• Physics Department 0319
  University of California, San Diego
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• email: amanohar@ucsd.edu

B.S. (honors) - California Institute of Technology

1983

Ph. D. - Harvard University

Humboldt Foundation Research Award

DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows

Professor Manohar's research interests have been in various areas of high energy physics that make contact with experiment. The use of effective theories and symmetries has been a common theme in much of the work. Some of the research topics are:

The 1/N expansion was used to show the existence of a spin-flavor symmetry for baryons, and to classify the structure of the 1/N corrections. The predictions are in excellent agreement with data, and have important implications for the properties of baryons (masses, magnetic moments, pion couplings, etc.). The 1/N expansion has been used to explain the successes of the naive quark model and the Skyrme model.
See Lectures at the 1997 Les Houches Summer School for a review

Applications of effective theory methods to hadrons containing a heavy quark. Topics include inclusive decays, radiative corrections, and the upsilon expansion.
See the book Heavy Quark Physics written in collaboration with Mark Wise.

Developed a systematic power counting expansion for baryon chiral perturbation theory. See talks by Jenkins and by Manohar at the workshop on Effective Field Theories, Dobogoko, Hungary, 1991.

Developed a consistent effective theory formalism for nonrelativistic QED and QCD that uses a renormalization group in velocity space.

Member of the Particle Data Group, which produces the Review of Particle Physics

See the postdoc page for a list of UCSD postdocs, and where they are now. Former UCSD postdocs have done extremely well.