Gordon L. Kane

Gordon Leon Kane (born 19 January 1937) is an American theoretical physicist and winner of the 2017 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics. Quotes There are strong reasons to expect that low energy supersymmetry is the probable outcome of experimental and theoretical progress, and that it will soon be directly experimentally confirmed. By low energy, we mean (softly) broken supersymmetry with an effective soft Lagrangian whose mass parameters are typically of order the electroweak scale but otherwise not special or constrained. The Supersymmetry Soft-breaking Lagrangian — Where Experiment and String Theory Meet arXiv preprint hep-ph/0008190 2000 https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0008190 (quote on pp. 2–3) Actually, the situation today is surprising to many because almost all the data are in, so to speak. ... The two big gaps are what particle(s) make up the dark matter, and whether there is electroweak-scale supersymmetry. String theory and the real world 2017 Morgan & Claypool Publications https://books.google.com/books?id=PJCNDgAAQBAJ For our next colliders the goal is to provide data for a more comprehensive theory, hopefully one that incorporates dark matter, quantum gravity, and neutrino masses and solves the hierarchy problem. Column: The collider question Physics Today 14 March 2019 https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20190314a/full/ External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Physicists from the United States Category:1937 births Category:Living people Category:People from Saint Paul