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| Born | (1949-11-15) 15 November 1949 (age 75) |
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| Thesis | Applications of perturbation theory to the high energy scattering of elementary particles. (1975) |
Christopher Tadeusz Czeslaw Sachrajda FRS (born 15 November 1949) is a British physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Southampton since 1990.
Education
Sachrajda earned his doctorate from Imperial College London in 1974. His thesis was entitled Applications of perturbation theory to the high energy scattering of elementary particles.
Research
Sachrajda has made contributions to the development of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong interactions. His work on the factorisation of mass singularities led to the perturbative prediction of many physical quantities in strong interaction physics. With others, he pioneered the calculation of higher-order corrections to deep inelastic structure functions, which has led to detailed tests of QCD and the determination of the momentum distribution of quarks and gluons inside the proton. He has played a leading role in the development of the lattice formulation of QCD into a quantitative non-perturbative technique and in the use of this formulation to compute, from first principles, a number of physical quantities, including deep inelastic structure functions, electromagnetic form factors of hadrons and semi-leptonic decays of charmed mesons.
Awards and honours
Sachrajda was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1996.
References
- "Staff - Physics and Astronomy". University of Southampton. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2008.
- ^ "SACHRAJDA, Prof. Christopher Tadeusz Czeslaw". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "Christopher T. Sachrajda | www.hep.phys.soton.ac.uk". Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
- ^ "Christopher Sachrajda". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate text from the royalsociety.org website where "all text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence." "Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 20 February 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
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