The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual April Meeting, and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory. The prize consists of a monetary award (US$10,000), a certificate citing the contributions recognized by the award, and a travel allowance for the recipient to attend the presentation. The award is endowed by the family and friends of particle physicist J. J. Sakurai. The prize has been awarded annually since 1985.[1]

J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
Awarded foroutstanding achievement in particle theory
CountryUnited States
Presented byAmerican Physical Society
First awarded1984
Websitewww.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/sakurai.cfm

Prize recipients

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The following have won this prize:[2]

 
2010 J.J. Sakurai Prize Winners - Kibble, Guralnik, Hagen, Englert, and Brout (Peter Higgs missing)
Year Recipients Description
1985 Toshihide Maskawa For their contributions to the theory of electroweak interactions through their general formulation of fermion mass matrix and their prescient inference of the existence of more than four flavors of quarks
Makoto Kobayashi
1986 David Gross For their analyses of nonabelian gauge theories at short distances, and the implications of these insights for the understanding of the strong interaction between quarks"
H. David Politzer
Frank Wilczek
1987 Luciano Maiani For their work on the weak interactions of charmed particles, a crucial step in the development of the modern theory of the fundamental interactions
John Iliopoulos
1988 Stephen L. Adler For his work in elucidating the consequences of chiral symmetry through sum rules and low energy theorems
1989 Nicola Cabibbo For his outstanding contribution in elucidating the structure of the hadronic weak current
1990 Toichiro Kinoshita For his theoretical contributions to precision tests of quantum electrodynamics and the electroweak theory, especially his pioneering work on the computation of the lepton anomalous magnetic moments
1991 Vladimir Gribov For his early pioneering work on the high energy behavior of quantum field theories and his elucidating studies of the global structure of non-abelian gauge theories
1992 Lincoln Wolfenstein For his many contributions to the theory of weak interactions, particularly CP violation and the properties of neutrinos
1993 Mary K. Gaillard For contributions to particle physics phenomenology and theory, and in particular for her work with Ben Lee and others applying QCD to K meson mixing and decays and to the bound states of charmed quarks
1994 Yoichiro Nambu For his many fundamental contributions to field theory and particle physics, including the understanding of the pion as the signaler of spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry
1995 Howard Georgi For his pioneering contributions toward the unification of strong and electroweak interactions, and for his application of quantum chromodynamics to the properties and interactions of hadrons
1996 William A. Bardeen For fundamental insights into the structure and meaning of the axial anomaly and for contributions to the understanding of perturbative quantum chromodynamics
1997 Thomas Appelquist For his pioneering work on charmonium and on the de-coupling of heavy particles
1998 Leonard Susskind For his pioneering contributions to hadronic string models, lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics, and dynamical symmetry breaking
1999 Mikhail Shifman For fundamental contributions to the understanding of non-perturbative QCD, non-leptonic weak decays, and the analytic properties of supersymmetric gauge theories
Arkady Vainshtein
Valentin Zakharov [ru; de]
2000 Curtis Callan For his classic formulation of the renormalization group, his contributions to instanton physics and to the theory of monopoles and strings
2001 Nathan Isgur For the construction of the heavy quark mass expansion and the discovery of the heavy quark symmetry in quantum chromodynamics, which led to a quantitative theory of the decays of c and b flavored hadrons
Mikhail Voloshin
Mark Wise
2002 William Marciano For their pioneering work on radiative corrections, which made precision electroweak studies a powerful method of probing the Standard Model and searching for new physics
Alberto Sirlin
2003 Alfred Mueller For developing concepts and techniques in QCD, such as infrared safety and factorization in hard processes, which permitted precise quantitative predictions and experimental tests, and thereby helped to establish QCD as the theory of the strong interactions
George Sterman
2004 Ikaros Bigi For pioneering theoretical insights that pointed the way to the very fruitful experimental study of CP violation in B decays, and for continuing contributions to the fields of CP and heavy flavor physics
Anthony Ichiro Sanda
2005 Susumu Okubo For groundbreaking investigations into the pattern of hadronic masses and decay rates, which provided essential clues into the development of the quark model, and for demonstrating that CP violation permits partial decay rate asymmetries
2006 Savas Dimopoulos For his creative ideas on dynamical symmetry breaking, supersymmetry, and extra spatial dimensions, which have shaped theoretical research on TeV-scale physics, thereby inspiring a wide range of experiments
2007 Stanley Brodsky For applications of perturbative quantum field theory to critical questions of elementary particle physics, in particular, to the analysis of hard exclusive strong interaction processes
2008 Alexei Smirnov For pioneering and influential work on the enhancement of neutrino oscillations in matter, which is essential to a quantitative understanding of the solar neutrino flux
Stanislav Mikheyev
2009 Davison E. Soper, John C. Collins and R. Keith Ellis For work in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, including applications to problems pivotal to the interpretation of high energy particle collisions
2010 Gerald Guralnik For elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses.
C. R. Hagen
Tom Kibble
Robert Brout
Francois Englert
Peter Higgs
2011 Chris Quigg For their work, separately and collectively, to chart a course of the exploration of TeV scale physics using multi-TeV hadron colliders.
Estia Eichten
Ian Hinchliffe
Kenneth Lane
2012 Guido Altarelli For key ideas leading to the detailed confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics, enabling high energy experiments to extract precise information about Quantum Chromodynamics, electroweak interactions and possible new physics.
Torbjörn Sjöstrand
Bryan Webber
2013 Helen Quinn For their proposal of the elegant mechanism to resolve the famous problem of strong-CP violation which, in turn, led to the invention of axions, a subject of intense experimental and theoretical investigation for more than three decades.
Roberto Peccei
2014 Zvi Bern For pathbreaking contributions to the calculation of perturbative scattering amplitudes, which led to a deeper understanding of quantum field theory and to powerful new tools for computing QCD processes.
Lance J. Dixon
David Kosower [de]
2015 George Zweig For his independent proposal that hadrons are composed of fractionally charged fundamental constituents, called quarks or aces, and for developing its revolutionary implications for hadron masses and properties.
2016 G. Peter Lepage For inventive applications of quantum field theory to particle physics, particularly in establishing the theory of hadronic exclusive processes, developing nonrelativistic effective field theories, and determining standard-model parameters with lattice gauge theory.
2017 Gordon L. Kane For instrumental contributions to the theory of the properties, reactions, and signatures of the Higgs boson.
Howard E. Haber
Jack F. Gunion
Sally Dawson
2018 Ann Nelson For groundbreaking explorations of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, including their seminal joint work on dynamical super-symmetry breaking, and for their innovative contributions to a broad range of topics, including new models of electroweak symmetry breaking, baryogenesis, and solutions to the strong charge parity problem.
Michael Dine
2019 Lisa Randall For creative contributions to physics beyond the Standard Model, in particular the discovery that warped extra dimensions of space can solve the hierarchy puzzle, which has had a tremendous impact on searches at the Large Hadron Collider.
Raman Sundrum
2020 Pierre Sikivie For seminal work recognizing the potential visibility of the invisible axion, devising novel methods to detect it, and for theoretical investigations of its cosmological implications.
2021 Vernon Barger For pioneering work in collider physics contributing to the discovery and characterization of the W boson, top quark, and Higgs boson, and for the development of incisive strategies to test theoretical ideas with experiments.
2022 Nima Arkani-Hamed For the development of transformative new frameworks for physics beyond the standard model with novel experimental signatures, including work on large extra dimensions, the little Higgs, and more generally for new ideas connected to the origin of the electroweak scale.
2023 Heinrich Leutwyler: For fundamental contributions to the effective field theory of pions at low energies, and for proposing that the gluon is a color octet.
2024 Andrzej Buras For exceptional contributions to quark-flavor physics, in particular, developing and carrying out calculations of higher-order QCD effects to electroweak transitions, as well as for drawing phenomenological connections between kaons, D mesons, and B mesons.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ American Physical Society. "J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics". Retrieved October 23, 2009.
  2. ^ The source of all information in this section, including quotations of the citation texts, is: American Physical Society. "J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics". Retrieved April 22, 2019.
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