A theoretical nuclear physicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Moniz succeeds Steven Chu, the only other physicist to hold the post since the Department of Energy (DOE) was established in 1977.
«It's almost science fiction to be driving around antimatter in a truck,» says Charles Horowitz,
a theoretical nuclear physicist at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Not exact matches
According to
theoretical physicist Robert Fleischer of CERN, the European Organization for
Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland, the simplest explanation would be a massive, photonlike particle similar to known members of the standard model and capable of interacting directly with bottom quarks and strange antiquarks.
Iranian and U.S.
nuclear scientists have much to learn from each other, says Robert Rosner, a
theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago in Illinois and former director of Argonne National Laboratory.
The new
theoretical work of Brookhaven
physicist Swagato Mukherjee, Venugopalan, and former postdoc Yi Yin (now at MIT)-- part of a newly funded Beam Energy Scan Theory (BEST) Topical Collaboration in
Nuclear Theory — will provide a roadmap to guide the experimental researchers.
He was recently one of the invited artists working in collaboration with particle and
theoretical physicists at CERN European Organisation for
Nuclear Research.