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Elizabeth Jenkins, Professor of Physics

Physics Department 0319
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Tel: (858) 534-5901

Fax: (858) 534-0173

email: ejenkins@ucsd.edu

Degrees

1985	A.B. (summa cum laude) - Harvard University
1989	Ph. D. - Harvard University

Fellowships and Awards

1994-1999	NSF Young Investigator Award
1995-1997	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship

Research

Prof. Jenkins' research focuses on the use of symmetries to understand the interactions of elementary particles. Her contributions include the formulation of Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory (HBChPT) and the discovery of contracted spin-flavor symmetry for baryons in the large N limit of QCD. Additional directions of research include the seesaw model of neutrino mass and leptogenesis, as well as the properties of newly-discovered exotic baryons. She also maintains an interest in the interface of particle physics and cosmology.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Neutrino Physics in the Seesaw Model, Nucl. Phys. B672 (2003) 163-198
(with A. Broncano and M.B. Gavela)

Testing the Cosmic Coincidence Problem Problem and the Nature of Dark Energy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87:141302 (2001)
(with N. Dalal, K. Abazajian and A.V. Manohar)

Large-Nc Baryons, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 48 (1998) 81-119

Baryon Mass Splittings in the 1/Nc Expansion, Phys. Rev. D52 (1995) 282-294
(with R.F. Lebed)

Spin-Flavor Structure of Large Nc Baryons, Phys. Rev. D51 (1995) 3697-3727
(with R.F. Dashen and A.V. Manohar)

1/Nc Expansion for Baryons, Phys. Rev. D49 (1994) 4713-4738
(with R.F. Dashen and A.V. Manohar)

Baryon Masses in Chiral Perturbation Theory, Nucl. Phys. 368B (1992) 190-203

Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory Using a Heavy Fermion Lagrangian, Phys. Lett. 255B (1991) 558-562
(with A.V. Manohar)