Hassan Jawahery

Hassan Jawahery
Born	Iran
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	University of Maryland, College Park Syracuse University SLAC CERN
Alma mater	University of Tehran Tufts University
Notable awards	Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2004)

Hassan Jawahery is an Iranian-American physicist and former spokesperson for the BaBar Collaboration. He received his B.S. in Physics from Tehran University in Iran and his Ph.D. in Physics from Tufts University. He is a professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and has worked on OPAL, CLEO, BaBar, SuperB, and the PDG.

The BaBar Collaboration comprises about 600 physicists from institutions in 10 countries, and his position as its spokesman has made him internationally known. He is also an editor of the Annual Reviews of Nuclear & Particle Science.

During his spokesmanship of the BaBar Collaboration, the accelerator detected and measured the lowest energy state of the bottomonium quark family (ηb). Jawahery stated: "These results were highly sought after for over 30 years and will have an important impact on our understanding of the strong interactions."

References

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/

http://www.annualreviews.org/catalog/2006/ns56.aspx

http://www.physorg.com/news134923611.html