Nima Arkani-Hamed

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Nima Arkani-Hamed
Born (1972-04-05) April 5, 1972
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Fields Physics
Institutions Harvard University,
Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater University of Toronto,
University of California, Berkeley
Known for Large extra dimensions, deconstruction, Little Higgs, Split supersymmetry, Dark Matter, Scattering amplitudes
Notable awards Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society (2003)
Sackler Prize of Tel Aviv University (2008)
Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award (2005)
Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)

Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 5 April 1972) is an American-Canadian[1] theoretical physicist with interests in high-energy physics, string theory and cosmology. Arkani-Hamed is now on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[2] He was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Early life

Arkani-Hamed's parents are both Iranian physicists.[3] His father, Jafar Arkani-Hamed, a native of Tabriz (Iran),[3] was chairman of the physics department at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran (Iran), and later taught earth and planetary sciences at McGill University in Montreal.[4]

Academic career

Arkani-Hamed graduated from the University of Toronto with a Joint Honours degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1993, and went to the University of California, Berkeley, for his graduate studies, where he worked under the supervision of Lawrence Hall. The majority of his graduate work was on studies of supersymmetry and flavor physics. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled "Supersymmetry and hierarchies." He completed his Ph.D. in 1997 and went to SLAC at Stanford University for post-doctoral studies. During this time he worked with Savas Dimopoulos and developed the paradigm of large extra dimensions.

In 1999 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley physics department. He took a leave of absence from Berkeley to visit Harvard University beginning January 2001. Shortly after arriving at Harvard he worked with Howard Georgi and Andrew Cohen on the idea of emergent extra dimensions, dubbed dimensional deconstruction. These ideas eventually led to the development of little Higgs theories.

He officially joined Harvard's faculty in the fall of 2002. Arkani-Hamed has appeared on various television programs and newspapers talking about space, time and dimensions and the current state of theoretical physics. In 2003 he won the Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society, and in the summer of 2005 while at Harvard he won the 'Phi Beta Kappa' award for teaching excellence.

Arkani-Hamed participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007.

In 2008 Arkani-Hamed won the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize given at Tel Aviv University to young scientists who have made outstanding and fundamental contributions in Physical Science.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[5] In 2010 Arkani-Hamed gave the Messenger lectures at Cornell University.

He was a Professor of Physics at Harvard University from 2002–2008, and is now a Faculty member of the Institute for Advanced Study.[6]

Honors and Awards

In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.[7] He has previously won the Sackler Prize from Tel Aviv University in 2008 the Gribov Medal from the European Physical Society in 2003 and the INFN-Pisa Gamberini prize in 1997. He was awarded the Packard and Sloan Fellowship in 2000.[1]

Selected works

  • The paradigm of "large extra dimensions" (with Gia Dvali and Savas Dimopoulos):
N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali (1998). "The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter". Phys. Lett. B 429 (3-4): 263–272. arXiv:hep-ph/9803315. Bibcode:1998PhLB..429..263A. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00466-3. 
I Antoniadis, N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali (1998). "New dimensions at a millimeter to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV". Phys. Lett. B 436 (3-4): 257–263. arXiv:hep-ph/9804398. Bibcode:1998PhLB..436..257A. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00860-0. 
N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali (1999). "Phenomenology, astrophysics and cosmology of theories with submillimeter dimensions and TeV scale quantum gravity". Phys. Rev. D 59 (8): 086004. arXiv:hep-ph/9807344. Bibcode:1999PhRvD..59h6004A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.59.086004. 
Arkani-Hamed, Nima; Savas Dimopoulos, Georgi Dvali (August 2000). "The Universe's Unseen Dimensions". Scientific American 283 (2): 62–69. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0800-62. PMID 10914401. 
N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, H. Georgi (2001). "(De)constructing dimensions". Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (21): 4757–4761. arXiv:hep-th/0104005. Bibcode:2001PhRvL..86.4757A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4757. PMID 11384341. 
N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, H. Georgi (2001). "Electroweak symmetry breaking from dimensional deconstruction". Phys. Lett. B. 513: 232–240. arXiv:hep-ph/0105239. Bibcode:2001PhLB..513..232A. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00741-9. 
N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, T. Gregoire, J. G. Wacker (2002). "Phenomenology of electroweak symmetry breaking from theory space". JHEP 0208 (08): 020. arXiv:hep-ph/0202089. Bibcode:2002JHEP...08..020A. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/020. 
N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, T. Gregoire,E. Katz, A. E. Nelson, J. G. Wacker (2002). "The Minimal moose for a little Higgs". JHEP 0208 (08): 021. arXiv:hep-ph/0206020. Bibcode:2002JHEP...08..021A. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/021. 
N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, E. Katz, A. E. Nelson (2002). "The Littlest Higgs". JHEP 0207 (07): 034. arXiv:hep-ph/0206021. Bibcode:2002JHEP...07..034A. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/07/034. 
  • Ghost condensation:
N. Arkani-Hamed, H.C. Cheng, M. A. Luty, S. Mukohyama (2004). "Ghost condensation and a consistent infrared modification of gravity". JHEP 0405 (05): 074. arXiv:hep-th/0312099. Bibcode:2004JHEP...05..074H. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/074. 
N. Arkani-Hamed,S. Dimopoulos; Dimopoulos, Savas (2005). "Supersymmetric unification without low energy supersymmetry and signatures for fine-tuning at the LHC". JHEP 0506 (06): 073. arXiv:hep-th/0405159. Bibcode:2005JHEP...06..073A. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2005/06/073. 
N. Arkani-Hamed,S. Dimopoulos, G. F. Giudice, A. Romanino (2005). "Aspects of split supersymmetry". Nucl. Phys. B 0709: 3–46. arXiv:hep-ph/0409232. Bibcode:2005NuPhB.709....3A. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.12.026. 
  • Dark Matter:
N. Arkani-Hamed, N. Weiner (2008). "LHC Signals for a SuperUnified Theory of Dark Matter". JHEP 0812 (12): 104. arXiv:0810.0714. Bibcode:2008JHEP...12..104A. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/104. 
N. Arkani-Hamed, D. P. Finkbeiner, T. R. Slatyer, N. Weiner (2009). "A Theory of Dark Matter". Phys. Rev. D 79: 015014. arXiv:0810.0713. Bibcode:2009PhRvD..79a5014A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.79.015014. 
  • Scattering Amplitudes:
N. Arkani-Hamed, F. Cachazo, C. Cheung and J. Kaplan (2010). "A Duality for the S Matrix". JHEP 1003 (3): 020. arXiv:0907.5418. Bibcode:2010JHEP...03..020A. doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2010)020. 
N. Arkani-Hamed, J. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, S. Caron-Huot and J. Trnka (2011). "The All-Loop Integrand For Scattering Amplitudes in Planar N=4 SYM". JHEP 1101: 041. arXiv:1008.2958. Bibcode:2011JHEP...01..041A. doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2011)041. 

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.sns.ias.edu/~arkani/pdfs/CV.pdf
  2. ↑ Cornellcast: Nima Arkani-Hamed: Quantum mechanics and space-time.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jafargholi Arkani-Hamed. Lateral Variations of Density in the Earth's Mantle.
  4. ↑ "Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed Wins Prestigious Physics Prize". Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 30 August 2012. 
  5. ↑ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 25 April 2011. 
  6. ↑ Theoretical Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed Appointed to the Faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study
  7. ↑ New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the field, FPP, accessed 1 August 2012

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