Kenneth Lane (physicist)

Kenneth D. Lane is an American theoretical physicist.

Lane studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where in 1965 he received his master's degree. In 1970 he received his doctorate at Chung Wook Kim at Johns Hopkins University. He is since 1988 professor at Boston University.

Lane is with Estia Eichten founder of Technicolor theories (TC ) in elementary particle physics ( GUT- Yang-Mills theories like quantum chromodynamics only with more color degrees of freedom ) .. He studied, among others, with TC theories in general mechanisms of symmetry breaking of the electroweak interaction in the Standard Model and beyond ( breaking of flavor symmetries between particles generations ). At the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider, he is essentially involved in issues of search for signs of technicolor theories.

He also examined the physics of charmonium.

With Chris Quigg, Eichten, Ian Hinchliffe 1984 he published an influential review article Super Collider Physics of the physics of high -energy particle accelerators. Starting with a meeting of physicists in Snowmass (Colorado) in 1982 were then developed ideas that in 1987 the development of the Superconducting Super Collider back later motivated and were later realized in the Large Hadron Collider. Determined for these posts was Quigg, Eichten, Hinchliffe the 2011 Sakurai Prize.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was the 2001/ 02 Frontier Fellow of Fermilab.

Writings

• Technicolor in 2000, Frascati Spring School
• Two Lectures on Technicolor, Fermilab 2002