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APS AWARDS APS announces winners for 2005

The American Physical Society has Walsworth of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center announced many of its awards for 2005, with for Astrophysics "for broad investigation in recipients who work in particle physics and precision measurements involving masers; in related fields, from the physics of supernovae particular, for using hydrogen and noble-gas to accelerator techniques. masers in achieving record sensitivities to Stan Woosley of the University of California violations of Lorentz and CPT symmetry in at Santa Cruz has been awarded the Hans A neutrons and protons, and for innovative Bethe Prize, which recognizes outstanding applications of masers to imaging". work in the areas of astrophysics, nuclear A third particle physics award is the Robert physics, nuclear astrophysics or closely R Wilson Prize for achievement in the physics related fields. Woosley receives the prize "for of particle accelerators. For 2005 this is his significant and wide-ranging contributions awarded to Keith R Symon of the University of in the areas of stellar evolution, element Wisconsin "for fundamental contributions to synthesis, the theory of core collapse and accelerator science, including the FFAG type la supernovae, and the interpretation of Pier Oddone ofLBNL is one of several concept and the invention of the RF phase gamma-ray bursts - most notably, the people working in particle physics who have manipulation technique that was essential to collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts". been awarded APS Prizes for 2005. the success of the ISR and all subsequent Nuclear physics is also recognized in the hadron colliders". award of the Tom W Bonner Prize for measurements of CP violation in B-meson Particle physics also features in the outstanding experimental research in nuclear decays, and for his energetic leadership of the Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics to physics, given to Roy Holt of Argonne National first conceptual design studies that Andriy Kurlov. He receives the award "for his Laboratory. Holt has been recognized for "his demonstrated the feasibility of this approach". theoretical work on electroweak radiative pioneering role in experimental studies of the On the theoretical side, the J J Sakurai Prize corrections to precision low-energy processes, structure of the deuteron, and especially for for outstanding achievement in particle theory including calculations of neutrino-deuterium his innovative use of polarization techniques is awarded to Susumu Okubo of the University scattering needed to interpret solar neutrino in these experiments". of Rochester. Okubo receives this prize for his data and other calculations to constrain limits The 2005 Dannie Heineman Prize for "groundbreaking investigations into the for physics beyond the Standard Model". mathematical physics goes to Giorgio Parisi of pattern of hadronic masses and decay rates, Lastly, the Einstein Prize, which recognizes INFN-Seigone, "for fundamental theoretical which provided essential clues into the outstanding accomplishments in the field of discoveries in broad areas of elementary development of the quark model, and for gravitational physics, has been awarded to particle physics, quantum field theory, and demonstrating that CP violation permits Bryce DeWitt of the University of Texas. DeWitt statistical mechanics; especially for work on partial decay rate asymmetries". receives this "for a broad range of original spin glasses and disordered systems". Tests of CPT symmetry (see p27) feature in contributions to gravitational physics, CP violation figures in the citations for two the 2005 Francis M Pipkin Award. It honours especially in quantum gravity, gauge field of the 2005 prizes awarded for particle exceptional research accomplishments by a theories, radiation reaction in curved physics. PierOddone of the Lawrence young scientist in the interdisciplinary area of space-time, and numerical relativity; and for Berkeley National Laboratory receives the precision measurement and fundamental inspiring a generation of students." Sadly, W K H Panofsky Prize in experimental particle constants, and aims to encourage the wide DeWitt died on 23 September 2004, aged physics, "for his insightful proposal to use an dissemination of the results of that research. 81. A tribute to this exceptional physicist will asymmetric B-Factory to carry out precision For 2005, the award goes to Ronald be published in a forthcoming issue.

GROSSMAN AWARD Black hole expert receives the prestigious Grossman Award

Roy Kerr, emeritus professor of the University theories. Kerr receives the award for his Kerr heard the news at the Kerr Fest Black of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, discovery in 1963 of a solution to the equations Hole Symposium, held at Canterbury in has been honoured with the Marcel Grossman of general relativity, describing space-time honour of his 70th birthday. He will receive Award, which recognizes outstanding work in around rotating black holes - which have since the award at the next Marcel Grossman general relativity, gravitation and relativistic become known as "Kerr black holes". Meeting in St Petersburg in 2006.

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ALICE AWARDS Industrial collaborators honoured by ALICE

The ALICE collaboration has presented its second round of awards to three companies for their novel and remarkable contributions to major detector systems: Advance Technology and Materials (ATM), Fischer Advanced Composite Components (FACC) and North Crystals. The awards presented to these three leaders in advanced, modern materials were beautifully sculpted from one of the oldest materials used by mankind to manufacture tools - Mexican Obsidian. ATM is a young, private Chinese company with headquarters in Beijing. An offspring of a previously state-supported network of research institutes, ATM has emerged as a leader in advanced materials, such as The winners gather after the ALICE Award ceremony (from left to right): Yuri Saveliev, tungsten alloys and refractive metals. The Stanislav Burachas and Sergei Beloglovsky of North Crystals; Maximilian Metzger, CERN's company won the contract with ALICE to secretary-general; Rang Cai of ATM; Jurgen Schukraft, ALICE spokesperson; Erich produce complex absorber parts fabricated Pamminger and Daniel Gattinger of FACC; and Tiejun Wang of ATM. from a high-density tungsten alloy. These parts, totalling more than 501, are the heart panels that form the cylindrical field cage of former Soviet Union - to a world leader. As of the experiment's finely tuned muon filter. the time projection chamber for ALICE; with a well as the spectrum of crystals developed Located in the centre of the 15 m long muon volume close to 100 m3, it is the largest and produced for telecommunications, spectrometer, they had to be built with sub- device of this nature in the world. FACC medical imagery and consumer electronics, millimetre precision, in complex, interlocking developed and constructed the panels, not North Crystals has developed crystals for shapes to surround the delicate beam pipe much thicker than thin card, which form state-of-the-art electromagnetic calorimeters of the collider. cylinders 5 m long and 5 m in diameter, - in close collaboration with the Kurtchatov FACC is another young company, located in capable of supporting tonnes of force with Institute, Moscow. The company was Upper Austria, which has become a major essentially no deformation. honoured for its remarkably successful manufacturer of composite parts for some of North Crystals, located in Apatity near collaboration and development of these the biggest aircraft builders. It won the Murmansk, Russia, has made the transition crystals, currently being assembled into the contract to develop and manufacture the from a state-owned institute - this time in the Photon Spectrometer for ALICE.

WEB AWARDS Scientific American accolade for Hands-on-CERN website

"2004 will go down in history as the year the from the DELPHI experiment at CERN's Large rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars, Electron Positron collider to explore the the year the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft smallest components of matter (CERN Courier entered Saturn's orbit, the election year in March 2002 pl8). which the issue of stem-cell research loomed According to the citation, "the site does a large, and the year predicted to contain the brave job of making the business of costliest hurricane season ever recorded in elementary particles, accelerators, detectors the US", reads the website that describes and collision exercises comprehensible to a Scientific American's Science & Technology general audience. The crowning jewel of the Web Awards 2004. So it is a pleasure to find site is WIRED, or World Wide Web Interactive that Hands-on-CERN (http://hands-on- Remote Event Display, where students can cern.physto.se) is among the 50 sites study actual particle collisions... The site honoured this year. Developed by represents quite a feat in ultimately making Stockholm's Erik Johansson, it uses events this branch of physics more accessible for all." The homepage of the award-winning site.

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SYMPOSIUM Siberia provides setting for collider anniversary

Earlier this year, the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk hosted an international symposium celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first experiments with lepton colliders. On 19 May 1964 the first events of Moeller scattering were detected at the VEP-1 collider in Novosibirsk. At about the same time, similar experiments began at Stanford. These activities opened a new era in high-energy and accelerator physics, Carlo Bernadini (left) and Wolfgang Panofsky during the symposium. (Courtesy ofVV Petrov.) demonstrating the feasibility of experiments often considered unachievable at the time. status and possible future developments, as Ada in Frascati and VEPP-2 in Novosibirsk to Today, particle colliders are the main source well as numerous applications in other the Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider at of precise information in high-energy physics. fields, including synchrotron radiation and CERN and the B factories. The symposium was organized by SLAC and free electron lasers. Linear and photon colliders formed the the Budker Institute, and attracted 150 The first day was devoted to the history of main topic of the second day, and the last physicists. Among its guests were two lepton colliders. After a brief greeting by the day of the symposium was devoted to patriarchs of collider experiments, Wolfgang co-chairman Alexander Skrinsky, Wolfgang detectors and applications. Unusually hot Panofsky from the US and Carlo Bernardini Panofsky gave a talk about his meetings with weather (over 35 °C) changed the opinion of from Italy, as well as many young physicists Gersh Budker. Their friendship and fruitful many guests about Siberia, and did little to just starting their careers. discussions greatly helped to develop the spoil the friendly atmosphere. The high-energy During the three days of the symposium collider method. Comprehensive reviews of physics community is looking forward to the the participants heard various talks on the the history of electron-positron colliders were discussion of new achievements with colliders history of lepton colliders, their current then presented, from the first experiments at on the next major anniversary in 2014.

PUBLICATIONS Fermilab and SLAC launch new magazine

A new particle physics magazine, symmetry, symmetry includes features on the process by was launched in October by Fermilab and which the International Technology SLAC. It replaces Fermilab's Fermi News and Recommendation Panel (ITRP) came to its SLAC's Beam Line. The magazine will be decision recommending a "cold" technology published 10 times per year in print and for a future International Linear Collider, the electronic formats, and is funded by the US problems and opportunities faced by families Department of Energy's Office of Science due to the increasingly international nature of through Fermilab and SLAC. particle physics, and the challenges of According to the magazine's editor-in-chief, conducting neutrino-observation experiments David Harris, symmetry will discuss the under Antarctic ice and the Mediterranean connections between particle physics and Sea. Other parts of the publication include other aspects of science, policy and culture. commentaries, essays, reviews, and the "Particle physics has discovered stronger graphical explorations of ideas, devices and connections to other fields of science, such as history in particle physics. cosmology, in recent years," explains Harris. The December issue of symmetry will The inaugural issue of the new magazine. "The magazine looks at these connections feature an analysis of the first 25 years of and also how particle physics fits into inflationary cosmological theories, a gallery of collaborated on a publication on this scale. people's lives. We hope to capture and share paintings inspired by particle physics, and an Harris says that he hopes this reflects the the new excitement that has arisen in particle examination of SESAME, the synchrotron increasing co-operation in the particle-physics physics in a way that is accessible to facility being constructed in Jordan. communications community. physicists and non-physicists alike." The magazine represents the first time that To read the magazine online or to The inaugural October/November issue of two US national laboratories have subscribe, visit www.symmetrymagazine.org.

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OUTREACH Stockholm hosts Europe's first Open Science Forum

From 25 to 28 August, the first European (Utrecht), Licia Verde (Pennsylvania), Ugo Open Science Forum (ESOF) was held at the Amaldi (Milano Bicocca), Ulf Danielsson Stockholm City Conference Centre in (Uppsala) and Albrecht Wagner (DESY) - Sweden's capital city. More than 1800 covered a wide range of topics, from string people participated in this first pan-European theory to hadron therapy. scientific meeting, coming from a total of 68 In another session, "The top 10 mysteries countries and including 350 journalists. The of the early universe", devised by Rolf Landua aim was to provide an interdisciplinary forum (CERN), the audience discovered the results for open dialogue, debate and discussion on of a survey among leading scientists, science and technology in society, and the presented in reverse order as in the "top 10" meeting took the form of a variety of music charts on television. John Ellis (CERN) exhibitions and seminars. and Licia Verde also had to answer questions, Particle physics made its appearance at but could turn to the audience for help. ESOF in two sessions and several exhibits. Three exhibitions at the conference centre The "From quarks to galaxies" session was also contained particle-physics themes: the supported by the European Committee for ECFA exhibition, the CERN and Swedish Future Accelerators (ECFA), and organized in exhibition, and the exhibition by EIROforum, particular by Michael Kobel of Bonn, who is the collaboration of seven European inter­ "Science in the city" offered hands-on an active member of both the European governmental research organizations. Outside activities, including INFN's "Physics on the Particle Physics Outreach Group and the the conference, in open spaces and in road" (top) and Stockholm's "House of International Linear Collider Communication universities in Stockholm, "Science in the science" (centre). Below, Micheal Kobel Group. The five speakers - Gerard 't Hooft city" attracted the general public. (centre) and Albrecht Wagner (right).

JINR Alexei Sissakian celebrates his 60th birthday

On 14 October, Alexei Sissakian, vice-director production, and is an active participant in the of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research preparation of scientific programmes and the (JINR) in Dubna and full member of the realization of experiments at the Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, High-Energy Physics' U-70 accelerator (2 m celebrated turning 60 years of age. propane chamber collaboration, Born in Moscow, Sissakian graduated from "thermalization", etc), at the JINR Nuclotron at the Physics faculty of Moscow University in CERN (DELPHI, ATLAS) and at Fermilab (CDF). 1968, and started work at the Laboratory of Sissakian is professor at Moscow State Theoretical Physics, JINR, under the guidance University, and scientific leader of the of Nikolai Bogoliubov. Beginning as a junior chamber of high-energy particle physics at the scientist, he progressed to become vice- Moscow Physics and Technology Institute. He director in 1989. Since then he has was one of the initiators of the idea to open contributed greatly to the improvement of the the International "Dubna" University for JINR scientific base, the renovation of the Nature, Society and Man. Alongside all this, institute as an open international centre, the interactions, approximation methods and he is also a member of the Commission on development of wide co-operation with quantum-field-theory equations, the Particles and Fields of the International Union national and world research centres, and the quantization problem of systems with non- of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the training of qualified scientific personnel. trivial geometry, symmetry and topology. He is European Committee for Future Accelerators Sissakian's main scientific activities an acknowledged specialist in the (ECFA) and a number of special councils and concern the physics of elementary particle phenomenology of multiple particle editorial boards of scientific publications.

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COLLABORATION NEW PRODUCTS

CEDIP Infrared Systems has implemented a High-energy physics gets new feature on its JADE range of cameras that increases the dynamic range by a factor or four and provides the equivalent to a 16-bit accelerated in tokey dynamic range. The new feature, called Multiple Exposure, combines several nuclear physicists plans to participate in the subframes taken with a variable integration ALICE experiment. time. Using Composer, a new software These were among the topics discussed at module, users can now recombine subframes the second Turkish National Accelerators and and rescale them in an appropriate manner Applications Conference (UPHUK-2), so that the overall dynamic range is greatly organized in Ankara this year by the Chamber increased. The new technique is particularly of Commerce of Ankara and the Turkish appropriate for.demanding applications, such Atomic Energy Authority. The meeting also as measuring transient thermal phenomena discussed the prospects for a Turkish over a large temperature range. For further Accelerator Complex (TAC), as well as medical information, call +33 160 370100, e-mail and industrial applications of accelerators. [email protected] or visit the website Participants at the UPHUK-2 conference. Subsequently a TAC group from Ankara visited www.cedip-infrared.com. CERN with a view to participating in R&D on Turkey has been a CERN Observer State since the Compact Linear Collider project, CLIC. Integrated Engineering Software (IES) has 1986, and Turkish high-energy physicists The Turkish high-energy physics community announced the release of IES IMPORT version have been active in many experiments at is now formulating proposals for developing 6.2, an import utility for IES users with CAD CERN. A notable example has been CHORUS, the relationship between Turkey and CERN. and CAE programs on separate computers for which Turkish high-energy physicists made This was discussed during a visit to CERN by from their IES program. IES programs link several important contributions to the the acting president of the Scientific and directly to CAD programs such as l-DEAS, analysis. Now they are involved in preparing Technical Research Council of Turkey SolidWorks, ProEngineer, Inventor and Solid the CMS and ATLAS experiments for the Large (TUBITAK), NuketYetis, and its vice-president, Edge, to allow true representation of complex Hadron Collider, and in parallel a group of Omer Cebeci, on CERN's 50th anniversary. geometric shapes. IES IMPORT enables the user to first import a 3D model from other LETTERS p8), such joint visits appear very feasible. solid modelling applications, then zoom in Participants would acquire the motivation to and out and fully rotate the model to ensure CERN Courier welcomes letters from readers. contribute to SESAME - a "mini CERN" in the that it is accurate. For more details, call +1 Please e-mail [email protected]. Middle East. We also need to start schools on 204 632 5636 633 7780. Alternatively, We reserve the right to edit letters. physics and the technology of particle e-mail [email protected], or get further accelerators, a subject often not covered in the information online at the IES website: Joint visits to CERN with SESAME university curriculum in the Middle East region. www.integratedsoft.com. I was pleased to learn about the visit of five With the successful example of SESAME, it UAE Students to CERN (CERN Courier October is time to address the need for a regional Sundance, a provider of high-performance 2004 p58). This first visit by a member facility in Africa. The question is not whether signal processing and reconfigurable country oftheGCC (Gulf Cooperation Council: Africa needs synchrotrons, but rather how to computing solutions for communication Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia acquire them. The first step would be to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and UAE) is of great significance for the launch an African Synchrotron Radiation has introduced the SMT145. This is a fully Middle East. We need many more such visits Programme (AfSRP), which could assist in configurable signal carrier board that by students and teachers. coordinating African participation in SESAME addresses OEM's requirements for extended In future it would be more meaningful to and other synchrotron facilities worldwide, network and communications high have joint visits together with SESAME, the and could also play a pivotal role in creating throughputs. With its add-on module and first international science centre in the Middle synchrotron radiation facilities in Africa. interface architecture, compatible with East. With formal ties between CERN and Sameen Ahmed Khan, Middle East College of Sundance's family of signal processing and SESAME (CERN Courier July/ August 2003 Information Technology, Oman. FPGA-based systems, the SMT145 can handle high-speed data streams through its CORRECTION article "How nature can carve out a fractal" in fibre interface or its InfiniBand architecture. Physicswatch (pi7) wrongly identifies the For further information on the SMT145, e-mail In the October 2004 issue of CERN Courier, coastline shown as Portugal. It is the coastline [email protected] or visit the company's the caption of the photograph illustrating the of Spain's Galicia region. website atwww.sundance.com.

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