Oliver Keith Baker

Oliver Keith Baker is an American experimental particle physicist and astrophysicist, best known for his work on the Higgs boson and dark matter. In 2002, he won the Edward Alexander Bouchet Award of the American Physical Society: "For his contribution to nuclear and particle physics; for building the infrastructure to do these measurements; and for being active in outreach activities, both locally and nationally."[1]

Oliver Keith Baker
Born (1959-07-18) 18 July 1959
McGehee, Arkansas
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsEdward A. Bouchet Award (2002)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle Physics
Astrophysics
InstitutionsYale University
Hampton University
ATLAS Collaboration
Doctoral advisorArthur B. C. Walker Jr.

Early life

Oliver Keith Baker was born in McGehee, Arkansas in 1959 to parents Oliver and Yvonne Baker, and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee.[2]

Education

Keith Baker received his B.S. from MIT in 1981, M.S. from Stanford in 1984 and Ph.D. from Stanford in 1987.[1]

Career

Baker is a member of the ATLAS Collaboration, which in 2012 discovered the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model.[3] Baker also models dark sector analogues of Standard Model photons called paraphotons, which may be experimentally supported by observing the spectrum of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from BL Lacertae objects.[4]

In 2010, Keith became director of Yale’s A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory,[5][6] which includes state-of-the-art facilities for the study of neutrinos, dark matter and fundamental physics.

Positions

Baker has been professor of physics at Yale University since 2006, when he became the first tenured African American faculty member in the department.[7] Prior to this, he held a position at Hampton University starting 1989, culminating in an Endowed University Professorship.[1]

Awards
  • 2002 - Edward Alexander Bouchet Award[8]

References
  1. "2002 Edward A. Bouchet Award Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  2. "Physicist credits his Tillar roots". Arkansas Democrat Gazette. November 7, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  3. The ATLAS Collaboration, "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC", Phys. Lett. B 716:1-29 (2012).
  4. O. K. Baker and R. J. Anantua, "TeV gamma rays from distant BL Lacs and photon-paraphoton kinetic mixing" Phys. Lett. B 290:25-28 (2010)
  5. "Oliver Baker". The History Makers. March 10, 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  6. "Wright Laboratory". Yale. 2020. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  7. "Physics Expands by Five Profs". Yale Daily News. September 6, 2006. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  8. "Edward A. Bouchet Award". American Physical Society. 2002. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
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