I am a professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. My research area is theoretical particle physics.
Articles
Non-isotropy of the CMB power spectrum in single field inflation (with Koushik Dutta and Andreas Ross), Physical Review D (2009)
Contaldi et al. [1] have suggested that an initial period of kinetic energy domination in...
Gauge federation as an alternative to unification (with Preema Pais), Physical Review D (2009)
We motivate and explore the possibility that extra SU(N) gauge groups may exist independently of...
Comments on the minimal vectorial Standard Model (with Ufuk Aydemir and Preema Pais), Physical Review D (2009)
We explore the available parameter space of the minimal vectorial Standard Model. In this theory,...
Constraints on the variability of quark masses from nuclear binding, Physical Review D (2008)
Based on recent work on nuclear binding, we update and extend the anthropic constraints on...
On the parameterization dependence of the energy momentum tensor and the metric (with Barry R. Holstein), Physical Review D (2007)
We use results by Kirilin to show that in general relativity the nonleading terms in...