Tomasz Robert Taylor

Tomasz Robert Taylor
Born (1954-02-23) February 23, 1954 (age 70)
Poznań, Poland
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Known forParke–Taylor amplitudes
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsNortheastern University
Fermilab
CERN
University of Warsaw
Doctoral advisorStefan Pokorski

Tomasz Robert Taylor (born February 23, 1954) is a Polish-American theoretical physicist and faculty at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Warsaw, Poland in 1981 under the supervision of Stefan Pokorski. He is a descendant of John Taylor who originated from Fraserburgh in Scotland and emigrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth c.1676.

He is known for his discovery, with Stephen Parke, of Parke–Taylor amplitudes, also known as maximally helicity violating (MHV) amplitudes;[1] his pioneering use of supersymmetry for computing scattering amplitudes in quantum chromodynamics;[2] his seminal work, with Ignatios Antoniadis, Edi Gava and Kumar Narain, on topological string amplitudes;[3] his formulation, with Ignatios Antoniadis and Hervé Partouche, of the first four-dimensional quantum field theory with partial supersymmetry breaking;[4] his extensive studies, with Stephan Stieberger, of superstring scattering amplitudes.[5]

Honors

References

  1. ^ Parke, Stephen J.; Taylor, T. R. (1986). "Amplitude for n-Gluon Scattering". Physical Review Letters. 56 (23): 2459–2460. Bibcode:1986PhRvL..56.2459P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2459. PMID 10032998.
  2. ^ Parke, Stephen J.; Taylor, T. R. (1985). "Perturbative QCD utilizing extended supersymmetry". Physics Letters B. 157 (1): 81–84. Bibcode:1985PhLB..157...81P. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(85)91216-X.
  3. ^ Antoniadis, I.; Gava, E.; Narain, K. S.; Taylor, T. R. (1994). "Topological amplitudes in string theory". Nuclear Physics B. 413 (1): 162–184. arXiv:hep-th/9307158. Bibcode:1994NuPhB.413..162A. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90617-3. S2CID 15426291.
  4. ^ Antoniadis, I.; Partouche, H.; Taylor, T. R. (1996). "Spontaneous breaking of N = 2 global supersymmetry". Physics Letters B. 372 (1): 83–87. arXiv:hep-th/9512006. Bibcode:1996PhLB..372...83A. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00028-7. S2CID 118882758.
  5. ^ Stieberger, Stephan; Taylor, Tomasz R. (2014). "Closed string amplitudes as single-valued open string amplitudes". Nuclear Physics B. 881 (Supplement C): 269–287. arXiv:1401.1218. Bibcode:2014NuPhB.881..269S. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.02.005. S2CID 119174893. and references therein.


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