Biography:Aida El-Khadra
Aida Xenia El-Khadra | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles Free University of Berlin |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Brookhaven National Laboratory Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Ohio State University University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Thesis | Lattice calculation of meson form factors for semi-leptonic decays (1989) |
Aida Xenia El-Khadra is a particle physicist who is a Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She is the co-chair of the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative, which reported hints at new physics in the Standard Model in 2021. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Early life and education
El-Khadra was an undergraduate student at the Free University of Berlin, where she earned a master's degree in physics. She moved to the University of California, Los Angeles for her doctoral research, where she studied semi-leptonic decays.[1][2] El-Khadra was a postdoctoral researcher at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, and the Ohio State University.[3]
Research and career
In 1995, El-Khadra joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where she was promoted to Professor in 2008. Her research makes use of quantum chromodynamics to understand processes in flavor physics.[4] She spent 1998 as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, where she developed and tested new lattice actions.[5] El-Khadra directs the Fermilab Lattice collaboration, and was named a Distinguished Scholar at Fermilab in 2016.[6]
El-Khadra oversaw the theoretical aspects of the Muon g-2 experiments.[7][8] The collaboration measured the magnetic moment of the muon with unparalleled precision.[9] El-Khadra has been involved with several theoretical attempts to predict the anomalous magnetic moment based on the Standard Model.[10][11] In 2021, the experimental component of the collaboration reported a magnetic moment that was considerably larger than the value predicted by the Standard Model.[12] This finding hints at new particles or forces in the Standard Model.[12][13]
Awards and honors
El-Khadra was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011 "for contributions to lattice QCD and flavor physics including pioneering studies of heavy quarks on the lattice, semileptonic and leptonic heavy-light meson decays, the strong coupling constant, and quark masses".[14] She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[15] In 2022 she was awarded a Simons Fellowship.[16]
Selected publications
References
- ↑ El-Khadra, Aida Xenia (1989). Lattice calculation of meson form factors for semi-leptonic decays (Thesis). OCLC 21422448.
- ↑ "Dr Aida X El-Khadra" (in en). https://www.azoquantum.com/experts.aspx?iExpertID=370.
- ↑ "Aida X El-Khadra" (in en). https://grainger.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/*.
- ↑ "Aida X El-Khadra, Illinois Physics" (in en). https://physics.illinois.edu/people/directory/profile/axk.
- ↑ "Aida X El-Khadra". https://cas.illinois.edu/index.php/person/aida-x-el-khadra-0.
- ↑ "Distinguished Scholars | Theoretical Physics Department" (in en-US). https://theory.fnal.gov/people/distinguished-scholars/.
- ↑ Castelvecchi, Davide (2021-03-30). "Long-awaited muon physics experiment nears moment of truth" (in en). Nature 592 (7852): 17–18. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-00833-2. PMID 33785919. Bibcode: 2021Natur.592...17C.
- ↑ Castelvecchi, Davide (2021-04-07). "Is the standard model broken? Physicists cheer major muon result" (in en). Nature 592 (7854): 333–334. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-00898-z. PMID 33837374. Bibcode: 2021Natur.592..333C. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00898-z.
- ↑ Foidl, Ines. "Higgs Centre Colloquium: Aida X. El-Khadra 'The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon'" (in en). https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Higgs+Centre+ColloquiumA+Aida+X.+EL-KHADRA+%27The+Anomalous+Magnetic+Moment+of+the+Muon%27/1_eoo0coob.
- ↑ "Muon g-2 Result | Not Even Wrong" (in en-US). https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12292.
- ↑ "New experiment hints that a particle breaks the known laws of physics" (in en). 2021-04-07. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ultra-precise-experiment-finds-hints-of-unseen-particles-in-the-universe.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Mounting hope for new physics" (in en). https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/jgum-mhf040721.php.
- ↑ Cho, Adrian (2021-01-27). "The cloak-and-dagger tale behind this year's most anticipated result in particle physics" (in en). https://www.science.org/content/article/cloak-and-dagger-tale-behind-year-s-most-anticipated-result-particle-physics.
- ↑ "2011 APS Fellows". https://dpfnewsletter.org/?p=687.
- ↑ "2021 Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. https://www.aaas.org/page/2021-fellows.
- ↑ "2022 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Announced" (in en-US). 2022-02-18. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/02/18/2022-simons-fellows-in-mathematics-and-theoretical-physics-announced/.
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