Lance J. Dixon

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Lance Dixon is professor and chair of the Particle Physics and Astrophysics Department at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~lance/. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 from Princeton University and has been at SLAC since 1988. He studies elementary particle theory and its applications to collider physics. In 2008 he was recognized as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society, and in 2014 he was a co-recipient of the J. J. Sakurai Prize of the APS for his work on scattering amplitudes.


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Particle Scattering Simplified

A new formula for the scattering of massless particles may simplify predictions and analyses of LHC experiments and shed new light on quantum gravity theories. Read More »