Philip C. Schuster

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Philip Christian Schuster is an American theoretical elementary particle physicist.

Schuster studied with Robert L. Jaffe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, like Natalia Toro (his wife), worked for Nima Arkani-Hamed at Harvard University , where he received his doctorate in 2007 (Uncovering the New Standard Model at the LHC). He was in the theory group of the SLAC from 2007 to 2010, was at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2011 and has been at the Perimeter Institute since 2010 .

He deals with the development and interpretation of experiments to search for physics beyond the Standard Model, including the search for new forces and candidates for light dark matter (in the MeV to GeV range) in experiments with high-intensity electron beams with a fixed target of the type des planned Beam Dump Experiment (BDX) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility . He is pursuing the possibility that dark matter interacts with ordinary matter via forces that may not yet be known. Theoretically, he also pursues the possibility of long-range forces of particles with higher spin without, as is usually assumed, restriction of the alignment of the spin of massless particles parallel or antiparallel to the momentum.

He was involved in the analysis of the LHC experiments, was spokesman for the A-Prime Experiment (APEX) and is involved in the Heavy Photon Search Experiment (HPS) at the Jefferson Lab. In 2015, he and his wife Natalia Toro , with whom he works, received the New Horizons in Physics Prize for simplified models for the search for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider and for the experimental search for dark sectors using high-intensity electron beams (laudation).

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  1. ↑ Jaffe, Schuster, Quantum mechanics on manifolds embedded in Euclidean space, Annals of Physics, Volume 307, 2003, p. 132
  2. ↑ BDX Collaboration, Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab, Jefferson Lab, 2014, Preprint Arxiv
personal data
SURNAME Schuster, Philip C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuster, Philip Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical elementary particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century