Intermediate Energy Nuclear Physics (Th.) Office: CP-387B Phone: (859) 257-4391
Research Interests
My research lies at the interface of nuclear and particle physics.
In particular, I study
the discrete symmetries C, P, T -- and the manifestations of their
violation -- in the structure and interactions of hadrons.
I am also interested in establishing the means by which terrestrial
experiments can probe the nature of dark matter.
The interpretation of precision, low-energy measurements of
hadronic processes to infer the existence of emergent, high-energy
phenomena can require quantitative assessment of the Standard
Model contributions. Thus I am also interested in improving
our understanding of the non-perturbative dynamics of the
strong interaction, particularly as it impacts the reliability
of such predictions.
Education
B.S., Physics and Chemistry, Caltech (1982)
M.A., Chemical Physics, Columbia University (1983)
Ph.D., Theoretical Nuclear Physics, M.I.T. (1988)
Graduate Students
Rupak Dutta
Selected Recent Publications
Susan Gardner, "Observing Dark Matter via the Gyromagnetic Faraday Effect,"
astro-ph/0611684.
Stanley J. Brodsky and Susan Gardner,
"Evidence for the Absence of Gluon Orbital Angular Momentum in the Nucleon,"
[hep-ph/0608219] Phys. Lett. B 643 22 (2006).
S. J. Brodsky, S. Gardner, and D. S. Hwang,
"Discrete symmetries on the light front and a general
relation connecting nucleon electric dipole and anomalous
magnetic moments," [hep-ph/0601037] Phys. Rev. D73 036007 (2006).
Susan Gardner, "Towards a Precision Determination of alpha in
B --> pi pi decays." [hep-ph/0505071] Phys. Rev. D72 034015 (2005).
S. Gardner, V. Bernard, and U.-G. Meissner,, "Radiative Tritium Beta-decay and
the Neutrino Mass," [hep-ph/0407077]
Phys. Lett. B 598 188 (2004).
V. Bernard, S. Gardner, U.-G. Meissner, and C. Zhang, "Radiative Neutron
Beta Decay in Effective Field Theory,"
[hep-ph/040324]
Phys. Lett. B 593 105 (2004), Erratum-ibid. B 599 348 (2004).
S. Gardner and J. Tandean,
"Observing Direct CP Violation in Untagged B-Meson Decays," [hep-ph/0308228]
Phys. Rev. D69 034011 (2004).
S. Gardner, "Direct CP Violation in Untagged B Meson Decays,"
[hep-ph/0203152] Phys. Lett. B 553 261 (2003).
S. Gardner and U.-G. Meissner, "Rescattering and Chiral Dynamics in
B --> rho pi Decay," [hep-ph/0112281] Phys. Rev. D65 094004 (2002).
S. J. Brodsky and S. Gardner, "Evading the CKM Hierarchy:
Intrinsic Charm in B Decays, " [hep-ph/0108121]
Phys. Rev. D65 054016 (2002).
S. Gardner and C. Zhang, "Sharpening Low-Energy, Standard-Model Tests via
Correlation Coefficients in Neutron Beta-Decay," [hep-ph/0012098]
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 5666 (2001).
S. Gardner and G. Valencia,
"Additional Isospin-Breaking Effects in epsilon'/epsilon,"
[hep-ph/9909202] Phys. Lett B 466 355 (1999).
S. Gardner,
"How Isospin Violation Mocks `New' Physics:
pi0-eta,eta' Mixing in B -> pi pi Decays,"
[hep-ph/9806423] Phys. Rev. D59 077502 (1999).
