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Tao LIU
劉滔

PhD in Physics
University of Pennsylvania, 2007

Professor
Department of Physics

(852) 2358 7984
taoliu@ust.hk
Room IAS4012
Personal Web

ORCID

0000-0002-5248-5076

Scopus ID

57210070333

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Research Interest

Particle physics
Cosmology

Publications

All Years 58 2025 1 2024 6 2023 2 2022 2 2021 2 2020 5 2019 40

2025 1

Dark Matter Distinguished by Skewed Microlensing in the “Dragon Arc”

Astrophysical Journal Letters, v. 978, (1), January 2025, article number L5
Broadhurst, Tom; Liu, Tao; Smoot, George Fitzgerald; Williams, Liliya L.R.
Article

2024 6

CEPC Technical Design Report: Accelerator

Radiation Detection Technology and Methods, v. 8, (1), March 2024, p. 1-1105
The CEPC Collaboration; Liu, Tao; Kwok, Tsz Hong; Oide, Katsunobu
Article

Limits on High-Frequency Gravitational Waves in Planetary Magnetospheres

Physical Review Letters, v.132, (13), March 2024, article number 131402
Liu, Tao; Ren, Jing; Zhang, Chen
Article

Radio signals from axion star-neutron star binaries

Physical Review D, v. 109, (2), January 2024, article number 023008
Kouvaris, Chris; Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kunfeng
Article

Searching for heavy neutral leptons at a future muon collider

Physical Review D, v. 110, (7), October 2024, article number 075009
Kwok, Tsz Hong; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao; Rock, Ariel Benjamin
Article

Stochastic Wave Dark Matter with Fermi-LAT γ-Ray Pulsar Timing Array

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, v. 963, (2), March 2024, article number L46
Luu, Hoang Nhan; Liu, Tao; Ren, Jing; Broadhurst, Tom; Yang, Ruizhi; Wang, Jie-Shuang; Xie, Zhen
Article

Testing lepton flavor universality at future Z factories

Physical Review D, v. 109, (9), May 2024, article number 093004
Ho, Tin Seng Manfred; Jiang, Xuhui; Kwok, Tsz Hong; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao
Article

2023 2

Hubble Constant in the Axi-Higgs Universe

Physical Review Research, v. 5, June 2023, article number L022059
Fung, Wing Hong; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao; Luu, Hoang Nhan; Qiu, Yucheng; Tye, Henry Sze-hoi
Article

Pulsar Polarization Arrays

Physical Review Letters, v. 130, (12), March 2023, article number 121401
Liu, Tao; Lou, Xuzixiang; Ren, Jing
Article

2022 2

Detecting New Physics as Novelty — Complementarity Matters

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2022, (10), October 2022, article number 85
Jiang, Xuhui; Juste, Aurelio; Li, Ying-Ying; Liu, Tao
Article

W -Boson Mass, Electroweak Precision Tests, and SMEFT

Physical Review D, v. 106, (7), October 2022, article number 073010
Fan, Jiji; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kun-Feng
Article

2021 2

Axi-Higgs Cosmology

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, v. 2021, (8), 25 August 2021, article number 057
Fung, Wing Hong; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao; Luu, Hoang Nhan; Qiu, Yucheng; Tye, Henry Sze-hoi
Article

b → sτ⁺τ⁻ physics at future Z factories

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2021, (6), June 2021, article number 64
Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao
Article

2020 5

Anatomy of tthh physics at the HL-LHC

Physical Review D, v. 101, (5), March 2020, article number 055043
Li, Lingfeng; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao
Article

Detecting axionlike dark matter with linearly polarized pulsar light

Physical Review D, v. 101, (5), March 2020, article number 063012
Liu, Tao; Smoot, George Fitzgerald; Zhao, Yue
Article

Learning physics at future e^-e⁺ colliders with machine

Journal of High Energy Physics, (10), 2 October 2020, article number 18
Li, Lingfeng; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Xu, Sijun
Article

Novelty detection meets collider physics

Physical Review D, v. 101, (7), April 2020, article number 076015
Hajer, Jan; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Wang, He
Article

Probing P and CP violations on the cosmological collider

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2020, (4), April 2020, article number 189
Liu, Tao; Tong, Xi; Wang, Yi; Xianyu, Zhong-Zhi
Article

2018 2

Probing 6D operators at future e^-e⁺ colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2018, (5), May 2018, article number 81
Chiu, Wen Han; Leung, Sze Ching; Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kunfeng; Wang, Lian-Tao
Article

Probing the quartic Higgs boson self-interaction

Physical Review D, v. 98, (9), November 2018, article number 093004
Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kunfeng; Ren, Jing; Zhu, Hua Xing
Article

2017 4

Echoes of Inflationary First-Order Phase Transitions in the CMB

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, v. 765, February 2017, p. 339-343
Jiang, Hongliang; Liu, Tao; Sun, Sichun; Wang, Yi
Article

Heavy Higgs Bosons at Low Tan β: From the LHC to 100 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2017, (1), January 2017, article number 18
Craig, Nathaniel J.; Hajer, Jan; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Zhang, Hao
Article

Lepton-flavored Electroweak Baryogenesis

Physical Review D, v. 96, (11), December 2017, article number 115034
Guo, Huai-ke; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Ramsey-musolf, Michael; Shu, Jing
Article

Testing Naturalness at 100 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2017, (9), September 2017, article number 129
Chen, Chuan-Ren; Hajer, Jan; Liu, Tao; Low, Ian; Zhang, Hao
Article

2016 1

750 GeV Resonance in the Gauged U(1)'-Extended MSSM

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, v. 759, August 2016, p. 354-360
Jiang, Yun; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao
Article

2015 5

Cancellations Between Two-Loop Contributions to the Electron Electric Dipole Moment with a CP -Violating Higgs Sector

Physical Review Letters, v. 115, (2), July 2015, article number 021801
Bian, Ligong; Liu, Tao; Shu, Jing
Article

Heavy Higgs bosons at 14 TeV and 100 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2015, (11), November 2015, article number 124, p. 1-30
Hajer, Jan; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Shiu, Fu Hong
Article

Probing a light CP-odd scalar in di-top-associated production at the LHC

European Physical Journal C, v. 75, (10), October 2015, article number 498
Casolino, Mirkoantonio; Farooque, Trisha; Juste, Aurelio; Liu, Tao; Spannowsky, Michael
Article

Pseudo-goldstino and electroweakinos via VBF processes at LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2015, (2), 2015, article number 177, p. 1-14
Liu, Tao; Wang, Lin; Yang, Jinmin
Article

Searches for non-SM heavy Higgses at a 100 TeV pp collider

International Journal of Modern Physics A, v. 30, (23), August 2015, article number 1544005
Hajer, Jan; Ismail, Ahmed; Kling, Felix; Li, Ying-Ying; Liu, Tao; Su, Shufang
Article

2014 3

Exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 90, (7), October 2014, article number 075004
Curtin, David; Essig, Rouven; Gori, Stefania; Jaiswal, Prerit; Katz, Andrey; Liu, Tao; Liu, Zhen; McKeen, David; Shelton, Jessie; Strassler, Matthew; Surujon, Ze'ev; Tweedie, Brock; Zhong, Yi-Ming
Article

Supersymmetric exotic decays of the 125 GeV higgs boson

Physical Review Letters, v. 112, (22), June 2014, article number 221803
Huang, Jinrui; Liu, Tao; Wang, Lian-Tao; Yu, Felix
Article

Supersymmetric subelectroweak scale dark matter, the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess, and exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 90, (11), December 2014, article number 115006
Huang, Jinrui; Liu, Tao; Wang, Lian-Tao; Yu, Felix
Article

2013 2

Multiple b-jets reveal top superpartners and the 125 GeV Higgs

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 87, (11), June 2013, article number 115004
Berenstein, David E.; Liu, Tao; Perkins, Erik
Article

Unraveling the physics behind modified Higgs couplings: LHC versus a Higgs factory

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 88, (9), November 2013, article number 095003
Giddings, Steven B.; Liu, Tao; Low, Ian; Mintun, Eric
Article

2012 2

125 GeV Higgs boson, enhanced diphoton rate, and gauged U(1)_PQ-extended MSSM

Physical Review D, v. 86, (7), October 2012, article number 075030
An, Haipeng; Liu, Tao; Wang, Liantao
Article

Electroweak beautygenesis: from b→s CP violation to the cosmic baryon asymmetry

Physical Review Letters, v. 108, (22), May 2012, article number 221301
Liu, Tao; Ramsey-musolf, Michael J.; Shu, Jing
Article

2011 5

Dark light-higgs bosons

Physical Review Letters, v. 106, (12), March 2011, article number 121805
Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.; Wang, Lian-Tao; Zhang, Hao
Article

Electroweak Baryogenesis, CDM and Anomaly-free Supersymmetric U(1)′ Models

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2011, (4), 2011, article number 097
Kang, Junhai; Langacker, Paul; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Polarized view of the top asymmetry

Physical Review D, v. 84, (7), October 2011, article number 074034
Krohn, David; Liu, Tao; Shelton, Jessie; Wang, Liantao
Article

Probing the Higgs sector of high-scale supersymmetry-breaking models at the Tevatron

Physical Review D, 83, 5, March 2011, article number 055007
Carena, Marcela; Draper, Patrick; Heinemeyer, Sven; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.; Weiglein, Georg
Article

The 7 TeV LHC reach for MSSM Higgs bosons

Physical Review D, v. 84, (9), November 20011, article number 095010
Carena, Marcela; Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

2010 3

Higgs boson search sensitivity in the H→WW dilepton decay mode at √s=7 and 10 TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 82, (5), September 2010, article number 053003
Berger, Edmond L.; Cao, Qinghong; Jackson, Chris B.; Liu, Tao; Shaughnessy, Gabe
Article

Phenomenological implications of supersymmetric family nonuniversal U(1)′ models

Physical Review D, v. 82, (9), November 2010, article number 094024
Everett, Lisa L.; Jiang, Jing; Langacker, Paul G.; Liu, Tao
Article

Prospects for Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron and LHC in the MSSM with explicit CP violation

Physical Review D, v. 81, (1), January 2010, article number 015014
Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

2009 3

B → s transitions in Family-dependent U (1)′ Models

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2009, (12), 2009, article number 048
Barger, Large Vernon; Everett, Lisa L.; Jiang, Jing; Langacker, Paul; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

Family nonuniversal U(1)′ gauge symmetries and b→s transitions

Physical Review D, v. 80, (5), September 2009, article number 055008
Barger, Vernon; Everett, Lisa; Jiang, Jing; Langacker, Paul; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

Prospects for MSSM Higgs boson searches at the Fermilab Tevatron

Physical Review D, v. 80, (3), August 2009, article number 035025
Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

2008 1

Dynamically Solving the μ/B μ Problem in Gauge-mediated Supersymmetry Breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2008, (6), June 2008, article number 073
Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

2007 1

Twisting K3 × T² orbifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2007, JHEP09, September 2007
Cvetic, Mirjam; Liu, Tao; Schulz, Michael B.
Article

2006 1

Classification of supersymmetric flux vacua in M-theory

Nuclear Physics B, v. 749, (1-3), August 2006, p. 25-68
Behrndt, Klaus; Cvetic, Mirjam; Liu, Tao
Article

2005 4

D6-brane splitting on type IIA orientifolds

Nuclear Physics B, v. 709, (1-2), 7 March 2005, p. 241-266
Cvetic, Mirjam; Langacker, Paul; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Electroweak Baryogenesis in a Supersymmetric U(1)' Model

Physical Review Letters, v. 94, (6), 18 February 2005, article number 061801
Kang, Junhai; Langacker, Paul; Li, Tian-jun; Liu, Tao
Article

Standardlike models as type IIB flux vacua

Physical Review D, v. 71, (1), 15 May 2005, article number 106008, p. 1-17
Cvetic, Mirjam; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Supersymmetric standard models, flux compactification and moduli stabilization

Physics Letters B, v. 610, (1-2), 17 March 2005, p. 122-128
Cvetic, Mirjam; Liu, Tao
Article

2004 1

Supersymmetric Pati–Salam models from intersecting D6-branes: a road to the Standard Model

Nuclear Physics B, v. 698, (1-2), 18 October 2004, p. 163-201
Cvetic, Mirjam; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

2003 2

Deconstruction of gauge symmetry breaking by discrete symmetry and G unification

The European Physical Journal C, v. 28, (4), June 2003, p. 545-555
Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Quasi-supersymmetric G³ unification from intersecting D6-branes on Type IIA orientifolds

Physics Letters B, v. 573, (1-4), 30 October 2003, p. 193-201
Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Article 1

Dark Matter Distinguished by Skewed Microlensing in the “Dragon Arc”

Astrophysical Journal Letters, v. 978, (1), January 2025, article number L5
Broadhurst, Tom; Liu, Tao; Smoot, George Fitzgerald; Williams, Liliya L.R.

Article 6

CEPC Technical Design Report: Accelerator

Radiation Detection Technology and Methods, v. 8, (1), March 2024, p. 1-1105
The CEPC Collaboration; Liu, Tao; Kwok, Tsz Hong; Oide, Katsunobu

Limits on High-Frequency Gravitational Waves in Planetary Magnetospheres

Physical Review Letters, v.132, (13), March 2024, article number 131402
Liu, Tao; Ren, Jing; Zhang, Chen

Radio signals from axion star-neutron star binaries

Physical Review D, v. 109, (2), January 2024, article number 023008
Kouvaris, Chris; Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kunfeng

Searching for heavy neutral leptons at a future muon collider

Physical Review D, v. 110, (7), October 2024, article number 075009
Kwok, Tsz Hong; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao; Rock, Ariel Benjamin

Stochastic Wave Dark Matter with Fermi-LAT γ-Ray Pulsar Timing Array

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, v. 963, (2), March 2024, article number L46
Luu, Hoang Nhan; Liu, Tao; Ren, Jing; Broadhurst, Tom; Yang, Ruizhi; Wang, Jie-Shuang; Xie, Zhen

Testing lepton flavor universality at future Z factories

Physical Review D, v. 109, (9), May 2024, article number 093004
Ho, Tin Seng Manfred; Jiang, Xuhui; Kwok, Tsz Hong; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao

Article 2

Hubble Constant in the Axi-Higgs Universe

Physical Review Research, v. 5, June 2023, article number L022059
Fung, Wing Hong; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao; Luu, Hoang Nhan; Qiu, Yucheng; Tye, Henry Sze-hoi

Pulsar Polarization Arrays

Physical Review Letters, v. 130, (12), March 2023, article number 121401
Liu, Tao; Lou, Xuzixiang; Ren, Jing

Article 2

Detecting New Physics as Novelty — Complementarity Matters

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2022, (10), October 2022, article number 85
Jiang, Xuhui; Juste, Aurelio; Li, Ying-Ying; Liu, Tao

W -Boson Mass, Electroweak Precision Tests, and SMEFT

Physical Review D, v. 106, (7), October 2022, article number 073010
Fan, Jiji; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kun-Feng

Article 2

Axi-Higgs Cosmology

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, v. 2021, (8), 25 August 2021, article number 057
Fung, Wing Hong; Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao; Luu, Hoang Nhan; Qiu, Yucheng; Tye, Henry Sze-hoi

b → sτ⁺τ⁻ physics at future Z factories

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2021, (6), June 2021, article number 64
Li, Lingfeng; Liu, Tao

Article 5

Anatomy of tthh physics at the HL-LHC

Physical Review D, v. 101, (5), March 2020, article number 055043
Li, Lingfeng; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao

Detecting axionlike dark matter with linearly polarized pulsar light

Physical Review D, v. 101, (5), March 2020, article number 063012
Liu, Tao; Smoot, George Fitzgerald; Zhao, Yue

Learning physics at future e^-e⁺ colliders with machine

Journal of High Energy Physics, (10), 2 October 2020, article number 18
Li, Lingfeng; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Xu, Sijun

Novelty detection meets collider physics

Physical Review D, v. 101, (7), April 2020, article number 076015
Hajer, Jan; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Wang, He

Probing P and CP violations on the cosmological collider

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2020, (4), April 2020, article number 189
Liu, Tao; Tong, Xi; Wang, Yi; Xianyu, Zhong-Zhi

Article 2

Probing 6D operators at future e^-e⁺ colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2018, (5), May 2018, article number 81
Chiu, Wen Han; Leung, Sze Ching; Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kunfeng; Wang, Lian-Tao

Probing the quartic Higgs boson self-interaction

Physical Review D, v. 98, (9), November 2018, article number 093004
Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kunfeng; Ren, Jing; Zhu, Hua Xing

Article 4

Echoes of Inflationary First-Order Phase Transitions in the CMB

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, v. 765, February 2017, p. 339-343
Jiang, Hongliang; Liu, Tao; Sun, Sichun; Wang, Yi

Heavy Higgs Bosons at Low Tan β: From the LHC to 100 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2017, (1), January 2017, article number 18
Craig, Nathaniel J.; Hajer, Jan; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Zhang, Hao

Lepton-flavored Electroweak Baryogenesis

Physical Review D, v. 96, (11), December 2017, article number 115034
Guo, Huai-ke; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Ramsey-musolf, Michael; Shu, Jing

Testing Naturalness at 100 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2017, (9), September 2017, article number 129
Chen, Chuan-Ren; Hajer, Jan; Liu, Tao; Low, Ian; Zhang, Hao

Article 1

750 GeV Resonance in the Gauged U(1)'-Extended MSSM

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, v. 759, August 2016, p. 354-360
Jiang, Yun; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao

Article 5

Cancellations Between Two-Loop Contributions to the Electron Electric Dipole Moment with a CP -Violating Higgs Sector

Physical Review Letters, v. 115, (2), July 2015, article number 021801
Bian, Ligong; Liu, Tao; Shu, Jing

Heavy Higgs bosons at 14 TeV and 100 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2015, (11), November 2015, article number 124, p. 1-30
Hajer, Jan; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Shiu, Fu Hong

Probing a light CP-odd scalar in di-top-associated production at the LHC

European Physical Journal C, v. 75, (10), October 2015, article number 498
Casolino, Mirkoantonio; Farooque, Trisha; Juste, Aurelio; Liu, Tao; Spannowsky, Michael

Pseudo-goldstino and electroweakinos via VBF processes at LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2015, (2), 2015, article number 177, p. 1-14
Liu, Tao; Wang, Lin; Yang, Jinmin

Searches for non-SM heavy Higgses at a 100 TeV pp collider

International Journal of Modern Physics A, v. 30, (23), August 2015, article number 1544005
Hajer, Jan; Ismail, Ahmed; Kling, Felix; Li, Ying-Ying; Liu, Tao; Su, Shufang

Article 3

Exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 90, (7), October 2014, article number 075004
Curtin, David; Essig, Rouven; Gori, Stefania; Jaiswal, Prerit; Katz, Andrey; Liu, Tao; Liu, Zhen; McKeen, David; Shelton, Jessie; Strassler, Matthew; Surujon, Ze'ev; Tweedie, Brock; Zhong, Yi-Ming

Supersymmetric exotic decays of the 125 GeV higgs boson

Physical Review Letters, v. 112, (22), June 2014, article number 221803
Huang, Jinrui; Liu, Tao; Wang, Lian-Tao; Yu, Felix

Supersymmetric subelectroweak scale dark matter, the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess, and exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 90, (11), December 2014, article number 115006
Huang, Jinrui; Liu, Tao; Wang, Lian-Tao; Yu, Felix

Article 2

Multiple b-jets reveal top superpartners and the 125 GeV Higgs

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 87, (11), June 2013, article number 115004
Berenstein, David E.; Liu, Tao; Perkins, Erik

Unraveling the physics behind modified Higgs couplings: LHC versus a Higgs factory

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 88, (9), November 2013, article number 095003
Giddings, Steven B.; Liu, Tao; Low, Ian; Mintun, Eric

Article 2

125 GeV Higgs boson, enhanced diphoton rate, and gauged U(1)_PQ-extended MSSM

Physical Review D, v. 86, (7), October 2012, article number 075030
An, Haipeng; Liu, Tao; Wang, Liantao

Electroweak beautygenesis: from b→s CP violation to the cosmic baryon asymmetry

Physical Review Letters, v. 108, (22), May 2012, article number 221301
Liu, Tao; Ramsey-musolf, Michael J.; Shu, Jing

Article 5

Dark light-higgs bosons

Physical Review Letters, v. 106, (12), March 2011, article number 121805
Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.; Wang, Lian-Tao; Zhang, Hao

Electroweak Baryogenesis, CDM and Anomaly-free Supersymmetric U(1)′ Models

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2011, (4), 2011, article number 097
Kang, Junhai; Langacker, Paul; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao

Polarized view of the top asymmetry

Physical Review D, v. 84, (7), October 2011, article number 074034
Krohn, David; Liu, Tao; Shelton, Jessie; Wang, Liantao

Probing the Higgs sector of high-scale supersymmetry-breaking models at the Tevatron

Physical Review D, 83, 5, March 2011, article number 055007
Carena, Marcela; Draper, Patrick; Heinemeyer, Sven; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.; Weiglein, Georg

The 7 TeV LHC reach for MSSM Higgs bosons

Physical Review D, v. 84, (9), November 20011, article number 095010
Carena, Marcela; Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.

Article 3

Higgs boson search sensitivity in the H→WW dilepton decay mode at √s=7 and 10 TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 82, (5), September 2010, article number 053003
Berger, Edmond L.; Cao, Qinghong; Jackson, Chris B.; Liu, Tao; Shaughnessy, Gabe

Phenomenological implications of supersymmetric family nonuniversal U(1)′ models

Physical Review D, v. 82, (9), November 2010, article number 094024
Everett, Lisa L.; Jiang, Jing; Langacker, Paul G.; Liu, Tao

Prospects for Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron and LHC in the MSSM with explicit CP violation

Physical Review D, v. 81, (1), January 2010, article number 015014
Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.

Article 3

B → s transitions in Family-dependent U (1)′ Models

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2009, (12), 2009, article number 048
Barger, Large Vernon; Everett, Lisa L.; Jiang, Jing; Langacker, Paul; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.

Family nonuniversal U(1)′ gauge symmetries and b→s transitions

Physical Review D, v. 80, (5), September 2009, article number 055008
Barger, Vernon; Everett, Lisa; Jiang, Jing; Langacker, Paul; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.

Prospects for MSSM Higgs boson searches at the Fermilab Tevatron

Physical Review D, v. 80, (3), August 2009, article number 035025
Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.

Article 1

Dynamically Solving the μ/B μ Problem in Gauge-mediated Supersymmetry Breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2008, (6), June 2008, article number 073
Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.

Article 1

Twisting K3 × T² orbifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2007, JHEP09, September 2007
Cvetic, Mirjam; Liu, Tao; Schulz, Michael B.

Article 1

Classification of supersymmetric flux vacua in M-theory

Nuclear Physics B, v. 749, (1-3), August 2006, p. 25-68
Behrndt, Klaus; Cvetic, Mirjam; Liu, Tao

Article 4

D6-brane splitting on type IIA orientifolds

Nuclear Physics B, v. 709, (1-2), 7 March 2005, p. 241-266
Cvetic, Mirjam; Langacker, Paul; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao

Electroweak Baryogenesis in a Supersymmetric U(1)' Model

Physical Review Letters, v. 94, (6), 18 February 2005, article number 061801
Kang, Junhai; Langacker, Paul; Li, Tian-jun; Liu, Tao

Standardlike models as type IIB flux vacua

Physical Review D, v. 71, (1), 15 May 2005, article number 106008, p. 1-17
Cvetic, Mirjam; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao

Supersymmetric standard models, flux compactification and moduli stabilization

Physics Letters B, v. 610, (1-2), 17 March 2005, p. 122-128
Cvetic, Mirjam; Liu, Tao

Article 1

Supersymmetric Pati–Salam models from intersecting D6-branes: a road to the Standard Model

Nuclear Physics B, v. 698, (1-2), 18 October 2004, p. 163-201
Cvetic, Mirjam; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao

Article 2

Deconstruction of gauge symmetry breaking by discrete symmetry and G unification

The European Physical Journal C, v. 28, (4), June 2003, p. 545-555
Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao

Quasi-supersymmetric G³ unification from intersecting D6-branes on Type IIA orientifolds

Physics Letters B, v. 573, (1-4), 30 October 2003, p. 193-201
Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao

2018 2

Probing 6D operators at future e^-e⁺ colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2018, (5), May 2018, article number 81
Chiu, Wen Han; Leung, Sze Ching; Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kunfeng; Wang, Lian-Tao
Article

Probing the quartic Higgs boson self-interaction

Physical Review D, v. 98, (9), November 2018, article number 093004
Liu, Tao; Lyu, Kunfeng; Ren, Jing; Zhu, Hua Xing
Article

2017 4

Echoes of Inflationary First-Order Phase Transitions in the CMB

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, v. 765, February 2017, p. 339-343
Jiang, Hongliang; Liu, Tao; Sun, Sichun; Wang, Yi
Article

Heavy Higgs Bosons at Low Tan β: From the LHC to 100 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2017, (1), January 2017, article number 18
Craig, Nathaniel J.; Hajer, Jan; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Zhang, Hao
Article

Lepton-flavored Electroweak Baryogenesis

Physical Review D, v. 96, (11), December 2017, article number 115034
Guo, Huai-ke; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Ramsey-musolf, Michael; Shu, Jing
Article

Testing Naturalness at 100 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2017, (9), September 2017, article number 129
Chen, Chuan-Ren; Hajer, Jan; Liu, Tao; Low, Ian; Zhang, Hao
Article

2016 1

750 GeV Resonance in the Gauged U(1)'-Extended MSSM

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, v. 759, August 2016, p. 354-360
Jiang, Yun; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao
Article

2015 5

Cancellations Between Two-Loop Contributions to the Electron Electric Dipole Moment with a CP -Violating Higgs Sector

Physical Review Letters, v. 115, (2), July 2015, article number 021801
Bian, Ligong; Liu, Tao; Shu, Jing
Article

Heavy Higgs bosons at 14 TeV and 100 TeV

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2015, (11), November 2015, article number 124, p. 1-30
Hajer, Jan; Li, Yingying; Liu, Tao; Shiu, Fu Hong
Article

Probing a light CP-odd scalar in di-top-associated production at the LHC

European Physical Journal C, v. 75, (10), October 2015, article number 498
Casolino, Mirkoantonio; Farooque, Trisha; Juste, Aurelio; Liu, Tao; Spannowsky, Michael
Article

Pseudo-goldstino and electroweakinos via VBF processes at LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2015, (2), 2015, article number 177, p. 1-14
Liu, Tao; Wang, Lin; Yang, Jinmin
Article

Searches for non-SM heavy Higgses at a 100 TeV pp collider

International Journal of Modern Physics A, v. 30, (23), August 2015, article number 1544005
Hajer, Jan; Ismail, Ahmed; Kling, Felix; Li, Ying-Ying; Liu, Tao; Su, Shufang
Article

2014 3

Exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 90, (7), October 2014, article number 075004
Curtin, David; Essig, Rouven; Gori, Stefania; Jaiswal, Prerit; Katz, Andrey; Liu, Tao; Liu, Zhen; McKeen, David; Shelton, Jessie; Strassler, Matthew; Surujon, Ze'ev; Tweedie, Brock; Zhong, Yi-Ming
Article

Supersymmetric exotic decays of the 125 GeV higgs boson

Physical Review Letters, v. 112, (22), June 2014, article number 221803
Huang, Jinrui; Liu, Tao; Wang, Lian-Tao; Yu, Felix
Article

Supersymmetric subelectroweak scale dark matter, the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess, and exotic decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 90, (11), December 2014, article number 115006
Huang, Jinrui; Liu, Tao; Wang, Lian-Tao; Yu, Felix
Article

2013 2

Multiple b-jets reveal top superpartners and the 125 GeV Higgs

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 87, (11), June 2013, article number 115004
Berenstein, David E.; Liu, Tao; Perkins, Erik
Article

Unraveling the physics behind modified Higgs couplings: LHC versus a Higgs factory

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 88, (9), November 2013, article number 095003
Giddings, Steven B.; Liu, Tao; Low, Ian; Mintun, Eric
Article

2012 2

125 GeV Higgs boson, enhanced diphoton rate, and gauged U(1)_PQ-extended MSSM

Physical Review D, v. 86, (7), October 2012, article number 075030
An, Haipeng; Liu, Tao; Wang, Liantao
Article

Electroweak beautygenesis: from b→s CP violation to the cosmic baryon asymmetry

Physical Review Letters, v. 108, (22), May 2012, article number 221301
Liu, Tao; Ramsey-musolf, Michael J.; Shu, Jing
Article

2011 5

Dark light-higgs bosons

Physical Review Letters, v. 106, (12), March 2011, article number 121805
Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.; Wang, Lian-Tao; Zhang, Hao
Article

Electroweak Baryogenesis, CDM and Anomaly-free Supersymmetric U(1)′ Models

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2011, (4), 2011, article number 097
Kang, Junhai; Langacker, Paul; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Polarized view of the top asymmetry

Physical Review D, v. 84, (7), October 2011, article number 074034
Krohn, David; Liu, Tao; Shelton, Jessie; Wang, Liantao
Article

Probing the Higgs sector of high-scale supersymmetry-breaking models at the Tevatron

Physical Review D, 83, 5, March 2011, article number 055007
Carena, Marcela; Draper, Patrick; Heinemeyer, Sven; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.; Weiglein, Georg
Article

The 7 TeV LHC reach for MSSM Higgs bosons

Physical Review D, v. 84, (9), November 20011, article number 095010
Carena, Marcela; Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

2010 3

Higgs boson search sensitivity in the H→WW dilepton decay mode at √s=7 and 10 TeV

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, v. 82, (5), September 2010, article number 053003
Berger, Edmond L.; Cao, Qinghong; Jackson, Chris B.; Liu, Tao; Shaughnessy, Gabe
Article

Phenomenological implications of supersymmetric family nonuniversal U(1)′ models

Physical Review D, v. 82, (9), November 2010, article number 094024
Everett, Lisa L.; Jiang, Jing; Langacker, Paul G.; Liu, Tao
Article

Prospects for Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron and LHC in the MSSM with explicit CP violation

Physical Review D, v. 81, (1), January 2010, article number 015014
Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

2009 3

B → s transitions in Family-dependent U (1)′ Models

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2009, (12), 2009, article number 048
Barger, Large Vernon; Everett, Lisa L.; Jiang, Jing; Langacker, Paul; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

Family nonuniversal U(1)′ gauge symmetries and b→s transitions

Physical Review D, v. 80, (5), September 2009, article number 055008
Barger, Vernon; Everett, Lisa; Jiang, Jing; Langacker, Paul; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

Prospects for MSSM Higgs boson searches at the Fermilab Tevatron

Physical Review D, v. 80, (3), August 2009, article number 035025
Draper, Patrick; Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

2008 1

Dynamically Solving the μ/B μ Problem in Gauge-mediated Supersymmetry Breaking

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2008, (6), June 2008, article number 073
Liu, Tao; Wagner, Carlos E.M.
Article

2007 1

Twisting K3 × T² orbifolds

Journal of High Energy Physics, v. 2007, JHEP09, September 2007
Cvetic, Mirjam; Liu, Tao; Schulz, Michael B.
Article

2006 1

Classification of supersymmetric flux vacua in M-theory

Nuclear Physics B, v. 749, (1-3), August 2006, p. 25-68
Behrndt, Klaus; Cvetic, Mirjam; Liu, Tao
Article

2005 4

D6-brane splitting on type IIA orientifolds

Nuclear Physics B, v. 709, (1-2), 7 March 2005, p. 241-266
Cvetic, Mirjam; Langacker, Paul; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Electroweak Baryogenesis in a Supersymmetric U(1)' Model

Physical Review Letters, v. 94, (6), 18 February 2005, article number 061801
Kang, Junhai; Langacker, Paul; Li, Tian-jun; Liu, Tao
Article

Standardlike models as type IIB flux vacua

Physical Review D, v. 71, (1), 15 May 2005, article number 106008, p. 1-17
Cvetic, Mirjam; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Supersymmetric standard models, flux compactification and moduli stabilization

Physics Letters B, v. 610, (1-2), 17 March 2005, p. 122-128
Cvetic, Mirjam; Liu, Tao
Article

2004 1

Supersymmetric Pati–Salam models from intersecting D6-branes: a road to the Standard Model

Nuclear Physics B, v. 698, (1-2), 18 October 2004, p. 163-201
Cvetic, Mirjam; Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

2003 2

Deconstruction of gauge symmetry breaking by discrete symmetry and G unification

The European Physical Journal C, v. 28, (4), June 2003, p. 545-555
Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Quasi-supersymmetric G³ unification from intersecting D6-branes on Type IIA orientifolds

Physics Letters B, v. 573, (1-4), 30 October 2003, p. 193-201
Li, Tianjun; Liu, Tao
Article

Teaching Assignment

2024-25 Spring 4 2024-25 Winter 0 2024-25 Fall 5 2023-24 Summer 1 2023-24 Spring 6 2023-24 Winter 0

PHYS2090B	Directed Studies in Physics I
PHYS4071	Big Bang Cosmology and Inflation
PHYS4291	Capstone Research
SCIE2500	Guided Study on Research II

PHYS3090B	Directed Studies in Physics II
PHYS4080	Physics Seminar and Tutorial II
PHYS4191	Capstone Project
PHYS4291	Capstone Research
PHYS5520	Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

UROP1100M

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Series 1

PHYS2090B	Directed Studies in Physics I
PHYS4071	Big Bang Cosmology and Inflation
PHYS4291	Capstone Research
SCIE1500	Guided Study on Research I
SCIE2500	Guided Study on Research II
SCIE4500	IRE Research Project II

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Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 21 April 2025)

All Supervisions Current RPGs Graduated RPGs

Current RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

LIU, Yonghao
Physics
MIAO, Liyang
Physics
ZHENG, Kaifeng
Physics

Master of Philosophy

YUE, Cheuk Kan Kelvin
Physics

Graduated RPGs

Doctor of Philosophy

FUNG, Wing Hong
Physics( Completed in 2024 )
JIANG, Xuhui
Physics( Completed in 2023 )
LUU, Hoang Nhan
Physics( Completed in 2023 )
XU, Sijun
Physics( Completed in 2023 )

Master of Philosophy

KWOK, Tsz Hong
Physics( Completed in 2023 )

Projects

From January 2023 to December 2025

All Projects 3 Leading Projects 2 Participating Projects 1

Dark Matter and the Universe

運用天體物理和宇宙學的工具探索暗物質之謎 Leading

RGC - Collaborative Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Tao (Lead)

COHEN Andrew Glen

SMOOT George Fitzgerald

WANG Yi
2021 - 2024
Exploring New Physics Opportunities at Future Colliders

探索未來對撞機上的新物理 Leading

RGC - General Research Fund
Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Tao (Lead)
2021 - 2024
Probing the Fundamental Structure of Matter with High Energy Particle Collisions

利用高能粒子撞擊研究物質的基本結構 Participating

RGC - Areas of Excellence Scheme
Project Team (HKUST)
LIU Tao
2019 -

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2024 6

2023 2

2022 2

2021 2

2020 5

2018 2

2017 4

2016 1

2015 5

2014 3

2013 2

2012 2

2011 5

2010 3

2009 3

2008 1

2007 1

2006 1

2005 4

2004 1

2003 2

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2017 4

2016 1

2015 5

2014 3

2013 2

2012 2

2011 5

2010 3

2009 3

2008 1

2007 1

2006 1

2005 4

2004 1

2003 2

Teaching Assignment

Research Postgraduate (RPG) Supervision

From January 2022 to December 2025 (As of 21 April 2025)

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