Gordon L. Kane

Gordon Leon Kane ( born January 19, 1937 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American physicist who deals with theoretical particle physics and special supersymmetry.

Life

Kane studied physics at the University of Minnesota (Bachelor 1958) and at the University of Illinois, where he made ​​his master's degree in 1961 and his doctorate in 1963. After that, he was at Johns Hopkins University and from 1965 Assistant Professor and since 1975 professor of physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He was the Director of The Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor. He was, among others, at CERN (1986 ), SLAC (1979) and the Institute for Advanced Study ( 2007).

In 2012 he received the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize. 1971/72 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Rutherford Laboratory and the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kane has published over 200 works on popular scientific field on topics of theoretical particle physics and astro-particle physics, especially phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model such as the Large Hadron Collider, dark matter, supersymmetry, Higgs boson physics, string phenomenology.

1982 he was co-director of the Snowmass meeting of particle physicists, on the Superconducting Super Collider for the idea was developed. With Howard Haber, he dealt with experimental predictions from the Minimal Supersymmetric Model and they wrote about it in 1985 a widespread review article.

He has been married since 1958 and has two children.

Writings

  • Supersymmetry. Unveiling the ultimate limits of nature, Perseus Books 2000
  • The particle garden. Out universe as Understood by particle physicists, Helix Books, Addison -Wesley 1994
  • Modern Elementary Particle Physics, Addison Wesley 1988, 1993
  • Publisher Perspectives on Higgs physics, 2 volumes, World Scientific 1998
  • Publisher Perspectives on LHC physics, World Scientific 2008
  • Publisher Perspectives on Supersymmetry, 2 volumes, 1998 World Scientific, 2010
  • John F. Gunion, Howard Haber, Sally Dawson The Higgs hunter guide, Addison -Wesley, 1990, Westview Press 2000
  • Publisher with Mikhail Shifman The supersymmetric world, World Scientific 2001

Some essays:

  • The dawn of physics beyond the standard model, Scientific American, June 2003
  • String theory and the real world, Physics Today, November 2010
  • With D.J.H. Chung, L.L. Everett, S.F. King, J. Lykken, Lian- Tao Wang The soft supersymmetry -breaking Lagrangian: theory and applications; Physics Reports, Volume 407, 2005, pp. 1-203
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