CERN Courier October 2014 Faces & Places Your technologi cally preferred supplier A PPOINTMENTS Stan Bentvelsen to be next director of Nikhef Danfysik congratulates CERN for 60 years Our core competences: of driving accelerator • Accelerator magnets & related equipment Stan Bentvelsen has been appointed as Stan Bentvelsen is to take the helm at Nikhef. technology • Magnetic field calculations and measurements • Ultrastable power supplies director of Nikhef – the National Institute for (Image credit: Jan Willem Steenmeijer.) • Beam diagnostics Subatomic Physics, the Netherlands – with • Insertion devices, undulators and wigglers effect from 1 December. He will succeed responsible for the Dutch contribution to • Ion accelerators and ion sources the ATLAS experiment, in his capacity as • Turnkey systems, electron & ion synchrotrons, Frank Linde, whose second term as director and microtrons fi nishes at the end of the year. programme leader. • Installation, commissioning and service Bentvelsen is currently professor at After studying theoretical physics at We exploit our competence in accelerator technology the University of Amsterdam, where the University of Amsterdam, Bentvelsen to design, develop, manufacture and integrate he is director of the Institute for High gained his PhD in experimental physics for advanced components and high-quality systems Energy Physics. He is also a member of research at the HERA collider at DESY. He that exceed the goals of our customers in research, healthcare and industry worldwide. the governing board of the Foundation for subsequently worked for six years at CERN Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), on the OPAL experiment, and then joined a partnership between Radboud University Nikhef in 2000 as a senior researcher, Bentvelsen will be employed by FOM, but Danfysik would like to talk to you about how Nijmegen, the University of Amsterdam, starting with the preparations for ATLAS. will retain his professorship at the University our competence in accelerator technology could Utrecht University and VU University Since 2005, he has been professor of of Amsterdam. His appointment is for a benefit your application To hear more please contact our sales team at Amsterdam. In the run-up to and during the “Collider Physics at the LHC” at the period of fi ve years, with the possibility of a [email protected] or visit our website: discovery of a Higgs boson at CERN, he was University of Amsterdam. single reappointment for the same period. www.danfysik.com Hafeez Hoorani, new director-general of the Hafeez Hoorani to NCP. (Image credit: Muhammad Imran/NCP.) CryogenFreeProbe#2-CERN 9/21/13 2:58 PM Page 1 head NCP in Pakistan Since 1994, Hoorani has played a key role in establishing CERN–Pakistan collaboration, which has now led to an important step in the Hafeez Hoorani has been appointed as form of Pakistan’s application for associate director-general of the National Centre for membership of CERN, which was approved Physics (NCP) in Pakistan. NCP is the focal by CERN Council in June. point of the CERN–Pakistan collaboration, The National Centre for Physics was set and is currently the only collaborating institute up in 1999, with the distinguished theorist Magnets Cryogen from Pakistan within the CMS collaboration. becoming research director at NCP and Riazuddin as the fi rst director CERN( Hoorani studied physics at Karachi professor at Quaid-i-Azam University, Courier March 1999 p5). Its range of studies Free Probe University before gaining a Masters at Simon Islamabad. He currently works on the forward encompasses not only particle physics but Fraser University, Canada, in experimental muon system of CMS, as well as on top-quark also other fi elds, from condensed matter to and coils Stations physics related to the quark–gluon plasma, physics at CERN. He also served as the cosmology. NCP collaborates with CERN and later a PhD at the University of Geneva. scientifi c director of SESAME for seven years in the CMS experiment and in the LHC www.scanditronix-magnet.se He fi rst went to CERN in 1989 to work at – the light source under construction in Jordan Computing Grid, being the only node for Applications include the Large Electron–Positron collider, later (CERN Courier September 2014 p46). grid in Pakistan. nano science, materials A WARDS and spintronics <5 K - 675 K cryocooler- Theorists honoured in Edinburgh and London based systems Vibration isolated for sub-micron sample stability On 28 June, Peter Higgs, of the University Higgs boson, was discovered in 2012 by the Up to 8 probes, DC to 67 GHz, plus fiber optics of Edinburgh, and François Englert, of ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN. In Université Libre de Bruxelles, received recognition of CERN’s role, the organization’s Zoom optics with camera and monitor doctorates in science from one another’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, also received an Horizontal, vertical or vector magnetic field institutions, at a graduation ceremony in the honorary degree from the university. options are available University of Edinburgh’s McEwan Hall. At the same event, Tom Kibble of Imperial They were honoured for their work on the College London received a Royal Medal Other configurations: LHe, LN2, room temperature and UHV systems Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism, which from the Royal Society of Edinburgh – the Contact us today: enables elementary particles to acquire mass. society’s most prestigious award, granted Left to right: Tom Kibble, Peter Higgs and [email protected] In addition, Higgs was awarded the Freedom only with permission of the Queen. Kibble François Englert, at the ceremony in www.janis.com /CryogenFreeProbeStation.aspx of the City of Edinburgh. The particle received the award for “his outstanding ▲ Edinburgh. (Image credit: Gareth Easton www.facebook.com /JanisResearch predicted by the mechanism, known as the contribution to the fi eld of theoretical Photography.) 51 p50.indd 1 03/09/2014 15:49 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 8 O CTOBER 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier October 2014 Faces & Places physics through his research and discovery, with others, of the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles and which, in so doing, paved the way for unifi cation of the weak and electromagnetic forces”. Born in India, he moved to Edinburgh in 1944, where he attended school. He gained his fi rst degrees and then his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. As part of the day’s celebrations, the Royal Society of Edinburgh organized a discussion event on “The Future of Particle Physics and CERN”, at which Englert, Heuer, Higgs and Kibble all spoke. In London, the Royal Society has awarded the 2015 Bakerian Lecture to John Ellis, John Ellis in his offi ce at CERN. (Image Clerk Maxwell professor of theoretical credit: CERN-GE-1107174-06.) physics at King’s College London, and RF Power? a leading theorist at CERN until his annually at the Royal Society in London. retirement in 2011. He receives the award The lecture series began in 1775, after “for his ground-breaking contributions the lectureship was established through in the physics of the Higgs boson and his a bequest by Henry Baker – a typical attempts at unifying the fundamental forces 18th-century polymath, who made “valuable of nature through his work at the LHC”. contributions to the dissemination of The Bakerian Lecture is one of the scientifi c knowledge, in particular in the society’s premier awards, and is delivered fi eld of microscopy”. C ELEBRATION Golutvin and Onuchin reach their 80th birthdays Advertising feature Igor Golutvin, one of the leading scientists at JINR, was 80 on 8 August – an event that was celebrated on the day in a special session in Dubna of the 17th Annual RDMS CMS Collaboration Conference. He is well known for several generations of large-scale experiments at JINR, the Institute for High Lorentz: 2D/3D Beam Optics and Charged Energy Physics in Protvino and at CERN. Golutvin began to develop wire spark RF Solutions. chambers for neutrino experiments during a Particle Trajectory fi rst visit to CERN in 1964, when the use of online computers was just beginning. He The Lorentz software package solves problems in then used this experience in experiments at charged particle trajectory applications. the synchrophasotron in Dubna and at the U-70 accelerator at Protvino. Under his For example, in cancer treatment, radiation therapy leadership, the USSR then had its fi rst – and Igor Golutvin, now 80. (Image credit: one of the world’s fi rst – online installations Anatoli Zarubin.) uses photons or charged particles to reduce the to study elastic πp scattering and K0 – K0 size of a tumor. This research requires the design regeneration. Golutvin led the R&D and construction and testing of the beam instrument. This diagram In 1974, he was one of a group of of the large proportional chambers. The shows an instrument which uses a proton beam to physicists sent to CERN to establish a joint excellent performance and outstanding JINR–CERN experimental programme. reliability of these chambers were a key treat complex tumors while leaving healthy tissue The successful work by Golutvin and the factor in the success of the experiment, undamaged. A pencil sized proton beam travels Dubna team strengthened the participation which measured structure functions with a through a series of scanning magnets which focus the beam onto the target spot. of the JINR physicists at CERN, and precision that has still not been exceeded in promoted the development of co-operation. the corresponding kinematic region. The Lorentz software has the ability to solve the beam optics of the scanning magnets and www.integratedsoft.com NA4, the fi rst joint experiment by the At Dubna, Golutvin organized a powerful provide a beam analysis of the particle trajectories. 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