Lance J. Dixon

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Lance Jenkins Dixon (born June 22, 1961 in Pasadena ) is an American theoretical particle physicist . He is a professor at SLAC .

Dixon studied physics and mathematics at Caltech (bachelor's degree in 1982) and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1986 . He was a post-doctoral student at SLAC. From 1987 he was Assistant Professor at Princeton University, from 1989 he was a Panofsky Fellow at SLAC and in 1992 he became Associate Professor and in 1998 Professor at SLAC.

Among other things, he was visiting professor at the École normal supérieure and the University of Cambridge .

Together with Zvi Bern and others, from the 1990s onwards he developed new methods for the calculation of Feynman diagrams in quantum chromodynamics and other Yang Mills theories ( generalized unitarity methods, among others), which meet the requirements for the calculations by the Large Hadron Collider in the 2000s became more topical and also provided new insights into the divergences in the series of faults in supergravity .

2014 he was awarded with Zvi Bern and David Kosower the Sakurai Prize for pioneering studies on perturbative calculation of scattering amplitudes to a deeper understanding of quantum field theory and powerful new tools for calculating processes of quantum chromodynamics led .

In 1995 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

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SURNAME Dixon, Lance J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dixon, Lance Jenkins (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena