Honoring Susumu Okubo –American Physical Society Sakurai Prize 2005 Reception: Thursday Oct. 21, 2004 BL271
3:30-4:00 pm
High Energy Physics at Rochester – A long history in both theory and experiment.
2005 J. J. Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics to : Susumu Okubo Professor of Physics University of Rochester (and UR PhD 58’)
"For ground breaking investigations into the pattern of hadronic masses and decay rates, which provided essential clues into the development
of the quark model, and for demonstrating that CP Violations permits partial decay rate asymmetries"
Prof. Okubo received his B.S. in Physics (1952) from the University of Tokyo, Japan and his Ph.D. in Physics (1958) from the University of Rochester. After one year of postdoctoral research at
Rochester he went to the University of Napoli, Italy (1959-60) and CERN, Switzerland (1960-61). He returned to the University of Rochester in 1962 as a Senior Research Associate in the Department
of Physics and was promoted to full Professor in 1964. He is the author of the book, Introduction to Octonian and Other Non-associative Algebras in Physics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995). He was
awarded a Nishina Prize in 1976 from the Nishina Foundation in Japan for his contributions to particle physics. He was a recipient of Guggenheim (1966) and Ford Foundation (1969) Fellowships.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Prof. Okubo's primary research interest is in the area of Theoretical High Energy Physics and mathematical physics. In particular, his recent works
have focused on applications of Lie algebras and other non-associative algebras in both physics and mathematics.
2004 Ikaros Bigi (Notre Dame) and Anthon Sanda (Ngoa) For pioneering theoretical insights that pointed the way to the very fruitful experimental study of CP violation in B decays, and for continuing contributions to
the fields of CP and heavy flavor physics.”
2003 Alfred Mueller (Columbia and George Sterman (SUNY Stony Brook) "For developing concepts and techniques in QCD, such as infrared safety and factorization in hard processes,
which permitted precise quantitative predictions and experimental tests, and thereby helped to establish QCD as the theory of the strong interactions."
2002 William J. Marciano (BNL) and Alberto Sirlin (NYU) "For their pioneering work on radiative corrections, which made precision electroweak studies a powerful method of probing the
Standard Model and searching for new physics."
2001 Nathan Isgur(Jlab), Mikhail Voloshin (Minnesota), Mark Wise (Caltech) For the construction of the heavy quark mass expansion and the discovery of the heavy quark symmetry in
quantum chromodynamics, which led to a quantitative theory of the decays of c and b flavored hadrons
2000 Curtis G. Callan, Jr. (Princeton) "For his classic formulation of the renormalization group, his contributions to instanton physics and to the theory of monopoles and strings.“
1999 Mikhail Shifman (Minnesota) , Arkady Vainshtein (Minnesota), and Valentine Zakharov (Max Plank) For fundamental contributions to the understanding of non-perturbative QCD,
non-leptonic weak decays, and the analytic properties of supersymmetric gauge theories."
1998 Leonard Susskind (Stanford) "For his pioneering contributions to hadronic string models, lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics, and dynamical symmetry breaking.“
1997 Thomas Appelquist (Yale) "For his pioneering work on charmonium and on the de-coupling of heavy particles.
1996 William A. Bardeen (Fermilab) "For fundamental insights into the structure and meaning of the axial anomaly and for contributions to the understanding of perturbative quantum
chromodynamics." 1995 Howard Georgi (Harvard) "For his pioneering contributions toward the unification of strong and electroweak interactions, and for his application of quantum
chromodynamics to the properties and interactions of hadrons."
1994 Yoichiro Nambu (Chicago) Color and QCD 1993 Mary K. Gaillard (LBL) – Electroweak 1992 Lincoln Wolfenstein - Neutrino Oscillations 1991 Vladimir N. Gribov - QCD
1990 Toichiro Kinoshita- Precision QED 1989 Nicola Cabibbo Quark weak mixing 1988 Stephen L. Adler (Princeton) – Current Algebra 1987 Luciano Maiani and John Iliopoulos - Quark
Mixing and Charm
1986 David Gross (Princeton), H. David Politzer (Caltech), and Frank Wilczek (MIT) - Discovery of QCD –Quark Model – Nobel Prize 2004
1985 Toshihide Maskawa and Makoto Kobayashi - Quark Mixing Angles
The winners of APS Panfosky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics ( since it was established in 1988) are:
2004 Arie Bodek (University of Rochester) "For his broad, sustained, and insightful contributions to elucidating
the structure of the nucleon, using a wide variety of probes, tools and methods at many laboratories."
2003 William Willis (Columbia University) "For his leading role in the development and exploitation of innovative techniques now widely
adopted in particle physics, including liquid argon calorimetry, electron identification by detection of transition radiation, and hyperon beams."
2002 Kajita Takaaki, Masatoshi Koshiba (Rochester PhD 55’) Nobel Prize 2002, Wolf Prize 2000, Roch. Dist. Scholar 2000)
and Yoji Totsuka (University of Tokyo) "For compelling experimental evidence for neutrino oscillations using atmospheric neutrinos."
2001 Paul Grannis (SUNY Stony Brook) "For his distinguished leadership and vision in the conception, design, construction, and execution of the D0
experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. His many contributions have been decisive in all aspects of the experiment."
2000 Martin Breidenbach (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) "For his many contributions to e+e- physics, especially with the SLD detector at the Stanford Linear
Collider. His deep involvement in all aspects of the project led to important advances both in the measurement of electroweak parameters and in accelerator technology."
1999 Edward H. Thorndike (University of Rochester) "For a leading role in milestone advances in the study of the b quark with the
CLEO collaboration; particularly the discovery and measurement of b semileptonic decay, the b to s Penguin decay process, and
the b to u weak transition. In addition, his contributions led to substantial improvements in understanding the flavor sector of the
Standard Model and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix of weak quark couplings."
1998 David Robert Nygren (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) "For the concept, development, and application of the time projection chamber (TPC), enabling unprecedented
studies of complex topologies of charged particles produced in high energy collisions of interest to both high energy and nuclear physics."
1997 Henning Schröder (DESY) and Yuri Zaitsev (Moscow Physical Technical Institute) "For their leading role in the first demonstration of mixing in the BO - B-O system. The
unexpectedly large value of the mixing parameter provided indirect evidence for a large top quark mass and has greatly enhanced the possibility for studying CP violation in B meson
decays. This capability has encouraged a worldwide effort to determine whether the small CP violation in K decay is a reflection of a fundamental parameter characterizing transitions
of quarks among the three generations."
1996 Gail G. Hanson (Indiana University) and Roy F. Schwitters (University of Texas - Austin ) "Gail Hanson and Roy Schwitters are honored for their separate contributions which
together provided the first clear evidence that hadronic final states in e+e? annihilation, which are largely composed of spin 0 and spin 1 particles, originate from the fragmentation of
spin 1/2 quarks. Gail Hanson observed hadron jets and determined the jet axis by developing and applying the spheric-ity analysis to the hadrons in e+ e? events. She showed that
events become more jet?like with increasing energy, contrary to what one expects from a simple phase space production mechanism. Using the beam polarization, she showed that
the observed azimuthal distribution of the jet axis was that expected from the production of spin 1/2 quarks that fragment into hadrons."
1995 Frank J. Sciulli (Columbia University) "For his contribution to a seminal set of high energy neutrino experiments at Fermilab. These experiments played an important role in
establishing the existence of weak neutral currents; they established accurate neutrino-nucleon cross sections and accurate values of basic electroweak parameters; they set
important limits on neutrino oscillations; and they fit sum rules that helped establish the physical reality of quarks."
1994 Thomas J. Devlin (Rutgers) and Lee G Pondrom (U W Madison) - Hyperon Magnetic Moments 1993 Robert B. Palmer (BNL) , Nicholas P. Samios (BNL) , and Ralph P. Shutt (BNL)
for Strange Hadrons
1992 Raymond Davis,Jr Nobel Prize 2002. and Frederick Reines Nobel Prize 1995 (UC Irvine) - Neutrino Detection 1991Gerson Goldhaber (LBL) and Francois Pierre
Charm Particles
1990 Michael S. Witherell (University of Santa Barbara) Charm Particle Decays using Silicon detectors
1989 Henry W. Kendall (MIT), Richard E. Taylor (SLAC), and Jerome I. Friedman (MIT) Discovery of Quarks – Nobel Prize 1990
1988 Charles Y. Prescott (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) - Parity Violation in e-d scattering – Standard Model