Thomas Carlos Mehen

Thomas Carlos Mehen (born September 8, 1970) is an American physicist. His research has consisted of primarily Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the application of effective field theory to problems in hadronic physics. He has also worked on effective field theory for non-relativistic particles whose short range interactions are characterized by a large scattering length, as well as novel field theories which arise from unusual limits of string theory.

Mehen was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras where he learned Spanish as his first language. In 1974 at the age of three he relocated with his family to McLean, Virginia, USA. He was educated at the University of Virginia (B.S., 1992), and Johns Hopkins University (M.A., Ph.D., 1998).[1] He served as a research associate and John A. McCone Postdoctoral Scholar in the Division of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2000. He served as a research associate and University Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at the Ohio State University from 2000–2001. In 2002 he joined the Department of Physics at Duke University as assistant professor where he is currently a tenured faculty member.[2]

In 2005 Mehen received an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in Nuclear Physics by the United States Department of Energy.[3] He has contributed over 50 published works and is a lecturer in his field.[4]

Publications

  1. Kim, Chul; Mehen, Thomas (2008). "Color Octet Scalar Bound States at the LHC". Physical Review D. 79 (3). arXiv:0812.0307Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.79.035011. 
  2. Fleming, Sean; Mehen, Thomas (2008). "Hadronic Decays of the X(3872) to chi_{cJ} in Effective Field Theory". Physical Review D. 78 (9). arXiv:0807.2674Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.094019. 
  3. Kim, Chul; Leibovich, Adam K.; Mehen, Thomas (2008). "Nonperturbative Charming Penguin Contributions to Isospin Asymmetries in Radiative B decays". Physical Review D. 78 (5). arXiv:0805.1735Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.054024. 
  4. Mehen, Thomas (2007). "On Non-Relativistic Conformal Field Theory and Trapped Atoms: Virial Theorems and the State-Operator Correspondence in Three Dimensions". Physical Review A. 78. arXiv:0712.0867Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.78.013614. 
  5. Idilbi, Ahmad; Mehen, Thomas (2007). "Demonstration of the Equivalence of Soft and Zero-Bin Subtractions". Physical Review D. 76 (9). arXiv:0707.1101Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.094015. 
  6. Fleming, S.; Kusunoki, M.; Mehen, T.; van Kolck, U. (2007). "Pion Interactions in the X(3872)". Physical Review D. 76 (3). arXiv:hep-ph/0703168Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.034006. 
  7. Mehen, Thomas; Idilbi, Ahmad (2007). "On the Equivalence of Soft and Zero-Bin Subtractions". Physical Review D. 75 (11). arXiv:hep-ph/0702022Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.114017. 
  8. Dunn, Alan; Mehen, Thomas (2006). "Implications of SU(2)_L x U(1) Symmetry for SIM(2) Invariant Neutrino Masses". arXiv:hep-ph/0610202Freely accessible. 
  9. Mehen, Thomas; Tiburzi, Brian C. (2006). "Doubly Heavy Baryons and Quark-Diquark Symmetry in Quenched and Partially Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory". Physical Review D. 74 (5). arXiv:hep-lat/0607023Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.054505. 
  10. Fleming, Sean; Leibovich, Adam K.; Mehen, Thomas (2006). "Resummation of Large Endpoint Corrections to Color-Octet J/psi Photoproduction". Physical Review D. 74 (11). arXiv:hep-ph/0607121Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.114004. 
  11. Mehen, Thomas (2001). "Perturbative Pions in Effective Field Theory for Nucleon Interactions". Chiral Dynamics. p. 434. doi:10.1142/9789812810977_0082. ISBN 978-981-02-4723-2. 
  12. Fleming, Sean; Leibovich, Adam K.; Mehen, Thomas (2005). "J/psi Photo-production at Large z in Soft Collinear Effective Theory". arXiv:hep-ph/0512194Freely accessible. | http://www-library.desy.de/preparch/conf/ringberg/2005/SFleming.ps.gz
  13. Hu, Jie; Mehen, Thomas (2005). "Chiral Lagrangian with Heavy Quark-Diquark Symmetry". Physical Review D. 73 (5). arXiv:hep-ph/0511321Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.054003. 
  14. Fleming, Sean; Mehen, Thomas (2005). "Doubly Heavy Baryons, Heavy Quark-Di Quark Symmetry and NRQCD". Physical Review D. 73 (3). arXiv:hep-ph/0509313Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.034502. 
  15. Mehen, Thomas (2005). "Excited D_s (and Pentaquarks) in Chiral Perturbation Theory". Acta Phys. Polon. B. 36: 2341–2350. arXiv:hep-ph/0506219Freely accessible. 
  16. Mehen, Thomas; Tiburzi, Brian C. (2005). "Quarks with Twisted Boundary Conditions in the Epsilon Regime". Physical Review D. 72 (14501). arXiv:hep-lat/0505014Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.014501. 
  17. Mehen, Thomas; Springer, Roxanne (2005). "Even- and Odd-Parity Charmed Meson Masses in Heavy Hadron Chiral Perturbation Theory". Physical Review D. 72 (3). arXiv:hep-ph/0503134Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.034006. 
  18. Mehen, Thomas; Springer, Roxanne P. (2004). "Heavy-Quark Symmetry and the Electromagnetic Decays of Excited Charmed Strange Mesons". Physical Review D. 70 (7). arXiv:hep-ph/0407181Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.074014. 
  19. Mehen, Thomas; Schat, Carlos (2004). "Determining Pentaquark Quantum Numbers from Strong Decays". Physics Letters B. 588: 67–73. arXiv:hep-ph/0401107Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2004.03.039. 
  20. Mehen, Thomas (2003). "Recent Developments in Heavy Quark and Quarkonium Production". Acta Phys. Polon. B. 35: 121–130. arXiv:hep-ph/0312239Freely accessible. 
  21. Mehen, Thomas (2003). "Charm production asymmetries from heavy-quark recombination". AIP Conference Proceedings. AIP Conf.Proc. 698. pp. 508–512. arXiv:hep-ph/0306178Freely accessible. doi:10.1063/1.1664288. 
  22. Mehen, Thomas (2003). "Charm production asymmetries from heavy-quark recombination". AIP Conference Proceedings. AIP Conf.Proc. 698. pp. 508–512. arXiv:hep-ph/0306178Freely accessible. doi:10.1063/1.1664288. 
  23. Braaten, Eric; Kusunoki, Masaoki; Jia, Yu; Mehen, Thomas (2003). "Lambda_c^+/Lambda_c^- Asymmetry in Hadroproduction from Heavy-Quark Recombination". Physical Review D. 70 (5). arXiv:hep-ph/0304280Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.054021. 
  24. Mehen, Thomas (2004). "Charm production asymmetries from heavy-quark recombination". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 30: S295. doi:10.1088/0954-3899/30/1/035. 
  25. Kaiser, Roland; Manohar, Aneesh V.; Mehen, Thomas (2002). "Isospin violation in e+ e- --> B Bbar". Physical Review Letters. 90 (14). arXiv:hep-ph/0208194Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.142001. 
  26. Heavy quark recombination and charm production asymmetries. Tom Mehen. May 2002. 12pp. Presented at DPF 2002: The Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, Williamsburg, Virginia, 24–28 May 2002.
  27. Mehen, Thomas; Wecht, Brian (2002). "Gauge Fields and Scalars in Rolling Tachyon Backgrounds". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2003 (2): 058. arXiv:hep-th/0206212Freely accessible. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2003/02/058. 
  28. Braaten, Eric; Jia, Yu; Mehen, Thomas (2002). "The Leading Particle Effect from Heavy-Quark Recombination". Physical Review Letters. 89 (12). arXiv:hep-ph/0205149Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.122002. 
  29. Manohar, Aneesh V.; Mehen, Thomas; Pirjol, Dan; Stewart, Iain W. (2002). "Reparameterization Invariance for Collinear Operators". Physics Letters B. 539: 59–66. arXiv:hep-ph/0204229Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02029-4. 
  30. Braaten, Eric; Jia, Yu; Mehen, Thomas (2001). "Charm-Anticharm Asymmetries in Photoproduction from Heavy-Quark Recombination". Physical Review D. 66 (2002). arXiv:hep-ph/0111296Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.66.014003. 
  31. Braaten, Eric; Jia, Yu; Mehen, Thomas (2001). "B Production Asymmetries in Perturbative QCD". Physical Review D. 66 (3). arXiv:hep-ph/0108201Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.66.034003. 
  32. Braaten, Eric; Hammer, H. -W.; Mehen, Thomas (2001). "The Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate with Large Scattering Length". Physical Review Letters. 88 (4). arXiv:cond-mat/0108380Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.040401. 
  33. Hammer, H. -W.; Mehen, Thomas (2001). "Range Corrections to Doublet S-Wave Neutron-Deuteron Scattering". Physics Letters B. 516 (3–4): 353–361. arXiv:nucl-th/0105072Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00918-2. 
  34. Mehen, Thomas; Wise, Mark B. (2000). "Generalized *-Products, Wilson Lines and the Solution of the Seiberg-Witten Equations". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2000 (12): 008. arXiv:hep-th/0010204Freely accessible. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/12/008. 
  35. Aharony, Ofer; Gomis, Jaume; Mehen, Thomas (2000). "On Theories with Light-Like Noncommutativity". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2000 (9): 023. arXiv:hep-th/0006236Freely accessible. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/09/023. 
  36. Gomis, Jaume; Mehen, Thomas; Wise, Mark B. (2000). "Quantum Field Theories with Compact Noncommutative Extra Dimensions". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2000 (8): 029. arXiv:hep-th/0006160Freely accessible. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/029. 
  37. Gomis, Jaume; Mehen, Thomas (2000). "Space-Time Noncommutative Field Theories and Unitarity". Nuclear Physics B. 591 (2000): 265–276. arXiv:hep-th/0005129Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00525-3. 
  38. Gomis, Jaume; Kleban, Matthew; Mehen, Thomas; Rangamani, Mukund; Shenker, Stephen (2000). "Noncommutative Gauge Dynamics from the String Worldsheet". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2000 (8): 011. arXiv:hep-th/0003215Freely accessible. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/011. 
  39. Fleming, Sean; Mehen, Thomas; Stewart, Iain W. (1999). "NNLO Corrections to Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering and Perturbative Pions". Nuclear Physics A. 677: 313–366. arXiv:nucl-th/9911001Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/S0375-9474(00)00221-9. 
  40. Mehen, Thomas; Stewart, Iain W.; Wise, Mark B. (1999). "Conformal Invariance for Non-Relativistic Field Theory". Physics Letters B. 474: 145–152. arXiv:hep-th/9910025Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00006-X. 
  41. Fleming, Sean; Mehen, Thomas; Stewart, Iain W. (1999). "The NN scattering 3S1-3D1 mixing angle at NNLO". Physical Review C. 61 (4). arXiv:nucl-th/9906056Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.61.044005. 
  42. Mehen, Thomas; Stewart, Iain W. (1999). "Nucleon-Nucleon Effective Field Theory at NNLO: Radiation Pions and 1S0 Phase Shift". arXiv:nucl-th/9906010Freely accessible. 
  43. Mehen, Thomas; Stewart, Iain W.; Wise, Mark B. (1999). "Wigner symmetry in the limit of large scattering lengths". Physical Review Letters. 83 (5): 931–934. arXiv:hep-ph/9902370Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.931. 
  44. Mehen, Thomas; Stewart, Iain W. (1999). "Radiation pions in two-nucleon effective field theory". Nuclear Physics A. 665 (2000): 164–182. arXiv:nucl-th/9901064Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/S0375-9474(99)00368-1. 
  45. Leptoproduction of J / psi. Thomas Mehen. CALT-68-2198, Jul 1998. 5pp. Talk given at 29th International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 98), Vancouver, Canada, 23-29 Jul 1998. In *Vancouver 1998, High energy physics, vol. 2* 1074–1078.
  46. Mehen, Tom; Stewart, Iain W. (1998). "Renormalization schemes and the range of two-nucleon effective field theory". Physical Review C. 59 (5): 2365. arXiv:nucl-th/9809095Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.59.2365. 
  47. Mehen, Thomas; Stewart, Iain W. (1998). "A momentum subtraction scheme for two--nucleon effective field theory". Physics Letters B. 445 (3–4): 378–386. arXiv:nucl-th/9809071Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01470-1. 
  48. Phenomenology of heavy quarks and quarkonium. Thomas Carlos Mehen. UMI-98-21167, 1998. 117pp. Ph.D. Thesis http://search.proquest.com/docview/304419830
  49. Fleming, Sean; Mehen, Thomas (1998). "Photoproduction of h_c". Physical Review D. 58 (3). arXiv:hep-ph/9801328Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.58.037503. 
  50. Mehen, Thomas (1997). "Summing $O(β_0^n α_s^{n+1})$ Corrections to Top Quark Decays". Physics Letters B. 417 (3–4): 353–360. arXiv:hep-ph/9707403Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01348-8. 
  51. Fleming, Sean; Mehen, Thomas (1997). "Leptoproduction of J/psi". Physical Review D. 57 (3): 1846–1857. arXiv:hep-ph/9707365Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.57.1846. 
  52. Mehen, Thomas (1996). "Testing Quarkonium Production with Photoproduced $J/ψ+ γ$". Physical Review D. 55 (7): 4338–4343. arXiv:hep-ph/9611321Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.55.4338. 
  53. Mehen, Thomas (1996). "Scale Setting in Top Quark Decays". Physics Letters B. 382 (3): 267–272. arXiv:hep-ph/9602410Freely accessible. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00681-8. 
  54. Falk, Adam F.; Mehen, Thomas (1995). "Excited Heavy Mesons Beyond Leading Order in the Heavy Quark Expansion". Physical Review D. 53 (1996): 231–240. arXiv:hep-ph/9507311Freely accessible. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.53.231. 

References

  1. ↑ Mehen, Thomas Carlos (1 July 1998). Phenomenology of heavy quarks and quarkonium (Ph.D. thesis). pp. 1–277.
  2. ↑ "Duke Physics".
  3. ↑ Outstanding Junior Investigator Program, The Office of Nuclear Physics, United States Department of Energy
  4. ↑ http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=ea+Mehen,+Thomas
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