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Pekka K. Sinervo is an experimental particle physicist who has studied quarks,[1] gluons[2] and vector bosons[3][4][5][6] using high-energy electron and proton collisions. He is a professor of physics at University of Toronto, where he has taught and pursued research since 1990.

He is known for his contributions to the discovery of the top quark[7] and studies of its properties (see, e.g., [8][9][10]), along with collaborators in the CDF (Collider Detector at Fermilab) and ATLAS experiments. He was also a member of one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson.[11] His earlier work involved the study of mesons with charm quarks and strange quarks, and hadrons with bottom quarks (see, e.g., [12][13][14]). He is currently working on searches for new particles (see, e.g., [15][16]) and dark matter[17] at the SNOLAB Underground Laboratory, as a member of the SuperCDMS Collaboration.[18] Sinervo served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto[19] from 2003 to 2008, and as senior vice-president, research at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research[20] from 2009 to 2015. He has written on international research collaborations, science and Judaism, and popular science (see, e.g.,

[21][22]). He is a member of the Reform Jewish Community of Canada,[23] serving as its president from 2017 to 2021, and has served in leadership roles in the Union for Reform Judaism[24] and the World Union for Progressive Judaism.[25] He has been recognized for his contributions with appointments to numerous scientific societies[Note 1] with fellowships in the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Canada recognizing his contributions to the discovery of the top quark. He was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2018[26] for his contributions to the discoveries of the top quark and Higgs boson, and his leadership in the Canadian Jewish community.

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  1. ^ Fellowships in the American Physical Society, Royal Society of Canada, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Massey College.

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  2. ^ Soding, P. (26 April 2010). "On the Discovery of the Gluon" (PDF). The European Physical Journal H. 35 (1): 3. Bibcode:2010EPJH...35....3S. doi:10.1140/epjh/e2010-00002-5. S2CID 8289475.
  3. ^ Arnison, G.; et al. (24 February 2003). "Experimental observation of isolated large transverse energy electrons with associated missing energy at sqrt(s) = 540 GeV". Phys. Lett. 122B: 103. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)91177-2.
  4. ^ Banner, M.; et al. (17 March 2003). "Observation of single isolated electrons of high transverse momentum in events with missing transverse energy at the CERN proton-antiproton collider". Phys. Lett. 122B: 476. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)91605-2.
  5. ^ Arnison, G.; et al. (5 July 2003). "Experimental observation of lepton pairs of invariant mass around 95 GeV/c2 at the CERN SPS collider". Phys. Lett. 126B (5): 398. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)90188-0.
  6. ^ Bagnaia, P.; et al. (15 September 2003). "Evidence for Z0→e+e− at the CERN proton-antiproton collider". Phys. Lett. 129B: 130. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)90744-X.
  7. ^ Abe, F.; et al. (3 April 1995). "Observation of Top Quark Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions with the Collider Detector at Fermilab". Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (14): 2626–2631. arXiv:hep-ex/9503002. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2626. PMID 10057978.
  8. ^ Abe, F.; et al. (20 August 2001). "Measurement of the Top Quark Pt Distribution in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV". Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (10): 102001. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.102001. hdl:1969.1/183004. PMID 11531473.
  9. ^ Abe, F.; et al. (19 January 2006). "Precision Top Quark Mass Measurement in the Lepton + Jets Topology in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV". Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2): 022004. arXiv:hep-ex/0510049. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.022004. hdl:1969.1/178529. PMID 16486564. S2CID 119351771.
  10. ^ Aad, G.; et al. (7 February 2012). "Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV in dilepton final states with ATLAS". Phys. Lett. B. 707: 459. arXiv:1108.3699. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.055.
  11. ^ Aad, G.; et al. (7 September 2012). "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC". Phys. Lett. B. 716 (1): 1. arXiv:1207.7214. Bibcode:2012PhLB..716....1A. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020.
  12. ^ Ushida, N.; et al. (29 September 1980). "Measurement of the D0 Lifetime". Phys. Rev. Lett. 45 (13): 1049. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.1049.
  13. ^ Aston, D.; et al. (13 December 1984). "Phys. Lett. B Observation of Two Non-leading Strangeness-one Vector Mesons". Phys. Lett. 149B: 258. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)91595-8. OSTI 1447163.
  14. ^ Abe, F.; et al. (1 December 1996). "Ratios of Bottom Meson Branching Fractions Involving J/psi Mesons and Determination of b Quark Fragmentation Fractions". Phys. Rev. D. 54 (11): 6596–6609. arXiv:hep-ex/9607003. Bibcode:1996PhRvD..54.6596A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.54.6596. PMID 10020669.
  15. ^ Abe, F.; et al. (19 June 2000). "Search for a W′ Boson via the Decay Mode W′→μνμ in 1.8 TeV proton-antiproton Collisions". Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (25): 5716–5721. arXiv:hep-ex/9910004. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5716. PMID 10991038.
  16. ^ Aad, G.; et al. (25 May 2022). "Search for single production of a vectorlike T quark decaying into a Higgs boson and top quark with fully hadronic final states using the ATLAS detector". Phys. Rev. D. 105 (9): 092012. arXiv:2201.07045. Bibcode:2022PhRvD.105i2012A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.092012.
  17. ^ Cham, Jorge; Whiteson, Daniel (2017). We Have No Idea. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 9780735216631.
  18. ^ Albakry, M.F.; et al. (30 June 2023). "Search for low-mass dark matter via bremsstrahlung radiation and the Migdal effect in SuperCDMS". Phys. Rev. D. 107 (11): 112013. arXiv:2302.09115. Bibcode:2023PhRvD.107k2013A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.107.112013.
  19. ^ Brown, Craig (2013). Arts and Science at Toronto: A History 1827-1990. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 339. ISBN 978-1-4426-4513-4.
  20. ^ Brown, Craig (2007). A Generation of Excellence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-8020-9232-8.
  21. ^ P. Sinervo; D. Therien (2013). Baron, B.; Amrhein, C. (eds.). Building success in a global university : government and academica - redefining the relationship around the world. Bonn: Lemmens Medien. p. 296. ISBN 9783868560084.
  22. ^ Sinervo, P. (26 April 2018). "Confessions of a Jewish Physicist". Sinai and Synapses. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  23. ^ "Reform Jewish Community of Canada". Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  24. ^ "Union for Reform Judaism". Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  25. ^ "World Union for Progressive Judaism". Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  26. ^ Governor General of Canada. "Recipients Order of Canada". Retrieved 25 February 2024.
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