Theoretical particle physicist
Gavin Phillip Salam , FRS [ 6] is a theoretical particle physicist and a senior research fellow at All Souls College as well as a senior member of staff at CERN in Geneva. His research investigates the strong interaction of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of quarks and gluons .[ 4] [ 8] [ 9] Gavin Salam is not related to Abdus Salam .[ 10]
Education
Salam was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle [ 1] in London and the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993[ 7] followed by a PhD in particle physics in 1996.[ 7] [ 11] His doctoral thesis was titled "Quarkonium scattering at high energies".[ 12] During his postgraduate study he was based in the Cavendish Laboratory where his research investigated the scattering of Quarkonium [ 12] funded by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC).[ 13] [ 14]
Research and career
Salam's research explores the ways in which QCD can be exploited to understand elementary particle interactions, notably the Higgs boson , and also how it can be harnessed in the search for new particles.[ 6] He has made significant contributions to the understanding of the structure of the proton and of jets (cones of hadrons) ,[ 15] [ 16] [ 17] [ 18] [ 19] the signatures of quarks and gluons produced in high-energy collisions. He invented the most widely used approach for identifying jets at the Large Hadron Collider .[ 6]
Before working at CERN, Salam held appointments at Princeton University [ 7] in the United States and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Milan .[ 7] [ 6] He joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 2000, in the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE)[ 20] attached to the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.[ 2]
Salam appeared with Jon Butterworth in the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) documentary Colliding Particles – Hunting the Higgs , which follows a team of physicists trying to find the Higgs Boson.[ 21]
Awards and honours
Salam was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017 ,[ 6] awarded the Médaille d'argent (Silver Medal) of the CNRS in 2010,[ 2] [ 1] and the IOP Dirac Prize in 2023.
References
^ a b c d Anon (2010). "Gavin Salam: Chercheur en Physique des particules" (PDF) . cnrs.fr . Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2014.
^ a b c d Anon (2011). "Faces and Places: CNRS medals for particle and nuclear physics" . CERN Courier . Archived from the original on 13 August 2017.
^ "2022 Paul Dirac Medal and Prize | Institute of Physics" . Retrieved 16 October 2023 .
^ a b Gavin Salam publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ a b c Salam, Gavin P. (2017). "Gavin Salam's home page" . gsalam.web.cern.ch . CERN . Archived from the original on 17 July 2007.
^ a b c d e f Anon (2017). "Dr Gavin Salam FRS" . royalsociety.org . London: Royal Society . Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies" . Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016 .{{cite web }}
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^ a b c d e f g Salam, Gavin P. (2017). "Gavin P. Salam Profile" . inspirehep.net . INSPIRE-HEP .
^ Gavin Salam publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Beringer, J.; et al. (2012). "Review of Particle Physics" . Physical Review D . 86 (1): 010001. Bibcode :2012PhRvD..86a0001B . doi :10.1103/PhysRevD.86.010001 . hdl :10481/34377 .
^ Butterworth, Jon (20 August 2011). "Lepton-Photon, and some hadrons, in Mumbai" . The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 12 January 2024 .
^ ORCID 0000-0002-2655-4373
^ a b Salam, Gavin Phillip (1996). Quarkonium scattering at high energies (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894607524 . ProQuest 301530682 .
^ Mueller, A.H.; Salam, G.P. (1996). "Large multiplicity fluctuations and saturation effects in onium collisions". Nuclear Physics B . 475 (1– 2): 293– 317. arXiv :hep-ph/9605302 . Bibcode :1996NuPhB.475..293M . doi :10.1016/0550-3213(96)00336-7 . S2CID 18245861 .
^ Salam, G.P. (1995). "Multiplicity distribution of colour dipoles at small x ". Nuclear Physics B . 449 (3): 589– 601. arXiv :hep-ph/9504284 . Bibcode :1995NuPhB.449..589S . doi :10.1016/0550-3213(95)00299-8 . S2CID 18194851 .
^ Salam, Gavin P. (2010). "Towards jetography". European Physical Journal C . 67 (3– 4): 637– 686. arXiv :0906.1833 . Bibcode :2010EPJC...67..637S . doi :10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1314-6 . S2CID 119184431 .
^ Cacciari, Matteo; Salam, Gavin P. (2006). "Dispelling the N 3 myth for the K t jet-finder". Physics Letters B . 641 (1): 57– 61. arXiv :hep-ph/0512210 . Bibcode :2006PhLB..641...57C . doi :10.1016/j.physletb.2006.08.037 . S2CID 16074416 .
^ Cacciari, Matteo; Salam, Gavin P.; Soyez, Gregory (2012). "FastJet user manual". The European Physical Journal C . 72 (3): 1896. arXiv :1111.6097 . Bibcode :2012EPJC...72.1896C . doi :10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1896-2 . S2CID 254104815 .
^ Cacciari, Matteo; Salam, Gavin P; Soyez, Gregory (2008). "The anti-k t jet clustering algorithm". Journal of High Energy Physics . 2008 (4): 063. arXiv :0802.1189 . Bibcode :2008JHEP...04..063C . doi :10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/063 .
^ Butterworth, Jonathan M. ; Davison, Adam R.; Rubin, Mathieu; Salam, Gavin P. (2008). "Jet Substructure as a New Higgs-Search Channel at the Large Hadron Collider". Physical Review Letters . 100 (24): 242001. arXiv :0802.2470 . Bibcode :2008PhRvL.100x2001B . doi :10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.242001 . PMID 18643577 . S2CID 119200850 .
^ "Gavin Salam at LPTHE" . lpthe.jussieu.fr . Archived from the original on 4 June 2002.
^ Anon (2009). "Colliding Particles – Hunting the Higgs" . collidingparticles.com .
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