Tim M.P. Tait

Tim M.P. Tait

Chancellor’s Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine

Biography

Tim M.P. Tait is a Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Michigan State University in 1999, where he also completed his Master's degree in 1995. Tait earned his Bachelor of Science in Physics with honors from the University of California, San Diego in 1993. He joined UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor in 2009 and progressed through the ranks to become a full Professor in 2013 and a Chancellor’s Professor in 2022. Prior to his tenure at UC Irvine, he held faculty and research positions at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory.

Tait’s research is centered on theoretical particle physics and cosmology, with particular interest in dark matter and its implications in high-energy physics. He has contributed extensively to the field, authoring over 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His work has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2024 and receiving the Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research from UC Irvine in 2019. His research endeavors have been supported by multiple grants, including significant funding from the National Science Foundation for projects on theoretical particle physics and cosmology.

In addition to his research, Tait has been active in the academic community through various service roles. He served as Chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UC Irvine from 2019 to 2023 and as Vice-Chair of Graduate Studies from 2017 to 2019. He has participated in numerous professional committees and panels, such as the Department of Energy’s High Energy Physics Committee of Visitors and the American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields. Tait also contributes to the academic dialogue as an Editorial Fellow for Scipost Physics and was previously Editor-in-Chief for the journal "Physics of the Dark Universe."

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Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Physics, Michigan State University, 1999
  • M.Sc. in Physics, Michigan State University, 1995
  • B.Sc. in Physics, University of California, San Diego, 1993

Distinctions

  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2024
  • Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research, UC Irvine, 2019
  • Mentorship Award, Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, 2019
  • Van der Waals Professor, University of Amsterdam, 2017
  • Kavli Frontier Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2017
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2016
  • Fellow, American Physical Society, 2013
  • Chancellor’s Fellow Professor, UC Irvine, 2013
  • Degree Completion Fellowship, Michigan State University, 1999
  • Herbert T. Graham Scholar, Michigan State University, 1993
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Areas of Expertise

  • Theoretical Particle Physics
  • Dark Matter Detection
  • Cosmology
  • Collider Physics
  • Quantum Field Theory
  • Physics of the Early Universe
  • Extra Dimensions and Kaluza-Klein Theories
  • Supersymmetry
  • Higgs Physics
  • Fifth Force of Nature

Recent Publications

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Most Cited Publications

  • G. Servant, “Is the Lightest Kaluza-Klein Particle a Viable Dark Matter Candidate?”, Nucl. Phys. B, vol. 650, pp. 391, 2003.
  • T. Tait, J. Goodman, M. Ibe, A. Rajaraman, W. Shepherd, H. Yu, “Constraints on Dark Matter from Colliders”, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 82, pp. 116010, 2010.
  • Carena M., Daleo A., Dobrescu B.A., Tait T.M.P., “[Formula Presented] gauge bosons at the Fermilab Tevatron”, Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 70, 2004.
  • Alves D., Arkani-Hamed N., Arora S., Bai Y., Baumgart M., Berger J., Buckley M., Butler B., Chang S., Cheng H.C., Cheung C., Chivukula R.S., Cho W.S., Cotta R., Dalfonso M., Hedri S.E., Essig R., Evans J.A., Fitzpatrick L., Fox P., Franceschini R., Freitas A., Gainer J.S., Gershtein Y., Gray R., Gregoire T., Gripaios B., Gunion J., Han T., Haas A., Hansson P., Hewett J., Hits D., Hubisz J., Izaguirre E., Kaplan J., Katz E., Kilic C., Kim H.D., Kitano R., Koay S.A., Ko P., Krohn D., Kuflik E., Lewis I., Lisanti M., Liu T., Liu Z., Lu R., Luty M., Meade P., Morrissey D., Mrenna S., Nojiri M., Okui T., Padhi S., Papucci M., Park M., Park M., Perelstein M., Peskin M., Phalen D., Rehermann K., Rentala V., Roy T., Ruderman J.T., Sanz V., Schmaltz M., Schnetzer S., Schuster P., Schwaller P., Schwartz M.D., Schwartzman A., Shao J., Shelton J., Shih D., Shu J., Silverstein D., Simmons E., Somalwar S., Spannowsky M., Spethmann C., Strassler M., Su S., Tait T., Thomas B., Thomas S., Toro N., Volansky T., Wacker J., Waltenberger W., Yavin I., Yu F., Zhao Y., Zurek K., “Simplified models for LHC new physics searches”, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol. 39, 2012.
  • T. Tait, G. Kribs, T. Plehn, M. Spannowsky, “Four Generations and Higgs Physics”, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 76, pp. 075016, 2007.
  • T. Tait, J. Goodman, M. Ibe, A. Rajaraman, W. Shepherd, H. Yu, “Constraints on Light Majorana Dark Matter from Colliders”, Phys. Lett. B, vol. 695, pp. 185, 2011.
  • Weiglein G., Barklow T., Boos E., de Roeck A., Desch K., Gianotti F., Godbole R., Gunion J.F., Haber H.E., Heinemeyer S., Hewett J.L., Kawagoe K., Mönig K., Nojiri M.M., Polesello G., Richard F., Riemann S., Stirling W.J., Akeroyd A.G., Allanach B.C., Asner D., Asztalos S., Baer H., Battaglia M., Baur U., Bechtle P., Bélanger G., Belyaev A., Berger E.L., Binoth T., Blair G.A., Boogert S., Boudjema F., Bourilkov D., Buchmüller W., Bunichev V., Cerminara G., Chiorboli M., Davoudiasl H., Dawson S., de Curtis S., Deppisch F., Díaz M.A., Dittmar M., Djouadi A., Dominici D., Ellwanger U., Feng J.L., Ginzburg I.F., Giolo-Nicollerat A., Gjelsten B.K., Godfrey S., Grellscheid D., Gronberg J., Gross E., Guasch J., Hamaguchi K., Han T., Hisano J., Hollik W., Hugonie C., Hurth T., Jiang J., Juste A., Kalinowski J., Kilian W., Kinnunen R., Kraml S., Krawczyk M., Krokhotine A., Krupovnickas T., Lafaye R., Lehti S., Logan H.E., Lytken E., Martin V., Martyn H.U., Miller D.J., Moretti S., Moortgat F., Moortgat-Pick G., Mühlleitner M., Niezurawski P., Nikitenko A., Orr L.H., Osland P., Osorio A.F., Päs H., Plehn T., Porod W., Pukhov A., Quevedo F., Rainwater D., Ratz M., Redelbach A., Reina L., Rizzo T., Rückl R., Schreiber H.J., Schumacher M., Sherstnev A., Slabospitsky S., Solà J., Sopczak A., Spira M., Spiropulu M., Sullivan Z., Szleper M., Tait T.M.P., Tata X., Tovey D.R., Tricomi A., Velasco M., Wackeroth D., Wagner C.E.M., Weinzierl S., Wienemann P., Yanagida T., Zarnecki A.F., Zerwas D., Zerwas P.M., Živković L., “Physics interplay of the LHC and the ILC”, Physics Reports, vol. 426, pp. 47-358, 2006.
  • Abdallah J., Araujo H., Arbey A., Ashkenazi A., Belyaev A., Berger J., Boehm C., Boveia A., Brennan A., Brooke J., Buchmueller O., Buckley M., Busoni G., Calibbi L., Chauhan S., Daci N., Davies G., De Bruyn I., De Jong P., De Roeck A., de Vries K., Del Re D., De Simone A., Di Simone A., Doglioni C., Dolan M., Dreiner H.K., Ellis J., Eno S., Etzion E., Fairbairn M., Feldstein B., Flaecher H., Feng E., Fox P., Genest M.H., Gouskos L., Gramling J., Haisch U., Harnik R., Hibbs A., Hoh S., Hopkins W., Ippolito V., Jacques T., Kahlhoefer F., Khoze V.V., Kirk R., Korn A., Kotov K., Kunori S., Landsberg G., Liem S., Lin T., Lowette S., Lucas R., Malgeri L., Malik S., McCabe C., Mete A.S., Morgante E., Mrenna S., Nakahama Y., Newbold D., Nordstrom K., Pani P., Papucci M., Pataraia S., Penning B., Pinna D., Polesello G., Racco D., Re E., Riotto A.W., Rizzo T., Salek D., Sarkar S., Schramm S., Skubic P., Slone O., Smirnov J., Soreq Y., Sumner T., Tait T.M.P., Thomas M., Tomalin I., Tunnell C., Vichi A., Volansky T., Weiner N., West S.M., Wielers M., Worm S., Yavin I., Zaldivar B., Zhou N., Zurek K., “Simplified models for dark matter searches at the LHC”, Physics of the Dark Universe, vol. 9-10, pp. 8-23, 2015.
  • C.–P. Yuan, “Single Top Production as a Window to Physics Beyond the Standard Model”, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 63, pp. 014018, 2001.
  • G. Bertone, “A New Era in the Search for Dark Matter”, Nature, vol. 562, pp. 51, 2018.
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Contact Information

Email: ttait@uci.edu

Phone: (949) 216-0902

Address: Dept of Physics & Astronomy UC Irvine Mail Code: 4576 Irvine, CA 92697 USA

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This profile was last updated on 2/12/2025.

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