Sheldon Leslie Stone

Sheldon Leslie Stone (born February 14, 1946 in Brooklyn ) is an American experimental particle physicist.

Stone studied physics at Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and received his doctorate in 1972 from the University of Rochester with Thomas Ferbel (Strange particle and Pi meson production in 12.7 GeV / c K p interactions). In 1973 he became an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University , which he remained until 1979 when he became a senior research associate at the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies at Cornell University . From 1988 to 1991 he was also an adjunct professor at Cornell University. In 1991 he became a professor at Syracuse University . He is Distinguished Professor there and has headed the group for experimental high-energy physics since 1993. In 2011/12 he was a Scientific Associate at CERN .

From 2008 to 2011 he was the coordinator of the Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment (LHCb). There he was also involved in the discovery of the pentaquark (2015). He is looking for new physics in the decays of B mesons and D mesons . He made significant contributions to data analysis and detector construction (such as the CLEO detectors at the electron storage ring at Cornell University). He was co-speaker of CLEO from 2007 to 2008.

He was on the advisory committee of Fermilab and was co-speaker of the (unrealized) BTeV experiment at Fermilab from 1997 until its termination in 2005.

In 2019, he received the Panofsky Prize for revolutionary contributions to flavor physics and hadron spectroscopy, especially through his intellectual leadership role in detector design and analysis in the CLEO and Large Hadron Collider experiments on beauty and his very influential long-term advocacy of flavor physics for hadron colliders (laudation). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

• Editor and co-author: B-Decays, World Scientific, 2nd edition 1994

Web links

• Homepage Syracuse University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth and career dates for American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ^ Physics Tree, Sheldon Stone
3. ↑ Panofsky Prize 2019