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a ppOintMEnts New management at linear collider K James/University of Oregon K James/University

Shinichiro Michizono from KEK has been LCC appointed as associate director for the International Linear Collider (ILC), taking over from Mike Harrison, while Jim Brau of the University of Oregon has replaced Hitoshi Yamamoto as associate director for physics and detectors. The Linear Collider collaboration, which encompasses the ILC and CLIC, has recently been granted a further three-year mandate by Multi Project Wafer (MPW) the International Committee for Future Accelerators.

Incoming associate directors Shinichiro Run for Silicon Radiation Detectors Michizono (left) and Jim Brau. ESO appoints astronomer LHC operations Prototyping service for silicon detectors Barcons as new director general changes hands

The council of the European Southern Rende Steerenberg has been appointed SINTEF Minalab MPW service offers prototyping We offer: Observatory (ESO), which builds and head of operations in CERN’s Beams of silicon detectors including strip detectors, pixel operates some of the world’s most powerful Department, effective from 1 January 2017.

ground-based telescopes, has appointed ESO/F J Carrera He takes over from Mike Lamont, who has detectors and PIN diodes. • Strip detectors Xavier Barcons as its next director general. been in the role since 2009 and oversaw The 57 year-old astronomer will take up his operations from the LHC’s rollercoaster By combining the orders from different customers into • Pixel detectors new position on 1 September 2017, when start-up to its latest record performance. a single wafer run, the fabrication costs are reduced • PIN diodes the current director general Tim de Zeeuw Lamont remains deputy group leader of the • From 1 to 6 wafers completes his mandate. He began his career as Beams Department. significantly. The cost savings start at around 50 % and a physicist, completing a PhD on hot plasmas. can be as high as 80 %. • 5-layer process incl. passivation N Steerenberg • Detector thickness 300 µm to 1 mm Xavier Barcons will become the new Individual wafers and a separate photomask set are • 50 to 80 % savings on fabrication cost ESO director later in the year. used for each customer, thereby ensuring flexibility and confidentiality. Between 1 and 6 wafers can be ordered Next theory leader for Jefferson Lab per customer.

In October 2016, Jianwei Qiu joined the

The detectors are fabricated on high-quality 150 mm JLAB An unique opportunity to benefit from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator diameter FZ silicon wafers. Wafer thicknesses from SINTEF’s 35 years experience in the field Facility as its new associate director for 300 µm to 1 mm are available for individual selection. theoretical and computational physics. Our full field wafer size lithography allows maximum of silicon radiation detector development, Qiu, whose research focus is QCD and its flexibility for the layout. Different detector types prototyping and production! applications in both high-energy particle and nuclear physics, will oversee a broad and test structures can be combined onto a single programme of theoretical research in photomask set. support of the physics studied with the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Prices and time schedule on request : [email protected] Facility (CEBAF). Qiu, who previously led the nuclear theory Rende Steerenberg, previously deputy group at Brookhaven National Laboratory. operations group leader.

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a W a r D s CERN Neutrino physicist Russian Academy of Sciences elects Heuer given highest French honour takes up Pascal Chair theorists as latest new members

Former CERN Director-General Rolf-Dieter SESAME Council, among other roles, was Heuer has been appointed Chevalier de la presented with the medal on 22 November Fumihiko In late 2016, theorists Mikhail Danilov, from the University of California in Santa Barbara Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion at the residence of the French permanent Suekane wins the Lebedev Institute in Moscow, Sergio were elected as members of the Russian of Honour), one of the highest recognitions representative in Geneva. the French Ferrara from CERN and David Gross from Academy of Sciences. Established in 1724, of achievement in France. Heuer, who is award. the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the body has more than 2000 members. currently president of the German Physical Rolf Heuer with French ambassador

Society (DPG) and president-elect of the Elisabeth Laurin. RCNS/Tohoku University Getty images Getty String theorists snare PT2026 NMR Precision Teslameter Breakthrough Prize Fumihiko Suekane of Tohoku University, Reach new heights The 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Japan, has been awarded a 2016 Blaise Pascal Fundamental Physics has been awarded to Chair to further his research into neutrinos. Joseph Polchinski, University of California Established in 1996, and named after the in magnetic eld at Santa Barbara, and Andrew Strominger 17th-century French polymath Blaise Pascal, and Cumrun Vafa of Harvard University. the ¤200,000 grant allows researchers from measurement The three winners, who received the $3 abroad to work on a scientifi c project in an million award at a glitzy ceremony in San institution in the Ile-de-France region. Suekane Francisco on 4 December, have made Andrew Strominger, Joseph Polchinski and Cumrun Vafa (left to right) at the award ceremony. will spend a year working at the Astroparticle The Metrolab PT2026 sets a new important contributions to fundamental and Cosmology Laboratory in Paris, where he standard for precision magnetometers. physics including quantum gravity and Ronald Drever and Kip Thorne of Caltech Berkeley); Simone Giombi (Princeton will focus on R&D for novel neutrino detectors Leveraging 30 years of expertise building string theory. Polchinski was recognised and Rainer Weiss of MIT, who were University) and Xi Yin (Harvard University); and measurements of reactor neutrinos. in particular for his discovery of D-branes, recognised in May along with the entire and Frans Pretorius (Princeton). the world’s gold standard magnetometers, while the citation for Strominger and Vafa LIGO team for the discovery of gravitational This year’s Breakthrough Prize, which V i s i t s it takes magnetic eld measurement to included their derivation of the Bekenstein– waves – were also present. A further prize, was founded in 2012 by Sergey Brin, Anne new heights: measuring higher elds with Hawking area-entropy relation, which the $100,000 New Horizons in Physics Wojcicki, Yuri and Julia Milner, Mark unifi ed the laws of thermodynamics and Prize, went to six early-career physicists: Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, saw $25 better resolution. black-hole dynamics. Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute), million in prizes awarded for achievements M Brice/CERN Recipients of the previously announced Peter Graham (Stanford University) and in the life sciences, fundamental physics and The PT2026 offers unprecedented exibility Special Prize in Fundamental Physics – Surjeet Rajendran (University of California, mathematics. in the choice of parameters, interfacing Humboldt award for Atomic pioneer wins presidential medal and probe placement, as well as greatly improved tolerance of inhomogeneous Brookhaven physicist US physicist and science policy adviser The White House President of the Republic of Poland, elds. And with Ethernet & USB interfaces to the US government, Richard Garwin, Andrzej Duda, visited CERN on 15 November and LabVIEW software, it ts perfectly into On 30 November, the Alexander von was awarded the Presidential Medal of and toured the CERN Control Centre. modern laboratory environments. Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, Freedom at a White House ceremony on

granted a Humboldt Research Award to Raju 22 November. The award is the highest le - Photo: Scott Maxwell, Master www.agence-arca.com Venugopalan, a senior physicist at Brookhaven honour that the US government can confer National Laboratory and Stony Brook to civilians. Garwin was recognised for University. The ¤60,000 award recognises his long career in research and invention,

Venugopalan’s achievements in theoretical which saw him play a leading role in the Bennett/CERNS nuclear physics, and comes with the opportunity development of the hydrogen bomb, and for to collaborate with German researchers at his advice to policy makers. Heidelberg University and elsewhere. Introducing Garwin, President Obama remarked: “Dick’s not only an architect of

BNL the atomic age. Reconnaissance satellites, the MRI, GPS technology, the touchscreen all bear his fi ngerprints – he even patented

a mussel washer for shellfi sh. Dick has Pantone 286 Pantone 032 advised nearly every president since Director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Eisenhower, often rather bluntly. Enrico in the US, Chi-Chang Kao, signed the guestbook Fermi, also a pretty smart guy, is said to with CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti on have called Dick the only true genius he Richard Garwin was one of 21 recipients of 23 November. Magnetic precision has a name www.metrolab.com Venugopalan joined Brookhaven in 1998. ever met.” the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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a W a r D s CERN Neutrino physicist Russian Academy of Sciences elects Heuer given highest French honour takes up Pascal Chair theorists as latest new members

BNL the atomic age. Reconnaissance satellites, the MRI, GPS technology, the touchscreen all bear his fi ngerprints – he even patented

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CERNCOURIER www. V o l u m e 5 7 N u m b e r 1 J a n u ary /F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 7 CERN Courier January/February 2017 CERN Courier January/February 2017 Faces & Places Faces & Places S Ritt/PSI C O n F E r E n C E s measurements of beta-decay correlations and searches for exotic interactions. The future European Spallation Source in Triangulating in Mumbai Sweden will also allow a new and much improved search for neutron–antineutron From 28 November to 2 December, more oscillations. Atomic physics and related than 200 fl avour physicists gathered at the methods offer unprecedented sensitivity Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in to fundamental-physics aspects ranging Mumbai for the 9th International Workshop from QED tests, parity violation in weak on the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa interactions, EDM and exotic physics to Unitarity Triangle (CKM2016). The dark-matter (DM) and dark-energy searches. TIFR Photography SectionTIFR Photography workshop focuses on weak transitions With the absence of signals from direct DM Attendees enjoy a music event at PSI2016, which comprised 65 plenary talks. of quarks from one fl avour to another, as searches so far, light and ultralight DM is described by the CKM matrix, and on the a focus of several upcoming experiments. (μ → e conversion) devoted to muons and C O r r E C t i O n charge–parity (CP) violation present in these Atomic physics also comprises precision their lepton-fl avour violating decays, and transitions, as visualised by the unitarity spectroscopy of exotic atoms, and several the upcoming muon g-2 experiments at The Compiler’s Note in the December 2016 triangle (UT). Input from theory, particularly highlight talks included the ongoing efforts FNAL and J-PARC have reported impressive issue of the Courier (p50) inadvertently lattice QCD, is vital to fully leverage the CKM2016 participants at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator with progress. Last but not least, rare kaon decays reported that the touchscreen and tracker power of such measurements. antihydrogen and with light muonic atoms (at CERN and J-PARC), new long-baseline ball used at the SPS were inventions of an

It is an exciting time for ﬂ avour physics. The excluded at CL > 0.95 ultimately expected to increase the size of at J-PARC and at PSI. For antiprotons neutrino oscillation results, developments individual. excluded area has CL > 0.95 mass scales potentially involved in such weak γ the LHCb data samples by approximately and nuclei, impressive results from recent towards direct neutrino-mass measurements, Such projects are, of course, team efforts, processes are much higher than those that a factor four. Longer term, the Belle II Penning-trap mass and g-factor measurements and CP and CPT tests with B mesons were sometimes involving industry, and useful Δmd & Δm s can be directly probed at the LHC, due to the sin 2β experiment based at the SuperKEKB were presented with impacts on CPT tests, reported. The fi eld of low-energy precision products emerge and evolve over time and

presence of quantum loops that mediate many– collider recently enjoyed its fi rst beam, and bound-state QED tests and more. physics has grown fast over the past few place. Credit should have been more fairly 0 0 Δmd of the processes of interest, such as B(s) – B(s) εK α will begin its full physics programme in Major international efforts are under way years, and participants plan to meet again at attributed to reﬂ ect the history of these mixing. Compared with the absence of new γ β 2018. By 2024, Belle II should have collected at PSI (μ → eγ, μ → eee), FNAL and J-PARC PSI in 2019. important CERN devices. particles so far at the energy frontier, LHCb α 50 times more data than Belle, allowing V and other B factories already have signifi cant ub α unprecedented tests of rare B-meson decays hints of deviations between measurements and precision CP-violation measurements. Nanotechnology meets HEP in Darmstadt and Standard Model (SM) predictions. γ εK On the same timescale, the LHCb upgrade CKM An example is the persistent discrepancy f i t t e r sol. w/cos 2β < 0 will also be in full swing, with the goal of EPS 15 (excl. at CL > 0.95)

in the measured differential distributions increasing the data size by least a factor The fi elds of nanomaterials and GSI of the decay products of the rare 10 compared to Run 1 and Run 2. Plans nanotechnology are quickly evolving, with fl avour-changing neutral-current process The sides, angles and height of the for a second LHCb upgrade presented at discoveries frequently reported across B0 → K*0 μ+ μ–, fi rst reported by the LHCb unitarity triangle constitute a highly the meeting would allow LHCb, given the a wide range of applications including collaboration in 2015. A highlight of overconstrained system where small long-term future of the LHC, to run at much nanoelectronics, sensor technologies, drug CKM2016 was the presentation of fi rst deviations from predictions would indicate higher instantaneous luminosities to yield an delivery and robotics, in addition to the results of the same distributions from the presence of non-SM physics. enormous data set by 2035. energy and healthcare sectors. the Belle experiment in Japan, which With more data the puzzles of fl avour At an academia–industry event on 20–21 also included the related but previously time-dependent CP violation in the decay physics will be resolved thanks to the October at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, 0 *0 + – 0 unmeasured process B → K e e . The of Bs mesons in two separate fi nal states, ongoing programme of LHCb, imminent co-organised by the technology-transfer + – + – Belle results are more compatible with those Ds K and K K . The latter involves loop results from rare-kaon-decay experiments network HEPTech, delegates explored novel of LHCb than the SM, further supporting the diagrams allowing a new-physics-sensitive (KOTO and NA62), and the Belle II/LHCb connections between nanotechnology and idea that new physics may be manifesting determination of a UT angle (γ) that can be upgrade projects. No doubt there will be high-energy physics (HEP). itself, via interference effects, in these compared to a tree-level SM determination more revealing results by the time of the next The forum included an overview observables. Progress on measuring CP in the decay B– → D0 K–. CKM workshop, to be held in Heidelberg in of the recent experiments at DESY’s violation in B decays was also reported, For the fi rst time, LHCb also presented September 2018. hard X-ray source PETRA III, which with LHCb presenting the fi rst evidence for results with data from LHC Run 2, which is ● www.tifr.res.in/~ckm16. allows the investigation of physical and 70 participants from 11 countries attended the event and 30 bilateral meetings took place. chemical processes in situ and under working conditions and serves a large the core of which are nano-structured Characterisation of Grenoble. PSI event probes the low-energy frontier user community in many fi elds including tungsten-carbide-based coatings that have The meeting addressed how collaboration nanotechnology. Thermal-scanning probe promising applications in HEP and vacuum between academia and industry in the lithography, an increasingly reliable method engineering. Industry also presented nanotechnology arena can best serve the While there are many conferences focusing PSI2016, took place from 16–21 October anomalies presently seen in B decays. On the for rapid and low-cost prototyping of 2D ion-track technology, which is being used needs of HEP, with CERN presenting on physics at the high-energy frontier, the and attracted more than 170 physicists. experimental side, several new results were and quasi-3D structures, was also discussed. to synthesise 3D interconnected nanowire applications in gaseous detectors using the triennial PSI workshop at the Paul Scherrer Theoretical overviews covered: precision presented. Much attention was paid to the production networks in micro-batteries or gas sensors, charge-transfer properties of graphene. Institute (PSI) in Switzerland concerns QED calculations; beyond-the-Standard- Fundamental neutron physics and application of nanostructures, where among other applications. Neutron-research The technology-transfer offi ce at DESY searches for new phenomena at non-collider Model implications of electric-dipole- featured prominently, ranging from the achievements of the Ion Beam Center at infrastructures and large-scale synchrotrons also shared its experience in developing experiments. These are complementary to moment (EDM) searches; axions and other cold-neutron-beam experiments to those with Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in are emerging as highly suitable platforms for a marketing strategy for promoting direct searches at the LHC and often cover a light exotic particles; fl avour symmetries; stored ultracold neutrons at facilities such as surface nanostructuring and nanopatterning the advanced characterisation of micro- and the services of the DESY NanoLab to parameter space that is beyond the reach of the muon g-2 problem; NLO calculations of ILL, PSI, LANL, TRIUMF and Mainz. Key were introduced. nano-electronic devices, and the audience companies. Both academia and industry the LHC or even future colliders. the rare muon decay μ → eeeνν; and possible experiments are measurements of the neutron UK fi rm Hardide Coatings Ltd presented heard the latest developments from the representatives left the event with a set of The fourth workshop in this series, models to explain the exciting fl avour lifetime, searches for a permanent EDM, its advanced surface-coating technology, IRT Nanoelec Platform for Advanced contacts and collaboration arrangements.

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On 24–25 November, academics and leading PSI presented medical accelerators such as the The 8th International Conference on Hard companies in the fi eld of superconductivity MEVION S250 – a proton-therapy system and Electromagnetic Probes of High-energy met in Madrid, Spain, to explore the based on a gantry-mounted 250 MeV Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2016) technical challenges of applying new superconducting synchrocyclotron that was held in Wuhan, China, on 23–27 accelerator technology to medicine. weighs less than 15 tonnes and generates September. Hard and electromagnetic Organised by CIEMAT in collaboration magnetic fi elds in excess of 10 T. Global probes are powerful tools for the study of with HEPTech, EUCARD2, CDTI, GSI medical-technology company IBA the novel properties of hot and dense QCD and the Enterprise Europe Network, the described its two main superconducting matter created in high-energy nucleus– event brought together 120 participants cyclotrons for particle therapy: the nucleus collisions, and have provided much from 19 countries to focus on radioisotope Cyclone 400 for proton/carbon therapy important evidence for the formation of production, particle therapy and gantries. and the S2C2 dedicated to proton quark–gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion Hard Probe 2016 attracted a record number of participants. Superconductivity has a range of therapy, with a particular emphasis on collisions at RHIC and the LHC. applications in energy, medicine, fusion their superconducting coil systems. IBA Hard Probe 2016 attracted close to 300 excitations; jet properties in small ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, PHENIX and STAR and high-energy physics (HEP). The latter also introduced the latest developments participants from 28 countries. The main systems; heavy ﬂ avour hadrons and collaborations, together with many new are illustrated by CERN’s high-luminosity concerning ProteusONE – a single-room topics discussed were: jet production quarkonia; photons and dileptons and exciting theoretical and phenomenological LHC (HL-LHC), now near construction system that delivers the most clinically and modifi cation in QCD matter; high initial states and related topics. The most developments, were discussed. The next with superconducting magnets made from advanced form of proton-radiation transverse-momentum hadron spectra recent experimental progress on hard and Hard Probe conference will be held in Aix

advanced Nb3Sn technology capable of therapy. Researchers from MIT in the US and correlations; jet-induced medium electromagnetic probes from the ALICE, Les Bains, France, in 2018. 12 T fi elds. The HL-LHC demands greatly presented a novel compact superconducting advanced superconducting cavities with synchrocyclotron based on an ironless more effi cient and higher-gradient RF A proton-therapy gantry facility at the magnet with a much reduced weight, while Exotic nuclei and super-heavy elements systems, plus the development of new Paul Scherrer Institute. the TERA Foundation in Italy is developing devices such as crab cavities that can deﬂ ect superconducting technology for “cyclinacs” or rotate single bunches of protons. these isotopes in addition to 68Ga. Antaya – accelerators that combine a cyclotron The International Symposium on EXOtic is an experiment on the synthesis of element On the industry side, new Science and Technology, meanwhile, injector and a linac booster. Nuclei (EXON-2016), took place from JINR 117 held at the cyclotron of JINR. Recently, superconducting technology is ready to go reported on the development of a portable Finally, the session on gantries covered 5–9 September in Kazan, Russia, attracting the International Union of Pure and Applied into production for medical applications. high-fi eld superconducting cyclotron for developments such as a superconducting around 170 nuclear experts from 20 Chemistry approved the discovery of the A dedicated session presented novel the production of ammonia-13N in near bending-magnet section for future countries. The scientifi c programme focused new elements with atomic numbers 113 developments in cyclotron production, proximity to the PET cameras. The meeting compact isocentric gantries by researchers on recent experiments on the synthesis (“nihonian”), 115 (“moscovium”), 117 illustrated by the AMIT project of also heard from MEDICIS, the new facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute, and a and study of new super-heavy elements, (“tennessine”) and 118 (“oganesson”). CIEMAT (based on a cyclotron with a under construction at CERN that will superconducting rotating gantry for carbon the discovery of which demonstrates the Five laboratories, which are the compact superconducting design that will extend the capabilities of the ISOLDE radiotherapy designed by the Japanese effi ciency of international co-operation. co-founders of the symposium, are now be able to produce low-to-moderate rates radioactive ion-beam facility for production National Institute of Radiological Sciences. Interesting results were obtained in joint creating a new generation of accelerators for of dose-on-demand 11C and 18F) and the of radiopharmaceuticals and develop With demand for medical isotopes and experiments on chemical identifi cation of the synthesis and study of new exotic nuclei. French industry–academia LOTUS project new accelerator technologies for medical advanced cancer therapy rising, we can elements 112 and 114 performed at JINR Projects such as SPIRAL2, RIKEN RI Beam system, which features a compact 12 MeV applications (CERN Courier October look forward to rich collaborations between (Russia), the GSI (Germany) and the Paul Factory, FAIR, DRIBs, NICA and FRIB will superconducting helium-free magnet 2016 p28). accelerator physics and the medical Scherrer Institute (Switzerland). A vivid Participants of the VIII International allow us to delve further into the upper limits cyclotron suitable for the production of Concerning particle therapy, industry community in the coming years. example of co-operation with US scientists Symposium on EXOtic Nuclei. of the periodic table. Higgs Couplings 2016 R Kish/SLAC

The fi fth in the series of Higgs Couplings Thaler Tamas workshops, which began just after the Higgs-boson discovery in 2012 to bring together theorists and experimentalists, was held at SLAC on 9–12 November and drew 148 participants from fi ve continents. Higgs experts from theory and experiment at Higgs Couplings 2016. Discussions focused on lessons from the current round of LHC analyses that could be Two new themes emerged at the meeting. also debated the application of effective fi eld applied to future data. Modelling of signal The fi rst was the possibility of exotic decays theory as a framework for parametrising and background is already limiting for some of the 125 GeV Higgs boson. These include precise Higgs measurements. The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics jointly organised an introduction-to-accelerator-physics measurements, and new theoretical results not only Higgs decays to invisible particles The 6th Higgs Couplings meeting will be course in Budapest, Hungary, from 2–14 October, attended by more than 120 participants spanning 28 nationalities. This year, CAS will and strategies were presented. Other key but also decays to lighter Higgs particles, light held in Heidelberg on 6–10 November 2017. organise a specialised course on beam injection, extraction and transfer (to be held in Erice, Sicily, from 10–19 March) and a second issues were the use of vector-boson fusion quarks and leptons (possibly with ﬂ avour We look forward to new ideas for the creative specialised course on vacuum for particle accelerators (near Lund, Sweden, from 6–16 June). The next course on advanced-accelerator production as a tool, and the power and violation) and new, long-lived particles. A use of the large data samples of Higgs bosons physics will be held in the UK in early September, and a Joint International Accelerator School on RF technology will be held in Hayama, complementarity of diverse searches for number of searches from ATLAS and CMS that will become available as the LHC Japan, from 16 –26 October (www.cern.ch/schools/CAS). heavy Higgs bosons. reported their fi rst results. The workshop programme continues.

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O B i t u a r i E s Ovsat Abdinov 1944–2016 Valery Khovanskiy 1940–2016 Russian physicist Valery Dmitrievich the search for new particles and neutrino Ovsat Abdinov, member of the Azerbaijan scientists in the LHC, but this did not Khovanskiy passed away in Moscow oscillations. From 1990 onwards, he National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), interrupt connections with Dubna: Abdinov on 7 September. A veteran of Russian participated in the ATLAS experiment. His

died on 29 October at the age of 72, after a Gökhan Ünel was a staff member of JINR, deputy of experimental high-energy physics and group was active in the preparation of the long illness. He was born in Belokan city, authorised representative of the government long-time leader of the ITEP team in Letter of Intent, working on the concept of Azerbaijan, graduated from Baku State of Azerbaijan Republic in JINR, and a ATLAS, he will be remembered not only radiation-resistant forward calorimeters, University in 1966, and defended his PhD member of JINR Scientifi c Council. as an energetic contributor to the CERN and, from 1995 to 2009, worked on the thesis in 1972. The creation of Azerbaijan’s fi rst neutrino and LHC programmes, but also as construction and commissioning of the It is impossible to overstate the impact that Worldwide LHC Computing Grid segment an honest and principled person who loved ATLAS liquid-argon forward calorimeters, Abdinov had in the creation and development also owes its thanks to Abdinov. science and life. providing the major part of the tungsten of high-energy physics in Azerbaijan. His Abdinov was a famous scientifi c Valery was born in Sverdlovsk in the electrodes. wide knowledge, inexhaustible energy, representative of the Azerbaijan former USSR, and received his PhD From 1995 to 2012, Valery was the leader talent in organisation and search for young intelligentsia. He was an organiser and (for the study of cumulative effects of the neutrino-physics laboratory at ITEP. He specialists led to the creation of his own invited speaker at international conferences, in πN-interactions) at the Institute of served on the LHCC from 1992 to 1994 and school in this fi eld that serves as an example Ovsat Abdinov had a major impact on a presenter of high-level reports and the Experimental and Theoretical Physics Khovanskiy at CERN in the late 1990s. for a long period on the Russian government’s for future generations. high-energy physics in Azerbaijan. winner of numerous research grants both in (ITEP, Moscow) in 1969. Since then, his commission on fundamental research. He was Scientifi cally, Abdinov’s main interest was the former Soviet Union and in Azerbaijan. main scientifi c interests were in the fi elds of interactions to validate the then very young also one of the founders and lecturers of the the theoretical description of hadron-nuclear for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna and He dedicated almost 20 years of his neutrino physics, novel particle-detection quark-parton model. In the late 1970s, famous ITEP Winter School of Physics. interaction processes. He was the fi rst the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) scientifi c activity to investigations carried methods and hadron collider physics. Valery joined the CERN experimental Valery had a vivid individuality and was to propose a hypothesis of the cluster in Serpukhov, both in Russia, followed by out within the ATLAS collaboration. We In the fi rst Russian accelerator neutrino neutrino programme at the SPS and PS, invariably good humoured. His many pupils, formation in light nuclei, which was later CERN. hope that his work will be continued by experiment at the Serpukhov 70 GeV proton and became one of the senior scientists colleagues and friends admired him and he experimentally proven. The laboratory The creation and expansion of relations his scientifi c heirs and further benefi t synchrotron (IHEP-ITEP, 1970–1978), of the CHARM, PS-181, CHARM-2 will be very much missed. he headed at ANAS Institute of Physics between Azerbaijan and CERN paved the Azerbaijan high-energy physics. Valery lead the detector construction and CHORUS experiments devoted to a ● His friends and colleagues, ITEP and collaborated initially with the Joint Institute way for the participation of Azerbaijan ● His colleagues. and studied neutrino and antineutrino systematic study of neutral currents, and ATLAS. Malcolm Derrick 1933–2016 Ted Wilson 1938–2016

Malcolm Derrick, a long-time leader in ANL produced by the MINOS programme is the Edmund (Ted) Wilson, a well-known fi gure Ted was a natural and gifted teacher. the Argonne high-energy physics (HEP) direct result of these early experiments. in the world of particle accelerators and During the days of SPS construction he ran

division, passed away on 31 October After the closure of the ZGS programme, former director of the CERN Accelerator WilsonAlex a series of courses on accelerator theory for after a long illness. Born in Hull, UK, in Malcolm initiated Argonne participation School (CAS), died after a short illness on members of the 300 GeV laboratory, which 1933, Malcolm received his BSc and PhD in two important experiments: HRS at the 3 November. evolved into the book An Introduction degrees in physics from the University PEP collider at SLAC, where he proposed The son of a schoolteacher in to Particle Accelerators. Following his of Birmingham. After working on the using the superconducting magnet of the Liverpool, UK, he graduated in physics appointment as CAS director in 1992, he cyclotron at Carnegie Tech, he moved to 12 foot bubble chamber as the solenoid at the University of Oxford in 1959 and was responsible for organising 25 schools, Oxford University in 1962 to help establish for the HRS spectrometer, and the ZEUS immediately joined the nearby Rutherford in addition to special schools in India, a bubble-chamber group working at CERN. experiment at the HERA collider in DESY. Appleton Laboratory. His fi rst stay at China and Japan. He also coauthored a In 1963 he moved to Argonne National Malcolm took sabbatical leave at University CERN was in 1962–1963 and he returned fascinating book on the history of particle Laboratory to work on the 12 GeV ZGS College London and later at DESY, where in 1967 as a fellow, working in Werner accelerators and their applications: Engines synchrotron then in construction. he served as physics chairman and oversaw Hardt’s group on the design of the of Discovery, a Century of Particle While working on several bubble-chamber such activities as physics publications. A booster for the new large synchrotron: Accelerators. experiments with the 30 inch chamber, gifted speaker, he served on several review the “300 GeV” machine, later to become Accelerator physicist Ted Wilson. On his retirement, Ted renewed his Malcolm’s main interest was in establishing Malcolm Derrick was a long-time CERN committees and was a HEPAP member the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). He association with Oxford University by a programme of neutrino physics using the collaborator. and an active participant in the Snowmass became the right-hand man of John Adams essential for the smooth commissioning of becoming a guest professor at the John 12 foot bubble-chamber then being built. Conferences. He retired in 2006. in 1969, helping him to prepare the project the SPS, for which he was responsible a few Adams Institute of Accelerator Physics, He was spokesman for the fi rst experiment supported the division's collaboration Besides being a brilliant physicist, for approval by CERN Council, which years later. Following the approval in 1978 where he taught and supervised students. He using the deuterium-fi lled chamber, which with the University of Minnesota to Malcolm had a knack for entertaining his was given in 1971. He became one of the of the bold proposal of Carlo Rubbia to turn has helped to bring on a new generation of produced several important results including build an underground detector to search guests with stories about his life and endless fi rst staff members of the new “300 GeV the SPS into a part-time proton–antiproton machine builders. the fi rst measurement of the axial-vector form for proton decay in the Soudan Mine anecdotes about history and philosophy. His laboratory” set up for the construction of collider, Ted started working on how to Ted Wilson will be sorely missed by the factor in muon neutrino–neutron quasi-elastic in Minnesota. This resulted in a rich spare time was spent reading good books, the SPS. convert the machine from a synchrotron to a world’s accelerator community. He will scattering. This result was verifi ed by later programme of neutrino physics with a fi ne dining and listening to classical music. In 1973–1974, at the request of Adams, storage ring. He later worked on the design always be remembered for his impish smile BNL and FNAL experiments. series of multi-kiloton detectors and in new Malcolm leaves behind his wife Eva and his Ted spent a sabbatical year at Fermilab to and construction of CERN’s antiproton and his dry sense of humour. He is survived Malcolm served on two occasions as HEP underground laboratories at Soudan, using many children and grandchildren. He will be work on the commissioning of the “main complex: fi rst the antiproton accumulator, by his wife Monika, his three children and division director and was always a source both atmospheric neutrinos and Fermilab missed by all who knew and loved him. ring”, a machine very similar to the SPS. to which a second ring, the antiproton fi ve grandchildren. of good career advice. He enthusiastically neutrino beams. The important physics ● His colleagues. The lessons he learnt there would prove collector, was later added. ● His friends and colleagues.

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