Vincent Cheung

Professional Background

Vincent Cheung received his PhD in high-energy nuclear physics from the University of California at Davis in 2020 where he investigated quarkonium polarization in high-energy collisions. He pioneered the improved color evaporation model to produce the first quarkonium polarization predictions using the model.

Vincent first joined as a postdoc at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2021 to continue investigating nuclear structure in particle collider environments such as the Large Hadron Collider and the future Electron Ion Collider. He was awarded a Lab-Wide Lab Directed Research and Development award to investigate the nature of the X(3872), a tetraquark candidate.

As a staff physicist, his specializes in theoretical and applied nuclear physics across energy scales ranging from eV to TeV.

Research Interests

• High-energy nuclear physics
• Nuclear decay and structure
• Radiation modeling
• Nuclear data infrastructure