Ikaros Bigi

Ikaros I. Bigi ( born August 22, 1947 in Munich) is a German theoretical particle physicist.

Bigi studied at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University Munich ( diploma 1973), Oxford University, the University of Pavia and Stanford University. In 1977 he received his doctorate in Munich in 1984 and habilitated at the RWTH Aachen. Since 1988 he is professor at the University of Notre Dame du Lac. He was also the SLAC, CERN, the University of Oregon, the Fermilab and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.

Bigi dealt with the phenomenology of the standard model of particle physics and beyond. In particular, he focused on Anthony Sanda with the CP violation in the B meson system. CP violation was first in 1964 discovered in the K- meson system, but in 1980 predicted by Bigi and Sanda also in the B- meson system, which was confirmed in 2001 experimentally - in the so-called "B - meson factories" at SLAC in Stanford ( BaBar ) and KEK in Japan ( BELLE ).

In 2004 he was awarded the Sakurai Prize with Sanda.

Writings

• With Sanda, " CP Violation", Cambridge University Press 1999