Graham Ross (physicist)

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Graham Garland Ross is a British theoretical physicist who studies elementary particle physics.

Ross studied at the University of Aberdeen with a bachelor's degree in 1966, was at the 1969 University of Durham doctorate and was then from 1981 to 1983 as Rutherford Atlas Research Fellow at Pembroke College of Oxford University 's, where he since 1978th He has been a Fellow of Wadham College in Oxford since 1983 , became a Lecturer in the same year , became Reader and SERC Senior Research Fellow in 1990 and has been Professor of Theoretical Physics at Oxford University and there at the Rudolf Peierls Center of Theoretical Physics since 1992 . He was a scientist at CERN several times . He was also a visiting scientist at Caltech .

Ross is known for detailed investigations ( Unified Model Building ) on the standard model and further theories of elementary particles ( GUTs , supersymmetry , models based on string theories ) with the primary goal of obtaining experimentally verifiable results, for example in the case of proton decay , scattering of polarized leptons , the Weinberg angle and inflationary cosmology . Ross discovered that the electroweak symmetry in supersymmetric GUTs can be broken by quantum effects and was a pioneer in implementing this in models.

Together with Mary Gaillard and John Ellis , in 1977 (at that time at CERN) he predicted 3-jet events in the QCD with electron-positron annihilation, which also served to detect the gluon . He also contributed to the perturbative QCD.

In 2012 he received the Dirac Medal . He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1991 .

Fonts

  • Grand unified theories , Benjamin Cummings (Frontiers in Physics) 1985, CRC Press 2003

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data according to entries in Gordon Fraser The Particle Century , CRC Press, 1998, therein from Ross The Standard Model and Beyond
  2. ↑ Biography at the Royal Society
  3. ^ Ellis, Ross, Gaillard "Search for Gluons in e + e-Annihilation", Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 111, 1976, p. 253, Erratum Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 130, 1977, p. 516
personal data
SURNAME Ross, Graham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ross, Graham Garland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British elementary particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century