José W. F. Valle

José W. F. Valle (born June 2 1953) is a Brazilian-Spanish physicist whose research includes many aspects of astroparticle physics and high energy physics, especially neutrino physics.He is a senior scientist at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC, the largest public research body in Spain, leading both the Astroparticle and High Energy Group (AHEP group) and the Theory Division of IFIC (Instituto de Física Corpuscular) at the University of València. [cite web |url=http://ahep.uv.es/cms/tiki-index.php?page=JoseValle |title= Highlights of Jose W. F. Valle's CV|accessdate=2007-11-10 |publisher=AHEP ] [cite web |url= http://ific.uv.es/personal/personal.php3?OPTL_UNIDAD=7|title= Unidad de Física Teórica|accessdate=2007-11-10 |publisher=INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR] He has contributed to the modern theory of [http://scholar.google.es/scholar?q=neutrino+masses&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search neutrino masses] [ cite web |url= http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v22/i9/p2227_1|title= Neutrino masses in SU(2) ⊗ U(1) theories|accessdate=2007-11-10 |last= Schechter|first= J.|coauthors= J. W. F. Valle|date= 1980-06-30|work= Physical Review Online Archive |publisher=American Physical Society ] and neutrino oscillation [ cite web |url= http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0405172 |title= Status of global fits to neutrino oscillationse|accessdate=2007-11-21 |last= Maltoni et al|first= M.| ] whose recent experimental discovery was a triumph of neutrino astronomy, an emerging field which has given the physics Nobel Prize in 2002 to Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba. This discovery provides the only firm indication of the incompleteness of the Standard Model of particle physics with important consequences also for astrophysics and cosmology.

Honors

* [http://ific.uv.es/~valle//profvis99.htm Spanish Iberdrola Science & Technology Prize for Theoretical Physics] in 1999
* [http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/preise/pt.htm A. von Humboldt Research Award] in 2002

Press

* [http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/28834/2 CERN Courier note] on the occasion of the [http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/preise/pt.htm Humboldt Research Award] , April-2003

* [http://ific.uv.es/~valle/nota-elpais-06-i+d.pdf An Interview to Spanish newspaper [El Pais] , October 2006.

* Neutrino detection in Spanish newspaper [http://www.publico.es/ciencias/120831/cazafantasmas El Publico] , May 2008, [http://ific.uv.es/~valle/El_publico_Mayo_2008.pdf download here] .

Publications

He has published 227 peer-reviewed papers in physics in the Institute for Scientific Information Web of science. Open-access links to the most highly cited of them through the Spires High Energy Physics datadabe are given below: 1. Schechter J, Valle JWF. "Neutrino Masses in Su(2) by U(1) Theories "Physical Review D" 22 (9): 2227-2235 1980
[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=681288]

2. Maltoni M, Schwetz T, Tortola M, Et Al. "Status of Global Fits to Neutrino Oscillations "New Journal of Physics" 6: Art. No. 122 Sep 28 2004 [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=5882010] 3. Ross GG , Valle JWF "Supersymmetric Models Without R Parity". "Physics Letters B" 151 (5-6): 375-381 1985
[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=1284070] 4. Ellis J, Gelmini G, Jarlskog C, Et Al. "Phenomenology of Supersymmetry With Broken R-Parity "Physics Letters B" 150 (1-3): 142-148 1985 [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=1262971] 5. Peltoniemi JT, Valle JWF "Reconciling Dark-Matter, Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos " Nuclear Physics B 406 (1-2): 409-422 Sep 27 1993
[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=2702436]

6. Schechter J, Valle JWF "Neutrino Decay and Spontaneous Violation of Lepton Number " "Physical Review D" 25 (3): 774-783 1982
[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=835889] 7. Gonzalez-Garcia MC, Maltoni M, Pena-Garay C, Et Al. "Global Three-Neutrino Oscillation Analysis of Neutrino Data "Physical Review D" 63 (3): Art. No. 033005 Feb 1 2001 [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=4473752] 8. Mohapatra RN, Valle JWF "Neutrino Mass and Baryon-Number Nonconservation in Superstring Models" "Physical Review D" 34 (5): 1642-1645 Sep 1 1986 [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=1469088] 9. Babu, K.S., Ma. E, Valle JWF " Underlying A(4) symmetry for the neutrino mass matrix and the quark mixing matrix " Physics Letters B " 552: 207-213 2003 [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=4989120] 10. Schechter J, Valle JWF. "Majorana Neutrinos and Magnetic-Fields" "Physical Review D" 24 (7): 1883-1889 1981 [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=791016]

* [http://scholar.google.es/scholar?num=20&hl=es&lr=&newwindow=1&q=j.w.f.valle&btnG=Buscar&lr= More at Google Academic]

References

External links

* [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=FIND+A+J.W.F.+VALLE&FORMAT=wwwcitesummary&SEQUENCE= Citation summary of papers in the SPIRES High Energy Physics database] at SLAC

* [http://scholar.google.es/scholar?num=20&hl=es&lr=&newwindow=1&q=neutrino+masses&btnG=Buscar&lr= Google scholar search for neutrino masses]

* [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/play/authors/2004/top_5_rank.shtml/ Particle theorists citation ranking from Spires HEP database (2004)] ] .

* [http://ahep.uv.es/cms/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=3 Recent Review Talks]

* [http://ahep.uv.es/ AHEP-Astroparticle and High Energy Group]

* [http://ific.uv.es/ IFIC-Institut de Física Corpuscular]

ee also

* List of theoretical physicists

* List of brazilian physicists