Estia J. Eichten

Estia Eichten Joseph ( born October 12, 1946 in Stillwater ( Minnesota)) is an American theoretical physicist elementary working at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Eichten studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ), where he made ​​1968 his master's degree and doctorate in 1972 at Roman Jackiw. 1972-1974 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at SLAC and from 1974 to 1977 at Cornell University. 1975/76 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was from 1977 assistant and then associate professor of theoretical physics at Harvard University before joining in 1982 the theory department of Fermilab. Since 1989 he has there the top rank Scientist III as a scientist.

It dealt among other things with the spectroscopy of mesons with heavy quarks, with quarkonium and models of elementary particles and dynamic symmetry breaking in technicolor theories ( GUT- Yang-Mills theories like quantum chromodynamics only with more color degrees of freedom ) with Kenneth Lane. With Chris Quigg, Kenneth Lane and Ian Hinchliffe in 1984, he author of the influential review article Super Collider Physics (Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 56, pp. 579-707 ). 2011, they would receive for the Sakurai Prize. More recently (2011) he deals with the possibilities of a muon collider in the range of several TeV.

In 1978 he was Sloan Fellow. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.