Pekka K. Sinervo

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Pekka K. Sinervo is an experimental particle physicist who has studied quarks, [1] gluons [2] and vector bosons [3] [4] [5] [6] using high-energy electron and proton collisions. He is a professor of physics at University of Toronto, where he has taught and pursued research since 1990.

He is known for his contributions to the discovery of the top quark [7] and studies of its properties (see, e.g., [8] [9] [10] ), along with collaborators in the CDF (Collider Detector at Fermilab) and ATLAS experiments. He was also a member of one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson. [11] His earlier work involved the study of mesons with charm quarks and strange quarks, and hadrons with bottom quarks (see, e.g., [12] [13] [14] ). He is currently working on searches for new particles (see, e.g., [15] [16] ) and dark matter [17] at the SNOLAB Underground Laboratory, as a member of the SuperCDMS Collaboration. [18] Sinervo served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto [19] from 2003 to 2008, and as senior vice-president, research at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research [20] from 2009 to 2015. He has written on international research collaborations, science and Judaism, and popular science (see, e.g.,

[21] [22] ). He is a member of the Reform Jewish Community of Canada, [23] serving as its president from 2017 to 2021, and has served in leadership roles in the Union for Reform Judaism [24] and the World Union for Progressive Judaism. [25] He has been recognized for his contributions with appointments to numerous scientific societies [Note 1] with fellowships in the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Canada recognizing his contributions to the discovery of the top quark. He was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2018 [26] for his contributions to the discoveries of the top quark and Higgs boson, and his leadership in the Canadian Jewish community.

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  1. ↑ Fellowships in the American Physical Society, Royal Society of Canada, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Massey College.

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