Marcela Carena
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| Born |
22 March 1962 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Citizenship | United States, Italy, and Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentinian |
| Fields | Particle physics |
| Institutions | Fermilab, University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Doctoral advisor | Roberto Peccei |
| Known for | Theory and phenomenology of the Higgs boson, Supersymmetry, and electroweak baryogenesis |
Marcela Carena (born 22 March 22, 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a professor at the University of Chicago and the Enrico Fermi Institute. She is the Director of International Relations at Fermilab, as well as the head of the Theoretical Physics Department. As of January 1, 2016 she is the Chair Elect of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society.
Carena received her diploma in Physics from the Instituto Balseiro of Bariloche, Argentina in 1985, and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Hamburg in 1989. She was a John Stuart Bell Fellow at CERN in 1993–95 and was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship in 1996. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002.
Dr. Carena is married to the theoretical physicist Carlos E.M. Wagner.
Carena's research is focused on models of new physics beyond the Standard Model and their manifestations in particle physics experiments. She explores possible connections between Higgs boson, Supersymmetry, Grand Unification, Flavor Physics and Dark Matter. For example, she has developed a particle physics model which explains the matter – anti-matter asymmetry of the universe (also known as baryogenesis). This model posits key super-symmetric particles, such as a light stop (scalar top) quark, as well as a relatively light Higgs boson. The LHC experiments should be able to test this model definitively.
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