Michael Peskin

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Michael Peskin
Born (1951-10-27) October 27, 1951 (age 73)
Philadelphia, United States
Alma mater Harvard University
Cornell University (PhD)
Known for Peskin–Takeuchi parameter
Scientific career
Fields Particle physics
Institutions SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Doctoral advisor Kenneth G. Wilson

Michael Edward Peskin (born October 27, 1951, Philadelphia) is an American theoretical physicist. [1] He is currently a professor in the theory group at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. [2]

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Peskin has been recognized for his work in proposing and analyzing unifying models of elementary particles and forces in theoretical elementary particle physics, and proposing experimental methods for testing such models. [3] [4] He is also known for his textbooks, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, is a widely used textbook in graduate physics. Peskin–Takeuchi parameters are named after him.

Education

Michael Peskin is a fourth generation descendent of Jewish Lithuanian emigrants from the Pale of Settlement. Both of his parents became medical doctors. Peskin attended Lower Merion High School in the Philadelphia area and later New Trier West in the Chicago suburbs. [5]

Peskin was an undergraduate at Harvard University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 at Cornell University studying under Kenneth Wilson. He was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1977–1980. [5]

Career

After receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell University, Peskin served as a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1977 to 1980. [6] He also held postdoctoral appointments at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre (1979–1980) and Cornell (1980–1982). [7] [5] In 1982, Peskin joined the faculty of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. [8]

In 2000, Peskin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [3] He was appointed a co-editor of the journal Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science as of 2023. [9] He also serves on the Board of Directors of Annual Reviews. [10]

Research

Peskin has worked on many aspects of quantum field theory and elementary particle physics, exploring and going beyond the Standard Model of particle physics to explore technicolor theories. [11] Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder's widely used textbook on quantum field theory, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (1995, 2018) is considered a classic in the field. [12] [13] [14] More recently, he has written Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics (2019), a textbook on the Standard Model. [15]

In 1990, Peskin and Tatsu Takeuchi proposed the parameterization of a set of three measurable quantities, called S, T, and U, that are used to describe and simplify precision electroweak fits. These parameters are sensitive to new physics which contributes to oblique corrections. [16] [17] [18] [19] They are now called the Peskin–Takeuchi parameters. [20]

Peskin uses high energy colliders to search for new physical interactions on the basis of high-precision observations and measurements of elementary particles, including the W and Z bosons, the top quark, and the Higgs boson. [21] [22] [23] [24] He is interested in modelling dark matter [25] and is a noted advocate of building a future linear collider, [26] [24] a “Higgs factory”. [1]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 Stoddart, Charlotte (29 March 2022). "How particle accelerators came to be" . Knowable Magazine. doi: 10.1146/knowable-032822-1 . Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "Michael Peskin – SM@50: The Standard Model At 50 Years". © 2023 Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Michael E. Peskin". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 27 July 2023.
  4. ↑ Eichten, Estia J.; Lane, Kenneth D.; Peskin, Michael E. (14 March 1983). "New Tests for Quark and Lepton Substructure". Physical Review Letters. 50 (11): 811–814. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.811. S2CID   119918703.
  5. 1 2 3 "Interview of Michael Peskin by David Zierler on April 27, 2021". Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics. 14 December 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  6. ↑ "Listed by Term". Harvard Society of Fellows.
  7. ↑ "Curriculum Vitae Michael E. Peskin". Stanford University.
  8. ↑ Energy, United States Department of (1985). High Energy Physicists and Graduate Students: 1985 Census. DOE.
  9. ↑ "Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  10. ↑ "Annual Reviews Board of Directors". Annual Reviews.
  11. ↑ Peskin, M. E. (1 May 1997). Beyond the Standard Model. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States).
  12. 1 2 Berg, Michael (10 February 2016). "Review of An introduction to quantum field theory by Peskin & Schroeder". MAA Reviews. Mathematical Association of America.
  13. ↑ "Reviews: Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model by Matthew D. Schwartz". Harvard University.
  14. ↑ Lellouch, Laurent (25 August 2011). Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: Quantum Field Theory and High Performance Computing: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 93, August 2009. OUP Oxford. ISBN   978-0-19-969160-9.
  15. ↑ Peskin, Michael Edward (2019). Concepts of elementary particle physics. Oxford New York: Oxford university press. ISBN   9780198812180.
  16. ↑ Hewett, J. L. (9 Oct 1998). "The Standard Model and Why We Believe It". arXiv: hep-ph/9810316 .
  17. ↑ Wells, James D.; Zhang, Zhengkang (June 2016). "Renormalization group evolution of the universal theories EFT". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016 (6). arXiv: 1512.03056 . doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2016)122. S2CID   256036070.
  18. ↑ Michael E. Peskin & Tatsu Takeuchi (1990). "New constraint on a strongly interacting Higgs sector". Physical Review Letters. 65 (8): 964–967. Bibcode:1990PhRvL..65..964P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.964. PMID   10043071.
  19. ↑ Michael E. Peskin & Tatsu Takeuchi (1992). "Estimation of oblique electroweak corrections". Physical Review D . 46 (1): 381–409. Bibcode:1992PhRvD..46..381P. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.382.2460 . doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.46.381. PMID   10014770.
  20. ↑ Carpenter, Linda M.; Murphy, Taylor; Smylie, Matthew J. (6 September 2022). "Changing patterns in electroweak precision fits with new color-charged states: Oblique corrections and the W -boson mass". Physical Review D. 106 (5): 055005. arXiv: 2204.08546 . doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.055005. S2CID   248239692.
  21. ↑ Charitos, Panos (28 June 2023). "An interview with Michael E. Peskin". EP News.
  22. ↑ Einhorn, M. B. (2 December 2012). The Standard Model Higgs Boson: Selections and Comments. Elsevier. pp. 379–380. ISBN   978-0-444-59613-0.
  23. ↑ Charley, Sarah (July 4, 2014). "What's next for Higgs boson research?". symmetry magazine.
  24. 1 2 Murayama, Hitoshi; Peskin, Michael E. (December 1996). "Physics Opportunities of e+e- Linear Colliders". Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 46 (1): 533–608. arXiv: hep-ex/9606003 . doi:10.1146/annurev.nucl.46.1.533. ISSN   0163-8998. S2CID   16466403.
  25. ↑ Bahcall, Neta A. (6 October 2015). "Dark matter universe". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (40): 12243–12245. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1516944112 . PMC   4603491 . PMID   26417091.
  26. ↑ Cartlidge, Edwin (9 November 2017). "Physicists shrink plans for next major collider" . Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2017.22983. ISSN   1476-4687 . Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  27. ↑ Passon, Oliver; Zügge, Thomas; Grebe-Ellis, Johannes (January 2019). "Pitfalls in the teaching of elementary particle physics". Physics Education. 54 (1): 015014. arXiv: 1811.06230 . doi:10.1088/1361-6552/aadbc7. S2CID   53689439.
  28. ↑ Peskin, Michael E.; Schroeder, Daniel V. (4 May 2018). An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-429-97210-2.
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