John "Jack" Francis Gunion (born 21 July 1943 in Washington, DC)[1] is an American physicist, specializing in theoretical high energy physics.
[3] In 1978 he moved to the University of California, Davis and remained there, retiring in 2017 as professor emeritus.
[4] As a result of his early work establishing the importance of the two-photon and four-lepton search modes for detecting a Standard Model Higgs boson and the detector properties needed to exploit them, Dr. Gunion was made a member of the Large Hadron Collider Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration and was coauthor on the CMS Higgs discovery paper in which these modes played key roles.
[4]He coauthored, with three collaborators, an important monograph on the physics of the Higgs boson.
In 2017 he, together with three collaborators, received the Sakurai Prize for "instrumental contributions to the theory of the properties, reactions, and signatures of the Higgs boson".