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Keith Olive

Professor, Fine Theoretical Physics Institute and Member, Minnesota Institute for Astrophy

TATEH 275-18 (office), 624-7354
olive @ umn.edu • curriculum vitae

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Director, Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, 1999-2005; 2013-2019
2018 Hans A. Bethe Prize
American Physical Society Fellow, 2003
Member of the American Physical Society, 1978-1983, 2001-present
DISTINGUISHED MCKNIGHT UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR 1998-present
Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1987-94
George a Taylor Research Award, 1988
Member of the Particle Data Group, 1987-present

Summary of Interests
Cosmology/Particle Physics

About My Work

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. Evans, N. Nagata, and K.A. Olive, A Minimal SU(5) SuperGUT in Pure Gravity Mediation, Eur. Phys. J. C79: 490, 2019 [abstract]

K. Kaneta, Y. Mambrini, and K.A. Olive, Radiative Production of nonthermal Dark Matter, Phys. Rev. D99:063508, 2019 [abstract]

J. Ellis, D. V. Nanopoulos, K.A. Olive, and S. Verner, A General Classification of Starobinsky-like Inflationary Avatars of SU(2,1)/SU(2)×U(1) No-Scale Supergravity, JHEP 1903:099, 2019 [abstract]

J. Ellis, M.A.G. Garcia, N. Nagata, D. V. Nanopoulos, and K.A. Olive, Symmetry Breaking and Reheating after Inflation in No-Scale Flipped SU(5), JCAP 1904:009, 2019 [abstract]

John Ellis, Natsumi Nagata, and Keith A. Olive, Uncertainties in WIMP Dark Matter Scattering Revisited, Eur. Phys. J C78:569, 2018 [abstract]

E. Bagnasch, H. Bahl, J. Ellis, J. Evans, T. Hahn, S. Heinemeyer, W. Hollik, K. A. Olive, S. Passehr, H. Rzehak, I. V. Sobolev, G. Weiglein, and J. Zheng, Supersymmetric Models in Light of Improved Higgs Mass Calculations, Eur. Phys. J. C79: 149, 2019 [abstract]

J. Ellis, B. Nagaraj, D. V. Nanopoulos, and K. A. Olive, De Sitter Vacua in No-scale supergravity, JHEP 1811:110, 2018 [abstract]

E. Vangioni and K. A. Olive, The Cosmic Evolution of Magnesium Isotopes, MNRAS 484:3561-3572, 2019 [abstract]

S. A. R. Ellis, T. Gherghetta, K. Kaneta, and Keith A. Olive, NewWeak-Scale Physics from SO(10) with High-Scale Supersymmetry, Phys. Rev. D98:055009, 2018 [abstract]

John Ellis, D. V. Nanopoulos, and Keith A. Olive, From R2 Gravity to No-Scale Supergravity, Phys. Rev. D97: 043530, 2018 [abstract]

John Ellis, J. L. Evans, F. Luo, Keith A. Olive, and J. Zheng, Stop Coannihilation in the CMSSM and SubGUT Models, Eur. Phys. J. C78:425, 2018 [abstract]

E. Dudas, T. Gherghetta, Y. Mambrini, K.A. Olive, Inflation and High-Scale Supersymmetry with an EeV Gravitino, Phys. Rev. D96:115032, 2017 [abstract]

E. Dudas, Y. Mambrini, and Keith A. Olive, The Case for an EeV Gravitino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119:051801, 2017 [abstract]

J. Ellis, M. Garcia, D. V. Nanopoulos, and K. A. Olive, Phenomenological Aspects of No-Scale Inflation Models, JCAP, 1510:011, 2015 [abstract]

N. Nagata, K. A. Olive, and J. Zheng, Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles in Non-supersymmetric SO(10) Grand Unified Model, JHEP, 1510:193, 2015 [abstract]

E. Aver, K. A. Olive, and E. Skillman, The effects of He I 10830 on helium abundance determinations, JCAP 1507:011, 2015 [abstract]

R. H. Cyburt, B.D. Fields, K. A. Olive, and T.-H. Yeh, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: 2015, Rev. Mod. Phys. 88, 015004 (2016) [abstract]

J. Ellis, D. V. Nanopoulos, and Keith A. Olive, A No-Scale Supergravity Realization of the Starobinsky Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111:111301, 2013 [abstract]

Ellis, D. V. Nanopoulos,and Keith A. Olive, Starobinsky-like Inflationary Models as Avatars of No-Scale Supergravity, JCAP 1310:009, 2013 [abstract]

Education

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