Baer, Csaba Balazs, Alexander Belyaev.
Published in JHEP 0207:050,2002.
e-Print: hep-ph/0205325. Cited 79 times.

Neutralino relic density in minimal supergravity with coannihilations.
Howard Baer, Csaba Balazs, Alexander Belyaev.
Published in JHEP 0203:042,2002.
e-Print: hep-ph/0202076. Cited 81 times.

Impact of muon anomalous magnetic moment on supersymmetric models.
Howard Baer, Csaba Balazs, Javier Ferrandis, Xerxes Tata.
Published in Phys.Rev.D64:035004,2001.
e-Print: hep-ph/0103280. Cited 116 times.

Higgs boson production at the LHC with soft gluon effects.
C. Balazs, C.P. Yuan.
Published in Phys.Lett.B478:192-198,2000.
e-Print: hep-ph/0001103. Cited 58 times.

Collider tests of compact space dimensions using weak gauge bosons.
Csaba Balazs, Hong-Jian He, Wayne W. Repko, C.P. Yuan, Duane A. Dicus.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.83:2112-2115,1999.
e-Print: hep-ph/9904220. Cited 72 times.

QCD corrections to scalar production via heavy quark fusion at hadron colliders.
Csaba Balazs, Hong-Jian He, C.P. Yuan.
Published in Phys.Rev.D60:114001,1999.
e-Print: hep-ph/9812263. Cited 60 times.

k(T) effects in direct photon production.
L. Apanasevich et al.
Published in Phys.Rev.D59:074007,1999.
e-Print: hep-ph/9808467. Cited 121 times.

Photon pair production with soft gluon resummation in hadronic interactions.
C. Balazs, E.L. Berger, S. Mrenna, C.P. Yuan.
Published in Phys.Rev.D57:6934-6947,1998.
e-Print: hep-ph/9712471. Cited 55 times.

Probing Higgs bosons with large bottom Yukawa coupling at hadron colliders.
C. Balazs, J.L. Diaz-Cruz, H.J. He, T. Tait, C.P. Yuan.
Published in Phys.Rev.D59:055016,1999.
e-Print: hep-ph/9807349. Cited 71 times.

Soft gluon effects on lepton pairs at hadron colliders.
C. Balazs, C.P. Yuan.
Published in Phys.Rev.D56:5558-5583,1997.
e-Print: hep-ph/9704258. Cited 117 times.

Citation information is obtained from the Spires HEP database (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires) and updated on 12 July 2007.