Chris Quigg

Chris Quigg
Residence	U.S.
Institutions	Fermilab
Alma mater	Yale University University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	J. D. Jackson
Known for	Collider phenomenology
Notable awards	Sakurai Prize (2011)

Chris Quigg (born December 15, 1944) is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He graduated from Yale University in 1966 and received his Ph.D. in 1970 under the tutelage of J. D. Jackson at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been an Associate Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, and was Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermilab from 1977 to 1987.

Quigg's contributions range over many topics in particle physics. With Benjamin Lee and H. B. Thacker in 1977 he identified the uppermost theoretical mass scale for the Higgs boson.^[1][2] In 1984 he coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane and Ian Hinchliffe), which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, the SSC, and the LHC at CERN.^[3] He is also author of Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions.^[4]

He has made many other significant contributions to the study of the spectroscopy of heavy-light mesons, signatures for the production of heavy quarks and quarkonium, and the study of ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions. He is an international lecturer and public speaker, and has been Editor of the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science.

Quigg was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1974–1978, and was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1983. In 2011 Dr. Quigg with Estia Eichten, Ian Hinchliffe, and Kenneth Lane won the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics "For their work, separately and collectively, to chart a course of the exploration of TeV scale physics using multi-TeV hadron colliders" ^[5]

References

1. ^ Benjamin W. Lee, C. Quigg and H. B. Thacker (1977). "Strength of Weak Interactions at Very High Energies and the Higgs Boson Mass". Physical Review Letters 38 (16): 883–885. Bibcode 1977PhRvL..38..883L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.883. 
2. ^ Benjamin W. Lee, C. Quigg and H. B. Thacker (1977). "Weak interactions at very high energies: The role of the Higgs-boson mass". Physical Review D16 (5): 1519–1531. Bibcode 1977PhRvD..16.1519L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.16.1519. 
3. ^ E. Eichten, I. Hinchliffe, K. Lane and C. Quigg (1984). "Supercollider Physics". Reviews of Modern Physics 56 (4): 579–707. Bibcode 1984RvMP...56..579E. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.56.579. 
4. ^ Chris Quigg (1997). Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions. Advanced Book Classics. Westview Press. ISBN 0201328321. 
5. ^ American Physical Society - J. J. Sakurai Prize Winners

External links

• Web site at Fermilab
• Quigg's publications on SPIRES.

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