Luciano Maiani

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Luciano Maiani
Maiani in 1996
Born (1941-06-16) June 16, 1941 (age 84)
Rome, Italy
Alma materSapienza University of Rome
Known forGIM mechanism
Charm quark
AwardsMatteucci Medal (1979)
Sakurai Prize (1987)
Dirac Medal (ICTP) (2007)
Bruno Pontecorvo Prize (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
InstitutionsSapienza University of Rome
CERN
INFN

Luciano Maiani (born 16 July 1941[1]) is a Sammarinese physicist. He is best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Glashow and John Iliopoulos (the "GIM mechanism").[2]

Academic history

In 1964 Luciano Maiani received his degree in physics and he became a research associate at the

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, but his nomination was suspended temporally after he signed a letter criticizing the rector of 'La Sapienza' University in Rome, who invited Pope Benedict XVI to give a lectio magistralis in 2008.[6]
However he became the President of CNR since 2008.

As of September 2020, he is a member of the Italian Aspen Institute.[7]

Research

Luciano Maiani has authored over 100 scientific publications on the theory of elementary particles often with several co-authors. In 1970 he predicted the

SLAC and Brookhaven in 1974 and led to a Nobel Prize in Physics for the discoverers. Working with Guido Altarelli in 1974 they explained that the observed octet enhancement in weak non-leptonic decays was due to a leading gluon exchange effect in quantum chromodynamics. They later extended this effect to describe the weak non-leptonic decays of charm and bottom quarks as well and also produced a parton model description of heavy flavor weak decays. In 1976 Maiani analyzed the CP violation in the six-quark theory and predicted the very small electric dipole moment of the neutron. In the 1980s he started using the numerical simulation of lattice QCD and this led to the first prediction of the decay constant of pseudoscalar charmed mesons and of B mesons
.

A proponent of supersymmetry, Maiani once said that the search for it was "primary goal of modern particle physics".[8] He has not confined his interest to the theoretical side of physics either, with involvement in ALPI, EUROBALL, DAFNE, VIRGO and the LHC.

Honors and awards

See also

References

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  1. ^ "Archives of Luciano Maiani (1941-), Director-General of CERN from 1999 to 2003". CERN. Archived from the original on November 1, 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  2. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.2.1285
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  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Professor Luciano Maiani is new President of CERN Council". CERN. Archived from the original on August 10, 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Professor Luciano Maiani chosen as next Director General of CERN". CERN. Archived from the original on August 10, 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  5. ^ "CERN Council looks to bright future". CERN. Archived from the original on August 10, 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Aprile Online; Gathering Information". www.it-romehotels.com.
  7. ^ executive Committee Archived 2010-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, aspeninstitute.it/
  8. ^ "CERN Press Release – Professor Luciano Maiani is chosen as next Director General of CERN". November 16, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-16.
  9. ^ a b c d "Curriculum vitae del Prof. LUCIANO MAIANI". www.cnr.it. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  10. ^ "J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics".
  11. ^ "The Dirac Medal | ICTP".
Preceded by
CERN Director General

1999 – 2003 		Succeeded by
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