Bryan Webber

Bryan Webber (* 1943 ) is a British elementary particle physicist .

Life

Webber studied at Oxford University (graduated in 1964) and then worked with Luis Alvarez in Berkeley, where he carried out experiments on the decay of neutral kaons at Bevatron . This resulted in his dissertation in experimental particle physics in 1969. Webber then switched to theoretical physics and was a post-doctoral student at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . From 1971 he was at Cambridge University , where he headed the high-energy physics group at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1973 until his retirement in 2010 and is professor of theoretical physics. In 2012 he was Schrödinger visiting professor at the Pauli Zentrum in Zurich and visiting professor at New York University . He is also in the theory department at CERN .

He is particularly concerned with the theory of strong interaction ( quantum chromodynamics ) with close connection to experiments, for example algorithms for recognizing jets and the analysis of events, for example at the LHC , for which he also uses computer programs for event simulation with the Monte Carlo method ( Monte Carlo Event Generation ) like Herwig , MC @ NLO , Camjet .

In 1987 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and in 2001 of the Royal Society . In 2008 he received the Dirac Medal (IOP) . In 2012 he received the Sakurai Prize for key ideas for the accurate confirmation of the Standard Model in particle physics .

Fonts

QCD and Collider Physics (Cambridge Monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics and cosmology; Vol. 8). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-58189-3 (with R. Keith Ellis and W. James Stirling).
Dispersive approach to power behaved contributions in QCD hard processes . In: Nuclear Physics / B , Vol. 469 (1996), pp. 93-142, ISSN 0920-5632 , (together with Yuri Dokshitzer and Giuseppe Marchesini).

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Individual evidence

↑ Laudation: For key ideas leading to the detailed confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics, enabling high energy experiments to extract precise information about Quantum Chromodynamics, electroweak interactions and possible new physics.

personal data
SURNAME	Webber, Bryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1943

[1] Laudation: For key ideas leading to the detailed confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics, enabling high energy experiments to extract precise information about Quantum Chromodynamics, electroweak interactions and possible new physics.