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| Born | 1972 U.S. |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Harvard University, Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto, University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Large extra dimensions, deconstruction, Little Higgs |
| Notable awards | Phi Beta Kappa (2005) |
Nima Arkani-Hamed (Persian: نیما ارکانی-حامد) (born 1972) is a leading Persian-American theoretical physicist with interests in high-energy physics, string theory and cosmology.
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Academic career
Arkani-Hamed was born in 1972 in the U.S. to Iranian parents (also physicists) and became a Canadian citizen.
Arkani-Hamed graduated from the University of Toronto with a Joint Honours degree in Mathematics and Physics, and went to the University of California, Berkeley for his graduate studies, where he worked under the supervision of Lawrence Hall. He completed his PhD in 1997 and went to SLAC at Stanford University for post-doctoral studies. During this time he worked with Savas Dimopoulos on large extra dimensions.
In 1999 he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley physics department. He took a leave of absence from Berkeley to visit Harvard University in the spring 2001. Shortly after arriving at Harvard he worked with Howard Georgi and Andrew Cohen on the idea of emergent extra dimensions, dubbed dimensional deconstruction. These ideas eventually led to the development of little Higgs theories.
He officially joined Harvard's faculty in the fall of 2002. Arkani-Hamed has appeared on various television programs and newspapers talking about space, time and dimensions and the current state of theoretical physics. In the summer of 2005 while at Harvard he won the 'Phi Beta Kappa' award for teaching excellence.
Arkani-Hamed participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007.
He was a Professor of Physics at Harvard University from 2002-2008, and is now on the Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study.[1]
Selected works
- The paradigm of "large extra dimensions" (with Gia Dvali and Savas Dimopoulos):
- N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali (1998). "The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter". Phys. Lett. B 436: 263–272.
- I Antoniadis, N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali (1998). "New dimensions at a millimeter to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV". Phys. Lett. B 429: 257–263.
- N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, G. Dvali (1999). "Phenomenology, astrophysics and cosmology of theories with submillimeter dimensions and TeV scale quantum gravity". Phys. Rev. D 59: 086004. doi:.
- Deconstruction (with Howard Georgi and Andrew Cohen):
- N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, H. Georgi (2001). "(De)constructing dimensions". Phys. Rev. Lett. 86: 4757–4761. doi:.
- Little Higgs theories:
- N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, H. Georgi (2001). "Electroweak symmetry breaking from dimensional deconstruction". Phys. Lett. B. 513: 232–240. doi:.
- N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, T. Gregoire, J. G. Wacker (2002). "Phenomenology of electroweak symmetry breaking from theory space". JHEP 0208: 020. doi:.
- N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, T. Gregoire,E. Katz, A. E. Nelson, J. G. Wacker (2002). "The Minimal moose for a little Higgs". JHEP 0208: 021. doi:.
- N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, E. Katz, A. E. Nelson (2002). "The Littlest Higgs". JHEP 0207: 034. doi:.
- N. Arkani-Hamed, H.C. Cheng, M. A. Luty, S. Mukohyama (2004). "Ghost condensation and a consistent infrared modification of gravity". JHEP 0405: 074. doi:.
- Split supersymmetry (with Savas Dimopoulos):
- N. Arkani-Hamed,S. Dimopoulos (2005). "Supersymmetric unification without low energy supersymmetry and signatures for fine-tuning at the LHC". JHEP 0506: 073. doi:.
- N. Arkani-Hamed,S. Dimopoulos, G. F. Giudice, A. Romanino (2005). "Aspects of split supersymmetry". Nucl. Phys. B 0709: 3–46. doi:.
See also
References
External links
- Elizabeth Landau, "Colliding with nature's best-kept secrets", CNN, 9 May 2008 (accessed 10 May 008).
- Arkani-Hamed's papers in SPIRES database
- Faculty page at Harvard University
- Stock Exchange Of Visions: Visions of Nima Arkani-Hamed (Video Interviews)
