Chris Quigg
Chris Quigg (born 15 December 1944 Bainbridge ( Maryland)) is an American theoretical physicist who mainly deals with elementary particle physics.
Quigg grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and studied at Yale University (Master 1966). In 1970 he received his doctorate at John David Jackson in Berkeley. After that, he was an associate professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of Chicago. Since 1974 he worked at the Fermilab near Chicago, where he was from 1977 to 1987 Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics. Quigg was, inter alia, a visiting professor at the École normale supérieure, Cornell University, at Princeton University and in Vienna ( Professor Erwin Schrödinger ) and a visiting scientist at CERN.
1974 to 1978 he was Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. In 1983 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Quigg was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. He was from 1994 to 2004 editor of the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science.
Quigg employed, inter alia, to with the physics of systems of heavy quarks (eg quarkonium ) and particle physics - such as the interaction of neutrinos - at very high ( " ultra-high " at the TeV scale) energies. He was with Benjamin Lee and HB Thacker in 1977, an upper limit for the mass of the Higgs boson ( from Unitaritäts arguments for the partial wave scattering amplitudes ) of 1 TeV.
Quigg was co-author of studies for the 1993 failed for financial reasons Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ), in the Central Design Group, he in Berkeley Deputy was a director from 1987, and wrote in 1984 with Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane and Ian Hinchliffe influential review article " Super Collider physics ". For this, they received the 2011 Sakurai Prize.
For the Japanese Belle experiment (at the KEKB accelerator) in 2003 from the decay of B mesons ( in charmonium and two pions ) discovered X ( 3872 ) " particle " ( the mass 3.872 GeV ), he proposed an interpretation as charmonium resonance as an alternative to explanations like molecules from mesons containing charm quarks ( as D_0 ) or four- quark particles ( quarks Tetra ).
He has been married since 1967 and has two children.
Writings
- Quigg: Gauge theory of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions. Benjamin Cummings 1983, Westview Press 1997, ISBN 0-201-32832-1
- Quigg, Rosner: Quantum mechanics with application to quarkonium. Physics Reports Vol 56, 1979, pp. 167-235.
- Quigg: Visions -the coming revolutions of particle physics. 2002
- Quigg: Top- ology. Physics Today in 1997, expanded physics of top quarks