Wick Haxton

Wick C. Haxton ( born September 21, 1949 in Santa Cruz, California) is an American theoretical nuclear physicists and astrophysicists.

Life

Haxton grew up in Santa Cruz where he studied from 1967 at the local University of California (Bachelor in Physics and Mathematics, 1971) and his doctorate in 1976 at Stanford University ( Semileptonic weak interactions ). 1975 to 1977 he was at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the University of Mainz and thereafter until 1985 as Oppenheimer Fellow in the theoretical department of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. After a year as an assistant professor at Purdue University, he was an Associate Professor in 1984 and 1987, a professor at the University of Washington. He is there currently a professor of physics and astronomy at the same time. Since 1991 to 2006, Director of the National Institute for Nuclear Theory ( INT). From 2009 he was professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

He is married and has two sons.

Work

Haxton is engaged in nuclear astrophysics ( neutrinos in supernovae, solar neutrino problem), neutrino physics (such as neutrinoless double beta decay ), many-body theory (effective theories ) in nuclear physics and in atomic physics and solid state physics ( Condensed Matter Physics ) and tests of symmetries of fundamental interactions (parity, CP symmetry, violations of lepton and flavor quantum number conservation ), for example, permanent electric dipole moments of the neutron and of atoms (violation of time-reversal invariance ) and parity-violating nucleon -nucleon interactions, including the calculations necessary for the evaluation of the experiments in the many-body theory. He is involved in ( in the Homestake mine in South Dakota) planned project of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory ( DUSEL ).

He was a consultant at the TRIUMF accelerators, the Oak Ridge Radioactive Beams facilities and the electron accelerator CEBAF in Newport News, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and in the management of the LAMPF at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Honors and Memberships

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Department of Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics he headed in the 1990s. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1999), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999), the American Physical Society (1987) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( 1988). In 2008 he was a founding member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

He was Guggenheim Fellow (2000 to 2001), Miller Fellow at Berkeley (2000/ 2001), Bethe Lecturer at Cornell University (2000/ 2001) and was awarded the 2004 Hans A. Bethe - Prize for his contributions and scientific leadership in neutrino astrophysics and especially for the connection of nuclear physics theory with experiments and observations in nuclear astrophysics and astrophysics ( eulogy ).

Writings

• Editor with Ernest Henley Symmetries and fundamental interactions in nuclei, World Scientific 1995
• With Barry Holstein Neutrino Physics, American Journal of Physics, Volume 68, 2000, pp. 15-32, Arxiv
• With Hamish Robertson, Aldo Serenelli solar neutrinos. Status and perspective, 2012
• 'The solar neutrino problem- Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. , Volume 33, 1995, pp. 459-503
• Neutrino Astrophysics, Wiley 's Encyclopedia of Nuclear Physis, 2012
• Neutrino Astrophysics, 2008
• Topics in Neutrino Astrophysics, TASI Summer School 1998
• Nuclear problems in Astrophysics, Int. School of Physics Enrico Fermi, 2003
• With T. Luu The canonical nuclear many body problem- as to effective theory, Nucl. Phys. A, Volume 690, 2001, pp. 15-28
• Fundamental symmetries and theory, Nucl. Phys. A, Volume 654, 1999, pp. 315-329, talc Nuclear Physics Conf. Paris