Mark Wise

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Mark Brian Wise (born November 9, 1953 in Montreal ) is a Canadian - American theoretical physicist.

Life

Wise studied at the University of Toronto (bachelor's degree in 1976, master's degree in 1977) and at Stanford University , where he received his doctorate in 1980 under Fred Gilman . From 1980 to 1983 he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University . He has been with Caltech since 1983 , where he is currently the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics.

Wise is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1984 to 1987 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2001 he received the Sakurai Prize with Nathan Isgur and Mikhail Woloschin .

In the 1980s he worked, partly in collaboration with Gilman, with the Quark model and predictions from it. He is also known for the development of the effective theory of heavy quarks (HQET, Heavy Quark Effective Theory), an approximation of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in which the heavy quarks (such as Charm, Bottom and Top) are treated as sources of static, non-relativistic ones Fields are viewed as the atomic nucleus in the quantum mechanics of the atom. The result is an effective field theory in which the inverse quark mass can be developed. Because of the size of their mass, the type of heavy quark does not make much difference (Heavy Quark Symmetry). With this theory, quantitative calculations could be performed in a previously untreatable area of ​​QCD, e.g. B. in the decay of hadrons with bottom and charm flavor.

Wise also studied cosmology and financial mathematics.

Fonts

  • with Lynn Trainor: From Physical Concept to Mathematical Structure: an Introduction to Theoretical Physics. 1979.
  • with Aneesh V. Manohar: Heavy Quark Physics. 2000.
  • Wise: Heavy Quark Physics . Les Houches Lectures, 1998. arxiv : hep-ph / 9805468
  • Wise: Heavy Flavor Theory - an Overview . 1993. arxiv : hep-ph / 9311212v1

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Remarks

  1. ↑ with current quark masses of 1.2 GeV for Charm, 4 GeV for Bottom and 174 GeV for Top, much heavier than the light quarks Up, Down, Strange
personal data
SURNAME Wise, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wise, Mark B .; Wise, Mark Brian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal