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Michael Peskin
Born27 October 1951 Edit this on Wikidata
Philadelphia Edit this on Wikidata
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OccupationParticle physicist, university teacher, astrophysicist, physicist, scientist Edit this on Wikidata
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Websitehttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/~mpeskin/ Edit this on Wikidata

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]

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] Peskin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.[3] He was appointed a co-editor of the journal Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science as of 2023.[5]

Education

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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.[6]

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.[6]

Career

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After receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell University, Peskin served as a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1977 to 1980. [7] He also held postdoctoral appointments at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre (1979–1980) and Cornell (1980–1982).[8][6] In 1982, Peskin joined the faculty of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University.[9]

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.[5] He also serves on the Board of Directors of Annual Reviews.[10]

Research

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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 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

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  • Peskin, Michael Edward; Schroeder, Daniel V. (1995). An introduction to quantum field theory. Reading: Addison-Wesley.[12][27] Second Edition, 2018.[28]
  • Peskin, M. E. (1 May 1997). Beyond the Standard Model. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States).
  • Peskin, Michael (13 June 2018). Model-Independent Determination of the Triple Higgs Coupling at e e- Colliders. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). OSTI 1443894.
  • Peskin, Michael Edward (2019). Concepts of elementary particle physics. Oxford New York: Oxford university press. ISBN 9780198812180.

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b "Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  6. ^ a b c "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.
  7. ^ "Listed by Term". Harvard Society of Fellows.
  8. ^ "Curriculum Vitae Michael E. Peskin". Stanford University.
  9. ^ Energy, United States Department of (1985). High Energy Physicists and Graduate Students: 1985 Census. DOE.
  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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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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