Professor Emeritus
PhD, Columbia University, 1951
Fellowships:
| John Simon Guggenheim Fellow..................................... | ...... | 1958-9 |
| NATO Fellow................................................................. | ...... | 1964-65 |
| UNESCO Fellow............................................................. | ...... | 1964 |
| CERN Fellow................................................................. | ...... | 1972-3 |
Memberships:
Fellow, American Physical Society
Italian Physical Society
Scientific Honors and Awards:
| Medal of the Italian Physical Society............................... | ...... | 1985 |
| Symposium on Weak Interactions, in my honor, University of Pavia, Italy............................................... | ...... | 1985 |
| “Medaglia Teresiana”, the medal of Maria Teresa, given to me by the University of Pavia (3rd presentation of this medal since World War II), for my contributions to Particle Physics.................... | ...... | 1985 |
| Award from the Aspen Center for Physics, for the founding of the Aspen Winter Conference Series... | ...... | 1994 |
| Symposium honoring my 45 years in Physics, “BlockParty”, Northwestern University........................ | ...... | 1996 |
| Elected Foreign Corresponding Member, Italian Academy of Sciences............................................. | ...... | March 2003 |
In the calendar year 2010 to date---done alone as well as in collaboration with L. Durand (Wisconsin), P. Ha (Towson) and D. McKay (Kansas)---I have made major breakthroughs in finding analytical solutions to NLO perturbative QCD (see attached paper, "Decoupling the NLO coupled DGLAP evolution equations: an analytic solution to pQCD") , that required new mathematical tools, i.e., accurate numerical inversions of Laplace transforms (see "A new numerical method for obtaining gluon distribution functions G(x,Q²) = xg(x,Q²), from the proton structure function F_2^γp(x,Q²) " and "Addendum to: A new numerical method for obtaining gluon distribution functions G(x,Q²) = xg(x,Q²), from the proton structure function F_2^γp(x,Q²) ") . In the area of ultra-high energy neutrino scattering, we have published the paper "Ultrahigh energy neutrino scattering: an update ", Brief Report in Phys. Rev. D, in press, (2010) . In the field of high energy hadron scattering, I gave a review paper , Hadronic Cross Sections: from cyclotrons to colliders to cosmic rays", at the 2010 ISVHECRI conference, FermiLab, June 28—July 2, 2020. Currently, we are investigating the inaccuracies of the evolution codes currently used to generate parton distribution functions for the LHC.
Selected Publications
- M. Block, L. Durand, P. Ha, D. McKay,
"Decoupling the NLO coupled DGLAP evolution equations: an analytic solution to pQCD,"
Eur. Phys. J. C. (2010)
- M. Block
"A new numerical method for obtaining gluon distribution functions G(x,Q²) = xg(x,Q²), from the proton structure function F
(x,Q²)"
Eur. Phys. J. C (2010) 65: 1–7
- M. Block
"Hadronic Cross sections: from cyclotrons to colliders to cosmic rays"
Paper presented at the 2010 ISVHECRI conference, FermiLab, June 28—July 2, 2010
- M. Block
"Addendum to: A new numerical method for obtaining gluon distribution functions G(x,Q²) = xg(x,Q²), from the proton structure function F
Eur. Phys. J. C (2010) 68: 683–685
- M. Block, P. Ha, D. McKay
"Ultrahigh energy neutrino scattering: an update"
Brief Report, Phys. Rev. D, in press (2010)
