Joseph David Lykken (/ˈlɪkən/ LIK-ən) is an American theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and, from July 1, 2014 to Sept 6, 2022, he was the Deputy Director of Fermilab.[1] He is currently Director of Fermilab's Quantum Division.[2]
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Research advances relating to wormholes, extra dimensions, supersymmetry, the Higgs boson, and superstrings. |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Fermilab, University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Gauge Invariant Formulations of Large N Quantum Chromodynamics (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Roman Jackiw |
Background and education
editLykken was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the son of David T. Lykken, noted psychologist, behavioral geneticist, and twin researcher.
Lykken received his Ph.D. in 1982 from M.I.T. He arrived at Fermilab in 1989, where he worked in the Fermilab Theory Division,[3] and as a collaborator of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.[4]
Research
editIn 1983 Lykken's paper with Lawrence Hall and Steven Weinberg helped establish the minimal supersymmetric standard model as a leading paradigm for physics beyond the Standard Model.[5] In 1996 Lykken proposed "weak scale superstrings," [6] which posited extra dimensions of space within the reach of particle colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, and the CERN Large Hadron Collider. As a member of the CMS collaboration, he was co-author of the Higgs boson discovery paper,[7] and with Maurizio Pierini, Chris Rogan, and Maria Spiropulu, developed a new set of kinematic variables ("razor") targeting the discovery and characterization of new physics at the LHC. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Quantum Communications Channels for Fundamental Physics (QCCFP) project, supported by the QuantISED program of the U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of High Energy Physics.[8] Accomplishments of this project include the first laboratory demonstration of traversable wormhole teleportation, using a Google Sycamore quantum processor.[9]
Professional activities
editLykken is a former member and subpanel chair of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which advises the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. He was a Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics in Aspen, Colorado. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)[10] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),[11] and is former chair of the APS Division of Particles and Fields.
Selected publications
editLykken's publications are available on the INSPIRE-HEP Literature Database [1].
References
edit- ^ "Fermilab Today".
- ^ "Fermilab | About Fermilab".
- ^ "Fermilab Theory Division". Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ Joseph D. Lykken Theoretical Physics Dept MS106. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- ^ Hall, Lawrence; Lykken, Joe; Weinberg, Steven (1983). "Supergravity as the messenger of supersymmetry breaking". Physical Review D. 27 (10): 2359–2378. Bibcode:1983PhRvD..27.2359H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.27.2359. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ Lykken, Joseph D. (1996). "Weak Scale Superstrings". Physical Review D. 54 (6): R3693–R3697. arXiv:hep-th/9603133. Bibcode:1996PhRvD..54.3693L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.54.R3693. PMID 10021103. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ Chatrchyan, S.; et al. (2012). "Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC". Physics Letters B. 716: 30–61. arXiv:1207.7235. Bibcode:2012PhLB..716...30C. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "HEP Quantum Information Science". Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "Nature article: Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor". Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society.
- ^ Steve Koppes (November 6, 2003). "Nine on faculty elected 2003 AAAS fellows". University of Chicago Chronicle. Vol. 78, no. 4.
External links
edit- World Science Festival: "Did Einstein Crack the Biggest Problem in Physics...and Not Know It?"
- Joseph Lykken on the Internet Movie Database
- Quanta Magazine: "How Physicists Created a Holographic Wormhole in a Quantum Computer"
- Fermilab public lecture: "Wormholes in the laboratory"
- World Science Festival: "Beyond Higgs: The Wild Frontier of Particle Physics"
- SETI Institute: "The Higgs Boson and the Fate of the Universe"
- Physics of the Universe Summit
- "...Joe Lykken is a very smart guy..." Washington Post article 2008-04-11
- Nobel Honors Glimpse Into Universe's Design "We'd been talking about it for years" says Lykken
- Scientific publications of Joseph Lykken on INSPIRE-HEP
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