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Franco Selleri CERN Courier March 2014 High performance hexapods Faces & Places METROLOGY AND POSITIONING for your precision positioning A WARDS Prize time in the US, Japan and Europe JORAN Hexapod In December, the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation announced the awarding of the 2014 Fundamental Physics Prize to Michael Green of the University of Cambridge, and HEXAPOD ADVANTAGES John Schwarz of the California Institute of Technology, for opening new perspectives 6 degrees of freedom on quantum gravity and the unifi cation of payload capacity: 1 500 kg forces. Schwarz and Green were honored resolution: 0.1 µm / 0.5 µrad for developing superstring theory during high stability & stiness their collaboration between 1979 and 1986. conguration of the rotation centre in software Its predecessor, string theory, originated in Top, left to right: Takahito the late 1960s in response to the discovery Kondo, Tomio Kobayashi of many new particles via accelerator and Shoji Asai. (Image experiments. credits: KEK, ICEPP and For other hexapod sizes, The prize, which recognizes UTokyo.) transformative advances in the fi eld, is Middle: Michael Green, consult us... awarded by the Fundamental Physics left, and John Schwarz. Prize Foundation, which was established (Image credits: DAMPT and in July 2012 by Yuri Milner to recognize Caltech.) Contact: +33 (0)4 66 29 43 88 or [email protected] groundbreaking work in the fi eld. Bottom: Presentation of Discover our whole range: www.hexapod-system.com In Japan, Takahito Kondo, Tomio the Julius Wess Award to Kobayashi and Shoji Asai have been awarded Takaaki Kajita, centre, with the 2013 Nishina Memorial Prize for their his wife and Johannes contribution to the discovery of the Higgs Blümer, vice-president at boson. Kondo of KEK, Kobayashi of the KIT, far right, Detlef Löhe, International Center for Elementary Particle second right, and Ulrich Physics at the University of Tokyo, and Asai Nierste, far left. (Image of the University of Tokyo, are all members of credit: KIT.) the ATLAS collaboration. They share the prize with Hidetoshi Your guide to products, services and expertise Katori of the RIKEN research institute Super-Kamiokande for more than 25 years. the memory of Julius Wess, who worked and the University of Tokyo, honoured for In 1988 he and his colleagues observed for 20 years at the Karlsruhe Institute of the invention of optical-lattice clocks, and a defi cit in atmospheric muon-neutrinos, Technology (KIT). Kajita received the Yoshiro Takahashi of Kyoto University, cited which could be later explained by the award at a ceremony at the KIT Center for the creation of ultracold quantum systems occurrence of neutrino oscillations. for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Connect your business today of ytterbium atoms. The Julius Wess Award is dedicated to Physics in December. The Nishina prize is awarded annually by the Nishina Memorial Foundation to young physicists for their achievements in the fi eld of Left to right: Nobel laureates Samuel Ting atomic and subatomic physics. The foundation (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), was established in 1955 to commemorate George Smoot (University of California, Yoshi Nishina, who originated the study of Berkeley, Paris Diderot University) and Frank Wilczek (Massachusetts Institute of nuclear physics in Japan. Technology), who received honorary FREE Another Japanese physicist has been doctorates from Gustavus Adolphus honoured in Europe with the Julius Wess College in Saint Peter, Minnesota, on Award 2013 for outstanding achievements in 1 October. They were speaking at the elementary particle and astroparticle physics. college’s 49th annual Nobel conference on Find out how to get your business Takaaki Kajita of the Institute for Cosmic “The universe at its limits”. Other Ray Research at the University of Tokyo presenters at the conference were George or institution connected. has been recognized for his outstanding Coyne (Le Moyne College, Syracuse), contributions to neutrino physics, and Alexei Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley), S James Gates Jr (University of especially for his discovery of neutrino Maryland), Lawrence Krauss (Arizona State University), and Tara Shears (University of physicsworld.com/connect oscillations at the Super-Kamiokande Liverpool). Videos of the conference and other information can be found at https:// detector. Kajita has studied neutrinos at the gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2013/. (Image credit: Terry Clark.) Kamiokande experiment and subsequently at 35 p34.indd 1 05/02/2014 13:04 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 2 M ARCH 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier March 2014 CERN Courier March 2014 Faces & Places Faces & Places Silicon Drift Detector • Solid State Design • Easy to Use C OLLABORATION A NNIVERSARY Indonesia and Bangladesh strengthen ties with CERN CALTECH celebrates 50th anniversary of • Low Cost quark prediction FAST SDDTM At a ceremony held in Jakarta on 21 October, (Top) At the signing the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) ceremony in Jakarta in Count Rate = >1,000,000 CPS signed a memorandum of understanding November, with Lukman In December 1963, Murray Gell-Mann Gell-Mann with the ALICE collaboration, marking Hakim, chair of LIPI mailed a manuscript of a paper in which during Resolution Peaking Time the fi rst offi cial collaboration between an (front row, centre), he proposed the quark model of hadrons. after-dinner 125 eV FWHM 4 µs Indonesian institute and an experiment Laksana Tri Handoko, It arrived in the editorial offi ce of Physics speeches at the 130 eV FWHM 1 µs at CERN. Paolo Giubellino, the ALICE LIPI team leader (back Letters B on 4 January and was published celebratory 140 eV FWHM 0.2 µs spokesperson, and Emmanuel Tsesmelis, row, centre), Emmanuel on 1 February 1964 with the title “A banquet. (Image 160 eV FWHM 0.05 µs CERN’s deputy head of international Tsesmelis, CERN (front, schematic model of baryons and mesons”. credit: Caltech.) relations, attended the signing ceremony, second from right), and On the 50th anniversary of the prediction SDD Spectrum 5.9 at which LIPI was represented by Lukman Paolo Giubellino, ALICE of quarks, the California Institute of keV Hakim, the institute’s chair, and Laksana Tri spokesperson (front Technology (Caltech) held a symposium 55Fe Handoko, the LIPI team leader. right). (Image credit: on 9–10 December 2013 to celebrate 1964, Zweig returned to Caltech, where he eV FWHM Counts 125 With the agreement, LIPI will contribute LIPI.) Gell-Mann’s scientifi c legacy. was a professor in the high-energy theory 25 mm2 x 500 µm initially at ALICE in the area of grid (Below) Kamal Abdul After opening remarks by Tom Soifer, group for 20 years. Unfortunately, Zweig was 11.2 µs peaking time 6.4 computing. The team there has installed two Naser Chowdhury, chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, unable to attend the symposium. P/B Ratio: 20000/1 keV clusters, in Bandung and Cibinong, which education secretary for and Astronomy at Caltech, there were The symposium took place on the same days Energy (keV) have been connected to the ALICE Grid. Bangladesh, left, and talks by Maria Spiropulu (“Higgs: from as the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, 2 Resolution vs Peaking Time There is also keen interest in the ALICE O CERN’s director-general, Discovery to Beyond”), James Hartle (“The where François Englert and Peter Higgs were 180 upgrade project. In addition, the high-energy Rolf Heuer, shake hands State of the Universe”), Harald Fritzsch honored for their theoretical discovery of the 25 mm2 physics group that is being created at LIPI after signing an (“Murray Gell-Mann”), David Politzer electroweak symmetry-breaking mechanism. 170 Δ is expected to contribute to the ALICE expression of interest (“The I = 1/2 Rule”), Pierre Ramond (“The It was a wonderful week for celebrating the 160 Standard SDD physics programme and to the upgrade of between Bangladesh and Flavor Ring”), Barry Barish (“Quarks: An completion of the Standard Model of particle TM the experiment. The agreement exemplifi es CERN. Experimentalist’s Perspective”), Barton physics. 150 FAST SDD LIPI’s effort to be more active and gain Zwiebach (“Generalized Geometry for ● For more details, see http://hep.caltech. international recognition as a research centre String Theory”), John Schwarz (“Murray edu/gm/. 140 ● of excellence. Gell-Mann and String Theory”), and John Schwarz and Hirosi Ooguri, Caltech. 130 Bangladesh took the fi rst steps in Geoffrey West (“The Renormalization Group Resolution (eV FWHM @ 5.9 keV) collaborating with CERN on 14 November, and Scaling from Quarks to Jaguars”). 120 Last 0 1 2 3 4 5 when education secretary Kamal Abdul between CERN and the Bangladeshi information technology. In this way, it will The symposium concluded with remarks Peaking Time (μs) September, Naser Chowdhury visited the laboratory to high-energy physics community. facilitate the professional development and by Gell-Mann in which he described his George Zweig Throughput sign an expression of interest, together with The current agreement will help research skills of scientists, engineers and view on the signifi cance of the quark visited CERN 1,00,0000 CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer. The scientists, engineers and students from students from research organizations and prediction. There were lively discussions to give a 0.2 μs implementation of the expression of interest Bangladesh to gain valuable experience universities across the country, and could during intermissions and lunches. The colloquium could pave the way for an international in both experimental and theoretical lead to new scientifi c practices for nuclear banquet was held at the Caltech President’s entitled 100,000 1 μs co-operation agreement that would further particle physics, as well as in aspects of scientists, research organizations and House, hosted by Edward Stolper, the “Concrete formalize and broaden the collaboration particle accelerators, particle detectors and university students. interim president and the provost. Among Quarks; the 4 μs those attending the banquet was Marvin Beginning of 10,000 Goldberger, Caltech’s 5th president the End”.
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