Theoretical Physics

 

April 10, 2012

     Theoretical Physics Group

James Bjorken

Experimental particle physics: Co-spokesman for Fermilab test/experiment T864; theoretical particle physics: research in hard diffraction and in dynamics of disoriented chiral condensate. Recent work.

 

Richard Blankenbecler

Theoretical physics, quantum theory, elementary particle theory; scattering theory and its application to radiation processes in matter and in colliding beams; development of computer algorithms for use in data analysis. Recent work.

 

Stanley Brodsky

High-energy theoretical physics, light-cone quantization, perturbative and non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics; especially exclusive processes and the quark-gluon structure of hadrons in QCD; fundamental problems in atomic and nuclear physics. Recent work.

 

Lance Dixon

Theoretical particle physics; superstring theory, model building, and applications; perturbative QCD. Recent work.

 

Sidney Drell

Theoretical physics, elementary particle physics, and quantum theory; national security and arms control. Recent work.

 

JoAnne Hewett

Theoretical Particle Physics; Phenomenology of Electroweak Interactions. Recent work.     

Stefan Hoeche     

          Theoretical particle physics; Phenomenology of the Standard Model; Monte-Carlo event generators.  Recent work.     

Shamit Kachru

Theoretical physics. String theory, dualities, supersymmetry breaking, and early universe cosmology. Recent work.

 

H. Pierre Noyes

Relativistic few-body problem in nuclear and particle physics; Alternative Natural Philosophy Association (ANPA) ; bit-string physics; foundations of physics; combinatorial hierarchy; masses, coupling constants, and cosmology from first principles; antigravity. Recent work.

 

Michael Peskin

Theoretical high-energy physics; models of symmetry-breaking in the electroweak gauge theory and methods for their experimental tests, especially at present and future e+e- colliders; superstring theory and other approaches to the origin of the fermion mass spectrum. Recent work.

 

Helen Quinn

Physics of B decays and CP Violation; Education, particularly pre-college science education. Recent work.                                        

 

Thomas Rizzo

Theoretical particle physics; phenomenology of new physics models and experimental tests at colliders. Recent work.

Eva Silverstein

Theoretical high energy physics: duality symmetries and nonperturbative phenomena in string theory, applications to the unification of string vacua and to supersymmetry breaking; light-cone formulations and applications of nontrivial renormalization-group fixed points; issues in the ''matrix model'' proposal for formulating the theory (known as ''M theory'') underlying string theory. Recent work.

 

Jay Wacker  

          Theoretical particle physics focusing on beyond the Standard Model physics.  Recent work.

 

Marvin Weinstein

Non-perturbative methods in field-theory; in particular, CORE technology, a Hamiltonian approach to lattice field theories, including QCD, and spin-systems. Recent work.

Maria C. Herraez