Kenneth Lane (physicist)

Kenneth Lane
Kenneth Lane at Harvard University, 2005
Born(1942-04-05)April 5, 1942
Binghamton, New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 22, 2026(2026-09-22) (aged 84)
Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationGeorgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Known forTechnicolor
Charmonium
Cornell potential
AwardsSakurai Prize (2011)
Scientific career
WorkplacesBoston University
Thesis Chiral Symmetry Breaking and the K3 and K4 Form Factors  (1970)
Chung Wook Kim

Kenneth Douglas Lane (April 5, 1942 – September 22, 2026) was an American theoretical particle physicist and academic who was a professor of physics at Boston University. Lane is best known for his role in the development of extended technicolor models of physics beyond the Standard Model.

Life and career

Lane was born in Binghamton, New York on April 5, 1942. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was a student of Chung Wook Kim at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970.

His physics research focused on the problems of electroweak and flavor symmetry breaking. With Estia J. Eichten, Lane co-invented extended technicolor. He and Eichten also contributed to early work on charmonium with Kurt Gottfried, Tom Kinoshita and Tung-Mow Yan.

In 1984 he coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with Eichten, Ian Hinchliffe and Chris Quigg), which strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders such as the Fermilab Tevatron the proposed but never completed SSC, and the LHC at CERN. In 2011 Dr Lane with Chris Quigg, Estia Eichten, and Ian Hinchliffe won the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics "For their work, separately and collectively, to chart a course of the exploration of TeV scale physics using multi-TeV hadron colliders".

He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1990 "for original contributions to the theory of electroweak symmetry breaking and Supercollider physics".

Lane died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on September 22, 2026, at the age of 84.

References

  1. ↑ Kenneth Douglas Lane at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. 1 2 Estia Eichten; Kenneth Lane (1980). "Dynamical breaking of weak interaction symmetries". Physics Letters. B90 (1–2): 125–130. Bibcode:1980PhLB...90..125E. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(80)90065-9.
  3. 1 2 "Kenneth Lane Obituary". Legacy Remembers. 2026-10-08. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
  4. ↑ Kenneth D. Lane on Spires Deprecated link archived 2012-08-05 at archive.today.
  5. ↑ Faculty page at Boston University.
  6. ↑ E. Eichten; K. Gottfried; T. Kinoshita; J. Kogut; K. D. Lane; T.-M. Yan (1975). "Spectrum of Charmed Quark-Antiquark Bound States". Physical Review Letters. 34 (6): 369–372. Bibcode:1975PhRvL..34..369E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.369.
  7. ↑ E. Eichten; K. Gottfried; T. Kinoshita; K. D. Lane; T.-M. Yan (1978). "Charmonium: The Model". Physical Review. D17 (11): 3090–3117. Bibcode:1978PhRvD..17.3090E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.17.3090.
  8. ↑ E. Eichten; K. Gottfried; T. Kinoshita; K. D. Lane; Tung-Mow Yan (1980). "Charmonium: Comparison With Experiment". Physical Review. D21 (1): 203–233. Bibcode:1980PhRvD..21..203E. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.21.203.
  9. ↑ E. Eichten; I. Hinchliffe; K. Lane; C. Quigg (1984). "Supercollider Physics". Reviews of Modern Physics. 56 (4): 579–707. Bibcode:1984RvMP...56..579E. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.56.579.
  10. ↑ American Physical Society - J. J. Sakurai Prize Winners
  11. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 7 October 2020.