World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
115
Citations
56662
World Ranking
980
National Ranking
520

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the study of rare tau decays and for design of optical electronics for high radiation environments

Overview

K. K. Gan is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including sociology and political science, nuclear and high energy physics, materials chemistry, geophysics, and hematology. Their work covers a broad interdisciplinary range, with particular emphasis on particle detector development and performance, diamond and carbon-based materials research, high-pressure geophysics and materials, hemostasis and retained surgical items, surgical sutures and adhesives, wound healing and treatments, and challenges related to work-family balance.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Do immigrant women spend more time on unpaid labor? Generational differences by race, ethnicity, and household composition in household work within the United States," 2024, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • "Radiation tolerance of diamond detectors," 2022, Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • "Thrombin-Anchored Bacterial Cellulose Dressing for Advanced Burn Wound Care," 2025, Advanced Materials
  • "Synthetic ratio computation for programming population composition and multicellular morphology," 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Residential Attainment in the U.S. by Race, Ethnicity, and Family Structure: Do Married Households Have Better Outcomes?" 2025, Race and Social Problems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with K. K. Gan include:

  • L. Bäni
  • M. Artuso
  • M. Bartosik
  • Vincenzo Bellini
  • B. Bentele

Their publications appear in various venues, notably:

  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
  • Journal of Physics Conference Series
  • Advanced Materials
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

K. K. Gan was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2005 with a citation noting contributions to the study of rare tau decays and the design of optical electronics for high radiation environments.

Best Publications

  • Expected performance of the ATLAS experiment - detector, trigger and physics

    G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Luminosity determination in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    Morad Aaboud;Alexander Kupco;Peter Davison;Samuel Webb

  • Search for charged Higgs bosons decaying via H±→ τ±ν in fully hadronic final states using pp collision data at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;S. Abdel Khalek

  • Search for high-mass diboson resonances with boson-tagged jets in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;O. Abdinov

  • Search for direct third-generation squark pair production in final states with missing transverse momentum and two b-jets in √s = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • The BABAR detector: Upgrades, operation and performance

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;D. Boutigny;F. Couderc

  • Search for high-mass resonances decaying to dilepton final states in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Measurement of ZZ production in pp collisions at √ = 7 TeV and limits on anomalous ZZZ and ZZγ couplings with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Study of the B- → J/ΨK -π+π- decay and measurement of the B - → X(3872)K- branching fraction

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;D. Boutigny;F. Couderc

  • Production and integration of the ATLAS Insertable B-Layer

    B. Abbott;A. Clark;S. Latorre;O. Crespo-Lopez

  • Measurements of the meson-photon transition form factors of light pseudoscalar mesons at large momentum transfer

    J. Gronberg;T. S. Hill;R. Kutschke;D. J. Lange

  • Evidence for penguin-diagram decays: First observation of B→K*(892)γ

    R. Ammar;S. Ball;P. Baringer;D. Coppage

  • Search for lepton flavor violation in the decay τ±→ e±γ

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;D. Boutigny;F. Couderc

  • Electron reconstruction and identification in the ATLAS experiment using the 2015 and 2016 LHC proton-proton collision data at s=13 TeV

    Morad Aaboud;Alexander Kupco;Samuel Webb;Timo Dreyer

  • First measurement of the rate for the inclusive radiative penguin decay b→sγ

    M. S. Alam;I. J. Kim;Z. Ling;A. H. Mahmood

  • ATLAS b-jet identification performance and efficiency measurement with tt¯ events in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV

    Georges Aad;Alexander Kupco;Samuel Webb;Timo Dreyer

  • Summary of the ATLAS experiment’s sensitivity to supersymmetry after LHC Run 1 — interpreted in the phenomenological MSSM

    G. Aad;Elin Kuutmann Bergeås;Richard Brenner;Tord Ekelöf

  • Constraints on new phenomena via Higgs boson couplings and invisible decays with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;Elin Kuutmann Bergeås;Richard Brenner;Tord Ekelöf

  • Measurement of the t-channel single top-quark production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;S. Abdel Khalek

  • Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of B mesons

    K. W. Edwards;R. Ammar;D. Besson;X. Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Honscheid
K. Honscheid The Ohio State University
J. G. Smith
J. G. Smith University of Colorado Boulder
G. W. Brandenburg
G. W. Brandenburg Harvard University
M. L. Perl
M. L. Perl Stanford University
M. Pripstein
M. Pripstein University of California, Berkeley
Zongfu Yu
Zongfu Yu University of Wisconsin–Madison
M. Davier
M. Davier University of Paris-Saclay
J. E. Brau
J. E. Brau University of Oregon

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing K. K. Gan

Trending Scientists