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Bjorken, Sekazi Mtingwa and Anton Piwinski (Wilson Prize). Bottom: Sally Dawson, Howard Haber, John Gunion and Gordon Kane (J J Sakurai Prize). The American Physical Society (APS) has instrumental contributions to the theory of problems in nuclear-structure physics, awarded its prizes for 2017, several of which the properties, reactions and signatures of cold-atom physics, and dense-matter Temperature is our business Cables | Temp Measurement | Electric Heaters are devoted to the fi elds of high-energy and the Higgs boson. theory of relevance to neutron stars”. The nuclear physics. 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The award recognises and discoveries in a broad range of disciplines by a Completing the prize tally in the Progress of encourages outstanding achievements in wide variety of accelerators, including hadron high-energy physics arena, the Dannie experimental particle physics. colliders, damping rings/linear colliders, and Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Theoretical and The J J Sakurai Prize for Theoretical low emittance synchrotron light sources”. went to Carl Bender of Washington Particle Physics went to Sally Dawson of In the nuclear-physics domain, the APS University, for developing the theory of Brookhaven National Laboratory, John Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical PT symmetry in quantum systems and Experimental Physics Gunion of the University of California at Nuclear Physics went to Joseph Carlson sustained seminal contributions that have Davis, Howard Haber of the University of of Los Alamos National Laboratory, “for generated profound and creative new 5 reasons to submit: California at Santa Cruz, and Gordon Kane pioneering the development of quantum mathematics and impacted broad areas of of the University of Michigan, for their Monte Carlo techniques to solve key experimental physics. 1. Fully open access journal A NNIVERSARY 2. Fast peer-review: 28 days from submission to first Members of decision, 57 days from submission to acceptance* Marking 15 years UNOSAT work on satellite 3. Extensive financial support for authors of humanitarian M Brice/CERN images of Haiti 3 in October to 4. SCOAP partner journal mapping assess the damage of 5. Read in 129 countries On 11 October, a United Nations programme Hurricane called UNOSAT, which delivers satellite Matthew. ptep.oxfordjournals.org images to regions affected by natural disaster or confl ict, celebrated 15 years of success in high as 30 cm. Raw satellite images made required in West Africa since 2014 in the fi ght helping relief and development organisations. available by space agencies and public and against the Ebola epidemic, or currently in UNOSAT has been hosted by CERN’s IT private satellite data providers are stored the context of the Syrian confl ict. “CERN’s department since its inception in 2001, and on CERN’s servers and then transformed support is essential,” says UNOSAT manager relies on the laboratory’s IT infrastructure – in into legible, downloadable maps. The tool Einar Bjorgo. “Without its powerful IT particular, the Worldwide LHC Computing has become essential for arranging aid and infrastructure, we wouldn’t be able to compile *Median, Sep 2012 – Sep 2016 Grid – to produce maps with a resolution as sustainable reconstruction such as that the satellite data we receive to make it usable.” PTEP Physics World half page no2.indd 1 20/10/2016 09:35 35 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 6 N UMBER 1 0 D ECEMBER 2 0 1 6 CERN Courier December 2016 CERN Courier December 2016 Faces & Places Faces & Places E XHIBITION C ONFERENCES CERN science on LHC sheds light on extreme cosmic rays display in Vienna The 19th International Symposium on Very CERN, are expected to help to resolve these High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions muon puzzles. On 19 October, a new exhibition about (ISVHECRI) took place on 22–27 August The high-energy neutrinos measured particle physics and cosmology, produced in Moscow, Russia, attracting more than by IceCube continue to be a focus of in collaboration with the Institute of High 100 physicists. At the core of discussions this community. Neutrinos produced in Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy was the status of our understanding of interactions of cosmic rays in the atmosphere of Sciences, opened at the Natural History hadronic particle production as observed in constitute the dominant background to those Museum of Vienna. Called “The beginning interactions involving cosmic rays, and as Participants of ISVHECRI ’16 discussed the from astrophysical sources. Fortunately, of everything”, it promises to take visitors measured in accelerator experiments. implications of LHC data. the LHC probes the energy region that PT2026 NMR Precision Teslameter on a journey more than 13 billion years The impact of LHC measurements is most important for understanding this into the past, and to communicate the most on the interpretation of cosmic-ray data simulations, an excess in high-multiplicity background, which stems mainly from the recent scientifi c knowledge of particle was a central theme. Important general muon bundles previously reported by several production and decay of charm particles. Reach new heights physics and cosmology from different observations of direct relevance to LEP experiments has not been confi rmed. Although the good overall agreement of the visual, optical and acoustic angles and cosmic-ray physics include: the moderate Still, the muonic component of air showers charm measurements with predictions is perspectives. Part of the exhibition is growth of the inelastic cross-section is a source of many puzzles. For example, very encouraging, it was reported that the in magnetic eld devoted to CERN, and the exhibition will and secondary particle multiplicity; the the Auger collaboration reported that the LHC measurements cover only about 12% run until 1 May 2017. absence of rapid changes of the particle measured muon number in air showers of the phase space needed for calculating 19 PeV-energy neutrino fl uxes. distributions close to the beamline; with energies of 10 eV exceeds the model measurement (Top left) CMS featured at the exhibition. and the overall agreement between expectations. In addition, the high-statistics ISVHECRI participants were also charm-particle production and perturbative data on muon and electron numbers recorded reminded of the early pioneering work on The Metrolab PT2026 sets a new A NNIVERSARY QCD calculations. Thanks to LHC data, by the KASCADE air-shower array can particle physics using cosmic-ray interactions standard for precision magnetometers. the ambiguity in the interpretation of still not be consistently interpreted with recorded with emulsion chambers, which Leveraging 30 years of expertise building YITP celebrates air-shower data of ultra-high-energy cosmic contemporary interaction models – even still harbour phenomena that are yet to be rays has been signifi cantly reduced and a after accounting for LHC data, which are understood. The symposium concluded the world’s gold standard magnetometers, 50 years mixed composition of primary elements taken at an energy higher than that of the with a discussion of the most important it takes magnetic eld measurement to is now favoured at energies above 1019 eV famous “knee” in the cosmic-ray spectrum future accelerator measurements needed for new heights: measuring higher elds with (previously the data were considered (which corresponds to an energy of around improving our understanding of cosmic-ray The C N Yang compatible with a fl ux of only protons). 3 × 1015 eV). On the other hand, at lower data. Studying proton interactions with better