Joseph Lykken

Lykken was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He is the son of David T. Lykken, noted psychologist, behavioral geneticist, and twin researcher.

Lykken received his Ph.D. in 1982 from M.I.T. He arrived at Fermilab in 1989, where he worked in the Fermilab Theory Division,{{cite web|title=Fermilab Theory Division|url=https://theory.fnal.gov/|accessdate=13 August 2024}} and as a collaborator of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.Joseph D. Lykken Theoretical Physics Dept MS106. [http://home.fnal.gov/~lykken/ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory]

In 1983 Lykken's paper with Lawrence Hall and Steven Weinberg helped establish the minimal supersymmetric standard model as a leading paradigm for physics beyond the Standard Model.{{cite journal|title=Supergravity as the messenger of supersymmetry breaking|date=1983 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.27.2359 |url=https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.27.2359|accessdate=13 August 2024 |last1=Hall |first1=Lawrence |last2=Lykken |first2=Joe |last3=Weinberg |first3=Steven |journal=Physical Review D |volume=27 |issue=10 |pages=2359–2378 |bibcode=1983PhRvD..27.2359H |url-access=subscription }}

In 1996 Lykken proposed "weak scale superstrings," {{cite journal|title=Weak Scale Superstrings|date=1996 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.54.R3693 |url=https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.54.R3693|accessdate=13 August 2024 |last1=Lykken |first1=Joseph D. |journal=Physical Review D |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=R3693–R3697 |pmid=10021103 |arxiv=hep-th/9603133 |bibcode=1996PhRvD..54.3693L }} which posited extra dimensions of space within the reach of particle colliders, such as the Fermilab Tevatron, and the CERN Large Hadron Collider. As a member of the

CMS collaboration, he was co-author of the Higgs boson

discovery paper,{{cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269312008581|title=Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC|date=2012 |doi=10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021 |bibcode=2012PhLB..716...30C |accessdate=13 August 2024 |last1=Chatrchyan |first1=S. |last2=Khachatryan |first2=V. |last3=Sirunyan |first3=A.M. |last4=Tumasyan |first4=A. |last5=Adam |first5=W. |last6=Aguilo |first6=E. |last7=Bergauer |first7=T. |last8=Dragicevic |first8=M. |last9=Erö |first9=J. |last10=Fabjan |first10=C. |last11=Friedl |first11=M. |last12=Frühwirth |first12=R. |last13=Ghete |first13=V.M. |last14=Hammer |first14=J. |last15=Hoch |first15=M. |last16=Hörmann |first16=N. |last17=Hrubec |first17=J. |last18=Jeitler |first18=M. |last19=Kiesenhofer |first19=W. |last20=Knünz |first20=V. |last21=Krammer |first21=M. |last22=Krätschmer |first22=I. |last23=Liko |first23=D. |last24=Majerotto |first24=W. |last25=Mikulec |first25=I. |last26=Pernicka |first26=M. |last27=Rahbaran |first27=B. |last28=Rohringer |first28=C. |last29=Rohringer |first29=H. |last30=Schöfbeck |first30=R. |journal=Physics Letters B |volume=716 |issue=1 |pages=30–61 |display-authors=1 |arxiv=1207.7235 }} and with Maurizio Pierini, Chris Rogan, and Maria Spiropulu, developed a new set of kinematic variables ("razor") targeting the discovery and characterization of new physics at the LHC.

Since 2018 he has been a member of the Quantum Communications Channels for Fundamental Physics (QCCFP) project, supported by the

QuantISED program of the U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of High Energy Physics.{{cite web|title=HEP Quantum Information Science|url=https://science.osti.gov/hep/Research/Quantum-Information-Science-QIS|accessdate=13 August 2024}} Accomplishments of this project include the first laboratory demonstration of traversable

wormhole teleportation, using a Google Sycamore quantum processor.{{cite journal|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3|title=Nature article: Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor|journal=Nature |date=December 2022 |volume=612 |issue=7938 |pages=51–55 |doi=10.1038/s41586-022-05424-3 |accessdate=13 August 2024 |last1=Jafferis |first1=Daniel |last2=Zlokapa |first2=Alexander |last3=Lykken |first3=Joseph D. |last4=Kolchmeyer |first4=David K. |last5=Davis |first5=Samantha I. |last6=Lauk |first6=Nikolai |last7=Neven |first7=Hartmut |last8=Spiropulu |first8=Maria |pmid=36450904 }}

Lykken is a former member and subpanel chair of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which advises the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. He was a Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics in Aspen, Colorado. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS){{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|publisher=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=L}} and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),{{cite news|url=http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031106/aaas.shtml|author=Steve Koppes|title=Nine on faculty elected 2003 AAAS fellows|work=University of Chicago Chronicle|volume=78|number=4|date=November 6, 2003}} and is former chair of the APS Division of Particles and Fields.

Lykken's publications are available on the INSPIRE-HEP Literature Database [http://inspirehep.net/].

{{Reflist}}

• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arzr4KWhamU&t=1452s World Science Festival: "Did Einstein Crack the Biggest Problem in Physics...and Not Know It?"]
• [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2470227/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Joseph Lykken on the Internet Movie Database]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOJCS1W1uzg&t=13s Quanta Magazine: "How Physicists Created a Holographic Wormhole in a Quantum Computer"]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGBQW4z0qW8 Fermilab public lecture: "Wormholes in the laboratory"]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no3qLqUYBLo World Science Festival: "Beyond Higgs: The Wild Frontier of Particle Physics"]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHp90wAiXI&t=14s SETI Institute: "The Higgs Boson and the Fate of the Universe"]
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/science/26essay.html Physics of the Universe Summit]
• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103328.html "...Joe Lykken is a very smart guy..."] Washington Post article 2008-04-11
• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95472352&ft=1&f=1001 Nobel Honors Glimpse Into Universe's Design] "We'd been talking about it for years" says Lykken
• [https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/J.D.Lykken.1 Scientific publications of Joseph Lykken] on INSPIRE-HEP

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