Vera Lüth

Vera G. Lüth
Born 1943
Residence Menlo Park, California, USA
Institutions Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, California
Superconducting Super Collider, Texas
Alma mater Universitӓt Heidelberg
Spouse Karl L. Brown

Vera G. Lüth (born 1943) is an experimental particle physicist and professor emerita at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, in the United States.[1] A senator of the Helmholtz Association, she has worked in particle physics at SLAC since 1974.[1] She is a fellow of the American Physical Society.[2]

Early life and education

Lüth completed her undergraduate education at Mainz University Institute of Physics from 1963–1966. Her D.Sc. work in particle physics was completed at Heidelberg University from 1966–1974.[3] She was hired at SLAC as a postdoctoral researcher in 1974.

In 1977 she married Karl L. Brown (1925–2002) in Santa Clara County, California.[4]

Career

Lüth began her career at CERN, working with Jack Steinberger and others to measure charge-parity violation in neutral kaon decay.[5] By 1984, Lüth joined the permanent faculty at SLAC. Between 1992–1994, she was deputy associate director of research at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) laboratory in Texas.[1] When construction of the SSC was cancelled, she returned to SLAC as the first technical coordinator for the BaBar detector, with responsibilities for overseeing the detector's design and construction. Upon its completion, she turned her efforts to measuring decay of B mesons.[5] According to Kelen Tuttle, writing for SLAC Today, "Lüth was one of the leading physicists on both the magnetic detector built by SLAC and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the MARK II detector, which recorded data at SPEAR, the Positron Electron Project and the Stanford Linear Collider. Lüth was also the driving force to build the first detector using silicon microstrips at a colliding beam machine."[5]

Lüth was elected to the American Physical Society in 1984, and cited "For Contributions to the discovery of new particles and to the determination of their properties."[6]

She has served as a mentor to young SLAC scientists and the BaBar collaboration at large.[5]

In 2004 she was promoted to Professor of Research at SLAC.[1] She was honored as professor emerita at SLAC in 2010.[5]

Lüth served as a permanent member of the Helmholtz Association's Senate Commission from 2008 to 2011, and in 2011she was appointed a senator of the Helmholtz Association for the research field of the structure of matter.[1] She has participated on numerous advisory committees and panels, including the German Wissenschaftsrat's Large Facilities Panel, and the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation High Energy Physics Advisory Panel.[1]

Research

Lüth has conducted research at CERN in Switzerland, Heidelberg University in Germany, and SLAC. According to SLAC theoretical physicist JoAnne Hewett, "Right from the beginning, Vera showed that every experiment she contributed to was the definitive experiment at the time."[5] Burton Richter said she proved her worth early, "playing an important role at the Stanford Positron Electron Accelerating Ring (SPEAR) during the 'November Revolution,' which launched a new era of particle physics with the discovery of the charm quark".[5] Her research interests have included fundamental symmetries, heavy flavor particle weak decays, silicon vertex detectors, and precision tracking.[7]

In addition to co-authoring more than 700 publications on particle physics,[3] Luth has contributed a historical biography of Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky to the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Prof. Dr Vera Luth". Helmholtz Association. 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  2. ↑ "Vera G. Lüth" (PDF). Universitӓt Heidelberg. 2016. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  3. 1 2 "Lüth, Vera G. - Profile - INSPIRE-HEP". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  4. ↑ "Karl Leslie Brown - Obituary". www.crystal-reflections.com. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Symposium Honors Vera Lüth". SLAC Today. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  6. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
  7. ↑ "PPA Emeriti Bios". 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2016-07-18.
  8. ↑ Lüth, Vera G. (2013-01-01). "Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky: Scientist and Arms-Control Expert". Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 63 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1146/annurev-nucl-102711-095043.
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