Anniversary
5 years bctp
John Ellis, London/CERN
The Higgs Boson and Beyond
Abstract
The discovery of the Higgs Boson at the LHC marks the culmination of a quest that has extended over half a century. It also marks the start of a new era in fundamental physics, opening new vistas in astrophysics and cosmology as well as particle physics.CV
John Ellis currently holds the Clerk Maxwell Professorship of Theoretical Physics at King's College in London. After obtaining a PhD from Cambridge University and post-doctoral positions at SLAC and Caltech, from 1973 to 2011 he worked at CERN (Geneva), where he was Theory Division Leader for six years.His research interests focus on the phenomenological aspects of elementary particle physics and its connections with astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity. Much of his work relates directly to experiment: interpreting results of searches for new particles and exploring the physics that could be done with future accelerators. A proposal he made in 1976 led to the discovery of the gluon in 1979, and he was one of the first to study how the Higgs boson could be produced and discovered. He has authored nearly a thousand scientific papers, with over fifty thousand citations in total. He is currently very active in efforts to understand the Higgs particle discovered recently at CERN, as well as its implications for possible new physics such as dark matter. He has long been an early protagonist of new particle accelerator projects, including the Large Electron-Positron (LEP), Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) and now future very large circular colliders at CERN. He is also known for his relentless efforts to promote global collaboration at CERN.
John Ellis was awarded the Maxwell Medal (1982) and the Paul Dirac Prize (2005) by the Institute of Physics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1985 and of the Institute of Physics in 1991, and is an Honorary Fellow of King's College Cambridge and of the Serbian Physical Society. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of Southampton, Uppsala University, the St Kliment Ohridski University, the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the University of Cape Town.
