Joseph Lykken
Joseph David Lykken ( born June 17, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American theoretical physicist who deals with string theory and high energy physics.
Lykken, son of David T. Lykken psychologist (1928-2006), attended the Phillips Exeter Academy, graduated from the University of Minnesota (Bachelor 1977) and received his doctorate in 1982 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a post - graduate student, he was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the City University of New York. From 1987 he was at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics and in 1989 at Fermilab. He is involved in the theory department of the Fermilab and since 2007 at the CMS experiment of the Large Hadron Collider.
In 2000 he was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin -Madison and 2005 at the University of Valencia. 2001 to 2005 he was professor at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago.
It deals with string theory, dark matter, physics of the Higgs boson, supersymmetry and extra dimensions. In 1996, he suggested weak scale super strings with extra dimensions before, which should be observable in large Teilchenbeschleunigerexperimenten such as the LHC.
He was Head of the Department particles and fields of the American Physical Society (APS ). He is a Fellow of the APS (1999) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( 2003). Since 2007 he has been a Trustee of the Aspen Center of Physics.
Writings
- Daniele S. M. Alves, Matthew R. Buckley, Patrick J. Fox, Chiu- Tien Yu stops and MET: the shape of things to come, Preprint 2012
- Beyond the Standard Model, CERN Yellow Report 2010
- With D. Chung, L. Everett, Gordon Kane, S. King, LT Wang The soft supersymmetry -breaking lagrangian: theory and applications, Physics.Reports 407 (2005), 1-203
- With Gabriela Barenboim, L. Borissov, AY Smirnov Neutrinos as the messengers of CPT violation, J. High Energy Physics, 0210, 2002, 001
- With Lisa Randall The shape of gravity, J. High Energy Physics, 0006, 2000, 014
- T. Han, RJ Zhang On Kaluza-Klein states from large extra- dimensions, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 59, 1999, pp. 105006
- Weak scale super strings, Physical Review D, Volume 54, 1996, p 3693
- S. Chaudhuri, G. Hockney Maximally supersymmetric string theories in D < 10, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 75, 1995, 2264
- By Chaudhuri, Hockney Three generations in the fermionic construction, Nucl. Phys. B, Volume 469, 1996, 357
- L. Hall, Steven Weinberg Supergravity as the messenger of supersymmetry breaking, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 27, 1983, p 2359