Alberto Sirlin

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Alberto Sirlin (born November 25, 1930 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine theoretical elementary particle physicist.

Sirlin studied from 1948 to 1952 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he received his doctorate in 1953. In 1953 he went to the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas in Rio de Janeiro , where he also heard lectures by Richard Feynman . 1954/5 he was at UCLA and 1955 to 1957 at Cornell University , where he received his doctorate from Tōichirō Kinoshita in 1958 (his Argentine doctorate was not accepted in the USA). 1957 to 1959 he was research assistant at Columbia University and from 1959 assistant professor at New York University . In 1961 he became an associate professor there and was given a full professorship in 1968.

Sirlin dealt as early as the 1950s with the calculation of "radiation corrections" (higher order perturbation theory) in quantum electrodynamics and the theory of weak interaction (including with Kinoshita) and in the 1970s with his student William J. Marciano with precision calculations in the electroweak interaction (and also from GUTs as in the 1970s with the SU (5) calibration group). With Tsung-Dao Lee and R. Friedberg, he also worked on non-topological soliton solutions in quantum field theory.

In 1983 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and in 1997 he received the Alexander von Humboldt Award. In 2002 he received the Sakurai Prize with William J. Marciano .

Fonts

  • with MAB Bég Gauge theories of weak interactions . Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 24, 1974, pp. 379-449
  • with MAB Beg: Gauge theories of weak interactions II . Physics Reports, Vol. 88, 1982, p. 1
  • Current algebra formulation of radiative corrections in gauge theories and the universality of the weak interactions . Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 50, 1978, p. 573.
  • Radiative corrections in the SU (2) x U (1) theory: A simple renormalization framework . Physical Review D, Vol. 22, 1980, pp. 971-981
  • The Standard Electroweak Model circa 1994- a brief overview . Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics Vol. 21, 1994, p. 287

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ z. BR Behrends, R. Finkelstein, Sirlin "Radiative corrections to decay processes", Physical Review Vol. 106, 1955, pp. 866-873
personal data
SURNAME Sirlin, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine theoretical elementary particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires