Carlo Becchi
Carlo Maria Becchi (born October 20, 1939 in Turin ) is an Italian theoretical physicist .
Becchi studied at the University of Genoa , where he graduated in 1962. He has been professor of theoretical physics at the University of Genoa since 1976. Twice (first in 1983) he was head of the physics faculty there. From 1997 to 2003 he was chairman of the theory committee of the Italian national nuclear research institute INFN.
Becchi began investigating the photoelectric effect in nuclear physics (topic of his dissertation). In the 1960s he dealt with quarks and the associated unitary symmetries. Since 1971 he has dealt with renormalization theory. He became known for his development of the BRST formalism with Raymond Stora and Alain Rouet around 1975, a method for the quantization of systems with secondary conditions such as gauge theories . In 2009 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Stora, Rouet and Igor Tyutin . Becchi has been co-editor of the journal Nuclear Physics B since the early 1990s.
Since 1991 he has been editor of Nuclear Physics B.
Fonts
- with Giovanni Ridolfi: Introduction to relativistic processes and the standard model of electroweak interactions , Springer 2005
- with Rouet, Stora: The Abelian Higgs-Kibble-Model. Unitarity of the S-Operator , Physics Letters B, Vol. 52, 1974, p. 344
- with Rouet, Stora: Renormalization of Gauge Theories , Annals of Physics, Vol. 98, 1976, p. 287
Web links
- Homepage at the University of Genoa, with lecture notes and list of publications
- Carlo Becchi and Camillo Imbimbo, Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin symmetry
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Becchi, Carlo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Becchi, Carlo Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian theoretical physicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |