Lawrence R. Sulak

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Lawrence Richard Sulak (born August 29, 1944 in Columbus , Ohio ) is an American experimental particle physicist .

Lawrence Sulak studied at Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor Accounts 1966 at Lincoln Wolfenstein and at the Princeton University with Master Accounts in 1968 and his doctorate in 1970 in the group of Val Fitch , dealing with CP violation concerned. He was then a visiting scientist at CERN and the University of Geneva until 1973 . From 1971 to 1977 he was also a visiting scientist at Fermilab and from 1974 at Brookhaven National Laboratory . He was part of a group at both laboratories that built the first large (100 tons) fully absorbing calorimeters there (which was also happening at CERN). In 1971 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor at Harvard University and, from 1979, an associate professor and later professor at the University of Michigan . In 1978 at Harvard he proposed the first massive (10,000 tons) water tank Cherenkov tracker calorimeter and realized it together with others ( Irvine Michigan Brookhaven Experiment (IMB), originally for experiments on proton decay , but known for the discovery of Neutrinos from SN 1987A with Kamiokande ). From 1985 he was a professor at Boston University , where he is David M. Myers Distinguished Professor .

After IMB he was involved in Super-Kamiokande (observation of neutrino oscillations and neutrino masses as a result) and supervised the development of the CD Forward Calorimeter at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which was involved in the discovery of the Higg particle. To this end, he transferred Cherenkov detector technologies to quartz fibers.

In the 1970s he dealt with electroweak interaction and was part of the E1A experiment ( Carlo Rubbia , D. Cline, AK Mann), which succeeded in observing weak neutral currents at Fermilab at about the same time as groups at CERN (Gargamelle) in 1972/73. The publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. happened with a delay until 1974, while the Gargamelle group (warned by Rubbia, who constantly commuted between the USA and CERN and provided information exchange) published in 1973 without problems in Physics Letters. Sulak (at that time a young Harvard professor who harnessed his students) was responsible for the construction of the trigger of the calorimeter, but also played a key role in the evaluation. Around 1975 he looked at neutrino-nucleus scattering as confirmation of the combined electroweak force.

In 1984/85 he was visiting professor at Harvard.

Sulak is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received its Instrumentation Award. He was a co-recipient of an Asahi Prize as part of Superkamiokande and a Bruno Rossi Prize as part of IMB . For 2018 he received the Panofsky Prize for novel contributions to detector technologies, including pioneering developments for massive water tank Cherenkov detectors which led to significant advances in the physics of proton decay and neutrino oscillations . He was a Guggenheim Fellow.

literature

  • Robert Crease, Charles Mann: Second Creation, 1986, 1996
  • Peter Galison: How the first neutral current experiments ended, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 55, 1983, pp. 477-511

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Represented in Galison, Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 55, 1983, pp. 477-511
  3. ^ B. Aubert, Cline, Mann, Rubbia, Sulak, and others. a., Observation of muonless neutrino-induced inelastic interactions, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 32, 1974, pp. 800-803, Aubert, et al. a., Further observations of muonless neutrino-induced inelastic interactions, ibid., pp. 1454-1457
  4. ↑ FJ Hasert et al. a., Search for elastic muon neutrino-electron scattering, Phys. Lett., Vol. 46, 1973, pp. 121-124, FJ Hasert et al. a., Observation of neutrino-like interactions without muon or electron in the Gargamelle neutrino experiment, Phys. Lett., Volume 46, 1973, pp. 138-140, also Hasert et al. a., Nucl. Phys. B, Volume 73, 1974, p. 1
  5. ↑ for novel contributions to detection techniques, including pioneering developments for massive water Cherenkov detectors that led to major advances in nucleon decay and neutrino oscillation physics. . Panofsky Prize
personal data
SURNAME Sulak, Lawrence R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sulak, Lawrence Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American experimental particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus , Ohio