Support of Particle Accelerator Projects
In addition to his theoretical research, John Ellis has been an advocate and supporter of future accelerators, beginning with LEP and the LHC, and extending to Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), photon colliders, and future proton accelerators. Naturally his theoretical work reflected these connections, as when he showed that data from the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) and from LEP could be used to predict the masses of the top quark and the Higgs boson. Such predictions are now a main stream activity within particle physics, and constitute one of the most important bridges between the experimental and theoretical communities.
Concerning the LHC, Ellis played a leading role in the seminal 1984 workshop on physics to be done with such an accelerator. Since then he has written many articles on searches for Higgs bosons and supersymmetric particles at the LHC, both for the pariticle physics community and at a more popular level. His most recent LHC physics review appeared in a Nature Insight supplement on July 19, 2007.
John Ellis has been a strong supporter of the CLIC option for a future high-energy e+e− linear collider; this option is pursued most strongly at CERN. He was convenor of the CLIC Physics Study Group the produced the main report on this option, in 2004.
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