'''William Joseph Marciano''' (born October 11, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics.
==Education and career== Marciano graduated with a B.S. and an M.S. in physics at New York University.<ref name=SakuraiPrize>{{cite web|title=2002 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient, William J. Marciano|website=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Marciano&first_nm=William&year=2002}}</ref> There he received in 1974 his doctorate with Alberto Sirlin as doctoral advisor.<ref name=eurekalert>{{cite web|website=EurekAlert! American Association for the Advancement of Science|date=23 October 2001|title=Brookhaven physicist wins prestigious prize|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/552268}}</ref> Marciano worked from 1974 to 1980 at Rockefeller University, where he started as a research associate and was then promoted to assistant professor. From 1980 to 1981 he was an associate professor at Northwestern University.<ref name=SakuraiPrize/> At Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) he was in 1978 a research collaborator in 1978 and in 1981 joined the physics department and was granted tenure. At BNL he was promoted on 1986 to senior physicist and from 1987 to 1998 was the leader of the physics department's High-Energy Theory Group.<ref name=eurekalert/> He is currently at BNL a senior physicist and since 1990 has also been an adjunct professor at Yale University. He has served as an associate editor for ''Physical Review Letters'', ''Physical Review D'', ''Reviews of Modern Physics'', and the ''Journal of High Energy Physics''.<ref name=SakuraiPrize/>
{{blockquote|His research interests span many aspects of elementary particle physics including: Precision Electroweak Calculations, Grand Unified Theories, Neutrino Physics, Rare Decays and CP Violation.<ref name=SakuraiPrize/>}}
With Heinz Pagels he wrote a highly-cited review article on quantum chromodynamics, published in ''Physics Reports'' in 1978.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Marciano, W.|author2=Pagels, H.|title=Quantum chromodynamics|journal=Physics Reports|volume=36|issue=3|date=February 1978|pages=137–276|doi=10.1016/0370-1573(78)90208-9|bibcode=1978PhR....36..137M}} (over 1150 citations)</ref>
The research of Marciano and Sirlin was important for experiments at BNL for the precise determination of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the precise calculation of the masses of the W and Z bosons involved in electroweak interactions;<ref>{{cite journal|author=Marciano, W.|author2=Sirlin, A.|title=Testing the standard model by precise determination of the W<sup>±</sup> and Z masses|journal=Physical Review D|volume=29|issue=5|date=March 1984|pages=945–951|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.29.945}}</ref> such calculations are important for estimating the mass of the Higgs boson.<ref>{{cite web|title=Prof. William Marciano, Precision EW Measurements and the Higgs Mass|website=XXX22 SLAC Summer Institute, SSI2004, August 2–13. 2004|url=https://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssi/2004/lec_notes/Marciano2/default.htm}}</ref> In neutrino physics, Marciano and his collaborators proposed novel neutrino experiments with very long transmission distances around 2500 km from the neutrino generation in accelerators to neutrino detectors in mines.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.68.012002|title=Very long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments for precise measurements of mixing parameters andCPviolating effects|year=2003|last1=Diwan|first1=M. V.|last2=Beavis|first2=D.|last3=Chen|first3=Mu-Chun|last4=Gallardo|first4=J.|last5=Hahn|first5=R. L.|last6=Kahn|first6=S.|last7=Kirk|first7=H.|last8=Marciano|first8=W.|last9=Morse|first9=W.|last10=Parsa|first10=Z.|last11=Samios|first11=N.|last12=Semertzidis|first12=Y.|last13=Viren|first13=B.|last14=Weng|first14=W.|last15=Yamin|first15=P.|last16=Yeh|first16=M.|last17=Frati|first17=W.|last18=Lande|first18=K.|last19=Mann|first19=A. K.|last20=Van Berg|first20=R.|last21=Wildenhain|first21=P.|last22=Klein|first22=J. R.|last23=Mocioiu|first23=I.|last24=Shrock|first24=R.|last25=McDonald|first25=K. T.|journal=Physical Review D|volume=68|issue=1|article-number=012002|arxiv=hep-ph/0303081|bibcode=2003PhRvD..68a2002D|s2cid=11621290}}</ref>
Marciano became in 1986 a fellow of the American Physical Society<ref>{{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1986&unit_id=&institution=Brookhaven+National+Laboratory}} (search on year 1986 and institution Brookhaven National Laboratory)</ref> and received in 2001 an Alexander von Humboldt Award. In 2002 he received, jointly with Alberto Sirlin, the Sakurai Prize for "their pioneering work on radiative corrections, which made precision electroweak studies a powerful method of probing the Standard Model and searching for new physics."<ref name=SakuraiPrize/>
==Selected publications== * {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.22.2695|title=Radiative corrections to neutrino-induced neutral-current phenomena in the SU(2)<sub>''L''</sub>×U(1) theory|year=1980|last1=Marciano|first1=W. J.|last2=Sirlin|first2=A.|journal=Physical Review D|volume=22|issue=11|pages=2695–2717|bibcode=1980PhRvD..22.2695M}} (over 1050 citations) * {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.67.073006|title=Refinements in electroweak contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment|year=2003|last1=Czarnecki|first1=Andrzej|last2=Marciano|first2=William J.|last3=Vainshtein|first3=Arkady|journal=Physical Review D|volume=67|issue=7|article-number=073006|arxiv=hep-ph/0212229|bibcode=2003PhRvD..67g3006C}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.1146/annurev.nucl.58.110707.171126|title=Charged Lepton Flavor Violation Experiments|year=2008|last1=Marciano|first1=William J.|last2=Mori|first2=Toshinori|last3=Roney|first3=J. Michael|journal=Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science|volume=58|issue=1|pages=315–341|bibcode=2008ARNPS..58..315M|doi-access=free}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.89.095006|title=Muon '''''g''−2''', rare kaon decays, and parity violation from dark bosons|year=2014|last1=Davoudiasl|first1=Hooman|last2=Lee|first2=Hye-Sung|last3=Marciano|first3=William J.|journal=Physical Review D|volume=89|issue=9|article-number=095006|arxiv=1402.3620|bibcode=2014PhRvD..89i5006D|s2cid=118567855}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.93.035006|title=Implications of a light "dark Higgs" solution to the '''''g''<sub>μ</sub>−2''' discrepancy|year=2016|last1=Chen|first1=Chien-Yi|last2=Davoudiasl|first2=Hooman|last3=Marciano|first3=William J.|last4=Zhang|first4=Cen|journal=Physical Review D|volume=93|issue=3|article-number=035006|arxiv=1511.04715|bibcode=2016PhRvD..93c5006C|s2cid=119215582}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.physrep.2020.07.006|title=The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model|year=2020|last1=Aoyama|first1=T.|last2=Asmussen|first2=N.|last3=Benayoun|first3=M.|last4=Bijnens|first4=J.|last5=Blum|first5=T.|last6=Bruno|first6=M.|last7=Caprini|first7=I.|last8=Carloni Calame|first8=C.M.|last9=Cè|first9=M.|last10=Colangelo|first10=G.|last11=Curciarello|first11=F.|last12=Czyż|first12=H.|last13=Danilkin|first13=I.|last14=Davier|first14=M.|last15=Davies|first15=C.T.H.|last16=Della Morte|first16=M.|last17=Eidelman|first17=S.I.|last18=El-Khadra|first18=A.X.|last19=Gérardin|first19=A.|last20=Giusti|first20=D.|last21=Golterman|first21=M.|last22=Gottlieb|first22=Steven|last23=Gülpers|first23=V.|last24=Hagelstein|first24=F.|last25=Hayakawa|first25=M.|last26=Herdoíza|first26=G.|last27=Hertzog|first27=D.W.|last28=Hoecker|first28=A.|last29=Hoferichter|first29=M.|last30=Hoid|first30=B.-L.|journal=Physics Reports|volume=887|pages=1–166|arxiv=2006.04822|bibcode=2020PhR...887....1A|s2cid=219559166|display-authors=1}}
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