PKU Alum Yu Zhite recieves Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics
Feb 27, 2024
Yu Zhite
Peking University, February 27, 2024: The American Physical Society (APS) just announced the winner of the 2024 J. J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics. Yu Zhite, a Peking University (PKU) alumnus, has been named the recipient of the award.
Yu is awarded for "discovering new jet polarization substructures resulting from quantum interference at high-energy colliders, advancing the QCD factorization for exclusive processes, and offering innovative solutions to the enduring x-dependence problem of generalized parton distributions," an award citation released by the APS reads.
Yu obtained his BS in physics at Peking University in 2017 and his Ph.D. degree in theoretical high-energy physics in 2023 from Michigan State University. Yu received the APS FIP Distinguished Student Program Award in 2023 and is a postdoctoral fellow at the Theory Center in Jefferson Lab in the U.S., where his research focuses on the QCD factorization theorem and its phenomenological application.
Established in 2010, the annual J. J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics recognizes "exceptional early-career scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of theoretical particle physics," according to the APS.
Source: APS
Edited by: Dennis Meng
