Gordon L. Kane
Encyclopedia
Gordon Kane has been the Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics (2002–2011)
at the University of Michigan
and the Director (2005–2011) of the Michigan Center
for Theoretical Physics (MCTP), a leading
center dedicated to the advancement of theoretical
physics. He is now Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor
at the University of Michigan
and MCTP Director Emeritus,
and received the 2012 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society.
Professor Kane is an internationally recognized scientific leader in theoretical
and phenomenological particle physics, and theories for physics beyond
the Standard Model and in recent years has been a leader in string phenomenology.
Kane has been with the University of Michigan since (1965).
as the next scientific direction for particle physics. The SSC was finally replaced by the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC
),
which will test for the presence of Supersymmetry
; the leading candidate
model for new physics beyond the Standard Model.
Around the same time Kane and Leveille
performed the first calculation of the Fenyman rules for gluinos, and of the production of gluinos at colliders, which turns out to be one of the most important ways to discover supersymmetry at the LHC.
Gordon Kane is also well known for his work with Howard Haber, putting together and elucidating
the structure of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
(MSSM) into a complete and calculable context in 1984.
Their seminal article published in 1985 remains one of the single most important references on supersymmetry and the MSSM. A detailed companion report was published in 2002.
Kane made important early contributions to the study of the Higgs Bosons, including an
upper limit on the Higgs Boson mass,
implications of Electric dipole moments, the muon g-2 experiment , the study of
dark matter and its detections,
and to early supergravity and string theory phenomenology.
With colloborators he pointed out the potential LHC inverse problem and solutions towards
its resolution.
in particular those based on G_2 compactifcations of M-Theory, a predictive approach that
can explain the hierarchy between the weak scale and the Planck scale.
With colleagues, he has recently re-emphasized the role of neutralino
dark matter in the context of cosmic ray data, as well as the importance of
connecting dark matter and the LHC - in particular focusing on light gluinos and light neutralinos
(the superparteners of the gluon and W boson respectively)
that arise in supergravity and string theory motivated models.
He has argued that these ideas form a consistent framework with a non-thermal cosmological history
of the universe.
Recently, he and collaborators have generalized results of compactified string theories, and in particular have shown that scalar superpartners should have masses of order tens of TeV. He and collaborators have also proposed string motivated explanations for major questions in particle theory, including the so-called "little hierarchy" or "fine-tuning" problem, and major related questions in cosmology, including understanding the ratio of the baryonic matter to dark matter in the universe.
Kane has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the British Institute of Physics, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He has served on many government advisory panels, most recently as Chair of the theoretical physics subpanel on the three year Committee of Visitors of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation
, the highest evaluation panel the NSF has. Kane
also has been on several national laboratory program policy committees. He has served on the international advisory committees of over 40 national and international meetings.
He has been Delphasus Lecturer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Distinguished Visiting Speaker at the University of California Davis, Dozer Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, Lewiner Lecturer at the Technion in Tel-Aviv, and an American Physical Society
Centennial Speaker.
at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
and the Director (2005–2011) of the Michigan Center
for Theoretical Physics (MCTP), a leading
center dedicated to the advancement of theoretical
physics. He is now Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor
at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
and MCTP Director Emeritus,
and received the 2012 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society.
Professor Kane is an internationally recognized scientific leader in theoretical
and phenomenological particle physics, and theories for physics beyond
the Standard Model and in recent years has been a leader in string phenomenology.
Kane has been with the University of Michigan since (1965).
Foundational Research
In 1982 Kane co-led the international Snowmass working group study that pointed to the Superconducting SuperCollider (SSC)as the next scientific direction for particle physics. The SSC was finally replaced by the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC
LHC
LHC may refer to:* Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator and collider located on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, SwitzerlandLHC also may refer to:* La hora Chanante, a Spanish comedy television show...
),
which will test for the presence of Supersymmetry
Supersymmetry
In particle physics, supersymmetry is a symmetry that relates elementary particles of one spin to other particles that differ by half a unit of spin and are known as superpartners...
; the leading candidate
model for new physics beyond the Standard Model.
Around the same time Kane and Leveille
performed the first calculation of the Fenyman rules for gluinos, and of the production of gluinos at colliders, which turns out to be one of the most important ways to discover supersymmetry at the LHC.
Gordon Kane is also well known for his work with Howard Haber, putting together and elucidating
the structure of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is the minimal extension to the Standard Model that realizes supersymmetry, although non-minimal extensions do exist. Supersymmetry pairs bosons with fermions; therefore every Standard Model particle has a partner that has yet to be discovered...
(MSSM) into a complete and calculable context in 1984.
Their seminal article published in 1985 remains one of the single most important references on supersymmetry and the MSSM. A detailed companion report was published in 2002.
Kane made important early contributions to the study of the Higgs Bosons, including an
upper limit on the Higgs Boson mass,
implications of Electric dipole moments, the muon g-2 experiment , the study of
dark matter and its detections,
and to early supergravity and string theory phenomenology.
With colloborators he pointed out the potential LHC inverse problem and solutions towards
its resolution.
Recent Notable Research
Kane’s more recent work has been in the development of testable models based on string theory,in particular those based on G_2 compactifcations of M-Theory, a predictive approach that
can explain the hierarchy between the weak scale and the Planck scale.
With colleagues, he has recently re-emphasized the role of neutralino
dark matter in the context of cosmic ray data, as well as the importance of
connecting dark matter and the LHC - in particular focusing on light gluinos and light neutralinos
(the superparteners of the gluon and W boson respectively)
that arise in supergravity and string theory motivated models.
He has argued that these ideas form a consistent framework with a non-thermal cosmological history
of the universe.
Recently, he and collaborators have generalized results of compactified string theories, and in particular have shown that scalar superpartners should have masses of order tens of TeV. He and collaborators have also proposed string motivated explanations for major questions in particle theory, including the so-called "little hierarchy" or "fine-tuning" problem, and major related questions in cosmology, including understanding the ratio of the baryonic matter to dark matter in the universe.
Scientific Summary
Kane has published over 200 research articles and has written or co-authored or edited at least 10 physics books, and has 3 influential Scientific American particle physics articles. A chapter from one book was reprinted in an anthology, with other chapters by Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Hawking, Maxwell, Heisenberg, Weinberg. Two of his more recent books includes “Perspectives on Supersymmetry”, and “Perspectives on LHC Physics”, both of which provide extensive reviews of the field.Kane has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the British Institute of Physics, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He has served on many government advisory panels, most recently as Chair of the theoretical physics subpanel on the three year Committee of Visitors of the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
, the highest evaluation panel the NSF has. Kane
also has been on several national laboratory program policy committees. He has served on the international advisory committees of over 40 national and international meetings.
He has been Delphasus Lecturer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Distinguished Visiting Speaker at the University of California Davis, Dozer Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University, Lewiner Lecturer at the Technion in Tel-Aviv, and an American Physical Society
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...
Centennial Speaker.
Classic Books
- Higgs Hunter Guide
- Modern Elementary Particle Physics
- Perspectives on Higgs Physics (I,II)
- Perspectives on LHC Physics (New 2009)
- Perspectives on Supersymmetry (I,II) - (New 2010)
- Particle Garden -- the Standard Model of Particle Physics for any curious person
- Supersymmetry: unveiling of the ultimate laws of nature -- supersymmetry made accessible to any reader