CURRICULUM VITAE of L. R. EVANS

Full Names: Lyndon Rees Evans Born: 24th July 1945 in Aberdare, Wales Marital Status: Married with 2 children Employer: European Centre for Particle Physics (CERN) Geneva Address: CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Telephone +41 227674823 Fax: +41 227676595 Email: Lyn.Evans@cern.ch

Career

1966 First class honours degree in physics, University of Wales, Swansea

1970 PhD in Physics, University of Wales for a combined theoretical and experimental study of the interaction of intense laser radiation with gases.

1970-1971 Research Fellow in the Proton Synchrotron Division at CERN. Studies of the duoplasmatron ion source. Development of a 3 MeV experimental linear accelerator which was to become the prototype of the 50 MeV linac injector to the CERN Proton Synchrotron.

1971 Joined the 300 GeV project at CERN. This project concerned the construction of the (finally) 450 GeV Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Initially made the design of the beam optics of the high energy beamlines up to the primary targets. Invented novel beam splitting system using unconventional steel septum magnets. Designed and built the septum magnets. Participated in the commissioning of the machine. Later, experimental and theoretical studies of the stability of the proton beam in the SPS, leading to an increase of intensity by an order of magnitude compared with the design value.

1977 First design study of a possible conversion of the SPS into a Proton-Antiproton collider. Designed the optics from the antiproton production target to the antiproton accumulator. Many contributions to the PPbar project including the development of beam instrumentation and the elucidation of the importance of the beam-beam interaction and intrabeam scattering in limiting beam performance. Continued development of the collider eventually exceeding design luminosity by a factor of 5 and producing the first W and Z Bosons in 1983.

1984 Participated in the commissioning of the superconducting Proton-Antiproton collider, the Tevatron, at Fermi Nation Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago.

1985 Project leader for the upgrade of the SPS computer control system.

1987 Project leader for the conversion of the SPS into an electron synchrotron to be used as injector into the Large Electron Positron collider (LEP) then under construction at CERN

1988-1989 Joined the CERN Management as Deputy Division Leader of the SPS Division.

1988-1991 Member of the HERA Machine Committee.

1989-1993 Member of the Superconducting Super Collider Machine Advisory Committee.

1990-1993 Division Leader of the newly formed SPS-LEP (SL) Division (450 staff), responsible for the operation of the SPS machine and for the commissioning and development of the LEP machine.

1994 Appointed Associate Director of Future Accelerators. Responsible for the design of the Large Hadron Collider, the development of the most challenging superconducting magnet system ever conceived and the preparation of the project for approval by the CERN Council.

Leader of the Large Hadron Collider Project.

Honours and Awards

Fellow of the American Physical Society (1991)

Citation: “for contributions to the physics of particle accelerators and storage rings, in particular to the development of the understanding of the fundamental limitations of high- energy hadron colliding beam devices”

CBE (2001)

Citation “for services to accelerator physics”

Fellow of the University of Wales (2002)

2008 American Physical Society Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators.

Citation “For a sustained career of technical innovation and leadership in the SPS proton- antiproton collider, culminating in the construction and commissioning of the LHC.”