David Hitlin

David George Hitlin (born April 15, 1942 in Brooklyn ) is an American experimental particle physicist.

David Hitlin studied physics at Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in 1963, a master's degree in 1965 and a doctorate in 1968. He was also an instructor at Columbia University from 1967 to 1969. In 1969 he went to the SLAC in the group of Melvin Schwartz and Stanley Wojcicki . In 1972 he became an Assistant Professor at Stanford University and in 1975 Assistant Professor at SLAC. At that time he moved to Burton Richter's group to build the Mark II detector on the SPEAR accelerator ring. In 1979 he became an Associate Professor at Caltech and in 1985 Professor.

In addition to the Mark II and III detectors from SPEAR and SLC (SLAC Large Detector), he was also involved in the BES (Bejing Spectrometer) of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC). From 1987 he dealt with CP violation during the decay of neutral B mesons , which led to the BaBar experiment at SLAC, of ​​which Hitlin was the spokesman for the first six years.

Later he was part of the Mu2e collaboration at Fermilab , where he is looking for a rare muon-electron conversion via a non- standard model process in the field of an aluminum core.

In 2016 he received the Panofsky Prize with Fumihiko Takasaki , Jonathan Dorfan , Stephen L. Olsen for their leadership role in the BaBar and Belle experiments , which established the violation of CP symmetry in the decay of B mesons and our understanding of quark mixing and quantum chromodynamics promoted (laudation). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .

Web links

• Website at Caltech

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth dates American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ^ Panofsky Prize 2016 . Laudation: For leadership in the BABAR and Belle experiments, which established the violation of CP symmetry in B meson decay, and furthered our understanding of quark mixing and quantum chromodynamics .