ASSOC. PROF. DR. Phung Van Dong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phung Van Dong was born in 1981 in Hanoi. He received the PhD degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at the Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, and conducted postdoc studies in KEK (Japan), CERN (Switzerland), and AS (Taiwan). He was a research fellow at the Institute of Physics from 2005 to 2018 and has been the head of High Energy Physics and Cosmology Laboratory, Phenikaa University, since 2019. He is known for contributions of the model building, neutrino physics, and dark matter and published 40 articles in the leading ISI journals as of 2018.

Work

P. V. Dong, T. D. Tham, and H. T. Hung, 2013. 3-3-1-1 model for dark matter. Physical Review D 87, 115003.

Proposed a framework that nontrivially unifies electroweak and B-L interactions, called 3-3-1-1 model, and probes important experimental issues. Dark matter is a neutral fermion or scalar with wrong B-L number, which is unified with normal matter in gauge multiplet and stabilized by a residual gauge symmetry (matter parity). Neutrinos gain suitable mass via seesaw mechanisms resulting from the spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking. The B-L breaking field induces the inflationary expansion of the early universe. The lighest right-handed neutrino can CP-asymmtrically decay into dark matter and normal matter, explaining the baryon asymmetry. The model solves electric charge quantization, flavor questions, unitarity, and CPT invariance completely [see also: PRD90(2014)075021; 91(2015)055023; 92(2015)055026; 93(2016)115003]