NIMA ARKANI-HAMED

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Curriculum Vitae

Nima Arkani-Hamed is a theorist with wide-ranging interests in fundamental physics. He is concerned with the relation between theory and experiment, with a special focus on current and future particle accelerators as well as cosmological observations.
 

Articles and Talks for a general audience:

Slides from talk: "Three Cheers for Shut Up and Calculate!"

Slides from talk: "The Morality of Fundamental Physics".

"The Future of Fundamental Physics", Daedalus, Vol. 141, Issue 3, Summer 2012, Science in the 21st Century, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012.

The Inevitability of Physical Laws: Why the Higgs Has to Exist, Public Lecture at the Institute for Advanced Study, October 26, 2012.

2010 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University, October 4 - 8, 2010:

• Setting the Stage:Space-Time and Quantum Mechanics
• Our "Standard Models" of Particle Physics and Cosmology
• Space-Time is Doomed: What Replaces It?
• Why Is There a Macroscopic Universe?
• A New Golden Age of Experiments: What We Might Know By 2020?

Selected Publications:

• N. Arkani-Hamed, T. Han, M. Mangano and L.-T. Wang, "Physics Opportunities of a 100 TeV Proton-Proton Collider", hep-th/1511.06595 (2015).
• N. Arkani-Hamed and J. Trnka, "The Amplituhedron", JHEP:1401:030 (2014).
• N. Arkani-Hamed, J.L. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, A.B. Goncharov, A. Postnikov and J. Trnka, "Scattering Amplitudes and the Positive Grassmannian", hep-th/1212.5605.
• N. Arkani-Hamed, J. L. Bourjaily, F. Cachazo, S. Caron-Huot and J. Trnka, "The All-Loop Integrand for Scattering Amplitudes in Planar N=4 SYM", JHEP:1101,:041, (2011).
• N. Arkani-Hamed, F. Chachazo, Cheung and J. Kaplan, "A Duality for the S Matrix", JHEP:03:020, (2010).
• N. Arkani-Hamed, D. Finkbiner, T. Slatyer and N. Weiner, "A Theory of Dark Matter", Phys. Rev. D79:015014, (2009).
• N. Arkani-Hamed and S. Dimopoulos, "Supersymmetric Unification Without Low Energy Supersymmetry and Signatures for Fine-Tuning at the LHC", JHEP:0506:073, (2005).
• N. Arkani-Hamed, A. G. Cohen, and H. Georgi, "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Dimensional Deconstruction", Phys. Lett. B 513, 232 (2002).
• N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos, and G. Dvali, "The Hierarchy Problem and New Dimensions at a Millimeter," Phys. Lett. B 429, 263 (1998).