Savas Dimopoulos
Savas Dimopoulos (Greek Σάββας Δημόπουλος, born 1952 in Istanbul) is a Greek particle physicist at the University of Stanford.
Biography
Dimopoulos was born in Istanbul and later moved to Athens. He studied at the University of Houston and moved to the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in Yoichiro Nambu 1979. After graduation, he went to Columbia University before he followed in 1980 a professor at the Stanford University. During the years 1981 and 1982 he also taught at the Universities of Michigan, Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1994 to 1997 he was on leave from Stanford University to operate at CERN.
His work
Dimopoulos has been known for some theoretical works that go beyond the Standard Model, such as the development of the minimal supersymmetric standard model ( MSSM ). This model, he published along with Howard Georgi in 1981. Further cooperation with Nima Arkani - Hamed and Gia Dvali, he also developed the ADD model, which is also known as " theory of large extra dimensions ". For this and other work on theoretical particle physics, he received the 2006 Sakurai Prize.
Publications
Some of his works are:
- Baryogenesis at the GUT scale
- Early work for Technicolor
- MSSM and the unification of the coupling constants in the MSSM
- " Moduli -mediated millimeter scale forces" ( interactions in mm Range of supersymmetry )
- "Large extra- dimensions", with Nima Arkani - Hamed and Gia Dvali
- Split supersymmetry