Gavin Salam

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][9][10]

Gavin Salam FRS
Gavin Salam at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
Born	Gavin Phillip Salam 1972/1973 (age 47–48)[1]
Education	Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle[2]
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)[3]
Awards	Médaille d'argent du CNRS (2010)[2][1]
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics[4]
Institutions	University of Oxford[5] CERN[5] CNRS[6] Princeton University[3] Pierre and Marie Curie University[5] Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare[3]
Thesis	Quarkonium scattering at high energies (1996)
Influences	Bryan Webber[7] Alfred Mueller[8]
Website	cern.ch/gsalam

Education

Salam was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle[2] in London and the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993[3] followed by a PhD in particle physics in 1996.[3][11][12] During his postgraduate study he was based in the Cavendish Laboratory where his research investigated the scattering of Quarkonium[11] funded by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC).[8][7]

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),[13][14][15][16][17] 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[3] in the United States and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Milan.[3][6] He joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 2000, in the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE)[18] attached to the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.[1]

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.[19]

Awards and honours

Salam was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017[6] and awarded the Médaille d'argent (Silver Medal) of the CNRS in 2010.[1][2]

References

1. Anon (2011). "Faces and Places: CNRS medals for particle and nuclear physics". CERN Courier. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017.
2. Anon (2010). "Gavin Salam: Chercheur en Physique des particules" (PDF). cnrs.fr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2014.
3. Salam, Gavin P. (2017). "Gavin P. Salam Profile". inspirehep.net. INSPIRE-HEP.
4. Gavin Salam publications indexed by Google Scholar
5. Salam, Gavin P. (2017). "Gavin Salam's home page". gsalam.web.cern.ch. CERN. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007.
6. 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.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)

7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Gavin Salam publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
10. Beringer, J.; et al. (2012). "Review of Particle Physics". Physical Review D. 86 (1): 010001. Bibcode:2012PhRvD..86a0001B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.010001.
11. Salam, Gavin Phillip (1996). Quarkonium scattering at high energies (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894607524. ProQuest 301530682.
12. ORCID 0000-0002-2655-4373
13. 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.
14. Cacciari, Matteo; Salam, Gavin P. (2006). "Dispelling the N³ 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. "Gavin Salam at LPTHE". lpthe.jussieu.fr. Archived from the original on 4 June 2002.
19. Anon (2009). "Colliding Particles – Hunting the Higgs". collidingparticles.com.