{"id":39200,"date":"2015-10-09T09:56:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T19:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=39200"},"modified":"2021-07-12T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:22:38","slug":"uh-manoa-physics-emeritus-professor-awarded-panofsky-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/09\/uh-manoa-physics-emeritus-professor-awarded-panofsky-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa physics emeritus professor awarded Panofsky Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Stephen<\/p>\n

The American Physical Society<\/a> has awarded a 2016 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics<\/a> to Stephen Olsen<\/strong>, a University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> emeritus professor in physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This prize is the American Physical Society’ highest award for experimental particle physics. It recognizes the B factory experiments (Belle at KEK<\/abbr> and BaBar<\/abbr> at SLAC<\/abbr>), which observed large CP<\/abbr> violation (matter-antimatter asymmetry) in the B meson sector in 2001, and also provided experimental confirmation of the Kobayashi-Maskawa hypothesis for the origin of CP<\/abbr> violation, which was later recognized by the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.<\/p>\n

About Olsen<\/h2>\n

Olsen was a UH<\/abbr> Mānoa faculty member from 1992-2009. He led the high energy physics group at the university for many years and was one of the founders of the Belle experiment at KEK<\/abbr> in Tsukuba, Japan.<\/p>\n

In addition to his work on CP<\/abbr> violation, he discovered a series of unexpected new particles referred to as the X, Y and Z mesons. These have revolutionized the field of hadron spectroscopy in particle physics.<\/p>\n

Olsen was also one of the first western scientists to do collaborative research in particle physics in Japan and China.<\/p>\n

Upon retirement from UH<\/abbr> Mānoa, he moved to Seoul National University<\/a> and is at now working on the AMORE<\/abbr> double-beta decay underground experiment at the Center for Undergound Physics in Daejeon, Korea.<\/p>\n

—From the A Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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