Dr. Richard J. Gonsalves

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Professor, Ph.D. Columbia (1976)

Office: 323 Fronczak Hall,  (716) 645-2017 ext. 191
Email: phygons@buffalo.edu
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Education

  Ph.D. -- Columbia University (1976)
M.Sc. -- University of Madras (1971)
B.Sc. -- University of Madras (1969)

Research Interests

 
  • One- and two-loop radiative corrections to high-energy cross sections in the standard model and its supersymmetric extensions.
  • Software for generating Feynman diagrams and amplitudes in quantum field theories.
  • Computer simulation of the structure and dynamics of complex systems and networks.

  I am interested in gauge theories of elementary particles and their interactions, especially the SU(2)XU(1) theory of electroweak interactions and the quantum chromodynamic theory of strong interactions. I work on predictiong cross sections for high-energy collision reactions currently being studies by experimenters at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, and planned for study at future high-energy physics facilities, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. I am also interested in computational physics. I develop computer algebra algorithms and programs for performing Feynman diagram calculations in high-energy physics. I am interested in computer simulation methods and high-performance computing, and in teaching courses in these areas.

Selected Publications

  1. "Chromo-electroweak interference and parity-violating asymmetries in electroweak boson pair production", R.J. Gonsalves and C.-F. Wai, Phys. Rev. D. 49, 190 (1994).
  2. "QCD radiative corrections to electroweak-boson production at large transverse momentum in hadron collisions", R.J. Gonsalves, J. Pawlowski, and C.-F. Wai, Phys. Rev. D 40, 2245 (1989).
  3. "Dimensionally regularized two-loop on-shell quark form factor", R.J. Gonsalves, Phys. Rev. D. 28, 1542 (1983).
  4. "Analytic Calculation of Higher-Order Quantum-Chromodynamic Corrections in e+e- Annihilation", W. Celmaster and R.J. Gonsalves, Phys. Rev. Lett. 44, 560 (1979).
  5. "Renormalization prescription dependence of the quantum-chromodynamic coupling constant", W. Celmaster and R.J. Gonsalves, Phys. Rev. D 20, 1420 (1979).