- Savas Dimopoulos
Savas Dimopoulos (born 1952) is a Greek
particle physicist atStanford University . He was born inIstanbul ,Turkey and later moved toAthens due to ethnic tensions in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s. Dimopoulos studied as an undergraduate at theUniversity of Houston . He went to theUniversity of Chicago and studied underYoichiro Nambu for his doctoral studies. After completing his Ph.D. in 1979, he briefly went to Columbia University before taking a faculty position at Stanford University in 1980. During 1981 and 1982 he was also affiliated with the University of Michigan, Harvard University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1994 to 1997 he was on leave from Stanford University and was employed by CERN.Dimopoulos is well-known for proposing many of the leading theories beyond the
Standard Model , which are currently being searched for and tested atparticle collider s and in other experiments. His best known work was development of theMinimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) which he proposed in 1981 withHoward Georgi . He also proposed the theory oflarge extra dimension s withNima Arkani-Hamed andGia Dvali . For proposing these theories and influencing the field of theoretical particle physics he won theSakurai Prize in 2006.Works
His best-known works include:
*Baryogenesis at the GUT scale cite journal|author= S. Dimopoulos, L. Susskind|title= On the Baryon Number of the Universe |journal=Phys. Rev. D|volume= 18|pages= 4500–4509|year= 1978|doi= 10.1103/PhysRevD.18.4500] cite journal|author= S. Dimopoulos, L. Susskind|title=Baryon Asymmetry In The Very Early Universe|journal=Phys. Lett. B|volume= 81|pages= 416|year= 1979|doi=10.1016/0370-2693(79)90366-6]
* Early work on technicolor cite journal|author= S. Dimopoulos, L. Susskind|title=Mass Without Scalars|journal=Nucl. Phys. B|volume= 155|pages= 237–252|year= 1979|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(79)90364-X] cite journal|author= S. Dimopoulos|title=Technicolored Signatures|journal=Nucl. Phys. B|volume= 168|pages= 69–92|year= 1980|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(80)90277-1] cite journal|author= S. Dimopoulos, S. Raby, L. Susskind|title=Tumbling Gauge Theories|journal=Nucl. Phys. B|volume= 169|pages= 373|year= 1980|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(80)90093-0] cite journal|author= S. Dimopoulos, S. Raby, L. Susskind|title=Light Composite Fermions|journal=Nucl. Phys. B|volume= 173|pages= 208–228|year= 1980|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(80)90215-1]
* TheMSSM andGauge coupling unification in the MSSM cite journal|author= S. Dimopoulos, S. Raby, F. Wilczek|title= Supersymmetry and the Scale of Unification |journal=Phys. Rev. D|volume= 24|pages= 1681–1683|year= 1981|doi= 10.1103/PhysRevD.24.1681] cite journal|author= S. Dimopoulos, H. Georgi|title=Softly Broken Supersymmetry and SU(5)|journal=Nucl. Phys B|volume= 193|pages= 150|year= 1981|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(81)90522-8]
* Moduli-mediated millimeter scale forces cite journal|author= S. Dimopoulos, G. Giudice|title= Macroscopic forces from supersymmetry |journal=Phys. Lett. B|volume= 379|pages= 105–114|year= 1996|doi= 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00390-5]
* "Large extra dimension s", withNima Arkani-Hamed andGia Dvali cite journal|author= N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali|title=The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter |journal=Phys. Lett. B|volume= 436|pages= 263–272|year= 1998] cite journal|author= I Antoniadis, N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali|title=New dimensions at a millimeter to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV|journal=Phys. Lett. B|volume= 429|pages= 257–263|year= 1998] cite journal|author= N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali|title= Phenomenology, astrophysics and cosmology of theories with submillimeter dimensions and TeV scale quantum gravity|journal=Phys. Rev. D|volume= 59|pages=086004|year= 1999|doi= 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.086004]
*Split supersymmetry cite journal|author= N. Arkani-Hamed,S. Dimopoulos|title= Supersymmetric unification without low energy supersymmetry and signatures for fine-tuning at the LHC|journal=JHEP|volume= 0506|pages=073|year= 2005|doi= 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/06/073] cite journal|author= N. Arkani-Hamed,S. Dimopoulos, G. F. Giudice, A. Romanino|title= Aspects of split supersymmetry|journal=Nucl. Phys. B|volume= 0709|pages=3–46|year= 2005|doi= 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.12.026]References
External links
* [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=find+a+dimopoulos,s Papers] in the SPIRES database.
* [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/dimopoulos_savas.html Faculty page] at Stanford.
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