Abstract:
I will describe my early experiences at SLAC, beginning in the late 60’s with the electron-proton scattering program which discovered point-like structure in the nucleon. I will then move to the beginnings of SPEAR and the November Revolution and a few of the almost concurrent discoveries. I will then shift to the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC), the detector SLD, and the physics we were able to do. Finally I discuss some hopes for a future linear collider to further study the Higgs.
About Professor Marty Breidenbach
Bio:
I was an undergraduate and graduate student at MIT, and I spent much of my graduate student career at SLAC on the electron-proton scattering program. After 2 years as an MIT postdoc at SLAC, I went to CERN and wound up working on the first experiment at the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR). After a year, Burt Richter persuaded me to return to SLAC where I have been ever since. My experimental efforts involved SPEAR, PEP, SLC, and EXO-200, along with substantial effort on the International Linear Collider (ILC) and the Cool Copper Collider (C3) and more recently, R&D on a retinal prosthesis. I am a fellow of the American Physical Society and the holder of the 2020 Panofsky Prize.
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