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.
^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.
^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. PMID10057978.
^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.
^Ushida, N.; et al. (29 September 1980). "Measurement of the D0 Lifetime". Phys. Rev. Lett. 45 (13): 1049. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.1049.
^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. OSTI1447163.
^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.
^Cham, Jorge; Whiteson, Daniel (2017). We Have No Idea. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN9780735216631.
^Brown, Craig (2013). Arts and Science at Toronto: A History 1827-1990. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 339. ISBN978-1-4426-4513-4.
^Brown, Craig (2007). A Generation of Excellence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 352. ISBN978-0-8020-9232-8.
^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. ISBN9783868560084.
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