Prof. Dr. Howard E. Haber

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Physics,Elementary Particle Physics
KeywordsSupersymmetry, Particle Physics, Phenomenology, Higgs
Honours and awards

2023: American Physical Society Outstanding Referee

2018: Simons GGI Visiting Scientist Fellowship, The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Arcetri, Florence, Italy

2015: Co-recipient of the American Physical Society J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics

2009: Alexander von Humboldt Research Award

1998: Frontier Fellow, Fermilab

1993: Fellow of the American Physical Society

1985: Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CitySanta Cruz
InstitutionUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
InstituteSanta Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
Homepagehttp://scipp.ucsc.edu/~haber/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Manuel DreesPhysikalisches Institut, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Herbert DreinerPhysikalisches Institut, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2009

Programme(s)

2009Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Haber is a specialist in theoretical elementary particle physics. He is highly renowned for his work on collider physics and the physics of Higgs bosons. He is a co-author of "The Higgs Hunter's Guide", which provided a blueprint for Higgs searches at current and future colliders. He has made several pioneering contributions to the field of supersymmetry phenomenology, and co-authored one of the major early reviews that subsequently defined this field. Prof. Haber has also written a number of seminal papers on the properties of Higgs bosons in supersymmetric theories. In particular, this work demonstrated that there is an upper bound for the mass of the lightest Higgs boson of the supersymmetric Standard Model, which (when radiative corrections are taken into account) cannot be more than about 135 GeV. The search for Higgs bosons in this mass range is one of the key activities of the LHC. Prof. Haber is a regular contributor to the Particle Data Group's Review of Particle Physics. In Germany, he will continue his work on LHC physics, focusing on the new upcoming data, with the hope of finding evidence for and interpretations of new physics beyond the Standard Model.