Virginia Outstanding Scientist of 2004
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February/March 2004 THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY • A DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY FACILITY Virginia Outstanding Scientist of 2004 From the Director Physics Division’s Anatoly Radyushkin 12 GeV Upgrade offers challenge, reason to celebrate wins honor with GPDs work natoly Radyushkin, a jointly In recognition of his work, the Aappointed Jefferson Lab senior sci- Science Museum of Virginia and the entist and physics professor at Old Office of the Governor named Information Resources Dominion University, has been named Radyushkin one of the recipients of offers three new online services a Virginia Outstanding Scientist of Virginia's 2004 Outstanding Scientist 2004. and Industrialist Awards. The award recognizes scientists Radyushkin’s work falls in the field who have made a recent contribution to of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). basic scientific research that extends QCD is a fundamental theory that In their own words the boundaries of a field of science. addresses the underlying structure of with mechanical engineer Radyushkin is an internationally nucleons — the protons and neutrons Celia Whitlatch recognized nuclear theorist and a pio- that makeup the nucleus of the atom — neer in the development of generalized in terms of their more elementary con- parton distributions or GPDs. GPDs are stituents. Nucleons are made up of a set of mathematical functions that are quarks and gluons, elementary particles allowing physicists to, for the first referred to as partons. Generalized par- In their own words time, obtain a 3-dimensional snapshot ton distributions are functions that with FEL electro-optical engineer of the inner structure of the particles physicists can use to map the location Chris Behre that make up the nucleus of the atom. and momentum of the quarks and glu- This work is giving scientists a glimpse ons inside a nucleon. of the structure and dynamics of the The functions are being developed basic building blocks of matter. with information obtained from elec- Science Education calls Continued on page 2 for volunteers to help with Middle School Science Bowl; shares highlights from Feb. 7 event The man behind the Dalitz plot: a career retrospective with Oxford’s Richard Dalitz Take our Children to Work Day set for April 15 Joint JLab/ODU Continued from page 1 physicist wins tron-nucleon collisions. In this process, Leemann described the award as “a physicists use an accelerator to propel great honor,” and he commended a beam of electrons to speeds Radyushkin’s work on generalized par- Virginia’s top approaching the speed of light. When ton distributions. “Your theories are these electrons strike a target, many contributing to the continued scientific scientist award... collide with particles in the nuclei of excellence of Jefferson Lab and atoms. Each collision results in an extending Old Dominion University array of scattered particles. GPDs can and JLab's reputation. On Jefferson be applied to those collisions that Lab’s behalf, I thank you for your result in a scattered electron, proton efforts and applaud your work.” and a photon, an effect called “deeply Radyushkin completed his pre-doc- virtual Compton scattering.” Applying toral work at Moscow State University GPDs to this scattering pattern reveals in the Russian Federation, and information about the structure of the received his Ph.D. in physics there in nucleon before the collision. The result 1978. He is a permanent staff member is an essentially holographic picture of of the Laboratory of Theoretical the inner structure of the nucleon. Physics in Dubna, Russia. He joined “GPDs allow scientists to use an JLab’s Theory Group in 1991 as a vis- accelerator to get the effective resolu- iting senior scientist. Since 1992, he tion power of an electron microscope has split his time between JLab and and an X-ray installation,” Radyushkin Old Dominion University in Norfolk, says. He says this work has opened a Va., as a full professor of physics. new field of scientific investigation Radyushkin is an author or co-author that allows the measurement of the on 90 journal papers in his field, properties of protons and the compari- papers that have been referenced in son of these measurements with theo- more than 4,400 other publications. He retical predictions. Experiments mea- is a member of the American Physical suring and testing GPDs are conducted Society and was elected a Fellow of at Jefferson Lab, and the testing of the Society in 1996. these methods are an essential part of Radyushkin and the six other 2004 JLab’s present and future physics pro- Outstanding Scientists and gram. Industrialists were introduced to the In a letter to Radyushkin, JLab Virginia Commonwealth General Director Christoph Leemann congratu- Assembly on March 2. The honorees lated him on being recognized as a will receive their award medallions at Virginia Outstanding Scientist of 2004 a black-tie banquet hosted by by the Science Museum of Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner at the and the Office of the Governor. Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond, on March 30. 2 ON TARGET • Feb./March 2004 Dear Colleagues: I expect that the DOE will make these choices, based on the best approve within the next few weeks the external and internal input, advice, and 12 GeV Upgrade “Critical Decision 0” guidance, and will translate them into (CD0, Statement of Mission Need). To specific goals for every unit at JLab. arrive at this point many of us have My expectation from you is that you been working hard for a long time, will put all your professional pride and and at many different levels. With the energy into meeting our established 12 GeV Upgrade, Jefferson Lab has a goals. bright scientific future into the third Focus, priorities, and goals are decade of this century. Achieving this great, but their achievement is possible milestone is reason to celebrate, it is only when our performance is “best in also a challenge: funding will be tight class”, when we do not compromise and competition fierce. Therefore, our ourselves by safety and security slips, focus must be sharper than ever and and when each of us delivers on com- we must rekindle the can-do spirit and mitments. It is vital that we successful- commitment to excellence that made ly complete SNS cryomodule produc- the creation of JLab possible in the tion, make good on the promise of first place. CEBAF operation at 6 GeV, and that A sharp focus means a short list of all work units sign up for full adher- well understood priorities and specific ence to their safety commitments. goals that mark the way to achieving “Best in class”, “world class”, and Christoph Leemann these priorities. I will not digress into “outstanding” are words that we use Jefferson Lab Director all the meanings of words such as pri- often and casually. To retain “world ority and goal, but you must under- class” standing we must know the stand the essentials. First, when yardstick by which we will be mea- resource conflicts arise, a priority sured and the competition and honestly trumps a non-priority anytime and assess our place in the world commu- 12 GeV Upgrade without debate. Second, goals are not nity. You know the concept from just dreams but management tools: sports: you qualify for a certain event milestone offers when you embark on any work activi- or you don’t, and after the event you ty, ask yourself if it will advance your know the ranking. We have to measure challenge, reason goals; if yes, proceed vigorously, if ourselves in that hardnosed way and not, drop it on the spot. In short, to learn the lessons. I am happy in this to celebrate succeed we must become, again, rigor- context, that the JLab SRF Institute has ously focused. completed such a benchmarking exer- To run the best physics program cise and has come up with a quantita- possible and to build and commission tive comparison with the world’s the 12 GeV Upgrade are our highest leader, DESY. priorities, the irreducible, absolute, There is the famous choice to call essential core of JLab. They must be the glass half empty or half full. The accomplished concurrently, and in a national funding priorities may not be From world of tight resources that may to our liking and budgets for science entail compromises. “The best physics leaner than we hoped. Still, at the level program possible” doesn’t necessarily of the FY05 Budget Request, JLab the mean the most running hours but their spending over the next five years will wisest allocation to the best experi- approach half a billion dollars. If we Director ments, and within the 12 GeV scope are smart, determined, and dedicated choices and prioritizations may be we ought to be able to turn those necessary. That means selection, resources into a magnificent outcome. choice, and risk. JLab leadership will Feb./March 2004 • ON TARGET 3 Flanked by shelves of bound periodicals, by Judi Tull the Information Resources group pauses for a photo: (left to right) Carol James, f Elois Morgan, Jefferson Lab’s Johnson, who assists with cataloging library researcher; Dana Cochran, sys- IInformation Resources manager, had and serials. tems librarian; Kim Kindrew, publications; her way, there would be a big sign over The library currently holds about (foreground) Elois Morgan, IR manager; the library door that says “START 28,000 volumes, and has another Tiffany Johnson, student intern; and HERE.” 8,000 administrative titles in various Deborah Patton, assistant librarian. IR is locations across the JLab campus. part of the Chief Information Office. That’s the message Morgan and her Information Resources group want to New materials are purchased with get out to Jefferson Lab employees, Department of Energy money and users and students.