Pekka K. Sinervo

Pekka K. Sinervo
16th Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science
In office
2003 (2003) – 2008 (2008)
Preceded byCarl Amrhein
Succeeded byMeric Gertler
Personal details
Born (1958-05-24) 24 May 1958
Helsinki, Finland
EducationPh.D. Stanford University
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
WorkplacesUniversity of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Pekka K. Sinervo is a Finnish-Canadian[1] experimental particle physicist who has studied quarks,[2] gluons[3] and vector bosons[4][5][6][7] using high-energy electron and proton collisions.

Career

He is a professor of physics at University of Toronto, where he has taught and pursued research since 1990.[8][9][10] [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 the 16th 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]

Fellowships in the American Physical Society,the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Canadian Association of Physicists recognize his contributions to the discovery of the top quark. He was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2018.[26]

References

  1. ↑ Niinimaa, Veli (1 May 2019). "Pekka Sinervo Receives Order of Canada". Canada Finland Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  2. ↑ Gell-Mann, M. (1 February 1964). "A Schematic Model of Baryons and Mesons". Phys. Lett. 8 (3): 214. Bibcode:1964PhL.....8..214G. doi:10.1016/S0031-9163(64)92001-3.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  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 978-0-7352-1663-1.
  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 978-3-86856-008-4.
  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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