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AWARDS APS honours particle physicists

Left to right: Dan Freedman, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen and Sergio Ferrara, after Left to right: Mikhail Shifman, winner of the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize; Savas Dimopoulos, the award of the Dannie Heineman Prize. winner of the J J Sakurai Prize; and Yuri Orlov, recipient of the first Andrei Sakharov Prize.

The 2006 April meeting of the American constructing supergravity. Mikhail Shifman of accelerator physicist and human-rights Physical Society (APS), held in Dallas, Texas, the University of Minnesota received the Julius activist, was first to receive the new Andrei saw several prizes bestowed on physicists for Edgar Lilienfeld Prize for his contributions to Sakharov Prize for his distinction as a creative outstanding contributions in high-energy strong-interaction and supersymmetric physicist and a life-long leader in the defence physics. Sergio Ferrara of CERN, Dan gauge dynamics. Savas Dimopoulos of of human rights. Orlov spent 10 years in a Freedman of the Massachusetts Institute of won the J J Sakurai Prize for Soviet gulag. It was largely the solidarity of Technology and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen of his creative ideas on technicolour, international physicists, exemplified by the State University New York, Stony Brook, won and extra dimensions. “Save Yuri Orlov” campaign, that forced the the prestigious Dannie Heineman Prize for Yuri Orlov of Cornell University, a renowned Soviet government to release Orlov in 1986.

Two researchers working in nuclear and have won the 2006 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Robert Aymar wins Physical Sciences. Thomas Glasmacher (top) of Michigan State University is rewarded for developing new sensitive 2006 energy prize methods of studying nuclear structure utilizing Coulomb excitation with fast beams of rare isotopes. Yuri Kovchegov of CERN’s director-general Robert Aymar is one of Ohio State University receives his share of the prize for a three laureates to win the 2006 Global Energy number of ground-breaking contributions to theoretical International Prize for “the development of the understanding of quantum chromodynamics at very high scientific and engineering foundation for the energies and gluon densities. ITER project”. ITER will be built at Cadarache, The Sackler Prize supports dedication to science, originality France, and will show the scientific and and excellence, and is intended for young scientists who have technological feasibility of a full-scale fusion made outstanding and fundamental contributions in their fields. power reactor. The other laureates, who worked Prizes are awarded each year in either physics or chemistry. with Aymar on the project, are former president of the ITER Council, , and Masaji Yoshikawa, ITER’s former vice-president. At a recent session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of Aymar headed ITER from 1994 to 2003. the governments of JINR member states, JINR scientific Founded in 2002 and awarded annually leader Vladimir Kadyshevsky (right) won the Nikolai since 2003, the is for Nikolaevich Bogoliubov Prize for 2003–2005 for his outstanding theoretical, experimental and outstanding contribution to theoretical physics and the applied research, development, inventions development of new algebraic and geometrical approaches and discoveries in energy development and to the formulation of quantum field theory. He is seen here power generation. Russian president Vladimir with the JINR director, Alexei Sissakian. Putin will make the award in St Petersburg at the G8 summit on 14 June.

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ANNIVERSARY JINR celebrates 50 golden years

From left to right: CERN’s director-general Robert Aymar congratulates JINR staff members on the jubilee; IN2P3 director Michel Spiro (left) presents a jubilee medal to JINR’s director Alexei Sissakian; and the performance of the Igor Moisseev folk-dance group at the concert.

On 26 March, 50 years to the day since the He gave a brief review of 50 years of activities Order of Friendship of the Socialist Republic of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) was at JINR and recalled the institute’s outstanding Vietnam. The current director, Sissakian, and established in Dubna, a celebratory joint scientist founders, citing one of them, Polish former director, now JINR scientific leader, meeting of the JINR Committee of academician Henryk Niewodniczanski: “Dubna Vladimir Kadyshevsky, were both awarded the Plenipotentiaries and the Scientific Council is our home and we have every reason to look Polar Star Order of the Republic of Mongolia. took place in the Mir cultural centre. It was forward with optimism.” Andrzej Hrynkiewicz, the plenipotentiary of the attended by delegations from various The president of the Russian Federation government of the Republic of Poland at JINR, countries, numerous honourable guests, and and Prime Minister Mikhail presented a number of JINR staff with a medal veterans of the institute. Fradkov, as well as leaders of other states, commemorating “50 years of Poland’s In his opening address to the audience, addressed the JINR community with messages membership at JINR”. In addition, leading JINR Andrey Fursenko, plenipotentiary of at of congratulation. The governor of the scientists from various countries received JINR and the Russian Federation Minister of region, Boris Gromov, also conveyed his honorary awards from the Russian Federation Science and Education, referred to the appreciation through the deputy-chairman of Ministry of Science and Education and the anniversary as “the golden wedding of Dubna the Moscow region government, Peter Katsyv. governor of the Moscow region. and Big Science”. He pointed out that science The jubilee day speeches all showed how the For the 50th anniversary the Committee of is shaped by centres of excellence and activities of JINR are valued highly, not only in Plenipotentiaries decided to name several superiority, and that the international science but in strengthening peace and avenues in the institute’s sites after research centre in Dubna possesses both co-operation among nations. outstanding scientists who have influenced qualities. It allows scientists from different Michel Spiro, director of the Institut scientific activities at JINR: N Amaglobeli countries to follow their challenging studies national de physique nucléaire et de physique (Georgia), A Petrosyants (USSR, Russia), and be proud of their work. Fursenko said that des particules (IN2P3) and of the Department Wang Ganchang (the People’s Republic of the decision of JINR member states to of Nuclear and Particle Physics at the Centre China) and J Theillaque (France). The increase their contributions as of 2007 National de la Recherche Scientifique also committee also named an avenue after CERN indicates their unanimous commitment “to congratulated JINR, as did CERN’s director- to honour 50 years of co-operation with JINR. invest in the future of mankind”. general Robert Aymar on behalf of CERN’s Artistic teams from the Mir cultural centre In his presentation, “JINR: Yesterday, Today, scientific community. Aymar noted the performed between the speeches and awards. Tomorrow”, the current director Alexei landmarks of the long-standing fruitful co- The day ended with a performance of the folk- Sissakian focused on the establishment of JINR operation between the two centres. dance group of Igor Moisseev and a firework as a successful international project in Dubna. During the celebrations, JINR received the display beside the Volga river in the evening. CCEJunFaces42-46 15/5/06 16:21 Page 44

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INDUSTRY ALICE Awards honour European companies

The third annual ALICE Awards ceremony, held Canberra increased its micro-strip production at CERN in March, recognized three companies when another company was unable to for their exceptional work on the ALICE produce the amount expected. Delivery of the detector. VTT Microelectronics of Finland drift strips is also expected to be on time. received an award for producing the thin bump- The third company to receive an award was bonded ladders (detector arrays, each Note Lund AB of Sweden for manufacturing the comprising 40 960 active cells) for the silicon 4800 front-end cards for the time projection pixel detector in the inner tracking system. The chamber (TPC). These contain the complete company had to overcome a number of The ALICE Awards winners stand with CERN’s read-out chain for amplifying, shaping, technical hurdles: complex and expensive secretary-general, Maximilian Metzger. digitizing, processing and buffering the TPC equipment was procured or upgraded and signals. The board has to process and store processes underwent a detailed study and the pixel, drift and double-sided micro-strip signals with high resolution and range. The careful tuning. The ladders are the thinnest ever detectors required high performance and company first produced two prototypes and produced and mounted on a pixel detector. technological expertise. The most demanding then, together with ALICE TPC engineers, The Belgian company Canberra detector, the silicon drift, was developed in a refined the layout of the board and the Semiconductors NV received its award for joint programme between ALICE and manufacturing procedure. Mass production producing silicon detectors, also for the inner Canberra. The delivery of the pixel and the started in September 2004 and has tracking system. The technologies involved for double-sided strip detectors was on time, and progressed on schedule and within budget.

CONFERENCE La Thuile meeting celebrates 20 years

This year saw the 20th meeting in the series “Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d’Aoste”. Nature’s gift for the first of the series in 1987 was the type-II supernova explosion SN1987A in February that year, which gave participants a major topic to discuss. The 20th Conference organizers (left to right) Mario meeting was not accompanied by such a bang Greco, Giorgio Bellettini and Giorgio Chiarelli presents his talk about the on the cosmic scale, but four Nobel laureates cut the 20th anniversary cake in La Thuile. universe, dark matter and thinking big. and many distinguished speakers provided participants with enough ammunition for complex that had just opened. The cooking second talk on dark matter and dark energy in discussions to continue into the night. school on site also helped to attract European which he explained how the field has come of The organizers of the meetings, Giorgio and American physicists alike. age 20 years on. Nicola Khuri gave an Belettini and Mario Greco (later joined by The 55 talks at the 20th meeting included interesting presentation on science and Giorgio Chiarelli), began with the vision of a four from Nobel laureates. Carlo Rubbia development, discussing the problems that winter conference composed only of plenary talked about thinking big in dark-matter developing countries face in pursuing talks, in contrast to the well-established searches and proposed replacing existing fundamental science. In the many talks from Moriond series (CERN Courier May 2005 dark-matter detectors with new ones weighing all fields of particle physics, a sign of the p37). In the La Thuile meetings, researchers tonnes instead of kilograms. Sheldon times perhaps was the relatively little time not only talk about their own work and Glashow reviewed neutrino physics “from given to accelerator experiments – with the experiments, but also cover the whole subject desperate remedy to profound enigma”, while Large Hadron still around the corner, in their respective fields in concise, self- Samuel Ting described the Alpha Magnetic these days much information comes from contained, 30-minute talks – a recipe that Spectrometer project and space physics. neutrino, cosmic-ray, microwave-background, has proved successful. With the support of James Cronin presented the Pierre Auger gravitational-wave and other non-accelerator- the local government of the Aosta valley the project and even some first results. based facilities. organizers soon homed-in on the small village Other highlights included Rocky Kolb’s talk ● For further information see www.pi.infn.it/ of La Thuile and the new hotel and conference about astrophysics since SN1987A, and his lathuile/lathuile_2006.html.

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CENTENARY Rome starts Majorana celebrations

The opening ceremony in Rome, with (from left to right): Samuel Ting, Bruno Maraviglia, The clay bust, to be cast in bronze, of Ettore Antonino Zichichi, Athos De Luca, Giovanni Bornia, Giovanni Ducrot and Renato Guarini. Majorana by the sculptor Giuseppe Ducrot.

Celebrations to mark the centenary of the ceremony and, after welcoming the audience intended both to expand the impact of outstanding Sicilian physicist Ettore Majorana and describing the achievements and science to the maximum level and to establish began on 28 February with the opening activities of Comitato Panisperna, introduced a permanent reminder of Majorana’s role. ceremony in the beautiful Pietro da Cortona others present. These included the Nobel Zichichi also noted Fermi’s opinion of Hall on Capitol Hill in Rome. A lecture by laureate Samuel Ting, Renato Guarini, Rector Majorana: “There are various categories of Antonino Zichichi on “La genialità di Ettore of the University of Rome La Sapienza, and scientists in the world of second and third Majorana vista da Enrico Fermi”, Giovanni Bornia, the Assessore alla Cultura of rank, who do their best without going far. commemorating the great scientist, formed the City of Rome, and Zichichi, who is There are also scientists of first rank, who the central part of an event organized by the president of the Enrico Fermi Centre. Bruno make discoveries of great importance, Comitato Panisperna, which is promoting the Maraviglia, a member of Comitato Panisperna, fundamental for the development of science; Ettore Majorana centenary celebrations taking followed this introduction. He stressed that but then there are the geniuses like Galilei and place during 2006. the Enrico Fermi Centre has not only Newton. Well, Ettore was one of these.” The cultural association Comitato generated more historical interest in Fermi’s Many other interesting points were stressed Panisperna helped to set up the Enrico Fermi period but has also produced new, innovative during the event. Ting, at the end of Zichichi’s Centre in Italy and recover the building of the and interdisciplinary research directions, one lecture, commented on the great Physics Institute on Via Panisperna in Rome, of which, in particular, concerns brain-function contributions of Italian physicists to science where Fermi and his group achieved their studies by magnetic resonance based on very and noted the discovery of the antideuteron important scientific results. Senator Athos De advanced instrumentation. and the first search for the heavy lepton, both Luca, chair of Comitato Panisperna, made the In his lecture, Zichichi emphasized how performed at CERN by Zichichi and his proposal to recover the building and from the early 1960s he made efforts to collaborators, at a time when CERN was transform it into a museum, which was convince scientists and others of the starting to compete with the major approved in 1999. Comitato Panisperna also greatness of Majorana’s scientific thought and laboratories of the US. aims to stimulate activities that lead to more activities. He recalled that the Ettore Majorana This first successful event of the Majorana understanding about the personal roles of Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture Centenary Celebrations attracted a large Fermi and his collaborators, as well as (EMFCSC) was founded at CERN in 1963 – audience, in particular members of the promoting scientific culture in general. The with an instituting act signed by J S Bell, Majorana family. It was followed by the event to open the Ettore Majorana centenary PMSBlackett, I I Rabi, V F Weisskopf and presentation to the public of the new clay bust celebration acted as a starting point for Zichichi – and named after the outstanding of Ettore Majorana made by the young deepening the understanding of the role of Sicilian physicist who was almost unknown at sculptor Giuseppe Ducrot. A bronze cast will Majorana’s rather entangled personality. the time. The EMFCSC, located in the ancient be made of the bust, to be located at the Athos De Luca chaired the opening and enchanting city of Erice in Sicily, was Enrico Fermi Centre.

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TRAINING MEETINGS

HELEN brings Latin Americans to CERN The next Crimean Summer School and Conference on New Trends in High-Energy Latin American Physics, will be on 16–23 September in the students who have hotel Parus, Yalta, Crimea. For further details arrived at CERN to see http://crimea2006.bitp.kiev.ua/. take up fellowships Applications should be sent to Crimea-2006, during the first BITP, Kiev-143, 03680 ; e-mail months of 2006 [email protected]; or fax +38 044 5265998. relax in front of the LHC collaboration The 10th Topical Seminar on Innovative buildings, together Particle and Radiation Detectors will take with the deputy place at the University of Siena, Italy, from coordinator of 1–5 October. Attendance will be by invitation. HELEN, Veronica Interested physicists should write to the Riquer (centre), organizing committee, indicating name, from Rome address, affiliation and, if applicable, the title University and INFN. of a contribution. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 15 July. For further information The training programme supported by the Latin American universities, bringing the total see www.bo.infn.it/sminiato/siena06.html. High Energy Physics Latin American– for the first year of the programme to more European Network (HELEN) is in full swing. For than 100 fellowships, with an average HQL06, the International Conference on 2006, the programme has assigned about duration of three months. Heavy Quarks and Leptons, will be held on 70 fellowships to be spent at CERN by Latin Now a small but active HELEN community is 16–20 October in the Deutsches Museum in American students and young physicists. The building up at CERN, and has established a Munich. Organized by the Physics Department fellowships are centred on the experiments at HELEN club to allow the exchange of views of the Technical University Munich and the the (LHC), theory, the and to help newcomers in the complex CERN Max-Planck Institute for Physics, the DataGRID and technology transfer. Other environment. Jose Salicio Diez of the Physics conference will cover topics including heavy- fellowships are to be spent at European and Department coordinates HELEN at CERN. quark decays, CP violation and mixing, D and B rare decays and neutrino oscillations. For NEW PRODUCTS information tel: +44 208 668 6126, e-mail further information and details on registration [email protected] or see www.optisurf.com. see http://hql06.physik.tu-muenchen.de/. Bede X-ray Metrology has launched the BedeMetrix-F with ScribeView, a new strained- Southern Scientific now supplies the CORRECTIONS silicon process-control system for high-volume indentiFINDER, a digital, hand-held, gamma- semiconductor manufacturing. 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