Marlow, Daniel R., 1954-
Oral history interview with Daniel R. Marlow, 2021 February 8.
Interview with Daniel R. Marlow, Evans Crawford Class of 1911 Professor of Physics, at Princeton University. Marlow recounts his childhood in Ontario and his fathers military appointment which brought his family to the United States when he was fourteen. He describes his undergraduate experience at Carnegie Mellon and the considerations that compelled him to remain for his graduate work in physics. Marlow describes his thesis research under the direction of Peter Barnes and his research visits to Los Alamos, Brookhaven, and JLab, and he surveys the theoretical advances that were relevant to his experimental work. He explains his decision to stay at CMU as a postdoctoral researcher and as an assistant professor, and he describes his interests which straddled the boundary between particle physics and nuclear physics. Marlow describes the opportunities leading to his faculty appointment at Princeton by way of the research in k+ and pi+nu nu-bar experiments at CERN. He discusses his involvement in planning for the SSC, and how the Gem collaboration was designed to find the Higgs and supersymmetry before the LHC. Marlow discusses the e787 experiment and the lesson gained that rare kaon decay experiments are more difficult than they appear at first glance. Marlow describes the origins of the Belle project in Japan at KEK and its relationship to BaBar, and he explains how finding the Higgs was the capstone to the Standard Model. He surveys the current state of play in experimental particle physics and why he encourages students to follow their interests without overly analyzing future trends in the field. At the end of the interview, Marlow describes his current interest in studying displaced vertices and long-lived particle searches, and he muses that toward the end of his career, he wants to become more of a graduate student so that he can focus more exclusively on the physics that is most compelling to him.
Daniel R. Marlow is the Evans Crawford Class of 1911 Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He completed his graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University and stayed on at CMU as a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor, before moving to Princeton. Marlow has been involved in experiments and research at CERN.
Barnes, Peter D.
Marlow, Daniel R., 1954-
Meyers, Peter Daniel
Smith, Stewart W.
Sutton, Roger B. (Roger Beatty), 1916-
Takasaki, Fumihiko
Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Carnegie-Mellon University
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (Center)
European Organization for Nuclear Research
K -enerug Kasokuki Kenky Kik (Japan)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Princeton University
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (U.S.)
Cherenkov radiation.
Higgs bosons.
Kaons.
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Nuclear physics
Particle physics. gtt
Standard model (Nuclear physics)
Superconducting Super Collider
Supersymmetry
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA