Paul Frampton
Paul Howard Frampton ( born October 31, 1943 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire ) is a British physicist.
Frampton studied from 1962 at the University of Oxford ( Brasenose College), where in 1965 he took his master's degree and received his doctorate at JC Taylor 1968. In 1981 he became assistant professor, associate professor in 1983 and 1985, a professor at the University of North Carolina, where he is from 1996, Louis D. Rubin Jr. Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy. He is both a British and U.S. citizen.
In the 1970s he was involved in the early development of string theories (Dual Resonance Models ). In the 1980s he studied with Thomas Kephart anomalies in supersymmetric field theories (Yang -Mills theories and string theories ) .. The question of anomalies freedom for superstrings was soon then clarified it (1984 ) by Michael Boris Green and John Schwarz.
Frampton developed several extensions of the Standard Model. In 1987, he struck with Sheldon Glashow, a chiral -color model as an alternative to the standard model before, with a chiral doubling of the SU (3) gauge group of quantum chromodynamics and corresponding additional massive gauge bosons ( Axigluonen ) In 1992, he suggested his 331- model in which the SU (2) gauge group of the electroweak theory is extended to a chiral SU (3) gauge group (hence the name, a SU (3) gauge group of quantum chromodynamics and an SU (3) and U (1) gauge group of the electroweak interaction ). In the model, the occurrence is explained by exactly three families of quarks / leptons, but it also says new exotic particles ahead ( Bileptonen, gauge bosons with lepton number 2).
Frampton advocated in recent times, the idea of an infinite- cyclic universe ( with an avoidance of Entropiezunahmeproblems with dark energy ), the acceleration of the expansion of the universe due to an entropic force in the sense of Erik Verlinde and the composition of the dark matter from primordial black holes, intermediate-mass.
Frampton is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1984, he received a D. Sc. Oxford University.
On January 23, 2012 Frampton was arrested at the airport in Buenos Aires. In an abandoned him suitcase 2 kg of cocaine were found. Frampton explained that the bags at the hotel it was left by an unknown person. Since then, Frampton was in custody in the Devoto Prison, from which he was released on 30 October in a house arrest. If convicted, he faces up to 16 years in prison. Detention and house arrest are credited.
Writings
- (Eds): Dual Resonance Models. Frontiers in Physics, Benjamin 1974.
- Gauge Field Theories. Benjamin - Cummings, Frontiers in Physics in 1986. 3rd edition, 2008.
- Did Time Begin? Will Time End? World Scientific 2009, arXiv: 0704.1132