| Kenneth Lane | |
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Kenneth Lane at Harvard University, 2005
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| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Institutions | Boston University |
| Alma mater | Georgia Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University |
| Doctoral advisor | Chung Wook Kim |
| Known for | Technicolor Charmonium Collider phenomenology |
| Notable awards | Sakurai Prize (2011) |
Kenneth D. Lane is an American theoretical particle phyicist and professor of physics at Boston University. Lane is best known for his role in the development of extended technicolor models of physics beyond the Standard Model.[1]
Lane received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was a student of Chung Wook Kim at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970.[2][3]
His physics research focuses on the problems of electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking. With Estia J. Eichten, Lane co-invented extended technicolor.[1] He and Eichten also contributed to early work on charmonium with Kurt Gottfried, Tom Kinoshita and Tung-Mow Yan.[4][5][6]
In 1984 he coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with Eichten, Ian Hinchliffe and Chris Quigg), which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders such as the Fermilab Tevatron the SSC, and the LHC at CERN.[7] In 2011 Dr Lane with Chris Quigg, Estia Eichten, and Ian Hinchliffe 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" [8]