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a p p O i n t M E n t Metals New chair of Brookhaven physics department Hong Ma has been named chair of the various detector systems and data-analysis physics department at the Brookhaven software for the ATLAS experiment at and materials National Laboratory in Upton, New York. CERN’s LHC. Ma was involved at every He succeeds Laurence Littenberg, who stage of the construction of ATLAS, became physicist emeritus at the end of June including making important contributions to for research after having worked in the department since the liquid-argon calorimeter, and is currently 1974. Ma, who took up the post on 1 July, contributing to Brookhaven’s efforts to will oversee a staff of 244 and an annual Brookhaven National Laboratory upgrade the ATLAS silicon detector and Goodfellow Cambridge Limited ON-LINE CATALOGUE budget of about $100 million for nuclear liquid-argon calorimeter for the High Ermine Business Park and particle physics. Luminosity LHC. Brookhaven also serves as Huntingdon PE29 6WR UK Ma earned a bachelor-of-science degree the host laboratory for US scientists involved from Fudan University in Shanghai in in ATLAS research. Tel: 0800 731 4653 or +44 1480 424 800 1983 and a PhD in physics in 1988 from the “It is a huge honour and responsibility to Fax: 0800 328 7689 or +44 1480 424 900 California Institute of Technology, where he serve as the chair of this great department,” [email protected] continued as a research fellow until joining says Ma. “We are proposing, designing, Brookhaven as a research associate in 1989. and constructing the next-generation He is best known for developing detector detectors while exploring the unknown with components for particle-physics experiments our currently running experiments. I am at colliders, and since 1999 he has played a Brookhaven physics-department chair, committed to maintaining the excellence 70 000 PRODUCTS SMALL QUANTITIES FAST DELIVERY CUSTOM MADE ITEMS major role in designing and commissioning Hong Ma. required to do this fascinating science.”

a w a r D s Jefferson Lab director wins Glazebrook Medal

Hugh Elliot Montgomery, director of the Medal-winner Hugh Elliot Montgomery. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and president of Jefferson Science outstanding leadership within the physics Your partner for passive rf components Associates LLC, has been awarded the community. Montgomery was recognised

Glazebrook Medal by the UK’s Institute of DOE/Jefferson Lab for his leadership at Jefferson Lab and TRANSMISSION LINES, COAXIAL & WAVEGUIDE Physics (the IOP). distinguished research in high-energy • The Glazebrook Medal, which is named physics. He will receive the medal and a PATCH PANELS & SPLITTERS after the fi rst director of the UK National prize of £1000 at an event to be held later this Physical Laboratory and fi rst president year. “It is fl attering and pleasing to receive • of the IOP, Richard Tetley Glazebrook, such a prestigious award,” Montgomery CUSTOMISED RF COMPONENTS was fi rst awarded in 1966. It is one of four says. “Of course, it is also a refl ection of the gold medals awarded annually by the people with whom it has been my privilege IOP in recognition of those who display to work during my career.” Non-locality bags Dirac Medal

Sandu Popescu of the University of Bristol, Sandu Popescu wins one of four gold medals. UK, has been awarded the 2016 Dirac Medal and Prize by the UK’s Institute of Physics for and collaborated in the fi rst experimental his infl uential research into non-locality. realisation of this phenomenon. In Popescu identifi ed non-locality as a collaboration with Daniel Rohrlich, Popescu defi ning aspect of quantum mechanics that identifi ed the Popescu–Rohrlich correlations is central to quantum information, and his – which are now regarded as the basic unit work has played a crucial role in the modern of non-locality. He has also deepened our Micromatter Technologies Inc. view of non-locality as a resource that can understanding of quantum thermodynamics www.exirbroadcasting.com be stored, transformed and consumed while – demonstrating that almost all subsystems Exir Broadcasting AB performing useful tasks. In particular, he are canonical, and that thermal equilibrium is Industrigatan 17 - SE-242 31 Hörby - Sweden developed a scheme for quantum teleportation reached for almost all initial states. +46 415 30 14 00 - [email protected]

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Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for signifi cantly to the health and vitality of experiment. University Freiburg of 125 eV FWHM 4 µs his outstanding leadership in the development world-leading nuclear-physics research over Jakobs, who has previously also worked 130 eV FWHM 1 µs of new detector technologies and systems for the past four decades through his leadership. on the UA2 and ALEPH experiments at 140 eV FWHM 0.2 µs experimental nuclear-physics research, and for This includes germanium detectors used CERN, and the D0 experiment at Fermilab, 160 eV FWHM 0.05 µs his seminal contributions to our understanding in the European gamma-ray spectrometer will start his term on 1 March 2017. He of the structure of atomic nuclei. Simpson collaboration EXOGAM, for example, and succeeds Dave Charlton of the University of has made important contributions in areas Simpson also played a leading role in the Birmingham, who has been in the post since SDD Spectrum 5.9 such as the discovery of robust exotic triaxial development of the EUROBALL gamma-ray March 2013. Karl Jacobs will take over in March next year. keV super-deformed collective structures, which spectrometer. Nuclear-structure expert John Simpson. 55Fe C O n F E r E n C E eV FWHM

Counts 125 25 mm2 x 500 µm APS recognises Artist wins CERN residency 11.2 µs peaking time 6.4 SUSY reports from down under keV P/B Ratio: 20000/1 nucleon structure South Korean artist Yunchul Kim has Energy (keV) been awarded a two-month-long residency Resolution vs Peaking Time at CERN, having been announced as the 180 Anatoly Radyushkin, a scientist at the winner of the 5th COLLIDE International 25 mm2 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Award in June. Laura Vanags 170 Facility and Old Dominion University Kim, whose work focuses on the 160 Standard SDD in Virginia, US, has received the 2015 artistic potential of fl uid dynamics and ® Jesse W Beams Research Award from the metamaterials, will take up his residency 150 FAST SDD Southeastern Section of the American in February 2017. He plans to develop a Physical Society. The award has been project called “Cascade”, which concerns 140 presented since 1973 to honour those the propagation of light through colloidal Delegates at SUSY 2016 in Melbourne. 130 whose “research led to the discovery of new suspensions of photonic crystals. Resolution (eV FWHM @ 5.9 keV) 120 phenomena or states of matter, provided The COLLIDE awards are a From 4 to 8 July, 254 physicists gathered at the range of techniques being used to search 0 1 2 3 4 5 fundamental insights into physics, or collaboration between CERN and an the University of Melbourne in Australia for SUSY now and potential improvements Peaking Time (μs) involved the development of experimental or international cultural partner, which this for the 24th International Conference for the future. A busy fl avour-physics session Throughput theoretical techniques that enabled others to year is the Foundation for Art and Creative on Supersymmetry and Unifi cation of served as a timely reminder of indirect 1,00,0000 make key advances in physics”. Technology (FACT). Arts@CERN and Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2016). constraints on SUSY from the B factories, The citation for Radyushkin’s medal FACT opened a call for entries in March, Around 65 students participated in the neutrinos and other low-energy observables. 0.2 μs

reads: “For the development of generalised and this year more than 904 entries were COLLIDE International Artist 2016, pre-SUSY school leading up to the event. SUSY 2016 saw a diverse range of talks 100,000 1 μs parton distributions within the framework of received from a record 71 countries. Yunchul Kim. Summaries from ATLAS and CMS on representing many sectors of the vibrant quantum chromodynamics, enabling for the their continued searches for supersymmetric theory community. The mass and properties X h i B i t i O n 4 μs fi rst time experimental measurements of the E particles confi rmed no striking excesses of the Higgs boson continue to be a strong 10,000 3D structure of the nucleons.” in data recorded by the LHC at 13 TeV motivational force, leading to new results Milan exhibition opens during 2015. These results have enabled in higher-order precision Higgs-mass Rate (OCR) Output Count

the experiments to eclipse previous limits calculations in a variety of models and 1,000 its doors on the masses of squarks and gluinos set by detailed studies of the alignment limit. The 1,000 10,000 100,000 1,000,0000 Input Count Rate (ICR) data recorded at 8 TeV. While no evidence absence of any signal thus far from the LHC On 13 July, a new exhibition opened in for SUSY was presented, the data points has also led to much work on “non-minimal” DOE/Jefferson Lab Milan, Italy, with the aim of opening to several interesting hints – including a SUSY, which goes beyond the usual visitors’ eyes to what makes the universe lingering excess in dileptons, jets and missing minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. tick at the most fundamental level. transverse momentum from ATLAS, for As expected, there was strong interest from Designed and produced by the Leonardo instance – that will surely be followed up as the theory community in the recent 750 GeV da Vinci National Museum of Science the LHC continues to deliver stable beams at diphoton excess observed by ATLAS and and Technology in partnership with high luminosity throughout 2016. CMS, with a cornucopia of models presented CERN and the Italian National Institute In particular focus at SUSY 2016 were in parallel sessions. Theorists were also of Nuclear Physics (INFN), the exhibition corners of phase space that are diffi cult for interested in probing new directions, and the – titled “Extreme. In search of particles” the conventional searches to probe. CMS conference saw a number of parallel talks Please see our web site for complete – transports visitors into the history of introduced their “data-scouting” technique, devoted to the opportunities for new-physics specifications and vacuum applications particle physics. They discover a prototype which allows them to probe lower in HT studies presented by the LIGO experiment’s The 2015 Jesse W Beams Research Award, of Carlo Rubbia’s UA1 detector, the Delphi than their typical trigger strategy permits. discovery of gravitational waves. fi rst presented in 1973, goes to theorist experiment’s vertex detector and the Interesting new ideas to probe “compressed” SUSY 2017 will be held at the Tata ® AMPTEK Inc. Anatoly Radyushkin. University of Milan’s cloud chamber. “Extreme” opened in July. spectra were also discussed, in addition to Institute in Mumbai, India. [email protected] www.amptek.com 46

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Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for signifi cantly to the health and vitality of experiment. University Freiburg of 125 eV FWHM 4 µs his outstanding leadership in the development world-leading nuclear-physics research over Jakobs, who has previously also worked 130 eV FWHM 1 µs of new detector technologies and systems for the past four decades through his leadership. on the UA2 and ALEPH experiments at 140 eV FWHM 0.2 µs experimental nuclear-physics research, and for This includes germanium detectors used CERN, and the D0 experiment at Fermilab, 160 eV FWHM 0.05 µs his seminal contributions to our understanding in the European gamma-ray spectrometer will start his term on 1 March 2017. He of the structure of atomic nuclei. Simpson collaboration EXOGAM, for example, and succeeds Dave Charlton of the University of has made important contributions in areas Simpson also played a leading role in the Birmingham, who has been in the post since SDD Spectrum 5.9 such as the discovery of robust exotic triaxial development of the EUROBALL gamma-ray March 2013. Karl Jacobs will take over in March next year. keV super-deformed collective structures, which spectrometer. Nuclear-structure expert John Simpson. 55Fe C O n F E r E n C E eV FWHM

Counts 125 25 mm2 x 500 µm APS recognises Artist wins CERN residency 11.2 µs peaking time 6.4 SUSY reports from down under keV P/B Ratio: 20000/1 nucleon structure South Korean artist Yunchul Kim has Energy (keV) been awarded a two-month-long residency Resolution vs Peaking Time at CERN, having been announced as the 180 Anatoly Radyushkin, a scientist at the winner of the 5th COLLIDE International 25 mm2 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Award in June. Laura Vanags 170 Facility and Old Dominion University Kim, whose work focuses on the 160 Standard SDD in Virginia, US, has received the 2015 artistic potential of fl uid dynamics and ® Jesse W Beams Research Award from the metamaterials, will take up his residency 150 FAST SDD Southeastern Section of the American in February 2017. He plans to develop a Physical Society. The award has been project called “Cascade”, which concerns 140 presented since 1973 to honour those the propagation of light through colloidal Delegates at SUSY 2016 in Melbourne. 130 whose “research led to the discovery of new suspensions of photonic crystals. Resolution (eV FWHM @ 5.9 keV) 120 phenomena or states of matter, provided The COLLIDE awards are a From 4 to 8 July, 254 physicists gathered at the range of techniques being used to search 0 1 2 3 4 5 fundamental insights into physics, or collaboration between CERN and an the University of Melbourne in Australia for SUSY now and potential improvements Peaking Time (μs) involved the development of experimental or international cultural partner, which this for the 24th International Conference for the future. A busy fl avour-physics session Throughput theoretical techniques that enabled others to year is the Foundation for Art and Creative on Supersymmetry and Unifi cation of served as a timely reminder of indirect 1,00,0000 make key advances in physics”. Technology (FACT). Arts@CERN and Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2016). constraints on SUSY from the B factories, The citation for Radyushkin’s medal FACT opened a call for entries in March, Around 65 students participated in the neutrinos and other low-energy observables. 0.2 μs

reads: “For the development of generalised and this year more than 904 entries were COLLIDE International Artist 2016, pre-SUSY school leading up to the event. SUSY 2016 saw a diverse range of talks 100,000 1 μs parton distributions within the framework of received from a record 71 countries. Yunchul Kim. Summaries from ATLAS and CMS on representing many sectors of the vibrant quantum chromodynamics, enabling for the their continued searches for supersymmetric theory community. The mass and properties X h i B i t i O n 4 μs fi rst time experimental measurements of the E particles confi rmed no striking excesses of the Higgs boson continue to be a strong 10,000 3D structure of the nucleons.” in data recorded by the LHC at 13 TeV motivational force, leading to new results Milan exhibition opens during 2015. These results have enabled in higher-order precision Higgs-mass Rate (OCR) Output Count

the experiments to eclipse previous limits calculations in a variety of models and 1,000 its doors on the masses of squarks and gluinos set by detailed studies of the alignment limit. The 1,000 10,000 100,000 1,000,0000 Input Count Rate (ICR) data recorded at 8 TeV. While no evidence absence of any signal thus far from the LHC On 13 July, a new exhibition opened in for SUSY was presented, the data points has also led to much work on “non-minimal” DOE/Jefferson Lab Milan, Italy, with the aim of opening to several interesting hints – including a SUSY, which goes beyond the usual visitors’ eyes to what makes the universe lingering excess in dileptons, jets and missing minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. tick at the most fundamental level. transverse momentum from ATLAS, for As expected, there was strong interest from Designed and produced by the Leonardo instance – that will surely be followed up as the theory community in the recent 750 GeV da Vinci National Museum of Science the LHC continues to deliver stable beams at diphoton excess observed by ATLAS and and Technology in partnership with high luminosity throughout 2016. CMS, with a cornucopia of models presented CERN and the Italian National Institute In particular focus at SUSY 2016 were in parallel sessions. Theorists were also of Nuclear Physics (INFN), the exhibition corners of phase space that are diffi cult for interested in probing new directions, and the – titled “Extreme. In search of particles” the conventional searches to probe. CMS conference saw a number of parallel talks Please see our web site for complete – transports visitors into the history of introduced their “data-scouting” technique, devoted to the opportunities for new-physics specifications and vacuum applications particle physics. They discover a prototype which allows them to probe lower in HT studies presented by the LIGO experiment’s The 2015 Jesse W Beams Research Award, of Carlo Rubbia’s UA1 detector, the Delphi than their typical trigger strategy permits. discovery of gravitational waves. fi rst presented in 1973, goes to theorist experiment’s vertex detector and the Interesting new ideas to probe “compressed” SUSY 2017 will be held at the Tata ® AMPTEK Inc. Anatoly Radyushkin. University of Milan’s cloud chamber. “Extreme” opened in July. spectra were also discussed, in addition to Institute in Mumbai, India. [email protected] www.amptek.com 46

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The seventh EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF 2016), which is billed as Europe’s largest public-facing scientifi c event, took Dirk Noelle, DESY place in late July in Manchester, UK. The event saw CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti take part in a keynote panel discussion with the science director of the European Southern Observatory, Rob Ivison (far left), and director-general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Iain Mattaj (second from s C h O O L left). Moderated by Pallab Ghosh, the BBC̓s science correspondent, the panel PT2026 NMR Precision Teslameter X-ray focus for discussed the importance of science on a CERN Accelerator European scale. Reach new heights School k n O w L E D G E t r a n s F E r Huseyin Aldemir, Istanbul Bilgi University Bilgi Istanbul Aldemir, Huseyin

in magnetic eld A special course devoted to free electron CERN and Turkey lasers (FELs) and energy recovery linacs (ERLs), which was jointly organised by transfer knowledge measurement the CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and DESY, took place in Hamburg in The Metrolab PT2026 sets a new Germany from 31 May to 10 June. The CERN and Turkey held a joint standard for precision magnetometers. intensive programme comprised 44 lectures knowledge-transfer (KT) summit in Istanbul Leveraging 30 years of expertise building and one seminar, and was attended by on 30–31 May, aimed at strengthening the 68 participants from 13 different countries links between science, technology and the world’s gold standard magnetometers, including China, Iran and Japan. industry. The summit, held at Istanbul Bilgi it takes magnetic  eld measurement to FELs and ERLs produce extremely University, brought together leaders from new heights: measuring higher elds with intense beams of X-rays by harnessing the academia and industry, and was attended synchrotron radiation emitted by electrons by representatives of the CERN Knowledge better resolution. manipulated by powerful linacs, and are used Transfer Group, Turkish technology-transfer by scientists from a broad range of disciplines offi ces and industrialists. The PT2026 offers unprecedented  exibility to study the structure of materials. Around 100 participants from more than Following introductory lectures 35 university technology-transfer offi ces, in the choice of parameters, interfacing on electromagnetism, relativity and 20 companies and several state institutions and probe placement, as well as greatly synchrotron radiation, the school taught exchanged ideas on best KT practice – improved tolerance of inhomogeneous students the basic requirements of linacs including Mehmet Durman, president of and ERLs followed by detailed lectures Istanbul Bilgi Univesity, and Serkant Ali elds. And with Ethernet & USB interfaces on the theory of FEL science. Undulators Çetin, director of the university’s High and LabVIEW software, it  ts perfectly into and the process of lasing and seeding were Energy Physics Research Centre. More than 100 people attended the May event. modern laboratory environments. treated in some detail, as were the topics The summit was held roughly one year of beam dynamics and beam control. Case after Turkey became an Associate Member Anelli, presented the broad range of activities CERN’s technologies and opportunities for

www.agence-arca.com - Photo: Scott Maxwell, Master le - Photo: Scott Maxwell, Master www.agence-arca.com studies also saw students split into small State at CERN, and the fi rst session addressed at CERN that aim to accelerate the innovation Turkish start-ups. In addition, CERN has groups to pursue given tasks to complete the the range of Turkish activities at CERN. process and maximise the impact of CERN’s a Business Incubation Centre network for basic design of an FEL or an ERL. There are currently 11 CERN programmes activities on society. These range from its full Member States. CERN has a direct Next year CAS will hold a specialised in which Turkish institutes collaborate, medical applications for cancer diagnosis and link with Turkey’s innovative industry via course devoted to beam injection, including the ATLAS and CMS experiments. treatment to providing clean energy through CERN’s Turkish industry liaison offi cer extraction and transfer on 10 to 19 March Head of the KT Group at CERN, Giovanni novel solar panels, and include licensing of Hakan Kızıltoprak. 2017 in Erice, Italy. A specialised course in collaboration with the Max IV Laboratory on vacuum for particle accelerators E V E n t s p O t L i G h t will also take place on 6 to 16 June in Lund, Sweden. Further information on The IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and therapy, and spans techniques from both event is also being held in conjunction forthcoming accelerator courses can be Medical Imaging Conference 2016 (NSS/ single-channel small detectors to larger detector with the 23rd International Symposium on MIC) will take place in Strasbourg, France, systems. MIC is a unique international scientifi c Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors Pantone 286 Pantone 032 found on the CAS website https://www. cern.ch/schools/CAS. from 29 October to 6 November. The NSS meeting devoted to nuclear medical imaging, (RTSD), which represents the largest forum programme concerns the latest developments and this year’s event will cover hardware and for semiconductor radiation detectors and (Above) Participants learnt about the in instrumentation and data processing in software developments both in multimodality imaging arrays. More details can be found at Magnetic precision has a name www.metrolab.com technology underpinning modern light fi elds ranging from particle physics to radiation imaging and radiation therapy. The Strasbourg 2016.nss-mic.org. sources.

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The seventh EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF 2016), which is billed as Europe’s largest public-facing scientifi c event, took Dirk Noelle, DESY place in late July in Manchester, UK. The event saw CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti take part in a keynote panel discussion with the science director of the European Southern Observatory, Rob Ivison (far left), and director-general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Iain Mattaj (second from s C h O O L left). Moderated by Pallab Ghosh, the BBC̓s science correspondent, the panel PT2026 NMR Precision Teslameter X-ray focus for discussed the importance of science on a CERN Accelerator European scale. Reach new heights School k n O w L E D G E t r a n s F E r Huseyin Aldemir, Istanbul Bilgi University Bilgi Istanbul Aldemir, Huseyin

in magnetic eld A special course devoted to free electron CERN and Turkey lasers (FELs) and energy recovery linacs (ERLs), which was jointly organised by transfer knowledge measurement the CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and DESY, took place in Hamburg in The Metrolab PT2026 sets a new Germany from 31 May to 10 June. The CERN and Turkey held a joint standard for precision magnetometers. intensive programme comprised 44 lectures knowledge-transfer (KT) summit in Istanbul Leveraging 30 years of expertise building and one seminar, and was attended by on 30–31 May, aimed at strengthening the 68 participants from 13 different countries links between science, technology and the world’s gold standard magnetometers, including China, Iran and Japan. industry. The summit, held at Istanbul Bilgi it takes magnetic  eld measurement to FELs and ERLs produce extremely University, brought together leaders from new heights: measuring higher elds with intense beams of X-rays by harnessing the academia and industry, and was attended synchrotron radiation emitted by electrons by representatives of the CERN Knowledge better resolution. manipulated by powerful linacs, and are used Transfer Group, Turkish technology-transfer by scientists from a broad range of disciplines offi ces and industrialists. The PT2026 offers unprecedented  exibility to study the structure of materials. Around 100 participants from more than Following introductory lectures 35 university technology-transfer offi ces, in the choice of parameters, interfacing on electromagnetism, relativity and 20 companies and several state institutions and probe placement, as well as greatly synchrotron radiation, the school taught exchanged ideas on best KT practice – improved tolerance of inhomogeneous students the basic requirements of linacs including Mehmet Durman, president of and ERLs followed by detailed lectures Istanbul Bilgi Univesity, and Serkant Ali elds. And with Ethernet & USB interfaces on the theory of FEL science. Undulators Çetin, director of the university’s High and LabVIEW software, it  ts perfectly into and the process of lasing and seeding were Energy Physics Research Centre. More than 100 people attended the May event. modern laboratory environments. treated in some detail, as were the topics The summit was held roughly one year of beam dynamics and beam control. Case after Turkey became an Associate Member Anelli, presented the broad range of activities CERN’s technologies and opportunities for

www.agence-arca.com - Photo: Scott Maxwell, Master le - Photo: Scott Maxwell, Master www.agence-arca.com studies also saw students split into small State at CERN, and the fi rst session addressed at CERN that aim to accelerate the innovation Turkish start-ups. In addition, CERN has groups to pursue given tasks to complete the the range of Turkish activities at CERN. process and maximise the impact of CERN’s a Business Incubation Centre network for basic design of an FEL or an ERL. There are currently 11 CERN programmes activities on society. These range from its full Member States. CERN has a direct Next year CAS will hold a specialised in which Turkish institutes collaborate, medical applications for cancer diagnosis and link with Turkey’s innovative industry via course devoted to beam injection, including the ATLAS and CMS experiments. treatment to providing clean energy through CERN’s Turkish industry liaison offi cer extraction and transfer on 10 to 19 March Head of the KT Group at CERN, Giovanni novel solar panels, and include licensing of Hakan Kızıltoprak. 2017 in Erice, Italy. A specialised course in collaboration with the Max IV Laboratory on vacuum for particle accelerators E V E n t s p O t L i G h t will also take place on 6 to 16 June in Lund, Sweden. Further information on The IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and therapy, and spans techniques from both event is also being held in conjunction forthcoming accelerator courses can be Medical Imaging Conference 2016 (NSS/ single-channel small detectors to larger detector with the 23rd International Symposium on MIC) will take place in Strasbourg, France, systems. MIC is a unique international scientifi c Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors Pantone 286 Pantone 032 found on the CAS website https://www. cern.ch/schools/CAS. from 29 October to 6 November. The NSS meeting devoted to nuclear medical imaging, (RTSD), which represents the largest forum programme concerns the latest developments and this year’s event will cover hardware and for semiconductor radiation detectors and (Above) Participants learnt about the in instrumentation and data processing in software developments both in multimodality imaging arrays. More details can be found at Magnetic precision has a name www.metrolab.com technology underpinning modern light fi elds ranging from particle physics to radiation imaging and radiation therapy. The Strasbourg 2016.nss-mic.org. sources.

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t E C h n O L O G Y t r a n s F E r O B i t u a r i E s HEPTech takes research out of the lab Helen Edwards 1936–2016 Ian Tracey, HEPTech Tracey, Ian The third annual symposium of the High-Energy Physics Technology Transfer Accelerator physicist Helen Edwards passed to the production of electron and photon Network (HEPTech), held on 19 to 25 June away on 21 June at her home in Illinois, US, beams for numerous studies such as biology and hosted by Romania’s Horia Hulubei aged 80. Her remarkable legacy includes and materials science. The DESY–Fermilab National Institute of Physics and Nuclear the design and operation of high-energy collaboration was a major factor in the Engineering, brought together early stage accelerators around the world, to which her success of FLASH. researchers in high-energy physics and singular and indefatigable drive brought life Reidar Hahn/Fermilab In parallel to the development at DESY, related scientifi c domains to discuss how to to a variety of projects for fi ve decades. Helen built a 15 MeV electron photoinjector take their research out of the lab. Seventeen Helen completed her PhD in 1966 under laboratory at Fermilab. This machine participants from nine European countries the supervision of Boyce McDaniel at provided an experimental platform for met entrepreneurs and experienced scientists Cornell University, where she studied the several advanced-accelerator concepts to learn how science can impact society. associated photo-production of kaons. She – including the fi rst demonstrations of The topics covered intellectual-property then began her postdoctoral work with a round-to-fl at beam transformer and rights and their protection, national and Robert Wilson, during which she managed transverse-to-longitudinal emittance European funding sources for research the commissioning of Cornell’s 10 GeV exchange – and led to more than eight PhD and innovation, incubators in support of electron synchrotron. Shortly thereafter, theses in accelerator physics. business ideas and start-ups, and rules Wilson was appointed founding director of Helen Edwards made major contributions to In every accelerator project that Helen led, of collaboration in physics. “Win-win” the National Accelerator Lab just outside of the Tevatron collider. she did so by example and in every aspect. She negotiation techniques were the focus of a Chicago, which would be renamed Fermilab. would perform calculations, turn wrenches, role-play exercise to help students defi ne Helen moved to the burgeoning Illinois honour for technological progress. tune for beam and analyse data. Her insight business objectives, identify the interest of lab in 1970, where her fi rst responsibility In 1989, Helen moved to the was invaluable and deeply respected. She also the other party and fi nd a creative solution was to bring the 8 GeV “Booster” proton Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory made time to serve on advisory committees to to a negotiation problem. Entrepreneurship Participants of the HEPTech symposium with their CERN helmets. synchrotron to full energy. in Texas and became the project’s technical CERN, Jefferson Laboratory, LNS at Cornell case studies such as the Raspberry Pi and Helen then joined the design effort of the director until late 1991. Soon afterwards, she and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at TravelTime platform API of iGeolise them through the secrets of where to fi nd of particle physics on society, and its Fermilab “Energy Doubler”, which utilised was invited to DESY in Germany by Bjørn Michigan State University. In addition to the revealed how developments in research are potential investors, how to attract their members are Technology-Transfer Offi ces of high-fi eld superconducting magnets to Wiik to assist him in the formation of the Medal of Technology, her awards include transformed into marketable products. attention and how to identify the market CERN Member States. The fourth HEPTech achieve proton energies of 1 TeV, and thus TESLA collaboration. Helen realised that, a MacArthur Fellowship; election to the The last two days of the symposium saw share of their potential product and bring it symposium will take place in Darmstadt, positioned the Tevatron as the world’s highest in addition to superconducting magnets, it National Academy of Engineering; election to young researchers undertake exercises in to market. Germany, hosted by GSI Helmholtzzentrum energy collider for the next 28 years. Helen was vital that superconducting technology the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; preparing pitches, networking at a meeting, HEPTech was created by CERN Council für Schwerionenforschung, on 12 to 16 June also held the dubious honour of shutting down be extended to radio-frequency cavities. and the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award. and introducing each other. Experts guided in 2006 to enhance and broaden the impact 2017. the Tevatron on 30 September 2011. Her Though conceived as an electron–positron Helen’s unparalleled genius, management contribution to the success of the Tevatron linear collider based on superconducting skills, love for nature and adventure will be V i s i t s was acknowledged in 1989 by the US National accelerating structures, TESLA evolved sorely missed.

M Brice Medal of Technology, the highest national into the FLASH facility, which is dedicated ● Timothy Koeth, University of Maryland. Stephen Gasiorowicz 1928–2016

Stephen Gasiorowicz, best known for his that allowed Stephen to receive his education. contributions to the quark model of hadrons, In 1946, the Gasiorowiczes were notifi ed the theory of glueballs and mechanisms that their application for immigration to the of QCD confi nement, and his role in US, which they had fi led before the war, was co-founding the William I Fine Theoretical fi nally approved. The same year, Stephen Physics Institute (FTPI) at the University of sailed from Calcutta to San Francisco with

Minnesota, died on 3 June 3 aged 88. FTPI, University of Minnesota his mother and sister (his father had died in Stephen was born on 10 May 1928 India). He was admitted to the University of into a Jewish family in Danzig (currently California in Los Angeles as a physics major, Gdansk, Poland). With the rise of the Nazis where he later received his BA degree in in Germany in 1933, his family had to 1948 and PhD in 1952. From 1952 to 1960, On 19 July, UK rock band Muse took a tour of the CERN site, which On 15 July, Iranian-US cosmonaut Anousheh Ansari visited the AMS (Alpha move to Warsaw. Then, when Germany Stephen was employed by Lawrence Berkeley included a trip to the Antiproton Decelerator facility and the CERN Control Magnetic Spectrometer) Payload Operations Control Centre on CERN’s invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, the Laboratory at the University of California as Centre (pictured, with Muse frontman Matt Bellamy). The group was Prévessin site, where she met AMS spokesperson and Nobel laureate Gasiorowiczes had to fl ee immediately. a research staff member. In 1961, he moved in the region for the Paléo Festival in Nyon, during which they dedicated Samuel Ting. Ansari was the fi rst ever female space-fl ight participant, Stephen’s journey to freedom lasted for seven to the physics department of the University of their song “Supermassive Black Hole” to “our friends at CERN” before a spending eight days on the International Space Station (to which the AMS years and saw him pass through the USSR, Minnesota, becoming a full professor in 1963, capacity crowd of 35,000. experiment is attached) in 2006. Romania, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan and India – Stephen Gasiorowicz worked on the quark and he stayed there for the rest of his career. ▲ where the family obtained residence permits model of hadrons. Stephen acquired a reputation of an

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t E C h n O L O G Y t r a n s F E r O B i t u a r i E s HEPTech takes research out of the lab Helen Edwards 1936–2016 Ian Tracey, HEPTech Tracey, Ian The third annual symposium of the High-Energy Physics Technology Transfer Accelerator physicist Helen Edwards passed to the production of electron and photon Network (HEPTech), held on 19 to 25 June away on 21 June at her home in Illinois, US, beams for numerous studies such as biology and hosted by Romania’s Horia Hulubei aged 80. Her remarkable legacy includes and materials science. The DESY–Fermilab National Institute of Physics and Nuclear the design and operation of high-energy collaboration was a major factor in the Engineering, brought together early stage accelerators around the world, to which her success of FLASH. researchers in high-energy physics and singular and indefatigable drive brought life Reidar Hahn/Fermilab In parallel to the development at DESY, related scientifi c domains to discuss how to to a variety of projects for fi ve decades. Helen built a 15 MeV electron photoinjector take their research out of the lab. Seventeen Helen completed her PhD in 1966 under laboratory at Fermilab. This machine participants from nine European countries the supervision of Boyce McDaniel at provided an experimental platform for met entrepreneurs and experienced scientists Cornell University, where she studied the several advanced-accelerator concepts to learn how science can impact society. associated photo-production of kaons. She – including the fi rst demonstrations of The topics covered intellectual-property then began her postdoctoral work with a round-to-fl at beam transformer and rights and their protection, national and Robert Wilson, during which she managed transverse-to-longitudinal emittance European funding sources for research the commissioning of Cornell’s 10 GeV exchange – and led to more than eight PhD and innovation, incubators in support of electron synchrotron. Shortly thereafter, theses in accelerator physics. business ideas and start-ups, and rules Wilson was appointed founding director of Helen Edwards made major contributions to In every accelerator project that Helen led, of collaboration in physics. “Win-win” the National Accelerator Lab just outside of the Tevatron collider. she did so by example and in every aspect. She negotiation techniques were the focus of a Chicago, which would be renamed Fermilab. would perform calculations, turn wrenches, role-play exercise to help students defi ne Helen moved to the burgeoning Illinois honour for technological progress. tune for beam and analyse data. Her insight business objectives, identify the interest of lab in 1970, where her fi rst responsibility In 1989, Helen moved to the was invaluable and deeply respected. She also the other party and fi nd a creative solution was to bring the 8 GeV “Booster” proton Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory made time to serve on advisory committees to to a negotiation problem. Entrepreneurship Participants of the HEPTech symposium with their CERN helmets. synchrotron to full energy. in Texas and became the project’s technical CERN, Jefferson Laboratory, LNS at Cornell case studies such as the Raspberry Pi and Helen then joined the design effort of the director until late 1991. Soon afterwards, she and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at TravelTime platform API of iGeolise them through the secrets of where to fi nd of particle physics on society, and its Fermilab “Energy Doubler”, which utilised was invited to DESY in Germany by Bjørn Michigan State University. In addition to the revealed how developments in research are potential investors, how to attract their members are Technology-Transfer Offi ces of high-fi eld superconducting magnets to Wiik to assist him in the formation of the Medal of Technology, her awards include transformed into marketable products. attention and how to identify the market CERN Member States. The fourth HEPTech achieve proton energies of 1 TeV, and thus TESLA collaboration. Helen realised that, a MacArthur Fellowship; election to the The last two days of the symposium saw share of their potential product and bring it symposium will take place in Darmstadt, positioned the Tevatron as the world’s highest in addition to superconducting magnets, it National Academy of Engineering; election to young researchers undertake exercises in to market. Germany, hosted by GSI Helmholtzzentrum energy collider for the next 28 years. Helen was vital that superconducting technology the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; preparing pitches, networking at a meeting, HEPTech was created by CERN Council für Schwerionenforschung, on 12 to 16 June also held the dubious honour of shutting down be extended to radio-frequency cavities. and the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award. and introducing each other. Experts guided in 2006 to enhance and broaden the impact 2017. the Tevatron on 30 September 2011. Her Though conceived as an electron–positron Helen’s unparalleled genius, management contribution to the success of the Tevatron linear collider based on superconducting skills, love for nature and adventure will be V i s i t s was acknowledged in 1989 by the US National accelerating structures, TESLA evolved sorely missed.

M Brice Medal of Technology, the highest national into the FLASH facility, which is dedicated ● Timothy Koeth, University of Maryland. Stephen Gasiorowicz 1928–2016

Stephen Gasiorowicz, best known for his that allowed Stephen to receive his education. contributions to the quark model of hadrons, In 1946, the Gasiorowiczes were notifi ed the theory of glueballs and mechanisms that their application for immigration to the of QCD confi nement, and his role in US, which they had fi led before the war, was co-founding the William I Fine Theoretical fi nally approved. The same year, Stephen Physics Institute (FTPI) at the University of sailed from Calcutta to San Francisco with

Minnesota, died on 3 June 3 aged 88. FTPI, University of Minnesota his mother and sister (his father had died in Stephen was born on 10 May 1928 India). He was admitted to the University of into a Jewish family in Danzig (currently California in Los Angeles as a physics major, Gdansk, Poland). With the rise of the Nazis where he later received his BA degree in in Germany in 1933, his family had to 1948 and PhD in 1952. From 1952 to 1960, On 19 July, UK rock band Muse took a tour of the CERN site, which On 15 July, Iranian-US cosmonaut Anousheh Ansari visited the AMS (Alpha move to Warsaw. Then, when Germany Stephen was employed by Lawrence Berkeley included a trip to the Antiproton Decelerator facility and the CERN Control Magnetic Spectrometer) Payload Operations Control Centre on CERN’s invaded Poland on 1 September 1939, the Laboratory at the University of California as Centre (pictured, with Muse frontman Matt Bellamy). The group was Prévessin site, where she met AMS spokesperson and Nobel laureate Gasiorowiczes had to fl ee immediately. a research staff member. In 1961, he moved in the region for the Paléo Festival in Nyon, during which they dedicated Samuel Ting. Ansari was the fi rst ever female space-fl ight participant, Stephen’s journey to freedom lasted for seven to the physics department of the University of their song “Supermassive Black Hole” to “our friends at CERN” before a spending eight days on the International Space Station (to which the AMS years and saw him pass through the USSR, Minnesota, becoming a full professor in 1963, capacity crowd of 35,000. experiment is attached) in 2006. Romania, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan and India – Stephen Gasiorowicz worked on the quark and he stayed there for the rest of his career. ▲ where the family obtained residence permits model of hadrons. Stephen acquired a reputation of an

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excellent lecturer and was sought after as a for Scientists and Engineers. He was a and his sense of humour was remarkable. visiting professor by major research centres PhD adviser to such prominent theoretical He was also an absolutely great friend who worldwide. Generations of physics students physicists as Stanley Brodsky at SLAC and was always available to help. Stephen will be Nikolai Maksimovich Shumeiko 1942–2016 studied using the excellent textbooks he William Bardeen at Fermilab. missed tremendously. wrote, which include Elementary Particle Stephen was an intellectual and humanist ● Mikhail Shifman and Arkady Vainshtein, Physics, Quantum Physics, and Physics with a broad knowledge of literature and arts, University of Minnesota. On 15 June, Nikolai Maksimovich Shumeiko the Republic of Belarus with leading passed away at the age of 73, having been an JINR scientifi c centres such as JINR and CERN, outstanding scientist who was a member of and he was an offi cial representative of the JINR Scientifi c Council and head of the the Republic of Belarus in many large Victor Alexandrovich Karnaukhov 1930–2016 Centre of Particle Physics and High Energy experimental collaborations, including Physics of the Institute of Nuclear Problems. CMS, ILC and CLIC. Shumeiko was born on 22 September Shumeiko won several awards for his Prominent Russian scientist Victor a new type of very fast, gas-fi lled mass 1942 in Dubrovno, Belarus, and in 1966 research and organisational activities, Alexandrovich Karnaukhov passed away on JINR separator at the LNR cyclotron, which he graduated in physics from Moscow among them the Francysk Skaryna Medal, 16 April after a long disease. Karnaukhov ultimately enabled the discovery of more State University. From 1970, he worked the Order of Friendship of the Russian was a highly skilled physicist, applying than 30 new short-lived isotopes – most of at Belarusian State University (BSU) at Federation, Honorary Certifi cate of the ever-modern experimental methods them delayed proton emitters. the physics department, at the Institute of Council of Ministers of the Republic of and possessing fundamental theoretical In 1977, Karnaukhov became head of a Nuclear Problems BSU, and from 1993 Belarus, and the Academician F Fedorov knowledge in nuclear physics. A characteristic department at the Laboratory of Nuclear he worked at the National Scientifi c and Prize of NAS Belarus. feature of his research was his choice of Problems, where he initiated a large project Educational Centre of Particle Physics and Nikolai Shumeiko authored more than Nikolai Shumeiko was a wonderful man outstanding physical problems that could lead concerning super-dense nuclei. Since the High Energy Physics, BSU, which was 600 papers. whose unique talent, profound knowledge him to obtain qualitatively new results. start of the 1990s, his main research interests founded on his initiative. and exceptional diligence for many years In 1954, after graduating from Moscow were the detailed study of phase transitions He made a fundamental contribution and magnetic subsystems for the CMS and served the basis for the national development State University, Karnaukhov began working in nuclear systems. Even today, a new project to the universal covariant approach (the ATLAS detectors at the LHC. Shumeiko of elementary particle physics. He led at the National Scientifi c Center in Moscow proposed by Karnaukhov is under way at the “Bardin–Shumeiko” method) to account was the founder of a scientifi c school in dozens of young people to science, and his – the so-called Kurchatov Institute. The Laboratory of High Energy Physics, JINR, for radiative corrections in observed particle physics in Belarus and author of competence, honesty and self-discipline department was headed by G N Flerov, who to study the fi ssion of hypernuclei produced values of particle interactions. Other more than 600 papers, with an impressive were always a bright example for us. created a team of future founders of the in collisions of relativistic deuterons with research interests included spin physics. Hirsch index of 54. For many years, he was ● The JINR directorate, scientifi c Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (LNR) at Victor Karnaukhov elucidated β-delayed heavy targets. His scientifi c achievements He was deeply involved in the design and responsible for the co-operation of scientifi c community of the Institute of Nuclear JINR, where Karnaukhov moved in 1960 proton radioactivity. are presented in more than 150 publications, production of important calorimetric, muon institutes and industrial enterprises in Problems BSU, pupils and friends. and was head of department until 1976. and his studies of proton radioactivity are While investigating the decay of 20Ne in Karnaukhov the USSR State Prize in 1975. referred to in many textbooks, monographs 1962, Karnaukhov made the fi rst observation Previously, he and his collaborators had also and encyclopedias. of an essentially new type of radioactive observed the polonium isomer 212Po, which He had remarkable courtesy and Guido Vegni 1931–2016 decay: β-delayed proton radioactivity. His is remarkable for its anomalous suppressed helpfulness, and the ability to propose research group went on to fi nd a number α-decay, and he also actively participated exciting scientifi c ideas and demonstrate of proton emitters, and today there are (together with S Polikanov) in the discovery fi rm principles when discussing challenging Guido Vegni, a renowned Italian particle states – π(1300) and π(1800) – that were around 100 known sources. The emission of and identifi cation of spontaneous fi ssion problems. Victor Karnaukhov will forever physicist at the University of Milan, passed interpreted as radial excitations of the pion. delayed protons is a powerful tool to study isomers of heavy nuclei. On the experimental live in our memory. away on 2 June. With his death we have lost During the 1980s, Guido and his group nuclear structure, and the discovery earned side, Karnaukhov proposed and realised ● His friends, colleagues and the DLNP staff. a friend, an excellent physicist and a strong moved to the DELPHI experiment at Ferdinando Vegni supporter of the CERN programme. CERN’s Large Electron–Positron (LEP) Guido’s long and fruitful involvement collider, where they played a pioneering role in particle physics started in 1956 when in the silicon micro-vertex detector. After Pablo Rodríguez Pérez 1976–2016 he joined the Milan Nuclear Emulsion LEP, his interest turned to the LHC, and Group led by Giuseppe Occhialini. His Guido became an enthusiastic supporter of thesis aimed to measure the spin-parity the ATLAS experiment. He led the Milan Pablo Rodríguez Pérez, a physicist on the of prototypes for the upgrade of the vertex assignment of the K+ meson from its decay group engaged in the design and construction LHCb experiment, died suddenly on 1 July in locator (VELO). into three pions, contributing to the study of the ATLA silicon pixel detector and made Manchester, UK. Following his PhD from USC, from of the famous “tau-theta puzzle”, which signifi cant contributions to this effort. Pablo obtained his degree in physics which he graduated cum laude, Pablo joined was eventually solved by the discovery Guido Vegni in 1976 at the Institute for High Alongside his research, Guido was at the Universidade de Santiago de the University of Manchester in 2013 to of the non-conservation of parity in weak Energy Physics in Protvino, Russia. a passionate teacher and educator who Compostela (USC) in 2003, specialising in Eliseo Pérez Trigo/USC work further on the VELO upgrade. He took interactions. In 1960, Guido was appointed motivated many students to follow research electronics, and then worked in industry. the lead role in the group’s FPGA fi rmware as assistant to Occhialini, which led to him the Milan group and used for the fi rst time careers. He was convinced of the need to He joined the LHCb experiment in 2007, development and was key to the module eventually becoming the chair of elementary in an experiment to study the diffractive improve the quality of science teaching from undertaking a MSc at USC during which construction for the VELO upgrade. particle physics at Milan – a position he held dissociation of mesonic states on different primary school onwards, and promoted he optimised the read-out electronics Pablo is survived by his wife, Sonia, and until his retirement in 2006. kinds of nuclei. In the 1970s, Guido took a successful training course for physics for the LHCb inner tracker. He then their three young children, his parents, From 1963 to 1966, working as a CERN part in several experiments at the Serpukhov educators, which relied on tools that continued to his PhD studies, becoming the and his brothers Iván and Carlos. He fellow, Guido joined the Saclay 81 cm accelerator in Russia, using a large anticipated the internet and the IT revolution. principal author of the experiment-control is predeceased by his brother Víctor. bubble-chamber experiment, where he magnetic spectrometer. The live target in Our warmest sympathy goes to his wife system of the silicon tracker. After the His warmth, kindness, dedication and participated in the discovery of the ρ3(1690) this experiment allowed the detailed study Anita, his daughters Isabella and Giulia, commissioning of the LHCb experiment, competence will be deeply missed by his meson. of several states produced diffractively in and his son Ferdinando, together with their he moved his attention to the LHCb many friends in the LHCb collaboration. At the end of the 1960s, a “live” target the interactions between pions and nuclear families. We will all miss Guido sorely. upgrade, performing the fi rst investigation Pablo Rodríguez Pérez in his offi ce at USC. ● LHCb Collaboration. composed of silicon detectors was built by targets, leading to the observations of two ● His friends and colleagues.

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excellent lecturer and was sought after as a for Scientists and Engineers. He was a and his sense of humour was remarkable. visiting professor by major research centres PhD adviser to such prominent theoretical He was also an absolutely great friend who worldwide. Generations of physics students physicists as Stanley Brodsky at SLAC and was always available to help. Stephen will be Nikolai Maksimovich Shumeiko 1942–2016 studied using the excellent textbooks he William Bardeen at Fermilab. missed tremendously. wrote, which include Elementary Particle Stephen was an intellectual and humanist ● Mikhail Shifman and Arkady Vainshtein, Physics, Quantum Physics, and Physics with a broad knowledge of literature and arts, University of Minnesota. On 15 June, Nikolai Maksimovich Shumeiko the Republic of Belarus with leading passed away at the age of 73, having been an JINR scientifi c centres such as JINR and CERN, outstanding scientist who was a member of and he was an offi cial representative of the JINR Scientifi c Council and head of the the Republic of Belarus in many large Victor Alexandrovich Karnaukhov 1930–2016 Centre of Particle Physics and High Energy experimental collaborations, including Physics of the Institute of Nuclear Problems. CMS, ILC and CLIC. Shumeiko was born on 22 September Shumeiko won several awards for his Prominent Russian scientist Victor a new type of very fast, gas-fi lled mass 1942 in Dubrovno, Belarus, and in 1966 research and organisational activities, Alexandrovich Karnaukhov passed away on JINR separator at the LNR cyclotron, which he graduated in physics from Moscow among them the Francysk Skaryna Medal, 16 April after a long disease. Karnaukhov ultimately enabled the discovery of more State University. From 1970, he worked the Order of Friendship of the Russian was a highly skilled physicist, applying than 30 new short-lived isotopes – most of at Belarusian State University (BSU) at Federation, Honorary Certifi cate of the ever-modern experimental methods them delayed proton emitters. the physics department, at the Institute of Council of Ministers of the Republic of and possessing fundamental theoretical In 1977, Karnaukhov became head of a Nuclear Problems BSU, and from 1993 Belarus, and the Academician F Fedorov knowledge in nuclear physics. A characteristic department at the Laboratory of Nuclear he worked at the National Scientifi c and Prize of NAS Belarus. feature of his research was his choice of Problems, where he initiated a large project Educational Centre of Particle Physics and Nikolai Shumeiko authored more than Nikolai Shumeiko was a wonderful man outstanding physical problems that could lead concerning super-dense nuclei. Since the High Energy Physics, BSU, which was 600 papers. whose unique talent, profound knowledge him to obtain qualitatively new results. start of the 1990s, his main research interests founded on his initiative. and exceptional diligence for many years In 1954, after graduating from Moscow were the detailed study of phase transitions He made a fundamental contribution and magnetic subsystems for the CMS and served the basis for the national development State University, Karnaukhov began working in nuclear systems. Even today, a new project to the universal covariant approach (the ATLAS detectors at the LHC. Shumeiko of elementary particle physics. He led at the National Scientifi c Center in Moscow proposed by Karnaukhov is under way at the “Bardin–Shumeiko” method) to account was the founder of a scientifi c school in dozens of young people to science, and his – the so-called Kurchatov Institute. The Laboratory of High Energy Physics, JINR, for radiative corrections in observed particle physics in Belarus and author of competence, honesty and self-discipline department was headed by G N Flerov, who to study the fi ssion of hypernuclei produced values of particle interactions. Other more than 600 papers, with an impressive were always a bright example for us. created a team of future founders of the in collisions of relativistic deuterons with research interests included spin physics. Hirsch index of 54. For many years, he was ● The JINR directorate, scientifi c Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (LNR) at Victor Karnaukhov elucidated β-delayed heavy targets. His scientifi c achievements He was deeply involved in the design and responsible for the co-operation of scientifi c community of the Institute of Nuclear JINR, where Karnaukhov moved in 1960 proton radioactivity. are presented in more than 150 publications, production of important calorimetric, muon institutes and industrial enterprises in Problems BSU, pupils and friends. and was head of department until 1976. and his studies of proton radioactivity are While investigating the decay of 20Ne in Karnaukhov the USSR State Prize in 1975. referred to in many textbooks, monographs 1962, Karnaukhov made the fi rst observation Previously, he and his collaborators had also and encyclopedias. of an essentially new type of radioactive observed the polonium isomer 212Po, which He had remarkable courtesy and Guido Vegni 1931–2016 decay: β-delayed proton radioactivity. His is remarkable for its anomalous suppressed helpfulness, and the ability to propose research group went on to fi nd a number α-decay, and he also actively participated exciting scientifi c ideas and demonstrate of proton emitters, and today there are (together with S Polikanov) in the discovery fi rm principles when discussing challenging Guido Vegni, a renowned Italian particle states – π(1300) and π(1800) – that were around 100 known sources. The emission of and identifi cation of spontaneous fi ssion problems. Victor Karnaukhov will forever physicist at the University of Milan, passed interpreted as radial excitations of the pion. delayed protons is a powerful tool to study isomers of heavy nuclei. On the experimental live in our memory. away on 2 June. With his death we have lost During the 1980s, Guido and his group nuclear structure, and the discovery earned side, Karnaukhov proposed and realised ● His friends, colleagues and the DLNP staff. a friend, an excellent physicist and a strong moved to the DELPHI experiment at Ferdinando Vegni supporter of the CERN programme. CERN’s Large Electron–Positron (LEP) Guido’s long and fruitful involvement collider, where they played a pioneering role in particle physics started in 1956 when in the silicon micro-vertex detector. After Pablo Rodríguez Pérez 1976–2016 he joined the Milan Nuclear Emulsion LEP, his interest turned to the LHC, and Group led by Giuseppe Occhialini. His Guido became an enthusiastic supporter of thesis aimed to measure the spin-parity the ATLAS experiment. He led the Milan Pablo Rodríguez Pérez, a physicist on the of prototypes for the upgrade of the vertex assignment of the K+ meson from its decay group engaged in the design and construction LHCb experiment, died suddenly on 1 July in locator (VELO). into three pions, contributing to the study of the ATLA silicon pixel detector and made Manchester, UK. Following his PhD from USC, from of the famous “tau-theta puzzle”, which signifi cant contributions to this effort. Pablo obtained his degree in physics which he graduated cum laude, Pablo joined was eventually solved by the discovery Guido Vegni in 1976 at the Institute for High Alongside his research, Guido was at the Universidade de Santiago de the University of Manchester in 2013 to of the non-conservation of parity in weak Energy Physics in Protvino, Russia. a passionate teacher and educator who Compostela (USC) in 2003, specialising in Eliseo Pérez Trigo/USC work further on the VELO upgrade. He took interactions. In 1960, Guido was appointed motivated many students to follow research electronics, and then worked in industry. the lead role in the group’s FPGA fi rmware as assistant to Occhialini, which led to him the Milan group and used for the fi rst time careers. He was convinced of the need to He joined the LHCb experiment in 2007, development and was key to the module eventually becoming the chair of elementary in an experiment to study the diffractive improve the quality of science teaching from undertaking a MSc at USC during which construction for the VELO upgrade. particle physics at Milan – a position he held dissociation of mesonic states on different primary school onwards, and promoted he optimised the read-out electronics Pablo is survived by his wife, Sonia, and until his retirement in 2006. kinds of nuclei. In the 1970s, Guido took a successful training course for physics for the LHCb inner tracker. He then their three young children, his parents, From 1963 to 1966, working as a CERN part in several experiments at the Serpukhov educators, which relied on tools that continued to his PhD studies, becoming the and his brothers Iván and Carlos. He fellow, Guido joined the Saclay 81 cm accelerator in Russia, using a large anticipated the internet and the IT revolution. principal author of the experiment-control is predeceased by his brother Víctor. bubble-chamber experiment, where he magnetic spectrometer. The live target in Our warmest sympathy goes to his wife system of the silicon tracker. After the His warmth, kindness, dedication and participated in the discovery of the ρ3(1690) this experiment allowed the detailed study Anita, his daughters Isabella and Giulia, commissioning of the LHCb experiment, competence will be deeply missed by his meson. of several states produced diffractively in and his son Ferdinando, together with their he moved his attention to the LHCb many friends in the LHCb collaboration. At the end of the 1960s, a “live” target the interactions between pions and nuclear families. We will all miss Guido sorely. upgrade, performing the fi rst investigation Pablo Rodríguez Pérez in his offi ce at USC. ● LHCb Collaboration. composed of silicon detectors was built by targets, leading to the observations of two ● His friends and colleagues.

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