Kenneth Lane

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Kenneth D. Lane is an American theoretical physicist.

Life

Lane studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology , where he received his master's degree in 1965. In 1970 he received his PhD with Chung Wook Kim at Johns Hopkins University . He has been a professor at Boston University since 1988 .

Together with Estia Eichten, Lane is the founder of the Technicolor theories (TC) in elementary particle physics ( GUT - Yang Mills theories similar to quantum chromodynamics but with more degrees of color freedom). Among other things, he uses TC theories to investigate general mechanisms of the symmetry break of the electroweak interaction in the Standard Model and beyond (break of flavor symmetries between the particle generations). At the Tevatron and Large Hadron Collider he is significantly involved in the search for signs of Technicolor theories.

He also studied the physics of Charmonium .

With Chris Quigg , Eichten, Ian Hinchliffe, he published an influential review article Supercollider Physics in 1984 on the physics of high-energy particle accelerators . Based on a meeting of physicists in Snowmass (Colorado) in 1982, ideas were developed that motivated the development of the later discontinued Superconducting Super Collider in 1987 and were later implemented in the Large Hadron Collider . For these contributions he received the 2011 Sakurai Prize with Quigg, Eichten, Hinchliffe .

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was a Frontier Fellow of the Fermilab in 2001/02.

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  1. ↑ Eichten, Lane: Dynamical Breaking of weak interaction symmetry . In: Physics Letters , B, Volume 90, 1980, p. 125
  2. ^ Estia Eichten , Tung-Mow Yan, Tōichirō Kinoshita , Kurt Gottfried : Charmonium: The Model . In: Physical Review , D, Volume 17, 1978, p. 3090, same: Charmonium: Comparison with Experiment , Physical Review D, Volume 20, 1980, p. 203, same, John Kogut : Spectrum of charmed quark-antiquark bound states . In: Physical Review Letters , Volume 34, 1975, pp. 369-372. So-called Cornell potential model of the Charmonium.
  3. ↑ Reviews of Modern Physics , Volume 56, 1984, pp. 579-707
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SURNAME Lane, Kenneth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lane, Kenneth D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century