Richard Blankenbecler

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Richard Blankenbecler
Born1933
Kingsport,_Tennessee
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater Miami_University (BA) Stanford_University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Doctoral advisor Sidney_Drell
Other academic advisors Marvin_Goldberger Sam_Treiman
Doctoral studentsHenry Abarbanel, Robert Sugar, Daniel Boyanovsky, Darryl Coon, Robert Pearson, Thomas_Neff, Ivan Schmidt

Richard Blankenbecler (born 1933, in Kingsport, Tennessee) is an American theoretical particle physicist. He is a professor emeritus with the SLAC Theory Group [1] at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) at Stanford University.

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In 1954, Blankenbecler received his B.A. in physics from Miami University and in 1958 he received his doctorate from Stanford University. After his Ph.D., he became a postdoc at Princeton University and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1962. In 1963 he became assistant professor and in 1966 a full professor at Princeton where he collaborated with Marvin Goldberger and Sam Treiman where they worked on fundamental papers on quantum field theory. A Sloan Research Fellowship [2] supported his work on dispersion relations [3] [4] and scattering amplitudes. [5] [6]

After Princeton in 1966, Blankenbecler moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara where he taught and did research on quantum field theory. He developed a formalism for carrying out Monte Carlo calculations in quantum field theories with both boson and fermion degrees of freedom. [7] The Blankenbecler-Sugar equation provided a new formalism for scattering and production processes, [8] is still in use as of 2025. [9]

In 1969, Blankenbecler returned to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center faculty in the SLAC Theory Group. With Sidney Drell, a simple high-energy expansion for bremsstrahlung was developed and applied to the problem of radiation from an extended target. [10] In 1985 Boyanovsky and Blankenbecler reported on fractional charge [11] and in 1976 Sivers, Brodsky and Blankenbecler published a comprehensive survey of Large Transverse Momentum Processes [12] confronting theory (parton and non-parton models) with experiment.

Also in 1969, Blankenbecler spent one year at Paris-Saclay University to continue work on Coupled Boson-Fermion Systems. [13]

At SLAC Blankenbecler was a member of the Reason Project [14] that led indirectly to the first web site established in North America hosting the SPIRES database, designed as a physics database management system. In addition to published work in optical design, [15] he also developed a Hamiltonian method for 3D image reconstruction. [16] He also developed a low-dose pre-treatment protocol to minimize radiation damage for cancer patients [17] and during radiation workers. [18]

In 2000, Blankenbecler retired as emeritus professor at SLAC.

Memberships and awards

References

  1. ↑ "SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory > Theoretical Physics > People". Theoretical Physics Faculty and Staff Scientists. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Fellows Database | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation". sloan.org. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
  3. ↑ Blankenbecler, Richard; Goldberger, Marvin L.; Halpern, Francis R. (1959-09-01). "Elastic neutron-deuteron scattering" . Nuclear Physics. 12 (6): 629–646. Bibcode:1959NucPh..12..629B. doi:10.1016/0029-5582(59)90106-3.
  4. ↑ Blankenbecler, R; Goldberger, M.L; Khuri, N.N; Treiman, S.B (1960-05-01). "Mandelstam representation for potential scattering" . Annals of Physics. 10 (1): 62–93. Bibcode:1960AnPhy..10...62B. doi:10.1016/0003-4916(60)90016-6.
  5. ↑ Blankenbecler, R. (1961-05-01). "Construction of Unitary Scattering Amplitudes" . Physical Review. 122 (3): 983–992. Bibcode:1961PhRv..122..983B. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.122.983. ISSN   0031-899X.
  6. ↑ Blankenbecler, R.; Goldberger, M. L. (1962-04-15). "Behavior of Scattering Amplitudes at High Energies, Bound States, and Resonances" . Physical Review. 126 (2): 766–786. Bibcode:1962PhRv..126..766B. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.126.766. ISSN   0031-899X.
  7. ↑ Blankenbecler, R.; Scalapino, D. J.; Sugar, R. L. (1981-10-15). "Monte Carlo calculations of coupled boson-fermion systems. I" . Physical Review D. 24 (8): 2278–2286. Bibcode:1981PhRvD..24.2278B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.24.2278. ISSN   0556-2821.
  8. ↑ Blankenbecler, R.; Sugar, R. (1966-02-25). "Linear Integral Equations for Relativistic Multichannel Scattering" . Physical Review. 142 (4): 1051–1059. Bibcode:1966PhRv..142.1051B. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.142.1051. ISSN   0031-899X.
  9. ↑ Clymton, Samson; Kim, Hyun-Chul; Mart, Terry (2025), Molecular nature of hidden-charm pentaquark states $P_{c\bar{c}s}$ with strangeness $S=-1$, arXiv: 2504.07693
  10. ↑ Blankenbecler, Richard; Drell, Sidney D. (1 July 1987). "Quantum treatment of beamstrahlung". Physical Review D. 36 (3): 277–288. Bibcode:1987PhRvD..36..277B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.36.277. OSTI   1448196. PMID   9958044.
  11. ↑ Bardeen, William A.; White, Alan R.; Argonne National Laboratory; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; University of Chicago, eds. (1985). Symposium on Anomalies, Geometry, Topology. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN   978-9971-978-69-3.
  12. ↑ Sivers, Dennis; Brodsky, Stanley J.; Blankenbecler, Richard (1976-01-01). "Large transverse momentum processes" . Physics Reports. 23 (1): 1–121. Bibcode:1976PhR....23....1S. doi:10.1016/0370-1573(76)90015-6.
  13. ↑ Blankenbecler, R.; Scalapino, D. J.; Sugar, R. L. (1981-10-15). "Monte Carlo calculations of coupled boson-fermion systems. I" . Physical Review D. 24 (8): 2278–2286. Bibcode:1981PhRvD..24.2278B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.24.2278. ISSN   0556-2821.
  14. ↑ Atwood, William; Blankenbecler, Richard; Kunz, Paul; Mours, Benoit; Weir, Andrew; Word, Gary. "The Reason Project". cern.ch. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  15. ↑ Manhart, Paul K. (1997-06-01). "Fundamentals of macro axial gradient index optical design and engineering" . Optical Engineering. 36 (6): 1607. doi:10.1117/1.601179. ISSN   0091-3286.
  16. ↑ Blankenbecler, Richard (2004-02-18). "Three-dimensional image reconstruction. II. Hamiltonian method for phase recovery" . Physical Review B. 69 (6): 064108. Bibcode:2004PhRvB..69f4108B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.69.064108. ISSN   1098-0121.
  17. ↑ Blankenbecler, Richard (2010-10-01). "Low-dose Pretreatment for Radiation Therapy". Dose-Response. 8 (4): 534–542. doi:10.2203/dose-response.10-033.Blankenbecler. ISSN   1559-3258. PMC   2990069 . PMID   21191490.
  18. ↑ Blankenbecler, Richard (2011-10-01). "Radiation Worker Protection by Exposure Scheduling". Dose-Response. 9 (4): 465–470. doi:10.2203/dose-response.11-029.Blankenbecler. ISSN   1559-3258. PMC   3315167 . PMID   22461756.
  19. ↑ "APS General Fellowship". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
  20. ↑ "Past KITP Advisory Board Members | KITP". www.kitp.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
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