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Faces & Places CERN Courier September 2015 Faces & Places C O - OPERATION Unprecedented Sri Lanka strengthens partnership with CERN speed, resolution CERN and Sri Lanka have formed a Ravinatha partnership with the aim of formalizing Aryasinha, and broadening their co-operation. To this left, and Rolf end, CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, Heuer, signing and channel density. and Sri Lanka’s permanent representative the expression at the United Nations in Geneva, Ravinatha of interest. Aryasinha, signed an expression of interest (Image credit: on 25 June 2015. CERN- The agreement incorporates Sri Lanka in PHOTO- CERN’s High School Teachers and Summer 201506-146-7.) Keysight M9709A 8-bit High-Speed Digitizer Student programmes. It also aims at preparing 32 channels, 16 ch. (interleaved) a platform that will allow more scientists from Sri Lanka to participate in CERN’s 1 - 2 GS/s cutting-edge research programmes. Several DC to 300 MHz or DC to 500 MHz scientists from Sri Lankan universities have countries. To allow for broader and more Sri Lanka is the most recent Asian already participated in LHC experiments sustained participation, discussions have country to have strengthened its partnership within frameworks such as sabbatical leave, begun on forming a “cluster” of Sri Lankan with CERN. Others include those as diverse while others have participated as visiting universities and research institutes with the as Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia and scientists employed by universities in other aim of joining one of the LHC collaborations. Mongolia. A PPOINTMENT Amber the hardware computing systems for the Amber Boehnlein Boehnlein. high-energy physics programme. Prior to (Image her time at SLAC, she served a three-year takes charge of credit: assignment as the US Department of Energy’s Jefferson Offi ce of High Energy Physics programme Lab.) manager for the US Large Hadron Collider Keysight AXIe high-speed digitizers provide the ideal solution for advanced IT at Jefferson Lab Detector Operations programme. experiments in hydrodynamics, plasma fusion, and particle physics. Build a large Having gained a PhD in physics in 1990 Keysight M9703A 12-bit High-Speed Digitizer number of synchronous acquisition channels in the smallest footprint – simply Amber Boehnlein is the new chief at Florida State University, Boehnlein information offi cer (CIO) at Jefferson was a member of the DØ collaboration at 8 channels, 4 ch. (interleaved) by populating a chassis with your choice of digitizers. With unprecedented Lab. As CIO, she is responsible for the Fermilab from 1991 to 2013, and served as 1 - 2 GS/s or 1.6 - 3.2 GS/s measurement fidelity, advanced IP design and on-board real-time data processing Information Technology (IT) Division as the collaboration’s computing and software DC to 650 MHz or DC up to 2 GHz these digitizers bring new research insight within reach. well as the IT systems, including scientifi c co-ordinator from 1999 to 2006. As a data analysis, high-performance computing, SLAC from 2011. At SLAC she gained staff scientist in the Computing Division IT infrastructure and cyber security. expertise in computational physics relevant at Fermilab, she was responsible for the Boehnlein arrived at Jefferson Lab in to light sources and large-scale databases computing and application support for all June, having led the Computing Division at for astrophysics, as well as overseeing Fermilab-based experiments. A WARDS CERN receives Hermes Innovation award CERN’s leading role in international who supports human ventures. scientifi c co-operation has been recognized ● For more about the event, see www. with a 2015 Hermes Innovation award. The rencontre-innovation.com/. European Institute for Creative Strategies Discover how to simplify your high-speed, and Innovation makes the awards for Frédérick Bordry, centre with the Hermes multichannel acquisition system “humanistic innovation” annually to selected award, Marc Giget, right, and Sylvie organizations and companies that have Borzakian, left, respectively, founder/ www.keysight.com/find/physicsaxie excelled in offering more satisfaction to president and director of the Club de Paris society through their products and services. des Directeurs de l'Innovation and the The awards, which are linked to up to eight European Institute for Creative Strategies themes, are named after Hermes – in Greek and Innovation. (Image credit: M Iesci/ © Keysight Technologies, Inc. 2015 mythology an ingenious and inventive god Hermes Award.) 35 Keysight_HSD_AXle_PE_CERN.indd 1 05/05/2015 18:06 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 5 N UMBER 7 S EPTEMBER 2 0 1 5 CERN Courier September 2015 CERN Courier September 2015 Faces & Places Faces & Places Silicon Drift Detectors • Solid State Design • Easy to Use Philippe Lebrun Della Negra and Virdee receive IOP recognizes • Low Cost honoured by the awards for leadership work in FAST SDD® cryogenic deep-inelastic Count Rate = >1,000,000 CPS The “founding fathers” of CMS, Michel Resolution Peaking Time community Della Negra of CERN and now Imperial scattering 125 eV FWHM 4 µs College, and Tejinder Virdee of Imperial 130 eV FWHM 1 µs College, have been awarded, respectively, the 140 eV FWHM 0.2 µs CERN’s Philippe Lebrun has received the 2014 André Lagarrigue Prize and the 2015 For distinguished work in particle physics, 160 eV FWHM 0.05 µs prestigious Samuel C Collins Award from Glazebrook Prize. Amanda Cooper-Sarkar of Oxford the Cryogenic Engineering Conference. Della Negra is cited as “a leader University has been awarded the IOP’s Amanda Cooper-Sarkar receives the IOP’s Named after the American physicist with a deep understanding of physics, Chadwick Medal and prize. She receives Chadwick Medal. (Image credit: University 5.9 SDD Spectrum keV who developed the fi rst practical helium in Lagarrigue’s lineage” and for his the award for “her study of deep-inelastic of Oxford.) 55 liquefi ers, the award is given to an individual “outstanding qualities as a builder of scattering [DIS] of leptons on nuclei, which Fe “who has remarkably devoted themselves in experimental devices of great complexity” in has revealed the internal structure of the could be interpreted and extrapolated in eV FWHM Counts 125 the identifi cation and solution of cryogenic his role as a major player in the discoveries at proton”. As a world expert in DIS, her career QCD. She was recently a leading fi gure in 25 mm2 x 500 µm 11.2 µs peaking time 6.4 engineering problems, and has subsequently CERN of the W, Z and Higgs bosons. has covered all forms of lepton–proton preparing the fi nal papers in the area of DIS keV demonstrated their concern for the cryogenic Virdee is cited for “his leadership of Michel Della Negra, right, and Tejinder scattering and the study of QCD to elucidate from the Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator P/B Ratio: 20000/1 community with their dedicated and the CMS experiment at the LHC, where Virdee, recipients, respectively, of the the structure of the nucleon. at DESY, and also plays a leading role in the Energy (keV) unselfi sh professional service and leadership evidence for the Higgs boson was revealed Lagarrigue award and the Glazebrook prize, Cooper-Sarkar has distinguished ATLAS groups at CERN that are making Resolution vs Peaking Time to this community”. after 20 years of research” and for “his in the CMS control room in 2008. (Image herself in devising techniques to distil the new measurements of the proton’s structure 180 25 mm2 Lebrun conducted the R&D on the prominent role in the innovative design and credit: CERN.) experimental data into knowledge that function. 170 superfl uid helium cryogenic system for lengthy construction of the CMS experiment, the LHC. He then led CERN’s Accelerator in particular the scintillating-crystal-based systems, and Virdee on a high-precision 160 Standard SDD Technology Department during the electromagnetic calorimeter, a vital piece of electromagnetic calorimeter, with a view The Royal Society ® construction of the machine, and played a the ‘toolkit’ necessary to discover the Higgs to discovering the Higgs boson through its 150 FAST SDD major role during the construction of the boson”. decay into four muons and two photons. honours particle 140 cryogenic high-fi eld magnets. He received Della Negra started his career at the In 1992, Della Negra was elected the CMS the award during the 2015 Cryogenic Collège de France with a thesis in 1967 on a collaboration’s fi rst spokesperson, with 130 physics Resolution (eV FWHM @ 5.9 keV) bubble-chamber study of proton–antiproton Virdee as his deputy, until 2006. This period Engineering Conference and International 120 0 1 2 3 4 5 Cryogenic Materials Conference, which took annihilations at rest. He then pursued physics saw the conception, R&D and prototyping, Peaking Time (μs) place on 28 June–2 July in Tucson. at the Intersecting Storage Rings at CERN, and much construction of the CMS where he convinced the Split Field Magnet experiment. During this period, Della Negra Peter Higgs, professor emeritus at the Throughput 1,00,0000 collaboration to focus on high-pT physics. and Virdee took many critical and diffi cult University of Edinburgh, has joined the Having there demonstrated the capabilities decisions to ensure the optimal performance ranks of Charles Darwin, Humphry Davy 0.2 μs of a 4π multi-purpose detector, he became and success of the CMS experiment. In 2006, and Albert Einstein by winning the world’s involved in the proposed proton–antiproton Virdee was elected spokesperson for three oldest scientifi c prize, the Royal Society’s 100,000 1 μs collider in the Super Proton Synchrotron, years, during which he oversaw the complex Copley Medal, which was fi rst awarded and made decisive contributions to the task of the completion of construction, in 1731.
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