Dr. Christian Thierfelder

Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics Bldg.40, NZ Institute for Advanced Study Massey University (Albany Campus) Private Bag 102904 North Shore MSC, Auckland New Zealand Phone +64 9 414 0800 ext. 9886 Fax +64 9 443 9779 Email: C.Thierfelder@massey.ac.nz

Research Interests

The weak neutral current (Z-boson exchange) between electrons and nucleons (quarks) introduces a small energy difference between enantiomers of a chiral molecule owing to parity violation. This parity violation has not been detected by experiment. I perform relativistic Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations on molecules like CHFClBr to calculate the parity violation contributions to vibrational transitions which can be directly measured.