L. Li

Research summary

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) was first observed at the Oak Ridge Spallation Neutron Source using a 14.6 kg sodium-doped CsI scintillator at 6.7 sigma confidence [1], and the same collaboration subsequently demonstrated CEvNS on argon with a liquid argon detector at >3 sigma significance and an averaged cross section of (2.2 +/- 0.7) x 10^-39 cm^2, consistent with the Standard Model and confirming the neutron-number dependence of the process [4]. Belle data covering 772 million B Bbar pairs at KEKB yielded the first measurement of the tau polarization P_tau(D*) = -0.38 in the decay Bbar -> D* tau- nubar_tau alongside R(D*) = 0.270, with the tau reconstructed in tau- -> pi- nu_tau and tau- -> rho- nu_tau modes [2]. Resistivity, specific heat, entropy, and susceptibility measurements on Y_{1-x}U_xPd_3 at x = 0.2 showed near-linear rho(T) from 0.2 to 20 K and C(T)/T ~ -ln(alpha T), with the molar entropy per U saturating near (R/2)ln(2), pointing to non-Fermi-liquid behaviour in a Kondo alloy [3]. The CEPC physics paper outlined the precision Higgs program at a proposed Chinese circular e+e- Higgs factory housed in a ~100 km tunnel [5], and the FIPs 2022 workshop report mapped the parameter space for feebly interacting particles below GeV down to sub-eV scales as candidates for dark matter, neutrino masses, and electroweak fine-tuning [6]. A separate epidemiology stream covered feasibility of screening tuberculosis patients for diabetes mellitus in six Chinese health facilities, where 8886 registered TB patients were screened by random blood glucose [7], and an 8025-patient multicentre observational study of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in China assessed prevalence by site, demographic factors, and concurrent pulmonary tuberculosis [9]. A Paris simulation study of urban ridesharing quantified rebound effects on environmental benefits arising from reduced individual travel cost and reduced congestion [8].

Recent publications

1. Observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering2017 · Science · 745 citationsDOI
2. Measurement of the τ Lepton Polarization and R(D*) in the Decay B¯→D*τ−ν¯τ2017 · Physical Review Letters · 486 citationsDOI
3. Evidence for non-Fermi liquid behavior in the Kondo alloy Y_{1-x}U_{x}Pd_{3}1991 · Physical Review Letters · 379 citationsDOI
4. First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon2021 · Physical Review Letters · 251 citationsDOI
5. Precision Higgs physics at the CEPC *2019 · Chinese Physics C · 166 citationsDOI
6. Feebly-interacting particles: FIPs 2022 Workshop Report2023 · The European Physical Journal C · 164 citationsDOI
7. Screening of patients with tuberculosis for diabetes mellitus in China2012 · Tropical Medicine & International Health · 140 citationsDOI
8. Substantial rebound effects in urban ridesharing: Simulating travel decisions in Paris, France2018 · Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · 116 citationsDOI
9. The epidemiology of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in China: A large-scale multi-center observational study2020 · PLoS ONE · 108 citationsDOI
10. Characterization of an 18,166 EST dataset for cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) enriched for drought-responsive genes2007 · Plant Cell Reports · 106 citationsDOI

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