Henry W. Sobel

Henry Wayne Sobel (* around 1940 in Philadelphia ) is an American experimental particle physicist.

Sobel studied physics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and received his doctorate in 1969 from the Case Institute of Technology . From 1968 he was at the University of California, Irvine , where he has been a professor since 1986.

He deals with neutrino physics , the search for proton decay and the testing of conservation laws as well as cosmic rays and astroparticle physics. He is involved in Super-Kamiokande (where he has been US co-speaker since 1992) and in the T2K experiment from the 50 GeV proton accelerator (proton synchrotron ) in J-PARC to the Super-Kamiokande detector for precision measurements of neutrino oscillations . The experiment started in 2009.

He was also (since 1999) the K2K experiment at the Super-Kamiokande, the Chooz experiment and 1969 to 1993 neutrino experiments at the Savannah River Reactor, 1965 to 1969 at the South African Neutrino Experiments (CASEWITS), 1993 to 1997 at the Bugey Reactor Neutral Current Experiment and 1979 to 1992 at the Irvine Michigan Brookhaven Experiment (IMB).

In 2009 he received the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize . As part of the IMB collaboration, he was awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize (1989) and as a member of Super-Kamiokande he received the Asahi Prize in 1999 . Sobel was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008) and the American Physical Society (1999).

Web links

• Homepage