Prof. Dr. Michal Czakon

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsTheoretical Physics,Elementary Particle Physics
KeywordsAutomatic Monte Carlo Generators at NLO, Computer Algebra, Electroweak Standard Model, Heavy Particle Production at Colliders, Perturbative QCD
Honours and awards

2009: Heisenberg-Professur der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft

2004: Sofja-Kovalevskaja Preis der Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityAachen
InstitutionRheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH)
InstituteInstitut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik und Kosmologie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang HollikInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. Reinhold RücklFakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2001

Programme(s)

2000Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2004Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Elementary particle physics investigates the fundamental structure of matter. The most important questions that await answers are: Where does the mass of the building blocks of nature come from? What makes the invisible part of the matter in the universe? What is the microscopic structure of space and time? These and many other related problems should be solved by the future international colliders, like the Large Hadron Collider at the Centre Europeen de Physique Nucleaire (CERN) near Geneva. However, the search for answers still reminds of the proverbial needle in a haystack. Michal Czakon and his group will make predictions and develop software for the necessary high energy experiments. This will make it easier to examine the existence and characteristics of new elementary particles - such as the Higgs boson, the discovery of which should explain many of the questions, most importantly, the origin of mass of all the other particles.

Publications (partial selection)

1999Michal Czakon, M. Zralek, J. Gluza: Are Neutrinos Dirac or Majorana Particles ?. In: Acta Physica Polonica B, 1999, 3121-3138
1999Michal Czakon: Radiative Corrections to the Left-Right Model. In: Acta Physica Polonica B, 1999, 3365-3372