David W. Hertzog

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David William Hertzog (born July 21, 1955) is an American particle physicist, known for his research in precision muon physics.[1][2][3]

Biography[edit]

Hertzog graduated in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in physics from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He received his doctorate in 1983 from the College of William & Mary. As a postdoc, from 1983 to 1986 he was a research associate at Carnegie Mellon University. At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign he was from 1986 to 1992 an assistant professor, from 1992 to 1997 an associate professor, and from 1997 to 2010 a full professor. In 2010 he became a professor at the University of Washington, where he is Arthur B. McDonald Distinguished Professor of Physics and director of the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA).[4]

Hertzog has gained an international reputation for precision measurements of the muon. At Brookhaven National Laboratory in the early 2000s he played an important role in measurements of the muon magnetic anomaly.[5][6][7][8] At the Paul Scherrer Institute, he was a co-leader of the science team for the MuLan experiment that measured the muon lifetime to 1-ppm and determined the Fermi constant to 0.5-ppm.[9] In 2021 he collaborated in the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment that found a statistical discrepancy for the positive muon magnetic anomaly between the experimental value and the Standard Model prediction.[10]

Hertzog developed Pb/SciFi (lead / scintillating fiber) calorimeters[11] and other novel instrumentation including the suite of PbF2 calorimeters now used in high-precision measurements of the muon g-factor.[1]

He was elected in 2000 a Fellow der American Physical Society[12] and was awarded in 2004 a Guggenheim Fellowship.[13] In 2022 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics for "advancing the frontiers of understanding nature's fundamental symmetries via unprecedented precision studies of the muon, including its lifetime, its anomalous magnetic moment, and its measurement by the pseudoscalar coupling constant."[1]

In 1980 he married Nancy Beitman.[14] At the University of Washington she is a Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development.[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "2022 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient, David W Hertzog". American Physical Society.
  2. ^ Gorringe, T.P.; Hertzog, D.W. (2015). "Precision muon physics". Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 84: 73–123. arXiv:1506.01465. Bibcode:2015PrPNP..84...73G. doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2015.06.001. S2CID 19398793.
  3. ^ Hertzog, David W. (2004). "Muons: Particles of the moment". Physics World. 17 (3): 29–34. doi:10.1088/2058-7058/17/3/31.
  4. ^ "Professor David W. Hertzog, Physics Department". University of Washington.
  5. ^ Danby, G.T.; et al. (2001). "The Brookhaven muon storage ring magnet". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 457 (1–2): 151–174. Bibcode:2001NIMPA.457..151D. doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(00)00704-X. S2CID 52238553.
  6. ^ Bennett, G. W.; et al. (2004). "Measurement of the Negative Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.7 PPM". Physical Review Letters. 92 (16): 161802. arXiv:hep-ex/0401008. Bibcode:2004PhRvL..92p1802B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.161802. PMID 15169217. S2CID 3183567.
  7. ^ Hertzog, D. W.; Morse, W. M. (2004). "The Brookhaven muon anomalous magnetic moment experiment". Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 54: 141–174. Bibcode:2004ARNPS..54..141H. doi:10.1146/annurev.nucl.53.041002.110618.
  8. ^ Bennett, G. W.; et al. (2006). "Final report of the E821 muon anomalous magnetic moment measurement at BNL". Physical Review D. 73 (7): 072003. arXiv:hep-ex/0602035. Bibcode:2006PhRvD..73g2003B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.072003. S2CID 53539306.
  9. ^ Carey, R.; Gorringe, T.; Hertzog, D. (2021). "Mulan: a part-per-million measurement of the muon lifetime and determination of the Fermi constant". SciPost Physics Proceedings. 5 (5): 016. arXiv:2108.09182. doi:10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.5.016. S2CID 231932008. arXiv preprint
  10. ^ Abi, B.; et al. (2021). "Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.46 PPM". Physical Review Letters. 126 (14): 141801. arXiv:2104.03281. Bibcode:2021PhRvL.126n1801A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.141801. PMID 33891447. S2CID 233169085.
  11. ^ Hertzog, D.W.; Debevec, P.T.; Eisenstein, R.A.; Graham, M.A.; Hughes, S.A.; Reimer, P.E.; Tayloe, R.L. (1990). "A high-resolution lead /Scintillating fiber electromagnetic calorimeter". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 294 (3): 446–458. Bibcode:1990NIMPA.294..446H. doi:10.1016/0168-9002(90)90285-E.
  12. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=2000 and institution=University of Illinois)
  13. ^ "David W. Hertzog". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  14. ^ "Nancy Beitman Weds David Hertzog". Jewish Post, Indianapolis.
  15. ^ "Nancy Hertzog". National Association for Gifted Children.

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