| Martin Breidenbach | |
| Field: | Particle physics |
| Work Institution: | Stanford University |
| Education: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.Sc. 1965, Ph.D. 1970) |
| Awards: | Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1985 |
Martin Breidenbach (born 1943) is an American professor of particle physics and astrophysics, emeritus, at Stanford University. His research interests have included e+e- colliding beam physics, detector optimization, and electromagnetic calorimeters.
The son of Leo and Sylvia (née Rosen) Breidenbach, Martin Breidenbach was born in New York in 1943.[1] [2] After his birth, the family moved to Hillsdale, New Jersey.
He earned a bachelor's degree in 1965[3] and a doctorate in 1970, both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His dissertation, Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering at High Momentum Transfer, was advised by Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall, based on the first deeply inelastic electron-proton scattering experiment at SLAC.[4]
From 1971 to 1972, he worked at CERN in the Split Field Magnet Group at ISR. In 1972, he returned to SLAC, joining the SLAC-LBL Magnetic Detector effort at SPEAR that in 1974 discovered the Y and Y'. At SLAC he also became involved in Burton Richter's experiments on the SPEAR storage ring, and new charmonium states.[5]
Starting in 1980 Breidenbach was involved in the construction of the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) control system and design of the SLD detector. In 1984 he became co-spokesman for the SLD with Charles Baltay, making precise determinations of the parameters of the electroweak interaction.
In 1989 he became a professor at SLAC.
He was also involved in the Next Linear Collider project of tSLAC, an effort replaced by participation in the International Linear Collider .