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Keith Olive

Professor

414 Tate, 624-7354, email olive @ umn.edu
http://www.tpi.umn.edu/olive/
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Olive

Research Areas: Cosmology/Particle Physics

Current Research

My research is in the area of particle physics and cosmology. The main topics on which I work are: big bang nucleosynthesis, which is an explanation of the origin of the light element isotopes through 7Li; particle dark matter; big bang baryogenesis, which is an explanation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in nature; and inflation which is a theory constructed to resolve many outstanding problems in standard cosmology.

Selected Publications

J. Ellis, T. Hahn, S. Heinemeyer, K.A. Olive, and G. Weiglein, WMAP-Compliant Benchmark Surfaces for MSSM Higgs Bosons, JHEP 0710:092

J. Ellis, S. Heinemeyer, K.A. Olive, and G. Weiglein, Light Heavy MSSM Higgs Bosons at Large $\tan \beta$, Phys. Lett. B653:292

J. Ellis, S. Heinemeyer, K.A. Olive, A.M. Weber, and G. Weiglein, The Supersymmetric Parameter Space in Light of B-physics Observables and Electroweak Precision Data, JHEP, 0708:083

J. Ellis, K.A. Olive, and P. Sandick, Phenomenology of GUT-less Supersymmetry Breaking, JHEP 0706: 079

J. L. Diaz-Cruz, John~Ellis, Keith~A.~Olive, and Yudi Santoso, On the Feasibility of a Stop NLSP in Gravitino Dark Matter Scenarios, JHEP 0705:003

M. Endo, K. Kadota, K. Olive, F. Takahashi, and T. Yanagida, The Decay of the Inflaton in No-scale Supergravity, JCAP 0702:018

Alain, Coc, Nelson Nunes, Keith A. Olive, J.-P. Uzan, and Elisabeth Vangioni, Coupled Variations of Fundamental Couplings and Primordial Nucleosynthesis, Phys. Rev. D76:023511

Richard H.~Cyburt, John Ellis, Brian D.~Fields, Keith A.~Olive, and Vassilis Spanos, Bound-State Effects on Light-Element Abundances in Gravitino Dark Matter Scenarios, JCAP 11:014

K.A.Olive and M. Peloso, The Fate of SUSY Flat Directions and their Role in Reheating, Phys. Rev. D74:103514

Emmanuel Rollinde, Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam, and Keith A. Olive, Population III Generated Cosmic Rays and the Production of Li6, ApJ, 651:658

Education

B.S. Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1978.
M.S. Physics, University of Chicago, 1978.
Ph.D. Physics, University of Chicago, 1981.