Carlo Becchi

Carlo Maria Becchi ( born October 20, 1939 in Turin ) is an Italian theoretical physicist.

Becchi studied at the University of Genoa, where he graduated in 1962. He is since 1976 Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Genoa. Twice ( first in 1983 ) he was there Board of physics faculty. 1997 to 2003 he was chairman of the committee theory in the Italian National Nuclear Research Institute INFN.

Becchi began with research on the photoelectric effect in nuclear physics ( the subject of his PhD thesis). In the 1960s he focused on quarks and the associated unitary symmetries. Since 1971, he dealt with Renormalisierungstheorie. He was thereby known for his development of the BRST formalism with Raymond Stora and Alain Rouet in 1975, a method for quantization of systems with constraints as gauge theories. In 2009 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics with Stora, Rouet and Igor Tyutin. Becchi since the early 1990s, co-editor of the journal Nuclear Physics B.

Since 1991 he has been editor of Nuclear Physics B.

Writings

• With Giovanni Ridolfi: Introduction to relativistic processes and the standard model of Electroweak interactions, Springer, 2005
• With Rouet, Stora: The Abelian Higgs - Kibble model. Unitarity of the S- operator, Physics Letters B, Bd.52, 1974, p 344
• With Rouet, Stora: Renormalization of Gauge Theories, Annals of Physics, Bd.98, 1976, p.287