Particle Theory and Theoretical Cosmology—Dedicated to Professor Paul Howard Frampton on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 9739
Special Issue Editors
Interests: theoretical elementary particle physics; field theory; cosmology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This volume is dedicated to Paul Frampton's 80th birthday and his long, productive career in theoretical physics. His Oxford DPhil thesis in 1968 focused on current algebra and superconvergence sum rules, while other early work concerned the dual resonance model. He held postdoc positions at the University of Chicago, CERN, Syracuse, UCLA, and Harvard before settling at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980. Paul has made many contributions to a wide range of research areas, including particle theory, quantum field theory, string theory and cosmology. These include the chiral color model, the 331 model, models of family and flavor symmetry, anomalies in higher dimensions, the black hole entropy, the cyclic cosmology model, and primordial black hole dark matter theory. He has published over 500 papers, collaborated with 166 co-authors, including 3 Nobel winners, giving innumerable conference talks, colloquia and seminars. Paul is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. In 1987, he was the project director for the Superconducting Supercollider in North Carolina. From 1996, until his retirement, he was the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Salento, in Italy. Consequently, topics covered in this volume range widely, covering theoretical physics and including particle theory, particle phenomenology, BSM models, astro-particle physics, dark matter, dark energy, black hole entropy, early-universe thermodynamics, and cosmology. Submissions should also fall within the scope of the journal, i.e., that manuscripts contain entropy/thermodynamic-related content.
Prof. Dr. Thomas W. Kephart
Prof. Dr. Paul Howard Frampton
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- particle theory
- gauge anomalies
- particle phenomenology
- BSM models
- 331 model
- string phenomenology
- astro-particle physics
- dark matter
- dark energy
- black hole entropy
- early universe thermodynamics and cosmology
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