Surjeet Rajendran

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Surjeet Rajendran (* 1983 ) is an American physicist .

Career

Rajendran graduated from Caltech with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2004 and a PhD in physics from Stanford University in 2009 . He was a post-doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University and became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 2014 .

It deals with physics beyond the Standard Model , both theoretically and through proposals for novel experiments using techniques from astrophysics, atomic physics and solid state physics.

Together with Peter W. Graham and others, he proposed the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr) that axions should detect as candidates for dark matter (especially the axion) using NMR and, together with Graham and others, suggested adding gravitational waves using atomic interferometry detect.

His suggestion with David E. Kaplan (Johns Hopkins University) and Peter W. Graham to solve the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model attracted attention : why does the Higgs boson determine the mass scale of the fundamental fermions of the Standard Model and the strength of the electroweak interaction, one in comparison relatively low mass on the Planck scale? According to Rajendran and colleagues, this is a consequence of dynamic relaxation in the inflation model of the early universe and not, as is usually assumed, associated with new physics (especially supersymmetry, extra dimensions) or the anthropic principle.

For 2017 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize with Asimina Arvanitaki and Peter W. Graham for developing new experimental verifications of physics beyond the Standard Model.

Fonts (selection)

In addition to the works cited in the footnotes:

  • with Peter W. Graham, David E. Kaplan: Displaced Supersymmetry, JHEP, Volume 1207, 2012, 149
  • with Asimina Arvanitaki, Savas Dimopoulos , Sergei Dubovsky, Peter W. Graham, Roni Harnik: Astrophysical Probes of Unification, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 79, 2009, p. 105011
  • with Brian Feldstein, Peter W. Graham: Luminous Dark Matter, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 82, 2010, p. 075019
  • with Peter W. Graham, Roni Harnik, Prashant Saraswat: Exothermic Dark Matter, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 82, 2010, p. 063512
  • with Peter W. Graham, Roni Harnik: Observing the Dimensionality of Our Parent Vacuum, Phys. Rev. D. 82, 2010, p. 063524
  • with Peter W. Graham, Bart Horn, Gonzalo Torroba: A Simple Harmonic Universe, JHEP, 1402, 2014, 029

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dmitry Budker, Peter W. Graham, Micah Ledbetter, Surjeet Rajendran, Alex Sushkov, Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), Phys. Rev. X 4, 2014, 021030, Arxiv, 2013
  2. ↑ Peter W. Graham, Jason M. Hogan, Mark A. Kasevich, Surjeet Rajendran, A New Method for Gravitational Wave Detection with Atomic Sensors, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 110, 2013, p. 171102
  3. ↑ Peter W. Graham, David E. Kaplan, Surjeet Rajendran, Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 115, 2015, p. 221801, Arxiv
  4. ↑ Michael Dine, Viewpoint: Connecting the Higgs Mass with Cosmic History , APS, November 2015
  5. ↑ Natalie Wolchover, A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass, Quanta Magazine 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rajendran, Surjeet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1983