Wick Haxton

Wick C. Haxton (born September 21, 1949 in Santa Cruz , California ) is an American theoretical nuclear and astrophysicist .

Life

Haxton grew up in Santa Cruz, studied from 1967 at the University of California, Santa Cruz (Bachelor in Physics and Mathematics 1971) and received his doctorate in 1976 from Stanford University (Semileptonic weak interactions). From 1975 to 1977 he was at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the University of Mainz and then until 1985 as an Oppenheimer Fellow in the theoretical department of the Los Alamos National Laboratory . After a year as an assistant professor at Purdue University , he became an associate professor in 1984 and a professor at the University of Washington in 1987 . He is currently professor of physics and astronomy there. From 1991 to 2006 was director of the National Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT). From 2009 he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He is also a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

He is married and has two sons.

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Haxton deals with nuclear astrophysics (neutrinos in supernovae , solar neutrino problem ), neutrino physics (such as neutrinoless double beta decay ), many-particle theory (effective theories) in nuclear physics as well as in atomic physics and solid-state physics (condensed matter physics, fundamental tests of symmetry CP symmetry, violations of lepton and flavor quantum number conservation), for example with permanent electrical dipole moments of the neutron and of atoms (violation of time-reversal invariance) and parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interactions including the calculations in many-body theory that are necessary for evaluating the experiments . He is involved in the planned project of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) (in the Homestake Mine in South Dakota ) .

He was a consultant at the TRIUMF accelerators, the Oak Ridge Radioactive Beams Facilities and the CEBAF electron accelerator in Newport News, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and in the direction of LAMPF at Los Alamos National Laboratory .

Honors and memberships

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , whose division for nuclear physics and astrophysics he chaired in the 1990s. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1999), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999), the American Physical Society (1987) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1988). In 2008 he was a founding member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

He was a Guggenheim Fellow (2000 to 2001), Miller Fellow in Berkeley (2000/2001), Bethe Lecturer at Cornell University (2000/2001) and received the Hans A. Bethe Prize in 2004 for his contributions and academic leadership in neutrino astrophysics and especially for the connection of nuclear physics theory with experiments and observations in nuclear astrophysics and astrophysics (laudation).

Fonts

• Editor with Ernest M. Henley Symmetries and fundamental interactions in nuclei , World Scientific 1995
• with Barry Holstein Neutrinophysics , American Journal of Physics, Volume 68, 2000, pp. 15-32, Arxiv
• with Hamish Robertson, Aldo Serenelli Solar neutrinos. Status and perspective , 2012
• The solar neutrino problem , Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., Vol. 33, 1995, pp. 459-503
• Neutrino Astrophysics , Wiley's Encyclopedia of Nuclear Physis, 2012
• Neutrino Astrophysics , 2008
• Topics in Neutrino Astrophysics , TASI Summer School 1998
• Nuclear problems in Astrophysics , Int. School of Physics Enrico Fermi, 2003
• with T. Luu The canonical nuclear many body problem as an effective theory , Nucl. Phys. A, Volume 690, 2001, pp. 15-28
• Fundamental symmetries and theory , Nucl. Phys. A, Vol. 654, 1999, pp. 315-329, Talk Nuclear Physics Conf. Paris

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Washington
• Laudation for the Bethe Prize
• Page at the University of Berkeley
• Homepage in Berkeley
• Biography at the APS