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Sakurai Prize, the Glossary

The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual April Meeting, and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory.^[1]

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Awards of the American Physical Society

't Hooft–Polyakov monopole

In theoretical physics, the t Hooft–Polyakov monopole is a topological soliton similar to the Dirac monopole but without the Dirac string.

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Alberto Sirlin

Alberto Sirlin (born 25 November 1930, in Buenos Aires, died February 23, 2022, in New York City) was an Argentine theoretical physicist, specializing in particle physics.

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Alexei Smirnov (physicist)

Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov (Алексе́й Ю́рьевич Cмирно́в; born October 16, 1951) is a neutrino physics researcher and one of the discoverers of the MSW Effect.

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Alfred Mueller

Alfred H. Mueller (born June 9, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist, and the Enrico Fermi Professor of Physics at Columbia University.

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American Physical Society

The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units.

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Andrzej Buras

Andrzej Jerzy Buras (Polish pronunciation:; born 26 October 1946 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-born Danish theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at the Technical University Munich (TUM).

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Ann Nelson

Ann Elizabeth Nelson (April 29, 1958 – August 4, 2019) was a particle physicist and professor of physics in the Particle Theory Group at the University of Washington from 1994 until her death.

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Anomalous magnetic dipole moment

In quantum electrodynamics, the anomalous magnetic moment of a particle is a contribution of effects of quantum mechanics, expressed by Feynman diagrams with loops, to the magnetic moment of that particle.

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Anthony Ichiro Sanda

is a Japanese-American particle physicist.

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Arkady Vainshtein

Arkady Vainshtein (Аркáдий Иóсифович Вайнштéйн; born 24 February 1942) is a Russian and American Professor Emeritus of Theoretical physics who was awarded Pomeranchuk Prize (2005) and Sakurai Prize (1999) for theoretical physics.

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Axion

An axion is a hypothetical elementary particle originally theorized in 1978 independently by Frank Wilczek and Steven Weinberg as the Goldstone boson of Peccei–Quinn theory, which had been proposed in 1977 to solve the strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

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B meson

In particle physics, B mesons are mesons composed of a bottom antiquark and either an up, down, strange or charm quark.

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Baryogenesis

In physical cosmology, baryogenesis (also known as baryosynthesis) is the physical process that is hypothesized to have taken place during the early universe to produce baryonic asymmetry, i.e. the imbalance of matter (baryons) and antimatter (antibaryons) in the observed universe.

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Benjamin W. Lee

Benjamin Whisoh Lee (January 1, 1935 – June 16, 1977), or Ben Lee, was a Korean-American theoretical physicist.

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Bottom quark

The bottom quark, beauty quark, or b quark, is an elementary particle of the third generation.

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Bryan Webber

Bryan Ronald Webber, FRS, FInstP (born 25 July 1943) is a British physicist and academic.

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C. R. Hagen

Carl Richard Hagen (born 2 February 1937) is a professor of particle physics at the University of Rochester.

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Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, CKM matrix, quark mixing matrix, or KM matrix is a unitary matrix which contains information on the strength of the flavour-changing weak interaction.

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Charm (quantum number)

Charm (symbol C) is a flavour quantum number representing the difference between the number of charm quarks and charm antiquarks that are present in a particle: By convention, the sign of flavour quantum numbers agree with the sign of the electric charge carried by the quarks of corresponding flavour.

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Charm quark

The charm quark, charmed quark, or c quark is an elementary particle found in composite subatomic particles called hadrons such as the J/psi meson and the charmed baryons created in particle accelerator collisions.

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Chiral anomaly

In theoretical physics, a chiral anomaly is the anomalous nonconservation of a chiral current.

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Chirality (physics)

A chiral phenomenon is one that is not identical to its mirror image (see the article on mathematical chirality).

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Chris Quigg

Chris Quigg (born December 15, 1944) is an American theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).

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Color charge

Color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

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CP violation

In particle physics, CP violation is a violation of CP-symmetry (or charge conjugation parity symmetry): the combination of C-symmetry (charge conjugation symmetry) and P-symmetry (parity symmetry).

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Curtis Callan

Curtis Gove Callan Jr. (born October 11, 1942) is an American theoretical physicist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University.

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D meson

The D mesons are the lightest particle containing charm quarks.

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David Gross

David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist.

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Davison Soper

Davison "Dave" Eugene Soper (21 March 1943, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in high energy physics.

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Electroweak interaction

In particle physics, the electroweak interaction or electroweak force is the unified description of two of the four known fundamental interactions of nature: electromagnetism (electromagnetic interaction) and the weak interaction.

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Estia J. Eichten

Estia Joseph Eichten (born 1946), is an American theoretical physicist, of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).

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In physics, extra dimensions are proposed additional space or time dimensions beyond the (3 + 1) typical of observed spacetime, such as the first attempts based on the Kaluza–Klein theory.

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Flavour (particle physics)

In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle.

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François Englert

François, Baron Englert (born 6 November 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate.

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Frank Wilczek

Frank Anthony Wilczek (or; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate.

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G. Peter Lepage

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Gauge theory

In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian, and hence the dynamics of the system itself, do not change under local transformations according to certain smooth families of operations (Lie groups).

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George Sterman

George Franklin Sterman (born June 2, 1946) is an American theoretical physicist and the Director of the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University where he holds the rank Distinguished Professor.

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George Zweig

George Zweig (born May 30, 1937) is an American physicist of Jewish origin.

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Gerald Guralnik

Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik (September 17, 1936 – April 26, 2014) was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University.

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Gluon

A gluon is a type of massless elementary particle that mediates the strong interaction between quarks, acting as the exchange particle for the interaction.

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Gordon L. Kane

Gordon Leon Kane (born January 19, 1937) is Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan and director emeritus at the Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics (LCTP), a leading center for the advancement of theoretical physics.

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Grand Unified Theory

Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is any model in particle physics that merges the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces (the three gauge interactions of the Standard Model) into a single force at high energies.

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Guido Altarelli

Guido Altarelli (12 July 1941 – 30 September 2015) was an Italian theoretical physicist.

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Hadron

In particle physics, a hadron is a composite subatomic particle made of two or more quarks held together by the strong interaction.

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Hadron collider

A hadron collider is a very large particle accelerator built to test the predictions of various theories in particle physics, high-energy physics or nuclear physics by colliding hadrons.

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Heavy quark effective theory

In quantum chromodynamics, heavy quark effective theory (HQET) is an effective field theory describing the physics of heavy (that is, of mass far greater than the QCD scale) quarks.

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Heinrich Leutwyler

Heinrich Leutwyler (born Oct 12, 1938) is a Swiss theoretical physicist, with interests in elementary particle physics, the theory of strong interactions, and quantum field theory.

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Helen Quinn

Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn (born 19 May 1943) is an Australian-born particle physicist and educator who has made major contributions to both fields.

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Hierarchy problem

In theoretical physics, the hierarchy problem is the problem concerning the large discrepancy between aspects of the weak force and gravity.

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Higgs boson

The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory.

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Higgs mechanism

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons.

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Howard E. Haber

Howard Eli Haber (born 3 February 1952 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American physicist, specializing in theoretical elementary particle physics.

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Howard Georgi

Howard Mason Georgi III (born January 6, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University.

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Hugh David Politzer

Hugh David Politzer (born August 31, 1949) is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

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Ian Hinchliffe

Ian Hinchliffe (born 1952) is a British physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Ikaros Bigi

Ikaros Bigi (born 27 August 1947) is a German theoretical physicist.

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Infrared safety

In quantum field theory, and especially asymptotically free quantum field theories, an observable is infrared safe if it does not depend on the low energy/long distance physics of the theory.

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Instanton

An instanton (or pseudoparticle) is a notion appearing in theoretical and mathematical physics.

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J. J. Sakurai

was a Japanese–American particle physicist and theorist.

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John C. Collins

John Clements Collins (born 1949) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University.

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John F. Gunion

John "Jack" Francis Gunion (born 21 July 1943 in Washington, DC) is an American physicist, specializing in theoretical high energy physics.

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John Iliopoulos

John (Jean) Iliopoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Ηλιόπουλος; 1940) is a Greek physicist.

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Kaon

In particle physics, a kaon, also called a K meson and denoted, is any of a group of four mesons distinguished by a quantum number called strangeness.

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Kenneth Lane (physicist)

Kenneth Douglas Lane is an American theoretical particle physicist and professor of physics at Boston University.

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Lance J. Dixon

Lance Jenkins Dixon (born 22 June 1961, in Pasadena, California) is an American theoretical particle physicist.

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Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider.

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Lattice gauge theory

In physics, lattice gauge theory is the study of gauge theories on a spacetime that has been discretized into a lattice.

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Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind (born June 16, 1940)his 60th birth anniversary was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.

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Lincoln Wolfenstein

Lincoln Wolfenstein (February 10, 1923 – March 27, 2015) was an American particle physicist who studied the weak interaction.

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Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and Frank B. Baird, Jr.

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List of awards named after people

This is a list of awards that are named after people.

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List of physics awards

This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.

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Little Higgs

In particle physics, little Higgs models are based on the idea that the Higgs boson is a pseudo-Goldstone boson arising from some global symmetry breaking at a TeV energy scale.

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Luciano Maiani

Luciano Maiani (born 16 July 1941, in Rome) is a Sammarinese physicist best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Glashow and John Iliopoulos (the "GIM mechanism").

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Makoto Kobayashi

is a Japanese physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one-fourth of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.".

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Mark B. Wise

Mark Brian Wise (born November 9, 1953, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist.

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Mary K. Gaillard

Mary Katharine Gaillard (born April 1, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist.

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Michael Dine

Michael Dine (born 12 August 1953) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics, supersymmetry, string theory, and physics beyond the Standard Model.

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Mikhail Shifman

Mikhail "Misha" Arkadyevich Shifman (Михаи́л Арка́дьевич Ши́фман; born 4 April 1949) is a theoretical physicist (high energy physics), formerly at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Ida Cohen Fine Professor of Theoretical Physics, William I.

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Mikhail Voloshin

Mikhail "Misha" Voloshin (May 14, 1953, Bucharest, Romania – March 20, 2020) was a Russian and American theoretical physicist.

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Nathan Isgur

Nathan Isgur (May 25, 1947 – July 24, 2001) was a theoretical physicist from the U.S. and Canada.

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Neutrino oscillation

Neutrino oscillation is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which a neutrino created with a specific lepton family number ("lepton flavor": electron, muon, or tau) can later be measured to have a different lepton family number.

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Nicola Cabibbo

Nicola Cabibbo (10 April 1935 – 16 August 2010) was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on the weak interaction.

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Nima Arkani-Hamed

Nima Arkani-Hamed (نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian, sns.ias.edu; accessed December 4, 2015.

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Peccei–Quinn theory

In particle physics, the Peccei–Quinn theory is a well-known, long-standing proposal for the resolution of the strong CP problem formulated by Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn in 1977.

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Peter Higgs

Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was an English theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008) Edit the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

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Physics beyond the Standard Model

Physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) refers to the theoretical developments needed to explain the deficiencies of the Standard Model, such as the inability to explain the fundamental parameters of the standard model, the strong CP problem, neutrino oscillations, matter–antimatter asymmetry, and the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

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Pierre Sikivie

Pierre Sikivie (born 29 October 1949) is an American theoretical physicist and currently the Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

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Pion

In particle physics, a pion or pi meson, denoted with the Greek letter pi, is any of three subatomic particles:,, and.

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Precision tests of QED

Quantum electrodynamics (QED), a relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics, is among the most stringently tested theories in physics.

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Quantum chromodynamics

In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the study of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons.

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Quantum field theory

In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines classical field theory, special relativity, and quantum mechanics.

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Quark

A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.

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Quarkonium

In particle physics, quarkonium (from quark and -onium, pl. quarkonia) is a flavorless meson whose constituents are a heavy quark and its own antiquark, making it both a neutral particle and its own antiparticle.

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R. Keith Ellis

Richard Keith Ellis, (born 17 November 1949) is a British theoretical physicist, working at the University of Durham, and a leading authority on perturbative quantum chromodynamics and collider phenomenology.

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Raman Sundrum

Raman Sundrum (born 1964) is an Indian-American theoretical particle physicist.

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Renormalization group

In theoretical physics, the term renormalization group (RG) refers to a formal apparatus that allows systematic investigation of the changes of a physical system as viewed at different scales.

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Robert Brout

Robert Brout (June 14, 1928 – May 3, 2011) was a Belgian-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions in elementary particle physics.

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Roberto Peccei

Roberto Daniele Peccei (January 6, 1942 – June 1, 2020) was a theoretical particle physicist whose principal interests lay in the area of electroweak interactions and in the interface between particle physics and physical cosmology.

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Sally Dawson

Sally Dawson is an American physicist who deals with theoretical elementary particle physics.

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Savas Dimopoulos

Savas Dimopoulos (Σάββας Δημόπουλος; born 1952) is a particle physicist at Stanford University.

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Solar neutrino

A solar neutrino is a neutrino originating from nuclear fusion in the Sun's core, and is the most common type of neutrino passing through any source observed on Earth at any particular moment.

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Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a spontaneous process of symmetry breaking, by which a physical system in a symmetric state spontaneously ends up in an asymmetric state.

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Standard Model

The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions – excluding gravity) in the universe and classifying all known elementary particles.

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Stanislav Mikheyev

Stanislav Pavlovich Mikheyev (Станисла́в Па́влович Михе́ев; 1940 – 23 April 2011) was a Russian physicist known for the discovery of the MSW effect.

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Stanley Brodsky

Stanley J. Brodsky (born January 9, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and emeritus professor in the SLAC Theory Group at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University.

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Stephen L. Adler

Stephen Louis Adler (born November 30, 1939) is an American physicist specializing in elementary particles and field theory.

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String theory

In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings.

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Strong CP problem

The strong CP problem is a question in particle physics, which brings up the following quandary: why does quantum chromodynamics (QCD) seem to preserve CP-symmetry? In particle physics, CP stands for the combination of charge conjugation symmetry (C) and parity symmetry (P).

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Strong interaction

In nuclear physics and particle physics, the strong interaction, also called the strong force or strong nuclear force, is a fundamental interaction that confines quarks into protons, neutrons, and other hadron particles.

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Supersymmetric gauge theory

In theoretical physics, there are many theories with supersymmetry (SUSY) which also have internal gauge symmetries.

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Supersymmetry

Supersymmetry is a theoretical framework in physics that suggests the existence of a symmetry between particles with integer spin (bosons) and particles with half-integer spin (fermions).

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Susumu Okubo

was a Japanese theoretical physicist at the University of Rochester.

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Thomas Appelquist

Thomas William Appelquist is a theoretical particle physicist who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale University.

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Toichiro Kinoshita

Tōichirō Kinoshita (木下東一郎, Kinoshita Tōichirō; January 23, 1925 – March 23, 2023) was a Japanese-born American theoretical physicist.

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Tom Kibble

Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble (23 December 1932 – 2 June 2016) was a British theoretical physicist, senior research investigator at the Blackett Laboratory and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.

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Top quark

The top quark, sometimes also referred to as the truth quark, (symbol: t) is the most massive of all observed elementary particles.

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Torbjörn Sjöstrand

Torbjörn Sjöstrand (born 13 November 1954) is a Swedish theoretical physicist and a professor at Lund University in Sweden, where he also got his PhD in 1982.

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Toshihide Maskawa

was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakurai_Prize

Also known as J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics.

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