Alan Kostelecky

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V. Alan Kostelecky is an American theoretical physicist.

Alan Kostelecky studied biology and chemistry and then physics at the University of Bristol with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and Yale University , where he received his master's degree in 1979 and received his doctorate in 1982 with Samuel MacDowell ( Geometric construction of extended supergravity ). From 1985 he was at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he is Distinguished Professor and from 1997 to 2000 headed the physics department. He was at CERN and the Los Alamos National Laboratory , among others .

He is known for work on the possible breaking of Lorentz symmetry in extensions of the standard model (such as the string theory and quantum gravity ) what he called the Standard Model Extension goal for (SME, standard model extension). The possible terms for a violation of space-time symmetries are systematically investigated (Lorentz symmetry, CPT symmetry). In the late 1980s, he suggested that such symmetry violations might also be observable. Since then, his theory has served as the basis for tests of the special theory of relativity ( modern tests of Lorentz invariance ).

In 1985 he caught the attention of Alan Chodos with the assumption that neutrinos could be tachyons .

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006), the Institute of Physics (2000), and the American Physical Society (2004). In 1993 and 2005 he won the Gravity Research Foundation Prize. In 1988 and 1992 he received an award for outstanding teaching at his university and in 1997 the Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award from the university for his teaching.

Until 2014 he was the organizer of six international conferences on Lorentz and CPT symmetry (published as anthologies by World Scientific).

Fonts (selection)

  • Alan Kostelecky, Stuart Samuel : Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry in string theory , Physical Review D, Volume 39, 1989, pp. 683-685
  • Don Colloday, Alan Kostelecky: CPT Violation and the Standard Model , Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 55, 1997, pp. 6760-6774, Arxiv
  • Don Colloday, Alan Kostelecky: Lorentz-Violating Extension of the Standard Model , Phys. Rev. D, Volume 58, 1998, p. 116002, Arxiv
  • Alan Kostelecky: Search for relativity violations , Scientific American, January 2006, online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Physics Tree , entry Kostelecky
  2. ↑ Chodos, Avi Hauser, Kostelecky, The neutrino as a tachyon, Phys. Letters B, Vol. 150, 1985, pp. 431-435
  3. ^ Honors and Awards, Indiana University , entry Kostelecky
personal data
SURNAME Kostelecky, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kostelecky, V. Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century