Ikaros I. Bigi

Grace-Rupley II Professor
Theoretical High Energy Physics

Research Interests
Prof. Bigi shares the widespread belief that hitherto unknown 'new physics' awaits discovery. His research has focused on refining the standard model phenomenology for the decays of hadrons carrying the quantum numbers strangeness, charm and beauty and on electric dipole moments to use them as 'indirect' searches for 'new physics' like supersymmetry. He is concentrating on rare weak decays and particle-antiparticle oscillations, in particular when CP symmetry and time reversal invariance are broken. In 2001 the B factories in Stanford and Japan have found the first CP violation outside K_L decays in , as predicted by Sanda and Bigi in 1980. Ever more refined measurements will probe the validity of the SM even more deeply over the next ten years.

Selected Publications:

“Lifetimes of Charm and Beauty Hadrons,” G. Bellini, I.I. Bigi, P. Dornan, Phys. Rep. 289 (1997) 591.

“Aspects of Heavy Quark Theory,” I.I. Bigi, M. Shifman, N. Uraltsev, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 47 (1997) 591.

“CP Violation,” I.I. Bigi, A.I. Sanda, Cambridge University Press (1999).

“A Vademecum on Quark-Hadron Duality,” I.I. Bigi, N. Uraltsev, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A16 (2001) 5201.

“The Vietri Codices,” I.I. Bigi, Summary Lecture at 'Heavy Quarks and Leptons 2002' ”, Vietri, Italy, hepph/0206225.

“Imprecated, yet Impeccable: On the Theoretical Evaluation of  ”, D. Benson, I.I. Bigi, Th. Mannel, N. Uraltsev, Nucl. Phys. B665 (2003) 367.

Honors and Awards

Mercator Visiting Professorship 2002.

The J.J. Sakurai Prize 2004 from the American Physical Society.

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