Estia Joseph Eichten (born 1946), is an American
theoretical physicist
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experime ...
, of the
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Since 2007, Fermilab has been operat ...
(Fermilab). He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
The MIT Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP) is the hub of theoretical nuclear physics, particle physics, and quantum information research at MIT. It is a subdivision of MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics.
Research
CT ...
, where he was a student of
Roman Jackiw
Roman Wladimir Jackiw (; born 8 November 1939) is a theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist. Born in Lubliniec, Poland in 1939 to a Ukrainian family, the family later moved to Austria and Germany before settling in New York City when Jackiw w ...
's, and was Associate Professor of Physics at
Harvard before joining the
Fermilab Theoretical Physics Department in 1982.
In 1984 Eichten coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with
Kenneth Lane,
Ian Hinchliffe and
Chris Quigg), which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron
collider
A collider is a type of particle accelerator which brings two opposing particle beams together such that the particles collide. Colliders may either be ring accelerators or linear accelerators.
Colliders are used as a research tool in particl ...
s, such as the Fermilab
Tevatron
The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator (active until 2011) in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (also known as ''Fermilab''), east of Batavia, Illinois, and is the second highest energy particle collider ...
, the
SSC, and the
LHC at
CERN. He has made many other significant contributions, including the study of the spectroscopy of heavy-light mesons (for which he was an originator of the idea of heavy quark symmetry), quarkonium, and "
technicolor
Technicolor is a series of Color motion picture film, color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films ...
" theories of dynamical
electroweak symmetry breaking
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons (one of the two classes of particles, the other bein ...
.
In 2011 Eichten with
Chris Quigg,
Ian Hinchliffe, and
Kenneth Lane won the
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics ''"For their work, separately and collectively, to chart a course of the exploration of TeV scale physics using multi-TeV hadron colliders"''
American Physical Society - J. J. Sakurai Prize Winners
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References
External links
* Eichten'
publications on SPIRES
Living people
21st-century American physicists
Harvard University faculty
1946 births
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Theoretical physicists
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients
People from Stillwater, Minnesota
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics alumni
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