Scientists / Open questions

Sheldon Glashow

Particle physics; electroweak theory

1979 Nobel Prize in Physics

6 questions

  1. Dynamical foundation of Very Special Relativity: a causal, unitary SIM(2)- or HOM(2)-invariant theory and the natural size of its coefficients

  2. Terrestrial antineutrino (geoneutrino) measurement of the Earth's heat-producing elements: the never-observed 40^{40}K component and the mantle distribution

  3. Completing the experimental viability analysis of the Foot–Hernández extended-color two-Z model against precision electroweak data and modern collider searches

  4. Completing the Georgi-Glashow leptophobic U(1)XU(1)_X gauge-boson model: mixing corrections, scalar and anomaly-canceling sectors, and the feasibility of the X→Wξ/ZξX\to W\xi/Z\xi collider signatures

  5. A predictive calculation of the electron–muon mass ratio: a finite radiative electron mass without unmeasured parameters in a unified gauge theory

  6. Radiative, calculable generation of small fermion masses in spontaneously broken gauge theories: the surviving open core of the Georgi–Glashow (1972) mass-relation program

Back to open problems