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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
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d Anon (2010).
"Gavin Salam: Chercheur en Physique des particules" (PDF) . cnrs.fr . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 26 February 2014.
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d Anon (2011).
"Faces and Places: CNRS medals for particle and nuclear physics" .
CERN Courier . Archived from
the original on 13 August 2017.
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"2022 Paul Dirac Medal and Prize | Institute of Physics" . Retrieved 16 October 2023 .
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Gavin Salam publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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c Salam, Gavin P. (2017).
"Gavin Salam's home page" . gsalam.web.cern.ch .
CERN . Archived from
the original on 17 July 2007.
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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 . {{
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g Salam, Gavin P. (2017).
"Gavin P. Salam Profile" . inspirehep.net .
INSPIRE-HEP .
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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 .
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ORCID
0000-0002-2655-4373
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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 .
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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 .
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"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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