William Marciano

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William Joseph Marciano is an American theoretical elementary particle physicist.

Marciano studied physics at New York University and received his doctorate there in 1974 under Alberto Sirlin . After that he was first research assistant and then assistant professor at Rockefeller University until 1980, from 1980 associate professor at Northwestern University and from 1981 at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), where he was a scientist from 1978 and headed the group in 1987/8 for high energy physics theory group was. He has been a senior physicist there since 1986 and has also been an adjunct professor at Yale University since 1990 .

In 1998 he received the Research and Development Award of the BNL and in 2001 the Humboldt Research Award . In 2002 he and Alberto Sirlin received the Sakurai Prize for their work on the precision calculations of radiation corrections (higher-order perturbation theory) in the electroweak theory , which are necessary for the precise testing of the standard model of elementary particles. Examples are experiments at the BNL for the precise determination of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (" Muon g-2 experiment") and the exact calculation of the masses of the W and Z bosons of the electroweak interaction, which in turn is important for estimating the mass of the in Accelerator experiments is the Higgs boson sought . He also dealt with GUTs , neutrino physics (where he proposed with other novel neutrino experiments with very long transmission distances around 2500 km from their generation in accelerators to neutrino detectors in mines), physics of CP violation .

Marciano was on the editorial board of Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Reviews of Modern Physics, Comments on Nuclear and Particle Physics, Journal of High Energy Physics. In addition, he was in various accelerator laboratories (such as SLAC , LAMPF in Los Alamos, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , the Superconducting Supercollider, which was not built in the end, and last but not least BNL) in the governing bodies and advisory board of the DoE .

With Heinz Pagels , he wrote a well-known review article on quantum chromodynamics in the Physics Reports in 1978 . In 1986 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

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  1. ↑ Literally "For their pioneering work on radiative corrections, which made precision electroweak studies a powerful method of probing the Standard Model and searching for new physics."
  2. ↑ Marciano, Sirlin "Testing the standard model by precise determination of the W and Z masses", Physical Review D, Vol. 29, 1984, p. 945
  3. ↑ US Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment Study
  4. ↑ Marciano, Pagels: Quantum Chromodynamics, Physics Reports Vol. 36, 1978, pp. 137-276
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SURNAME Marciano, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marciano, William Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical elementary particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century