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A “Famous” Journal Article: Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor’s Paper Cited More Than 250 Times Over Past Two Decades
Diego Castano, Ph.D., demonstrates a physics problem.
Diego Castano, Ph.D., associate professor in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, has earned “famous” citation status for his co-authored physics article. The paper, titled “Renormalization-Group Study of the Standard Model and its Extensions: The Standard Model,” published in 1991 in the journal Physical Review, has been cited more than 250 times in various papers across the globe.
Citations are tracked by the Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES), an academic database and search engine that stores bibliographic information about publications in the field of high-energy physics. There are seven levels of citation status, with “famous” (250–499 cites) ranking second highest behind “renowned” (500 or more cites).
As discussed in the abstract, Castano’s paper “presents a comprehensive analysis of the running of all the couplings of the standard model to two loops, including threshold effects. The purpose is twofold: to determine what the running of these parameters may indicate for the physics of the standard model and to provide a template for the study of its extensions up to the Planck mass.”