Kenneth Lane (physicist)
{{Short description|American physicist}}
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| name = Kenneth Lane
| image = Kenneth-lane.JPG
| caption = Kenneth Lane at Harvard University, 2005
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| nationality = American
| known_for = Technicolor
Charmonium
Cornell potential
| alma_mater = Georgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University{{MathGenealogy|id=85948|title=Kenneth Douglas Lane}}
| thesis_title = Chiral Symmetry Breaking and the K3 and K4 Form Factors
| thesis_year = 1970
| doctoral_advisor = Chung Wook Kim
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| work_institution = Boston University
| prizes = Sakurai Prize (2011)
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Kenneth Douglas Lane is an American theoretical particle physicist and professor of physics at Boston University. Lane is best known for his role in the development of extended technicolor models of physics beyond the Standard Model.{{cite journal |author1=Estia Eichten |author2=Kenneth Lane | title=Dynamical breaking of weak interaction symmetries | journal=Physics Letters | volume=B90 | year=1980 |issue=1–2 | pages=125–130 | doi=10.1016/0370-2693(80)90065-9|bibcode = 1980PhLB...90..125E }}
Career
Lane received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was a student of Chung Wook Kim at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970.[http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hepnames/wwwhist?irn=216674 Kenneth D. Lane on Spires] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120805235640/http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hepnames/wwwhist?irn=216674 |date=2012-08-05 }}.[http://physics.bu.edu/people/show/lane Faculty page] at Boston University.
His physics research focuses on the problems of electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking. With Estia J. Eichten, Lane co-invented extended technicolor. He and Eichten also contributed to early work on charmonium with Kurt Gottfried, Tom Kinoshita and Tung-Mow Yan.{{cite journal |author1=E. Eichten |author2=K. Gottfried |author3=T. Kinoshita |author4=J. Kogut |author5=K. D. Lane |author6=T.-M. Yan | title=Spectrum of Charmed Quark-Antiquark Bound States | journal=Physical Review Letters | volume=34 | pages=369–372 | year=1975 |issue=6 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.369 | bibcode=1975PhRvL..34..369E}}{{cite journal |author1=E. Eichten |author2=K. Gottfried |author3=T. Kinoshita |author4=K. D. Lane |author5=T.-M. Yan | title=Charmonium: The Model | journal=Physical Review | volume=D17 | pages=3090–3117 | year=1978 |issue=11 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.17.3090|bibcode = 1978PhRvD..17.3090E }}{{cite journal |author1=E. Eichten |author2=K. Gottfried |author3=T. Kinoshita |author4=K. D. Lane |author5=Tung-Mow Yan | title=Charmonium: Comparison With Experiment | journal=Physical Review | volume=D21 | pages=203–233 | year=1980 |issue=1 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.21.203|bibcode = 1980PhRvD..21..203E }}
In 1984 he coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with Eichten, Ian Hinchliffe and Chris Quigg), which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders such as the Fermilab Tevatron the SSC, and the LHC at CERN.{{cite journal |author1=E. Eichten |author2=I. Hinchliffe |author3=K. Lane |author4=C. Quigg | title=Supercollider Physics | journal=Reviews of Modern Physics | volume=56 | pages=579–707 | year=1984 |issue=4 | doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.56.579 | bibcode=1984RvMP...56..579E}} In 2011 Dr Lane with Chris Quigg, Estia Eichten, and Ian Hinchliffe won the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics "For their work, separately and collectively, to chart a course of the exploration of TeV scale physics using multi-TeV hadron colliders" [http://www.aps.org/units/dpf/awards/sakurai.cfm American Physical Society - J. J. Sakurai Prize Winners]
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1990 "for original contributions to the theory of electroweak symmetry breaking and Supercollider physics" {{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1990&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|publisher=APS|accessdate= 7 October 2020}}
References
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External links
- [http://physics.bu.edu/people/show/lane Profile] at Boston University.
- Lane's [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/wwwhepau/wwwscan?rawcmd=Lane,+Kenneth+D. publications on SPIRES]{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.
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