George Sterman

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George Franklin Sterman (born June 2, 1946 in Washington, DC ) is an American theoretical elementary particle physicist.

Life

Sterman studied at the University of Chicago with Jun John Sakurai ( bachelor's degree in 1968) and received his doctorate in 1974 from the University of Maryland . He was then a scientist at the University of Illinois , 1976 to 1978 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook , 1978/79 at the Institute for Advanced Study , before he came to the CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stony Brook in 1979, where he became director in 2001.

Sterman dealt with perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the description of scattering experiments in QCD, where he developed the concept of infrared security with Steven Weinberg, important for applications in high-energy processes with Stephen Libby , John C. Collins and Davison E. Soper Faktorisierungstheoreme proved and the finite nature of infrared corrections to Jet - cross sections showed. Lately he has dealt with the summation of the QCD perturbation series and connections with non-perturbation-theoretical phenomena.

In 1985 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1994 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is a member of the “Coordinated Experimental-Theoretical Project on QCD” (CTEQ), for which he organized many summer schools. Sterman is Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters . In 2008 he received the Sakurai Prize with Alfred Mueller.

Fonts

  • An introduction to Quantum Field Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1993
  • Sterman, Soper, Collins: Factorization of hard processes in QCD. arxiv : hep-ph / 0409313 In: Alfred Mueller (Ed.): Perturbative QCD. World Scientific, 1989, p. 1
  • Sterman et al. a. Handbook of perturbative QCD . In: Rev.Mod.Phys. , Volume 67, 1995, p. 157 CTEQ

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sterman, Weinberg: Physical Review Letters. Volume 39, 1977, p. 1436
  2. ↑ Collins, Soper, Sterman: Nuclear Physics B. Volume 261, 1985, p. 104, Volume 308, 1988, p. 833, the same Factorization of hard processes in QCD . In: Mueller (editor): Perturbative QCD. World Scientific 1989
  3. ↑ Literally "For developing concepts and techniques in QCD, such as infrared safety and factorization in hard processes, which permitted precise quantitative predictions and experimental tests, and thereby helped to establish QCD as the theory of the strong interactions."
personal data
SURNAME Sterman, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sterman, George Franklin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical elementary particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC