Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
The group has a diverse research program, specializing in areas of
quantum field theory
In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines classical field theory, special relativity, and quantum mechanics. QFT is used in particle physics to construct physical models of subatomic particles and ...
dark matter
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,
neutrinos
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The group is currently led by 9 faculty members, and has a dozen postdoctoral researchers and students at any given time.
Notable physicists who were students or postdoctoral researchers in the SLAC Theory Group include
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Nima Arkani-Hamed ( fa, نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian
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Thomas Appelquist
Thomas William Appelquist is a theoretical particle physicist who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University.
He received his bachelor's degree from Illinois Benedictine College and his Ph.D. in 1968 from Cornell University un ...
Michael Dine
Michael Dine (born 12 August 1953, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics, supersymmetry, string theory, and physics beyond the Standard Model.
Education and career
Dine received in 197 ...
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John Ellis John Ellis may refer to:
Academics
*John Ellis (scrivener) (1698–1791), English political writer
*John Ellis (naturalist) (1710–1776), English botanical illustrator
*John Ellis (physicist, born 1946), British theoretical physicist at CERN
* Jo ...
Steven Frautschi
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Roscoe Giles
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Howard Haber
Howard Eli Haber (born 3 February 1952 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American physicist, specializing in theoretical elementary particle physics.
Howard Haber received in 1973 his bachelor's degree and master's degree from Massachusetts Instit ...
Robert Jaffe
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Biograp ...
Igor Klebanov
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Stephen Parke
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Joel Primack
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Primack received his A.B. from Princeton University in ...
Davison Soper
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Education and career
Soper received his bachelor's degree in 1965 from Amherst College and his PhD in 19 ...
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Henry Tye
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Current and former faculty members in the SLAC Theory Group include:
* James Bjorken, discoverer of Bjorken Scaling (
light-cone
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Stanley Brodsky
Stanley J. Brodsky (born January 9, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University.
Biography
Brodsky obtained an undergraduate degree ...
Lance Dixon
Lance Jenkins Dixon (born 22 June 1961, in Pasadena, California) is an American theoretical particle physicist. He is a professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) at Stanford University.
Dixon received in ...
quantum chromodynamics
In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons. Quarks are fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such as the proton, neutron and pion. QCD is a type ...
Sidney Drell
Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.
At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fel ...
Shamit Kachru
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, pioneer of string theory
* Rebecca Leane, astroparticle physicist
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Bernhard Mistlberger
Bernhard Mistlberger (born 1987) is an Austrian theoretical particle physicist known for his significant work in the area of quantum field theory. He is known for multi-loop calculations in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), including the first hig ...
, pioneer of multi-loop
Higgs
Higgs may refer to:
Physics
*Higgs boson, an elementary particle
*Higgs mechanism, an explanation for electroweak symmetry breaking
*Higgs field, a quantum field
People
*Alan Higgs (died 1979), English businessman and philanthropist
*Blaine Higgs ...
calculations at hadron colliders and 2021
Gribov Medal The Gribov Medal is a prize awarded every two years since 2001 by the European Physical Society for work in theoretical elementary particle physics or quantum field theory
In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical frame ...
recipient
* Pierre Noyes, known for theoretical work on the quantum mechanical three-body problem for strongly interacting particles
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Jogesh Pati
Jogesh C. Pati (born 1937) is an Indian American theoretical physicist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Biography
Jogesh Pati started his schooling at Guru Training School, Baripada and then admitted to M.K.C High School where he ...
Michael Peskin Michael Edward Peskin (born October 27, 1951, Philadelphia) is an American theoretical physicist. He was an undergraduate at Harvard University and obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 at Cornell University studying under Kenneth Wilson. He was a Junior Fell ...
, known for the
Peskin–Takeuchi parameter In particle physics, the Peskin–Takeuchi parameters are a set of three measurable quantities, called ''S'', ''T'', and ''U'', that parameterize potential new physics contributions to electroweak radiative corrections. They are named after physi ...
, and his popular
Quantum Field Theory
In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines classical field theory, special relativity, and quantum mechanics. QFT is used in particle physics to construct physical models of subatomic particles and ...
textbook with Daniel Schroeder
* Helen Quinn, known for
Peccei–Quinn theory
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New Horizons in Physics Prize
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recipient, known for new experimental searches for dark sectors using high-intensity electron beams
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Eva Silverstein
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New Horizons in Physics Prize
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capita ...
recipient, known for new experimental searches for dark sectors using high-intensity electron beams
* Jay Wacker, particle phenomenologist