Paul Frampton

Paul Howard Frampton (born October 31, 1943, in England) is a theoretical physicist and notable model builderin particle phenomenology. He is active in the fields of high energy physics and cosmology and is Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Physics [cite web
title = The Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Professorship
publisher = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
date = 2008-01-07
url = http://carolinafirst.unc.edu/distprofs/rubin.htm
accessdate = 2008-01-22] at the University of North Carolina. Six former postdocs are professors in Japan where he has been introduced as the father of Japanese phenomenology. He has lectured in thirty countries [cite web
title = Paul Frampton's talks 1988 -
url = http://www.physics.unc.edu/~frampton/TALKS.html] .

Dr. Frampton received BA (double first), MA and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford as Hulme Open Scholar then Senior Hulme Scholarof Brasenose College; later he was conferred an Oxford DSc degree. He published papers both in mathematical formalismand in construction of physical models; his journal articles appeared principally in "Physical Review", "Physics Letters" and "Physical Review Letters".He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics.

Research

In formal research he provided the first correct calculation of vacuum decay in quantum field theory. [ cite journal
last = Frampton
first = Paul H.
title = Vacuum Instability and Higgs Scalar Mass
journal = Physical Review Letters
volume = 37
issue = 21
pages = 1378–1380
publisher = The American Physical Society
date = 1976-11-22
url = http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v37/p1378
doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.37.1378
format = subscription required] . With Thomas Kephart he explicitly calculated the chiral anomaly in ten-dimensional gauge field theory thereby making an early contribution towards the first superstring revolution. [cite journal
last = Frampton
first = Paul H.
coauthors = Thomas W. Kephart
title = Explicit Evaluation of Anomalies in Higher Dimensions
journal = Physical Review Letters
volume = 50
issue = 18
pages = 1343–1346
publisher = The American Physical Society
date = 1983-05-02
url = http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v50/p1343
doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1343
format = subscription required ] In phenomenology Frampton produced two extensions of the standard model. They are the chiral color model with Sheldon Glashow [cite journal
last = Frampton
first = Paul H.
coauthors = Sheldon L. Glashow
title = Chiral color: An alternative to the standard model
journal = Physics Letters B
volume = 190
issue = 1-2
pages = 157–161
publisher = Elsevier
date = 1987-05-21
url = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TVN-472JMJG-P5&_user=130907&_coverDate=05%2F21%2F1987&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000004198&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=130907&md5=446284cdf511b824c8ac0e45a8d29164
doi = 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90859-8] which predicts axigluons and his 331 model [cite journal
last = Frampton
first = Paul H.
title = Chiral dilepton model and the flavor question
journal = Physical Review Letters
volume = 69
issue = 20
pages = 2889–2891
publisher = The American Physical Society
date = 1992-05-29
url = http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v69/p2889
doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.2889
format = subscription required ] which can explain the number of quark-lepton generations and predicts bileptons. Bileptons and axigluons serve as targets of opportunity for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Having co-authored papers with Sheldon Glashow, Dr. Frampton's Erdős number is equal to three [cite web
last = Grossman
first = Jerry
title = Erdos2
work = The Erdös Number Project
url = http://www.oakland.edu/enp/Erdos2
date = 2007-02-28
accessdate = 2008-01-22] . Perhaps his most lasting contribution to model building will be the introduction of the binary tetrahedral group as flavor symmetry and derivation of the formula for the Cabibbo angle$an\; 2\; Theta\_C\; =\; (sqrt\{2\})/3.$

In cosmology research, Dr. Frampton proposed in 2007 with Lauris Baum a cyclic model [cite journal
last = Baum
first = Lauris
coauthors = Frampton Paul H.
title = Turnaround in cyclic cosmology
journal = Physical Review Letters
volume = 98
issue = 7
publisher = The American Physical Society
date = 2007-02-16
url = http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v98/e071301
doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.071301] that uses dark energy and makes a prediction about its equation of state which can be tested both by Planck and by SNAP. In 2008, he invoked [cite web
last = Frampton
first = Paul H
title = High Longevity Microlensing Events and Dark Matter Black Holes
url = http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1707
date 2008-6-10] the holographic principle with respect to entropy to suggest that black holes exist in the dark matter galactic halo.

His 2004 festschrift [cite web
last = Curtright
first = Thomas
coauthors = Mintz, Stephan; Perlmutter, Arnold
title = La Belle Epoche of High Energy Physics and Cosmology
url = http://server.physics.miami.edu/~cgc/2003CGC.html
accessdate = 2007-01-22] included contributions by three Nobel prizewinners in physics and reflected upon both his research and his largely self-inflicted wounds of administration.

Administration

Dr. Frampton helped initiate in 1980 ten annual Workshops on Grand Unification (WOGUs). In 1989 the WOGU series was suspended until proton decay is discovered. Broader topics are covered in the Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS) series initiated in 1990 by Dr. Pran Nath. Dr. Frampton organized the 8th.(UNC, 2001) [cite web
title = PASCOS 2001
publisher = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
url = http://www.physics.unc.edu/PASCOS2001/index.phtml
accessdate = 2008-01-22 ] .

He was the Project Director appointed by Governor James G. Martin to lead a team which prepared a site proposal for the ten-billion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider in North Carolina.The North Carolina site was short-listed but not chosen. After investing billions in a Texas site the SSC project was cancelled in 1993. The North Carolina site proposal is on exhibit at the National Museum of American History [cite web
title = Superconducting Super Collider electromagnet prototype on exhibit in Science in American Life, 1994
publisher = Smithsonian Institute Press
url = http://www.smithsonianlegacies.si.edu/objectdescription.cfm?ID=174
accessdate = 2008-01-22 ] .Dr. Frampton drafted a science section which favored the SSC in the platform of the 1988 Republican National Convention. It was said [http://www.physics.unc.edu/~frampton/Press/Science1.jpg] to be thelengthiest and most detailed science plank either party had authored in recent history and showed up in speeches about SSC by President George H.W. Bush.

Publications

Frampton has authored 390 articles including a number of books, his first publication being "Chirality Commutator and Vector Mesons" in 1967. In 1974 Dr. Frampton was the author of the first book on string theory [cite web|url=http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.paul.h.frampton|title=PROFESSOR PAUL H. FRAMPTON|publisher=Lifeboat Foundation|accessdate=2008-06-30] [cite book
last = Frampton
first = Paul H.
title = Dual resonance models
publisher = W. A. Benjamin
date = 1974
isbn = 978-0805325812] when it was still known by the name dual resonance models and followed that in 1986 with a monograph [cite book
last = Frampton
first = Paul H.
title = Gauge field theories
date = 1985
isbn = 978-0471347835] on gauge field theories.

Research Publications

*P. H. Frampton, "Dual Resonance Models", Frontiers in Physics, Benjamin (1974), Second Edition, World Scientific Publishing Company (1986).
*P.H. Frampton, "Gauge Field Theories", Frontiers in Physics, Addison-Wesley (1986), Second Edition, Wiley (2000), Third Edition, Wiley (2008).
*P.H. Frampton, "Vacuum Instability and Higgs Scalar Mass", Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 1378 (1976); Phys. Rev. D15, 2922 (1977).
*P.H. Frampton & T.W. Kephart, "Anomalies in Higher Dimensions", Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1343, 1347 (1983); Phys. Rev. D28, 1010 (1983).
*P.H. Frampton & S.L. Glashow, "Chiral Color: Alternative to the Standard Model", Phys. Lett. 190B, 157 (1987); Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2168 (1987).
*P.H. Frampton, "Chiral Dilepton Model and the Flavor Question", Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 2889 (1992).
*"La Belle Epoque of High Energy Physics and Cosmology", Editors: T. Curtright, S. Mintz and A. Perlmutter, World Scientific Publishing Company (2004).
*L. Baum and P.H. Frampton, "Turnaround in Cyclic Cosmology", Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071301 (2007).
*P.H. Frampton, "High Longevity Microlensing Events and Dark Matter Black Holes". Closing plenary talk at COSMO 08 Conference [cite web
title = Cosmo 08
url = http://www.physics.wisc.edu/cosmo08/] . arXiv: 0806.1707 [gr-qc] (2008).

Administrative publications

*"First Workshop on Grand Unification", Editors: P.H. Frampton, S.L. Glashow and A. Yildiz. Math Sci Press, Brookline (1980).
*"Third Workshop on Grand Unification", Editors: P.H. Frampton, S.L. Glashow and H. van Dam. Birkhauser (1982).
*"Last Workshop on Grand Unification", Editor: P.H. Frampton. World Scientific Publishing Company (1989).
*"Eighth International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS)", Editors: P.H. Frampton and Y.J. Ng. Rinton Press (2001).
*"North Carolina site proposal for superconducting super collider": Volumes 1. Executive summary, 2. Offer, financial and other incentives, 3. Geology and tunneling, 4. Regional resources, 5. Environment, 6. Setting, 7. Regional conditions, 8. Utilities, 9. Map supplement. Submitted by the office of the Governor to the U.S. Department of Energy (1987).
* "Republican party platform", adopted by the Republican National convention in New Orleans on August 16, 1988. [cite web
title = 1988 Republican National Convention
url = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Republican_National_Convention]

Personal life

Frampton was married December 10, 1993 to Anne-Marie, divorced April 7, 2008.

References

External links

* [http://www.physics.unc.edu/~frampton Dr. Frampton's home page]
* [http://www.physics.unc.edu/~frampton/pub.html List of publications]
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