Paul Frampton

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Paul Frampton.

Paul Howard Frampton (born October 31, 1943 in Kidderminster , Worcestershire ) is a British physicist .

Education and career

Frampton studied from 1962 at Oxford University (Brasenose College), where he made his master’s degree in 1965 and received his doctorate in 1968 with JC Taylor . In 1981 he became Assistant Professor, 1983 Associate Professor and 1985 Professor at the University of North Carolina , where he became Louis D. Rubin Jr. Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy in 1996 . He is both a UK and US citizen.

In the 1970s he was involved in the early development of string theories ( dual resonance models ). In the 1980s he investigated anomalies in supersymmetric field theories (Yang-Mills theories and string theories) with Thomas Kephart . The question of freedom from anomalies for superstrings was clarified soon after (1984) by Michael Boris Green and John Schwarz .

Frampton developed several extensions to the standard model. In 1987, together with Sheldon Glashow , he proposed a chiral color model as an alternative to the standard model , with a chiral duplication of the SU (3) calibration group of quantum chromodynamics and corresponding additional massive calibration bosons (axigluons). In 1992 he proposed his 331 model in which the SU (2) gauge group of the electroweak theory is expanded to a chiral SU (3) gauge group (hence the name, a SU (3) gauge group from quantum chromodynamics and a SU (3) and U (1) gauge group from the electroweak interaction). The model explains the occurrence of exactly three families of quarks / leptons, but it also predicts new exotic particles ( bileptons , gauge bosons with lepton number 2).

Frampton recently advocated the idea of ​​an infinitely cyclical universe (with an avoidance of the entropy increase problem with the help of dark energy), the acceleration of the expansion of the universe due to an entropic force in the sense of Erik Verlinde and the composition of dark matter from primordial black holes of medium mass .

Frampton is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the Institute of Physics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1984 he received a D. Sc. Oxford University.

Conviction for drug smuggling

On January 23, 2012, Frampton was arrested at Buenos Aires Airport. Two kilograms of cocaine were found in a suitcase he had abandoned . Frampton said he was the victim of a scam. The suitcase, in the false bottom of which the drugs were hidden, was given to him in the hotel by a stranger after he was lured to Argentina with the prospect of meeting a model. He was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for drug smuggling in Argentina. He was released into house arrest in October 2012 for health reasons . In 2015, halfway through prison, he was released and went to England.

He was fired from the University of North Carolina in 2014, having previously been on leave without pay in 2012. In 2015 he won a lawsuit against the university for additional payment of his salary.

Fonts

  • (Ed.): Dual Resonance Models. Frontiers in Physics, Benjamin 1974.
  • Gauge Field Theories. Benjamin-Cummings, Frontiers in Physics 1986. 3rd edition 2008.
  • Did Time Begin? Will time end? World Scientific 2009, arxiv : 0704.1132

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frampton, Kephart: Explicit Evaluation of Anomalies in Higher Dimensions. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. Volume 50, 1983, pp. 1343, 1347; Phys. Rev. D. Volume 28, 1983, p. 1010
  2. ^ Frampton, Glass Show: Chiral Color. An alternative to the standard model. In: Physics Letters B. Volume 180, 1987, p. 1
  3. ^ Frampton: Chiral Dilepton Model and the Flavor Question. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 69, 1992, p. 2889.
  4. ↑ Lauris Baum, Frampton: Turnaround in Cyclic Cosmology. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 98, 2007, p. 071301.
  5. ↑ Damien A. Easson, Frampton, George Smoot : Entropic accelerating universe , 2010
  6. ^ Frampton: Black holes constitute all dark matter , 2010
  7. ↑ Peter Burghardt: Drug prison instead of hormone intoxication. Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 15, 2012, accessed on August 15, 2012 .
  8. ^ Help Paul Frampton
  9. ^ Anne Blythe: UNC physics professor jailed in Argentina wins back pay, The News & Observer, June 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Frampton, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frampton, Paul Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Kidderminster , Worcestershire