AFFILIATION 2015 – present.
Visiting Professor.
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
e-MAIL and CV
e-mail address: paul.h.frampton@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae: link.
TENURE TRACK FACULTY 1981-82
Assistant Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA.
TENURED FACULTY 1983-2014
1983-84 Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA.
1985-94 Full Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA.
1995-2014 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Distinguished Professor
of Physics and Astronomy. UNC-Chapel Hill, USA.
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
1982-83, Visiting Professor, UT-Austin.
1986-87, Visiting Professor, Boston University.
2005-06, Visiting Professor, Perimeter Institute, Canada.
2009-10, Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan.
PUBLICATIONS
Over 500 papers on List of Publications: link.
Citations: nearly 12,000 on SPIRES, over 16,000 on Google Scholar.
Four physics books (two technical, two popular): link.
Sixtieth Anniversary festschrift: link.
Eightieth Anniversary festschrift: link.
3 Nobel-prizewinning-coauthors (twelve papers with Sheldon Glashow): link.
Nearly 400 talks on all populated continents: link.
SELECTED SOLO PUBLICATIONS. (228 papers)
(1) Solo author of 1992 paper predicting a resonance in same-sign leptons at TeV scales. This “Bilepton” can be expected to be discovered in Run 4 of the High-Luminosity LHC in 2030. The theory explains why there are precisely three fermion families.
(2) Solo author of 2022 paper proposing an electric basis for accelerated cosmic expansion and predicting extremely massive super-extremal Reissner-Nordstrom objects named “Astrons” with the hope that Astronomy may become the study of Astrons.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS WITH SHELDON GLASHOW.
(1) Joint authors of 1987 paper suggesting that the QCD gauge group is a diagonal subgroup in Chiral Color theory which predicts a color octet of “Axigluons”. The present lower limit on the axigluon mass
is a few TeV, suggesting that the Axigluon may not exist in Nature. Nevertheless, this work was with the only theorist (alive or dead) to have twice successfully predicted a new particle: the Z-boson in his solo 1960 paper and the charmed quark in his 1970 paper with John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani. If I have half the success of Glashow, I’ll take that.
(2) Joint authors with Tsutomu Yanagida of a 2002 paper which proposed a minimal seesaw model in which the CP phase for leptogenesis decay of heavy neutrinos is equal to the corresponding phase in long-baseline neutrino oscillations. This can uniquely relate the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe to results accessible to terrestrial experiments which employ beams of light neutrinos.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS WITH THOMAS KEPHART. (50 papers).
(1) Joint authors of 1982 paper which explicitly calculated the gauge chiral hexagon anomaly in 10 spacetime dimensions. We demonstrated that of all O(N) gauge groups, only for O(32) could the leading anomaly cancel. This provided an important precursor to the so-called First Superstring Revolution in 1984, in which the gauge group O(32) featured prominently.
(2) Joint authors of 1995 paper which was the first to introduce the flavour symmetry T-prime into particle theory to explain both quark and lepton mixing matrices. Subsequently T-prime became one of the most popular non-abelian discrete flavour symmetries and used by many particle theorists.
HONOURS
Fellow of American Physical Society: 1981.
D.Sc. advanced degree, University of Oxford: 1984.
Fellow of Institute of Physics: 1986.
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science: 1989.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1981-2014
Nineteen courses instructed at UNC-Chapel Hill: link.
Thirty-five research students at UNC-Chapel Hill, link, of whom
twenty-one proceeded to become professors.
ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT BY RESPECTED COLLEAGUE
Regarding the 1992 bilepton model, Sheldon Glashow, who has owned
a Nobel prize since 1979, has sent a written communication containing
“Paul, if your theory is supported, I will support your Nobel Prize”.
POSTDOCTORAL EXPERIENCE 1968-80
University of Chicago 1968-70; CERN Fellow 1970-72;
Syracuse University 1972-75; UCLA 1975-77;
Harvard University 1978-80.
Affiliate of the Harvard University Physics Department 1981-2000.
EDUCATION 1954-68
King Charles School, Kidderminster. 1954-62. link.
Brasenose College, University of Oxford. 1962-68 link.
Open Hulme Scholar 1962-65, Senior Hulme Scholar 1965-68,
of Brasenose College, Oxford, UK.
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