James H. Christenson

James H. Christenson (* 1937 ) is an American experimental particle physicist , best known for his involvement in the discovery of CP violation with James Cronin and Val Fitch (who received the Nobel Prize for it ) and René Turlay (1964).

Sometimes it is also incorrectly spelled Christensen. He is called Jim Christenson.

Christenson was a PhD student at Princeton University at the time of the CP violation detection experiment conducted at Brookhaven National Laboratory (PhD thesis 1964, mesons and the mass difference ). He later went to Fermilab , where he retired in the early 2000s. Among other things, he dealt with the development of calorimeters. Most recently, he was significantly involved in the upgrade of the D0 experiment. In 1995 he was involved in the discovery of the top quark as part of D0 . He was a professor. ${\ displaystyle K_ {1} ^ {0}}$ ${\ displaystyle K_ {1} ^ {0} -K_ {2} ^ {0}}$

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JH Christenson, J. Cronin, V. Fitch, R. Turlay: Evidence for the decay of the meson ${\ displaystyle 2 \ pi}$ ${\ displaystyle K_ {2} ^ {0}}$ , Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 13, 1964, pp. 138-140 (discovery of CP violation)

Individual evidence

↑ Date of birth according to Klaus Bethge, Gertrud Walter, Bernhard Wiedemann, Kernphysik, Springer, 2nd edition 2001, p. 22
^ So by Cronin himself in The discovery of CP violation , European Phys. Journal H, Volume 36, 2012, Issue 4
↑ Swatan Chattopadhyay, Joseph Lykken (ed.), Fermilab at 50, World Scientific 2018, p. 55. In it he is named as one of the leaders of the upgrade for the 2nd run (started 2001) alongside Hugh Montgomery, Mike Tutts, Harry Weerts. Despite its age, the detector lasted until the end of the measurements in 2011.
↑ S. Abachi et al. a., Observation of the Top Quark, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 74, 1995, pp. 2632-2637, Arxiv
^ Allan Franklin, Discovery and Acceptance of CP Violation , Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 13, 1983, p. 207

personal data
SURNAME	Christenson, James H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1937

[1] Date of birth according to Klaus Bethge, Gertrud Walter, Bernhard Wiedemann, Kernphysik, Springer, 2nd edition 2001, p. 22

[2] So by Cronin himself in The discovery of CP violation , European Phys. Journal H, Volume 36, 2012, Issue 4

[3] Swatan Chattopadhyay, Joseph Lykken (ed.), Fermilab at 50, World Scientific 2018, p. 55. In it he is named as one of the leaders of the upgrade for the 2nd run (started 2001) alongside Hugh Montgomery, Mike Tutts, Harry Weerts. Despite its age, the detector lasted until the end of the measurements in 2011.

[4] S. Abachi et al. a., Observation of the Top Quark, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 74, 1995, pp. 2632-2637, Arxiv

[5] Allan Franklin, Discovery and Acceptance of CP Violation , Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, Volume 13, 1983, p. 207