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Dr. Ken Kiers

Professor, Department Chair

Office Location: Nussbaum Science Center 207
Phone: (765) 998-4689
Email: knkiers@taylor.edu

Academic Credentials

Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1996
B.S., McMaster University, 1991


Responsibilities

Quantum Mechanics, Theoretical Particle Physics, Chaos


Personal Information

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Theoretical particle physics.  Areas of interest include:
    CP violation
    Supersymmetric
      phenomenology
    Higgs physics
    Neutrino physics
    B and tau decays
    Various extensions of the
      Standard Model of particle physics

  • Chaos in simple electronic circuits

  • Teaching upper-level physics courses, particularly those dealing with Chaos, Analytical Mechanics, Modern Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Mathematical Methods in Physics

Homepage

http://www.cse.taylor.edu/~knkiers/

Selected Publications

Ken Kiers, Kevin Little, Alakabha Datta, David London, Makiko Nagashima, Alejandro Szynkman, CP violation in tau -> K pi pi nu_tau. UMISS-HEP-2008-05, UDEM-GPP-TH-07-171, Aug 2008. 23pp.

Alakabha Datta, Ken Kiers, David London, Patrick J. O'Donnell and Alejandro Szynkman, CP Violation in Hadronic τ Decays. Phys. Rev. D 75, 074007 (2007); Erratum-ibid.D 76, 079902 (2007).

Ken Kiers, Alejandro Szynkman and David London, CP violation in supersymmetric theories:  t˜2→t˜1τ-τ+, Phys. Rev. D 74, 035004 (2006).

Ken Kiers, Michael Assis*, David Simons*, Alexey Petrov and Amarjit Soni, Neutrinos in a left-right model with a horizontal symmetry. Phys. Rev. D 73, 033009 (2006).

Ken Kiers, Michael Assis* and Alexey A. Petrov, Higgs sector of the left-right model with explicit CP violation. Phys. Rev. D 71, 115015 (2005).

Ken Kiers, Dory Schmidt* and J.C. Sprott, Precision measurements of a simple chaotic circuit. Am. J. Phys. 72, 503 (2004).

Ken Kiers, Tim Klein*, Jeff Kolb*, Steve Price* and J.C. Sprott, Chaos in a Nonlinear Analog Computer, Int. J. Bif. Chaos 14, 2867 (2004). 

Ken Kiers, Jeff Kolb*, John Lee*, Amarjit Soni and Guo-Hong Wu, Ubiquitous CP violation in a top-inspired left-right model.  Phys. Rev. D 66, 095002 (2002).

Ken Kiers and Michel H.G. Tytgat, Neutrino ground state in a dense star. Phys. Rev. D 57, 5970 (1998).

*Asterisks denote former Taylor University students 


Dr. Ken Kiers