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• Vacuum Brazing At the 186th session of CERN Council, which Experimentalist Halina Abramowicz, took place at CERN on 25–29 September, A Levy secretary of the European Strategy Group. • Vacuum Hardening experimental particle physicist Halina Abramowicz of Tel Aviv University in Israel to forward detectors for future linear was appointed secretary of the European colliders. She completed her undergraduate • Vacuum Annealing Strategy Group. This marks the official start and postgraduate degrees at Warsaw of the next update of the European Strategy University in Poland in the 1970s, and also • Vacuum Stress Relieving for Particle Physics, which will reach a worked on the former experiments ZEUS conclusion in May 2020, with Abramowicz’s and CDHSW. “The strategy update is a very • Solution Treatment & first task being to develop the timeline and a important task in preparing the future of detailed plan. our field,” said CERN Director-General Precipitation Hardening Abramowicz works on the ATLAS Fabiola Gianotti. “We need everybody’s experiment, specialising in perturbative contribution to ensure that we have a • Collection & Delivery Service and non-perturbative QCD, and is also a strategy that truly reflects the wishes of the mslheattreatment.co.uk member of the FCAL collaboration devoted field.” MSL Heat Treatment A w A r d s Hunters Lodge | Balcombe Road | Horley | Surrey | RH6 9SJ | England Nobel recognition for discovery of gravitational waves Tel : +44 (0) 1293 822660 Fax : +44 (0) 1293 822661 Email: [email protected] Part of the Magnetic Shields Group The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been LIGO story, Ronald Drever, passed away awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish in March this year. He had already shared, and Kip Thorne of the LIGO/Virgo along with Weiss and Thorne, in the 2016 collaboration “for decisive contributions to Breakthrough prize, Gruber Cosmology the LIGO detector and the observation of Prize and the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. gravitational waves”. Weiss, of MIT, shares The recognition by the Nobel committee half the SEK 9 million award, while his for physics comes less than two years after Caltech colleagues Barish and Thorne share the LIGO/Virgo collaborations announced the other half. the first direct detection of gravitational More than 40 years ago, Thorne and Weiss Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne waves in February 2016, followed by a pioneered the idea that gravitational waves brought to fruition a 40-year long research second event a few months later and a third could be detected, in particular using large programme. announced in June this year. A fourth • Mu Metal Sheet Supply laser interferometers that would measure gravitational-wave signal was revealed just distortions in space–time induced by a from a small R&D project, the trio ensured last month. These and further events open • Magnetic Shield Manufacture passing gravitational wave. Together with that the search for gravitational waves would a brand new view of the universe (CERN Barish, who led the transformation of LIGO end in success. A fourth key figure in the Courier January/February 2017 p34). • Hydrogen Annealing • Metal Spinning IEEE applied-superconductivity award The IEEE Award for Continuing and CERN’s Luca Bottura receives his award. • 5 Axis Machining Significant Contributions in the Field of Large Scale Applied Superconductivity selected for developing computer models for • Magnetic Simulation & Test was presented to CERN’s Luca Bottura J Ordan/CERN the design and analysis of cable-in-conduit during the European Conference on superconductors, measuring the field of • CAD Design & Specification Applied Superconductivity (EUCAS) on the LHC’s superconducting magnets and 18 September in Geneva, Switzerland. The developing a parametric field model for the magneticshields.co.uk award recognises outstanding technical LHC operation, leading the development contributions and achievements in the field of advanced superconducting magnets for of applied superconductivity and comprises future accelerator projects, and promoting a plaque, an inscribed medallion, and a cash superconducting technology internationally Magnetic Shields Limited award of US$5000. through technical editorship, scientific Headcorn Road | Staplehurst | Tonbridge| Kent | TN12 0DS | England Bottura, who is head of CERN’s magnets, networking, and the organisation of superconductors and cryostats group, was scientific events. Tel : +44 (0) 1580 891521 Fax : +44 (0) 1580 893345 Email: [email protected] Part of the Magnetic Shields Group 37
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FAST SDD® J Ordan/CERN DOE names top 40 breakthroughs On 19 September, CERN Director- Count Rate = >1,000,000 CPS General Fabiola Gianotti delivered a public lecture at the University of Geneva CERN The True State-of-the-Art A 2010 paper from the ALPHA experiment titled “The Higgs boson in our lives”, at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator, during which she described the Higgs • New in-house manufacturing which describes the successful trapping boson discovery and how research into of 38 antihydrogen atoms, is one of fundamental particles has implications • Lower noise 40 landmark papers selected by the US beyond the laboratory. The lecture was • Lower leakage current Department of Energy (DOE) to celebrate part of a rich programme of outreach • Better charge collection its 40th anniversary. The discovery of the events associated with the 2017 European Higgs boson by the LHC’s ATLAS and Conference on Applied Superconductivity Compatible with EPICS tools & libraries CMS experiments was also selected. Other (EUCAS) held in Geneva from 17 to particle-physics results listed include: 21 September and co-organised by CERN 25 mm2 FAST SDD® 55Fe Spectrum Fermilab’s discoveries of the top and in collaboration with the University of 25 mm2 FAST SDD® bottom quarks; the measurement of sin2β Geneva and EPFL-SPC (CERN Courier 800,000 230K, Tpk = 8 µs 1,000,000 with B0 mesons at SLAC; the observation September 2017 p17). Peak to 1 keV background Mn Kα 26,000:1 100,000 at Brookhaven Lab that free quarks and Mn Kβ 600,000 gluons make a perfect liquid; and the Untrapped antihydrogen atoms 10,000 discovery of neutrino oscillations at SNO annihilating on the inner surface of the M e e t i n g s COUNTS 400,000 122 eV FWHM 1,000 and elsewhere. ALPHA trap.
100 CERN School of Computing marks 40th edition E v E n t 200,000 10 First users at European XFEL The CERN School of Computing (CSC) biotechnology lab. At the end of the school, 0 1 0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 Energy (keV) aims to promote advanced learning and 59 students passed the optional exam – 14 of knowledge exchange in scientific computing them with distinctions. L Berg/DESY Resolution vs Peaking Time Pace/CERNA 180 Inaugurated on 1 September, the world’s among young scientists and engineers Since 2002, the school has offered a CSC 25 mm2 most powerful X-ray laser – the European involved in particle physics or other sciences. diploma upon successful completion of 170 XFEL in Hamburg, Germany – has now The CSC, along with the CERN Schools of an optional exam. In addition, since 2008,
160 6 Standard SDD welcomed its first users. The culmination Physics and the CERN Accelerator School, the university hosting the CSC audits its of a worldwide effort, the facility will are the three schools that CERN has set up to academic programme and incorporates the ® 150 5 FAST SDD eventually fire up to 27,000 pulses of intense help train the next generation of researchers CSC into its official teaching programme. X-rays per second to image electronic, across the laboratory’s main scientific and As a result, a formal certificate of five or six 140 chemical and biological processes in technical domains. ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) on eV HM 5 9 eV 5 9 HM on eV ti 130 unprecedented detail. The first batch of Since the first CSC in Italy in 1970, the credit points are awarded by the hosting Resolution (eV FWHM @ 5.9 keV) Resolu users aimed to get a better understanding school has visited 21 countries and been university and recognised across Europe for 120 0 1 2 3 4 5 5 of the shape and function of biomolecules, attended by more than 2600 students any doctoral and masters programme. Since Peaking Time (μs) ea ing Time µs using techniques such as femtosecond from five continents and 80 nationalities. 2005, CSC management has also organised crystallography. In this first round of Participants are young, come from many Since 1970, the CERN School of Computing an “inverted” CSC (iCSC) and, since 2013, Options: beamtime a total of 14 groups with up to 80 DESY’s Anton Barty (left) and Henry different backgrounds and all have a passion has trained more than 2600 participants a “thematic” CSC (tCSC). The idea behind • 25 mm2 active area collimated to 17 mm2 users each will conduct experiments until Chapman (right) were involved in the first for computing and science. They work from 80 nationalities in scientific computing. the inverted school is to invite CSC alumni to 2 2 March 2018. user experiments. together for two weeks, not only to widen become teachers themselves at a short school • 70 mm collimated to 50 mm their skills but also to establish lifelong links 26 nationalities, students were selected from organised at CERN in the winter. The tCSC, • Windows: Be (0.5 mil) 12.5 µm, or A n n i v E r s A r y that will be useful throughout their careers. a record number of 110 applicants. This year, on the other hand, is a one-week school that C Series (Si3N4) Sibling celebrations at the LHC The 2017 CSC, which took place in Madrid the usual intensive academic programme goes into more depth about a particular topic – • TO-8 package fits all Amptek configurations from 27 August to 9 September, marked its (52 hours of lectures and exercises covering this year’s was efficient parallel processing of 40th edition. Organised together with the base technologies, physics computing and future scientific data. • Vacuum applications CERN In early October, the ATLAS and CMS Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), data technologies) was complemented Applications for CSC and tCSC 2018 collaborations celebrated their 25th it welcomed 63 students from 37 different by a rich social programme that included will be open early next year. For more birthdays. On 1 October 1992, the nascent universities and institutes. Representing scientific visits to UPM’s wind tunnel and information, visit csc.web.cern.ch/. collaborations each submitted a letter of intent for the construction of a detector to be installed at the proposed LHC, containing Strong discussions in Montpellier detailed specifications that were close to what exist in the final designs. The letters of intent The 20th High-Energy Physics from the formal field-theory approach to – ATLAS, CMS and ALICE at the LHC, for ALICE and LHCb, the LHC’s two other International Conference in Quantum confinement to its phenomenological facets, HERA and COMPASS – during which 40 Years of large experiments, followed a few months Chromodynamics (QCD 17) took place in in addition to searches for physics beyond improved measurements of the QCD coupling Products for Your Imagination later. Earlier in 1992, some 600 physicists and Montpellier, France, on 3–7 July, involving the Standard Model. constant, studies of fragmentation and parton engineers from 250 institutes worldwide had around 50 participants with a large number This year’s event was divided into four main distribution functions were presented. In the ® AMPTEK Inc. met in Évian-les-Bains to discuss the physics of young experimental and theoretical sessions. The first concerned the production second session, the BESIII group presented
[email protected] and detectors of the LHC. Construction of the physicists present. The conference is unique of jets, photons, dibosons, top quarks and experimental results for heavy molecules s www.amptek.com LHC was approved in December 1994. A joint ATLAS and CMS cake. in its coverage of all aspects of QCD, B and D mesons from various experiments and four-quark states, in addition to
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FAST SDD® J Ordan/CERN DOE names top 40 breakthroughs On 19 September, CERN Director- Count Rate = >1,000,000 CPS General Fabiola Gianotti delivered a public lecture at the University of Geneva CERN The True State-of-the-Art A 2010 paper from the ALPHA experiment titled “The Higgs boson in our lives”, at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator, during which she described the Higgs • New in-house manufacturing which describes the successful trapping boson discovery and how research into of 38 antihydrogen atoms, is one of fundamental particles has implications • Lower noise 40 landmark papers selected by the US beyond the laboratory. The lecture was • Lower leakage current Department of Energy (DOE) to celebrate part of a rich programme of outreach • Better charge collection its 40th anniversary. The discovery of the events associated with the 2017 European Higgs boson by the LHC’s ATLAS and Conference on Applied Superconductivity Compatible with EPICS tools & libraries CMS experiments was also selected. Other (EUCAS) held in Geneva from 17 to particle-physics results listed include: 21 September and co-organised by CERN 25 mm2 FAST SDD® 55Fe Spectrum Fermilab’s discoveries of the top and in collaboration with the University of 25 mm2 FAST SDD® bottom quarks; the measurement of sin2β Geneva and EPFL-SPC (CERN Courier 800,000 230K, Tpk = 8 µs 1,000,000 with B0 mesons at SLAC; the observation September 2017 p17). Peak to 1 keV background Mn Kα 26,000:1 100,000 at Brookhaven Lab that free quarks and Mn Kβ 600,000 gluons make a perfect liquid; and the Untrapped antihydrogen atoms 10,000 discovery of neutrino oscillations at SNO annihilating on the inner surface of the M e e t i n g s COUNTS 400,000 122 eV FWHM 1,000 and elsewhere. ALPHA trap.
100 CERN School of Computing marks 40th edition E v E n t 200,000 10 First users at European XFEL The CERN School of Computing (CSC) biotechnology lab. At the end of the school, 0 1 0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 Energy (keV) aims to promote advanced learning and 59 students passed the optional exam – 14 of knowledge exchange in scientific computing them with distinctions. L Berg/DESY Resolution vs Peaking Time Pace/CERNA 180 Inaugurated on 1 September, the world’s among young scientists and engineers Since 2002, the school has offered a CSC 25 mm2 most powerful X-ray laser – the European involved in particle physics or other sciences. diploma upon successful completion of 170 XFEL in Hamburg, Germany – has now The CSC, along with the CERN Schools of an optional exam. In addition, since 2008,
160 6 Standard SDD welcomed its first users. The culmination Physics and the CERN Accelerator School, the university hosting the CSC audits its of a worldwide effort, the facility will are the three schools that CERN has set up to academic programme and incorporates the ® 150 5 FAST SDD eventually fire up to 27,000 pulses of intense help train the next generation of researchers CSC into its official teaching programme. X-rays per second to image electronic, across the laboratory’s main scientific and As a result, a formal certificate of five or six 140 chemical and biological processes in technical domains. ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) on eV HM 5 9 eV 5 9 HM on eV ti 130 unprecedented detail. The first batch of Since the first CSC in Italy in 1970, the credit points are awarded by the hosting Resolution (eV FWHM @ 5.9 keV) Resolu users aimed to get a better understanding school has visited 21 countries and been university and recognised across Europe for 120 0 1 2 3 4 5 5 of the shape and function of biomolecules, attended by more than 2600 students any doctoral and masters programme. Since Peaking Time (μs) ea ing Time µs using techniques such as femtosecond from five continents and 80 nationalities. 2005, CSC management has also organised crystallography. In this first round of Participants are young, come from many Since 1970, the CERN School of Computing an “inverted” CSC (iCSC) and, since 2013, Options: beamtime a total of 14 groups with up to 80 DESY’s Anton Barty (left) and Henry different backgrounds and all have a passion has trained more than 2600 participants a “thematic” CSC (tCSC). The idea behind • 25 mm2 active area collimated to 17 mm2 users each will conduct experiments until Chapman (right) were involved in the first for computing and science. They work from 80 nationalities in scientific computing. the inverted school is to invite CSC alumni to 2 2 March 2018. user experiments. together for two weeks, not only to widen become teachers themselves at a short school • 70 mm collimated to 50 mm their skills but also to establish lifelong links 26 nationalities, students were selected from organised at CERN in the winter. The tCSC, • Windows: Be (0.5 mil) 12.5 µm, or A n n i v E r s A r y that will be useful throughout their careers. a record number of 110 applicants. This year, on the other hand, is a one-week school that C Series (Si3N4) Sibling celebrations at the LHC The 2017 CSC, which took place in Madrid the usual intensive academic programme goes into more depth about a particular topic – • TO-8 package fits all Amptek configurations from 27 August to 9 September, marked its (52 hours of lectures and exercises covering this year’s was efficient parallel processing of 40th edition. Organised together with the base technologies, physics computing and future scientific data. • Vacuum applications CERN In early October, the ATLAS and CMS Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), data technologies) was complemented Applications for CSC and tCSC 2018 collaborations celebrated their 25th it welcomed 63 students from 37 different by a rich social programme that included will be open early next year. For more birthdays. On 1 October 1992, the nascent universities and institutes. Representing scientific visits to UPM’s wind tunnel and information, visit csc.web.cern.ch/. collaborations each submitted a letter of intent for the construction of a detector to be installed at the proposed LHC, containing Strong discussions in Montpellier detailed specifications that were close to what exist in the final designs. The letters of intent The 20th High-Energy Physics from the formal field-theory approach to – ATLAS, CMS and ALICE at the LHC, for ALICE and LHCb, the LHC’s two other International Conference in Quantum confinement to its phenomenological facets, HERA and COMPASS – during which 40 Years of large experiments, followed a few months Chromodynamics (QCD 17) took place in in addition to searches for physics beyond improved measurements of the QCD coupling Products for Your Imagination later. Earlier in 1992, some 600 physicists and Montpellier, France, on 3–7 July, involving the Standard Model. constant, studies of fragmentation and parton engineers from 250 institutes worldwide had around 50 participants with a large number This year’s event was divided into four main distribution functions were presented. In the ® AMPTEK Inc. met in Évian-les-Bains to discuss the physics of young experimental and theoretical sessions. The first concerned the production second session, the BESIII group presented
[email protected] and detectors of the LHC. Construction of the physicists present. The conference is unique of jets, photons, dibosons, top quarks and experimental results for heavy molecules s www.amptek.com LHC was approved in December 1994. A joint ATLAS and CMS cake. in its coverage of all aspects of QCD, B and D mesons from various experiments and four-quark states, in addition to
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were complemented by theoretical talks on S Bennett/CERN right) and (middle & N Aitor; R Bergerie-Pagadoy (left) credits: Image QCD spectral sum rules, potential models, Deepak Dhital, ambassador of Nepal to the holographic QCD and glueball searches. United Nations office in Geneva, came to CERN The third session was dedicated to the on 19 September, during which he signed an more formal non-perturbative aspects International Co-operation Agreement between of QCD, such as confinement, finite the government of Nepal and CERN concerning temperature and hydrodynamics, while scientific and technical co-operation in the fourth session concerned low-energy high-energy physics and related areas. precision tests of the electroweak Standard Model. The latter included recent measurements of lepton anomalous magnetic moments, where consistent results on the measurements of the cross-sections for e+e– → hadrons were presented by BABAR, BESSIII and CMD-3 and compared to different theoretical contributions (there Participants at the 20th edition of the QCD conference, held in Montpellier in July. is now good agreement among different experiments confirming a 3.6σ discrepancy CMS. Theoretical talks on current LHCb series is an opportunity for participants to with respect to theoretical predictions). anomalies and on the discreteness origin interact in a relaxed atmosphere. Teruo Kishi, science and technology adviser to - The conference ended with different of particle masses were presented, and the New results presented in this conference the minister for foreign affairs, Japan, came to Maris Kucˇinskis, prime minister of the Republic precision measurements of the W, Z and future performance of the ATLAS and CMS also have the advantage of appearing CERN on 14 September. During his trip, Kishi, of Latvia (furthest left), came to CERN on Higgs boson masses and couplings, and with detectors was discussed. just before the larger EPS and ICHEP who is professor emeritus at the University 20 September. Owing to a short machine stop, experimental searches for physics beyond With almost equal numbers of theorists international conferences. QCD18 is of Tokyo, visited the ATLAS visitor centre and he was able to take a quick look at the LHC the Standard Model by LHCb, ATLAS and and experimentalists present, the conference expected to take place from 2 to 6 July 2018. signed the guestbook with CERN director for tunnel and CMS underground area. He also international relations Charlotte Warakaulle and visited the Microcosm, S’Cool LAB and the CERN were so favoured by the students that the Director-General Fabiola Gianotti. computer centre. Baikal school lecturer received an unexpected appreciation prize at the closing ceremony. stays vibrant The astroparticle aspect of the Bailkal school was equally intense, with introductions to dark matter and its various Cold waters and hot scientific discussions candidate particles. IceCube’s results on were the main ingredients of the 17th high-energy astrophysical neutrinos were A Poluektov, University of Warwick international Baikal Summer School on presented, as was the status of high-energy high-energy physics and astrophysics, which cosmic-ray programmes by the Auger and was held from 13 to 20 July in the small TAIGA collaborations. TAIGA, located Russian village of Bolshie Koty on the shore in the Tunka valley near Lake Baikal, of Lake Baikal. More than 50 undergraduate and the Baikal-GVD neutrino detector and PhD students from Russia, Germany, working inside the lake are the two flagship Poland, Italy, India and Romania gathered astroparticle experiments in Russia, and at this remote and scenic location for a full many students working in or planning to week of Siberian-style scientific immersion, join these collaborations participated in the with an intense lecture programme set in school. The astroparticle lecture programme magnificent wilderness. closed with lectures on LIGOʼs recent Technology Metals | Advanced Ceramics The Baikal Summer School is organised discovery of gravitational waves. annually by the Joint Institute for Nuclear In addition to lectures, the students Research (JINR), Dubna, and Irkutsk State presented their own work and participated in High Performance Solution University (ISU). Emerging in the early regular discussion sessions in small groups. for Particle Accelerator 2000s as a summer event for local physics The school offered ample opportunities students, it evolved into a dynamic, fully Summer-school students enjoying the view for students to talk to lecturers outside of H.C. Starck’s global supply chain o ers semi-finished, finished and fully international scientific school, and one of over Lake Baikal. normal office hours, and staff from Irkutsk machined products for high energy physics projects: the major annual particle-physics events in Planetarium organised stargazing sessions > Beam Collimators > Targets > Shutters
Siberia. This year, in addition to funding Model, the basics of QCD and B physics, under the spectacular Siberian skies. > Radiation Shielding > Beam Blockers from JINR and ISU, the school received statistical methods and other topics. A Preparations for the 2018 school, which From pure and alloyed refractory metals: substantial financial support from the selection of results by the ATLAS, CMS will be organised jointly with the European > Molybdenum > Tungsten > Niobium > Tantalum Russian Foundation for Basic Research and and LHCb collaborations were also given, network of doctorate schools in astroparticle Fabrications are available in a wide range of at and round products: Russian energy firm En+ group, while the covering Higgs physics, top-quark properties, physics (ISAPP), are already proceeding > Plate, Sheet, Foil > Bar and Tube Traiektoria foundation provided books for supersymmetry and exotics searches, heavy at full speed. The ISAPP-Baikal Summer Superconducting wire bundles are manufactured from niobium and student prizes. hadron spectroscopy and B-meson decays. school 2018 will strengthen ties between tantalum bar and foils with toll extrusion services for the large diameter The lecture programme maintains a good Students also enjoyed overviews of the vast Europe, JINR and the astroparticle bundles. balance between theory, experiment and field of experimental neutrino physics and experiments conducted at Baikal. [email protected] astroparticle topics, covering the Standard neutrino-mass model building. The latter ● astronu.jinr.ru/school/current. www.hcstarck.com
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were complemented by theoretical talks on S Bennett/CERN right) and (middle & N Aitor; R Bergerie-Pagadoy (left) credits: Image QCD spectral sum rules, potential models, Deepak Dhital, ambassador of Nepal to the holographic QCD and glueball searches. United Nations office in Geneva, came to CERN The third session was dedicated to the on 19 September, during which he signed an more formal non-perturbative aspects International Co-operation Agreement between of QCD, such as confinement, finite the government of Nepal and CERN concerning temperature and hydrodynamics, while scientific and technical co-operation in the fourth session concerned low-energy high-energy physics and related areas. precision tests of the electroweak Standard Model. The latter included recent measurements of lepton anomalous magnetic moments, where consistent results on the measurements of the cross-sections for e+e– → hadrons were presented by BABAR, BESSIII and CMD-3 and compared to different theoretical contributions (there Participants at the 20th edition of the QCD conference, held in Montpellier in July. is now good agreement among different experiments confirming a 3.6σ discrepancy CMS. Theoretical talks on current LHCb series is an opportunity for participants to with respect to theoretical predictions). anomalies and on the discreteness origin interact in a relaxed atmosphere. Teruo Kishi, science and technology adviser to - The conference ended with different of particle masses were presented, and the New results presented in this conference the minister for foreign affairs, Japan, came to Maris Kucˇinskis, prime minister of the Republic precision measurements of the W, Z and future performance of the ATLAS and CMS also have the advantage of appearing CERN on 14 September. During his trip, Kishi, of Latvia (furthest left), came to CERN on Higgs boson masses and couplings, and with detectors was discussed. just before the larger EPS and ICHEP who is professor emeritus at the University 20 September. Owing to a short machine stop, experimental searches for physics beyond With almost equal numbers of theorists international conferences. QCD18 is of Tokyo, visited the ATLAS visitor centre and he was able to take a quick look at the LHC the Standard Model by LHCb, ATLAS and and experimentalists present, the conference expected to take place from 2 to 6 July 2018. signed the guestbook with CERN director for tunnel and CMS underground area. He also international relations Charlotte Warakaulle and visited the Microcosm, S’Cool LAB and the CERN were so favoured by the students that the Director-General Fabiola Gianotti. computer centre. Baikal school lecturer received an unexpected appreciation prize at the closing ceremony. stays vibrant The astroparticle aspect of the Bailkal school was equally intense, with introductions to dark matter and its various Cold waters and hot scientific discussions candidate particles. IceCube’s results on were the main ingredients of the 17th high-energy astrophysical neutrinos were A Poluektov, University of Warwick international Baikal Summer School on presented, as was the status of high-energy high-energy physics and astrophysics, which cosmic-ray programmes by the Auger and was held from 13 to 20 July in the small TAIGA collaborations. TAIGA, located Russian village of Bolshie Koty on the shore in the Tunka valley near Lake Baikal, of Lake Baikal. More than 50 undergraduate and the Baikal-GVD neutrino detector and PhD students from Russia, Germany, working inside the lake are the two flagship Poland, Italy, India and Romania gathered astroparticle experiments in Russia, and at this remote and scenic location for a full many students working in or planning to week of Siberian-style scientific immersion, join these collaborations participated in the with an intense lecture programme set in school. The astroparticle lecture programme magnificent wilderness. closed with lectures on LIGOʼs recent Technology Metals | Advanced Ceramics The Baikal Summer School is organised discovery of gravitational waves. annually by the Joint Institute for Nuclear In addition to lectures, the students Research (JINR), Dubna, and Irkutsk State presented their own work and participated in High Performance Solution University (ISU). Emerging in the early regular discussion sessions in small groups. for Particle Accelerator 2000s as a summer event for local physics The school offered ample opportunities students, it evolved into a dynamic, fully Summer-school students enjoying the view for students to talk to lecturers outside of H.C. Starck’s global supply chain o ers semi-finished, finished and fully international scientific school, and one of over Lake Baikal. normal office hours, and staff from Irkutsk machined products for high energy physics projects: the major annual particle-physics events in Planetarium organised stargazing sessions > Beam Collimators > Targets > Shutters
Siberia. This year, in addition to funding Model, the basics of QCD and B physics, under the spectacular Siberian skies. > Radiation Shielding > Beam Blockers from JINR and ISU, the school received statistical methods and other topics. A Preparations for the 2018 school, which From pure and alloyed refractory metals: substantial financial support from the selection of results by the ATLAS, CMS will be organised jointly with the European > Molybdenum > Tungsten > Niobium > Tantalum Russian Foundation for Basic Research and and LHCb collaborations were also given, network of doctorate schools in astroparticle Fabrications are available in a wide range of at and round products: Russian energy firm En+ group, while the covering Higgs physics, top-quark properties, physics (ISAPP), are already proceeding > Plate, Sheet, Foil > Bar and Tube Traiektoria foundation provided books for supersymmetry and exotics searches, heavy at full speed. The ISAPP-Baikal Summer Superconducting wire bundles are manufactured from niobium and student prizes. hadron spectroscopy and B-meson decays. school 2018 will strengthen ties between tantalum bar and foils with toll extrusion services for the large diameter The lecture programme maintains a good Students also enjoyed overviews of the vast Europe, JINR and the astroparticle bundles. balance between theory, experiment and field of experimental neutrino physics and experiments conducted at Baikal. [email protected] astroparticle topics, covering the Standard neutrino-mass model building. The latter ● astronu.jinr.ru/school/current. www.hcstarck.com
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O b i t u a r i e s including their most famous one, on the of pioneering contributions to the study angel for a large group of theoretical wounded nucleon model, completed in 1976. of quark–gluon plasma, which was a mere physicists at Jagiellonian University. Throughout his career Wiesław hypothesis at the time. Wiesław was a member of the Polish Dmitry Bardin 1945–2017 developed close relations with the In addition to being a great scientist, Academy of Sciences and of the Polish community of theoretical physicists in Wiesław was also an outstanding lecturer Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the US, visiting different institutions in and teacher. He was involved in the awarded the highest Polish distinctions, Our colleague Dmitry (Dima) Yurievich Dima Bardin developed ZFITTER and many the late 1960s and early 1970s. He spent organisation of the Cracow School of including the Commander Cross of the Order Bardin, an academic at Dzhelepov other software projects. six months at Stanford University, the Theoretical Physics since its inception in of Polonia Restituta. Laboratory of Nuclear Problems of the National Bureau of Standards, Stony Brook 1961. Together with Andrzej Białas and their His death is a great loss to his friends, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), KalinovskayaA Further software packages in which University and the University of Virginia wives, Maria Czyż and Elżbieta Białas, he colleagues and students, both in Cracow Dubna, Russia, left us on 30 June. Dima was directly involved are: muela in Charlottesville, and one year at the helped create a unique institution, which and around the world. We will all miss Dima graduated with honours from for polarised mu-e scattering, GENTLE University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. has attracted young scientists and senior this extraordinary scientist and human Moscow State University and started for LEP2 data analysis and HECTOR He also visited for shorter periods the lecturers for 57 years. being, who shared with us the fruits of research work at JINR in 1968. He defended for radiative corrections to ep scattering. University of Washington in Seattle, CERN, From 1972 to 1994, Wiesław was his talent with exceptional modesty – his his PhD thesis under the guidance of Samoil Since 2000 Dima also led the software Utrecht and Munich, and the University editor-in-chief of the leading Polish physics most characteristic virtue. We will miss Bilenky in 1974 based on studies of elastic system SANC for calculations of radiative of Tel Aviv many times. In 1988, Wiesław journal Acta Physica Polonica B, with Maria his inimitable sense of humour and simple pion–electron scattering and rare decays corrections for LHC processes, and together returned to Jagiellonian University and Czyż acting as the managing editor. It is kindness, so much needed in today’s world. of pions and kaons. Since then, Dimaʼs with Giampiero Passarino he authored the produced a stream of work on high-energy impossible to talk about Wiesław without ● Michał Praszałowicz, Jagiellonian scientific work was devoted to the calculation significant monographThe Standard Model scattering of nuclei, resulting in a number mentioning Maria, who was a true guardian University. of complete electroweak and QCD radiative in the Making. corrections in the Standard Model. He had Dima Bardin exemplified faithful and close interactions with many experimental selfless service to fundamental science. collaborations at LEP, SPS, the LHC It is impossible to overestimate his role in Alper Garren 1925–2017 (CERN) and HERA (DESY). contributed substantially to the now-famous creating an atmosphere of high standards in From 1978 to 1986 Dima derived, workshop Z Physics at LEP1, and in 1995 scientific research. With broad knowledge, with various collaborators, electroweak he was a convener of the working group extensive experience and diligence, he was Alper Abdy Garren was born on 30 April machines: the Bevatron, Magnetic Mirror corrections to deep inelastic scattering for event generators for Standard Model a true professional in his field. A severe, 1925 in Oakland, California, and died Fusion Reactors, 88-inch Cyclotron, and developed a pioneering approach processes at LEP2. During 1994–1995 he was debilitating and prolonged illness brought a peacefully on 25 June in the same place. Advanced Light Source (ALS), Fermilab Berkeley Lab to renormalisation in the unitary gauge. a co-ordinator of the precision calculations great deal of suffering and pain, but despite Al attended the US Naval Reserve Proton Synchrotron, the Large Proton–Proton These two projects were the basis of many working group at CERN. The CERN report this he continued working until his last day. Midshipmenʼs School at the University Storage Rings LSR (CERN), ISABELLE now-classical applications of radiative Precision Calculations for the Z Resonance Dima was not only an outstanding scientist of Notre Dame in 1945 and served as a (BNL), and the High Energy Heavy Ion corrections in the Standard Model, performed was the basis for the well-known “blue-band but also a reliable friend and colleague, and a commissioned lieutenant in the US Naval Facility SUMATRAN (Japan). in close co-operation with experiments at plot” of the LEP electroweak working group. wonderful family man. We feel a great loss, Reserve through 1947. By 1950 he had Al was a sweet, kind, generous man CERN and other research centres. ZFITTER was one of the main codes used not only personally but also as a scientific received undergraduate and masters degrees who made friends easily and kept them for With the advent of LEP, Dimaʼs scientific for LEP1 and LEP2 data analyses, and was community. from the University of California, Berkeley, life. He loved to travel and was especially activity focused on precise calculation of the a central theoretical tool for predicting the ● Andrej Arbuzov, Wolfgang Hollik, Lida and in 1955 he completed his PhD at the drawn to the culture and people of Asia. properties of the Z boson, in particular by masses of the top quark and the Higgs boson Kalinovskaya and Tord Riemann, on behalf Carnegie Institute of Technology. He loved the performing arts and was developing the ZFITTER project. In 1989 he prior to their discoveries. of his colleagues and friends. A career particle physicist at Berkeley Lab, a patron of the San Francisco Opera, located on the hill above the UC Berkeley the San Francisco Symphony and the campus, Al wrote his first paper for what Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He was · was then the Radiation Laboratory in 1949. a dedicated philanthropist, supporting Wiesław Czyz 1927–2017 He wrote his final paper in 1991 at what had some 200 environmental, human-rights and become the Lawrence Berkeley National performing-arts organisations in his later Laboratory (LBL). years. Outstanding theoretical physicist and former Wiesław Czyż made pioneering contributions Al was a brilliant scientist who designed Alper Garren designed the lattice for the SSC. Physicist, teacher, mentor, world traveller,
editor-in-chief of the journal Acta Physica Kobos A to high-energy nuclear physics. the accelerator lattice for the Superconducting sailor, philanthropist and above all a dear Polonica B, Wiesław Czyż passed away on Super Collider (SSC), in particular inventing SLAC’s PEP-II accelerator and SYNCH friend, Al enriched many lives during his 8 April after a long illness. Wiesław was born During his long research career, Wiesław the “diamond bypass” to allow two beams to – a computational tool used extensively at 92 years. on 2 May 1927 in Lublin, eastern Poland. was associated with many institutions. He be injected and aborted from just one straight particle-physics labs around the world and ● Based on text published in the San His education was interrupted by the Second spent two years (1957–1959) at the Niels section. His career also included work on for which he held a patent. He contributed to Francisco Chronicle by Jon Eisenberg and World War, during which he was active in Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, where the Tevatron, the asymmetric B-Factory at the design and orbit theory of the following Marilee Bailey. the Polish resistance (the Home Army). After he developed an interest in theoretical the war, he completed his master’s degree in high-energy physics, his lifelong scientific mathematics at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska passion. Then, in the early 1960s, he visited University in Lublin. the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre Maryam Mirzakhani 1977–2017 His career in physics began in 1948, when for one year, where he made significant he moved to Cracow to work at Jagiellonian contributions to our understanding of University. He received his PhD in 1955 for nuclear structure and composite-particle Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematics professor Maryam participated in two International the supervision of Fields Medalist Curtis a dissertation on spin interactions in nuclear scattering. at Stanford University and Fields Medalist Mathematics Olympiads, winning gold McMullen. Before joining Stanford in 2008 matter. Soon after the establishment of the In Poland, he kept in touch with the group in 2014, passed away on 14 July aged just 40. medals both times – once with a perfect she was a fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute of Nuclear Physics in Cracow, he of theoretical physicists at the Jagiellonian She was the first woman and first Iranian score. After undergraduate studies at Sharif Institute in Cambridge (MA) and a professor
created its theory department, which he University, especially with Andrzej Białas, citizen to win a Fields Medal. University, she moved to the US to enroll in at Princeton University. s headed for 34 years. with whom he published many papers, Born in Teheran, at high-school age a PhD course at Harvard University, under Since her early career as a
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O b i t u a r i e s including their most famous one, on the of pioneering contributions to the study angel for a large group of theoretical wounded nucleon model, completed in 1976. of quark–gluon plasma, which was a mere physicists at Jagiellonian University. Throughout his career Wiesław hypothesis at the time. Wiesław was a member of the Polish Dmitry Bardin 1945–2017 developed close relations with the In addition to being a great scientist, Academy of Sciences and of the Polish community of theoretical physicists in Wiesław was also an outstanding lecturer Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the US, visiting different institutions in and teacher. He was involved in the awarded the highest Polish distinctions, Our colleague Dmitry (Dima) Yurievich Dima Bardin developed ZFITTER and many the late 1960s and early 1970s. He spent organisation of the Cracow School of including the Commander Cross of the Order Bardin, an academic at Dzhelepov other software projects. six months at Stanford University, the Theoretical Physics since its inception in of Polonia Restituta. Laboratory of Nuclear Problems of the National Bureau of Standards, Stony Brook 1961. Together with Andrzej Białas and their His death is a great loss to his friends, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), KalinovskayaA Further software packages in which University and the University of Virginia wives, Maria Czyż and Elżbieta Białas, he colleagues and students, both in Cracow Dubna, Russia, left us on 30 June. Dima was directly involved are: muela in Charlottesville, and one year at the helped create a unique institution, which and around the world. We will all miss Dima graduated with honours from for polarised mu-e scattering, GENTLE University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. has attracted young scientists and senior this extraordinary scientist and human Moscow State University and started for LEP2 data analysis and HECTOR He also visited for shorter periods the lecturers for 57 years. being, who shared with us the fruits of research work at JINR in 1968. He defended for radiative corrections to ep scattering. University of Washington in Seattle, CERN, From 1972 to 1994, Wiesław was his talent with exceptional modesty – his his PhD thesis under the guidance of Samoil Since 2000 Dima also led the software Utrecht and Munich, and the University editor-in-chief of the leading Polish physics most characteristic virtue. We will miss Bilenky in 1974 based on studies of elastic system SANC for calculations of radiative of Tel Aviv many times. In 1988, Wiesław journal Acta Physica Polonica B, with Maria his inimitable sense of humour and simple pion–electron scattering and rare decays corrections for LHC processes, and together returned to Jagiellonian University and Czyż acting as the managing editor. It is kindness, so much needed in today’s world. of pions and kaons. Since then, Dimaʼs with Giampiero Passarino he authored the produced a stream of work on high-energy impossible to talk about Wiesław without ● Michał Praszałowicz, Jagiellonian scientific work was devoted to the calculation significant monographThe Standard Model scattering of nuclei, resulting in a number mentioning Maria, who was a true guardian University. of complete electroweak and QCD radiative in the Making. corrections in the Standard Model. He had Dima Bardin exemplified faithful and close interactions with many experimental selfless service to fundamental science. collaborations at LEP, SPS, the LHC It is impossible to overestimate his role in Alper Garren 1925–2017 (CERN) and HERA (DESY). contributed substantially to the now-famous creating an atmosphere of high standards in From 1978 to 1986 Dima derived, workshop Z Physics at LEP1, and in 1995 scientific research. With broad knowledge, with various collaborators, electroweak he was a convener of the working group extensive experience and diligence, he was Alper Abdy Garren was born on 30 April machines: the Bevatron, Magnetic Mirror corrections to deep inelastic scattering for event generators for Standard Model a true professional in his field. A severe, 1925 in Oakland, California, and died Fusion Reactors, 88-inch Cyclotron, and developed a pioneering approach processes at LEP2. During 1994–1995 he was debilitating and prolonged illness brought a peacefully on 25 June in the same place. Advanced Light Source (ALS), Fermilab Berkeley Lab to renormalisation in the unitary gauge. a co-ordinator of the precision calculations great deal of suffering and pain, but despite Al attended the US Naval Reserve Proton Synchrotron, the Large Proton–Proton These two projects were the basis of many working group at CERN. The CERN report this he continued working until his last day. Midshipmenʼs School at the University Storage Rings LSR (CERN), ISABELLE now-classical applications of radiative Precision Calculations for the Z Resonance Dima was not only an outstanding scientist of Notre Dame in 1945 and served as a (BNL), and the High Energy Heavy Ion corrections in the Standard Model, performed was the basis for the well-known “blue-band but also a reliable friend and colleague, and a commissioned lieutenant in the US Naval Facility SUMATRAN (Japan). in close co-operation with experiments at plot” of the LEP electroweak working group. wonderful family man. We feel a great loss, Reserve through 1947. By 1950 he had Al was a sweet, kind, generous man CERN and other research centres. ZFITTER was one of the main codes used not only personally but also as a scientific received undergraduate and masters degrees who made friends easily and kept them for With the advent of LEP, Dimaʼs scientific for LEP1 and LEP2 data analyses, and was community. from the University of California, Berkeley, life. He loved to travel and was especially activity focused on precise calculation of the a central theoretical tool for predicting the ● Andrej Arbuzov, Wolfgang Hollik, Lida and in 1955 he completed his PhD at the drawn to the culture and people of Asia. properties of the Z boson, in particular by masses of the top quark and the Higgs boson Kalinovskaya and Tord Riemann, on behalf Carnegie Institute of Technology. He loved the performing arts and was developing the ZFITTER project. In 1989 he prior to their discoveries. of his colleagues and friends. A career particle physicist at Berkeley Lab, a patron of the San Francisco Opera, located on the hill above the UC Berkeley the San Francisco Symphony and the campus, Al wrote his first paper for what Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He was · was then the Radiation Laboratory in 1949. a dedicated philanthropist, supporting Wiesław Czyz 1927–2017 He wrote his final paper in 1991 at what had some 200 environmental, human-rights and become the Lawrence Berkeley National performing-arts organisations in his later Laboratory (LBL). years. Outstanding theoretical physicist and former Wiesław Czyż made pioneering contributions Al was a brilliant scientist who designed Alper Garren designed the lattice for the SSC. Physicist, teacher, mentor, world traveller,
editor-in-chief of the journal Acta Physica Kobos A to high-energy nuclear physics. the accelerator lattice for the Superconducting sailor, philanthropist and above all a dear Polonica B, Wiesław Czyż passed away on Super Collider (SSC), in particular inventing SLAC’s PEP-II accelerator and SYNCH friend, Al enriched many lives during his 8 April after a long illness. Wiesław was born During his long research career, Wiesław the “diamond bypass” to allow two beams to – a computational tool used extensively at 92 years. on 2 May 1927 in Lublin, eastern Poland. was associated with many institutions. He be injected and aborted from just one straight particle-physics labs around the world and ● Based on text published in the San His education was interrupted by the Second spent two years (1957–1959) at the Niels section. His career also included work on for which he held a patent. He contributed to Francisco Chronicle by Jon Eisenberg and World War, during which he was active in Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, where the Tevatron, the asymmetric B-Factory at the design and orbit theory of the following Marilee Bailey. the Polish resistance (the Home Army). After he developed an interest in theoretical the war, he completed his master’s degree in high-energy physics, his lifelong scientific mathematics at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska passion. Then, in the early 1960s, he visited University in Lublin. the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre Maryam Mirzakhani 1977–2017 His career in physics began in 1948, when for one year, where he made significant he moved to Cracow to work at Jagiellonian contributions to our understanding of University. He received his PhD in 1955 for nuclear structure and composite-particle Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematics professor Maryam participated in two International the supervision of Fields Medalist Curtis a dissertation on spin interactions in nuclear scattering. at Stanford University and Fields Medalist Mathematics Olympiads, winning gold McMullen. Before joining Stanford in 2008 matter. Soon after the establishment of the In Poland, he kept in touch with the group in 2014, passed away on 14 July aged just 40. medals both times – once with a perfect she was a fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute of Nuclear Physics in Cracow, he of theoretical physicists at the Jagiellonian She was the first woman and first Iranian score. After undergraduate studies at Sharif Institute in Cambridge (MA) and a professor
created its theory department, which he University, especially with Andrzej Białas, citizen to win a Fields Medal. University, she moved to the US to enroll in at Princeton University. s headed for 34 years. with whom he published many papers, Born in Teheran, at high-school age a PhD course at Harvard University, under Since her early career as a
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One of Medal, worked at her first major results was a counting theorem Stanford Service News the intersection on closed geodesics that unexpectedly led to between Faculty Position in Experimental a new proof of Witten’s conjecture, related mathematics and to the partition function of two-dimensional physics. High-Energy Physics quantum gravity. As Harvard string theorist Cumrun at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Vafa recalled in his speech at a memorial event held in August, results of Maryam’s work and the techniques she applied in her The School of Basic Sciences of the Ecole Polytechnique Applications should include a motivation letter, a proofs might be applied to solve problems in Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) seeks to appoint a tenure- curriculum vitae with a list of research outputs, a string theory. Riemann surfaces are natural as well as supersymmetric field theories, Tao (Fields Medalist, UCLA) wrote in a track assistant professor of experimental high-energy statement of research (max. 3 pages) and teaching ingredients in string theory, where they which are constructed through geometric note about Maryam Mirzakhani, it also physics in the Institute of Physics. interests (max. 1 page), as well as the names and appear both as 2D world-sheets of strings engineering of branes wrapping Riemann promotes the recipient to a role model. In addresses (including e-mail) of at least three references. dynamically evolving in space–time, as surfaces. Maryam’s approach to moduli the case of Maryam Mirzakhani this was The Laboratory for High-Energy Physics is strongly well as 2D internal manifolds on which the spaces provided powerful tools that, in the definitely true: as a female mathematician involved in the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Application files should be submitted in PDF format and theory is compactified to reduce its original future, could lead to major advances in and the first woman to win a Fields Medal, Hadron Collider from the time of its conception, and is uploaded by December 15th, 2017 to 10 or 11 dimensions to a more familiar theoretical physics. she will remain a reference figure for future currently making a major contribution to the detector https://facultyrecruiting.epfl.ch/position/6848513 4D scenario. The premature departure of Maryam generations of female scientists. upgrade, with a view to enhance data-taking capability Both applications of Riemann surfaces Mirzakhani represents a huge loss for In addition to an extraordinary scientific to extend the science reach from 2021 onwards. The are of great interest to theoretical physicists. the scientific community, not just for her career, particularly noticeable were her Ongoing research in CERN’s theory scientific excellence. Winning a Fields generosity and humble personality. position offers the opportunity to capitalize on this department directly investigates string Medal not only highlights the academic ● Alessandra Gnecchi and colleagues from investment while also developing ideas for the longer- Enquiries may be addressed to: world-sheet and scattering amplitudes, achievement of the recipient but, as Terrence the CERN theory department. term future, in an environment providing strong technical Prof. Harald Brune support in detector development. Chairman of the Search Committee A PhD degree in particle physics as well as a strong and E-mail: [email protected] growing track record in research and scientific leadership are required. The appointed professor is expected to Superconducting and High For additional information, please consult www.epfl.ch, initiate a creative experimental program, and engage in sb.epfl.ch, iphys.epfl.ch Temperature Metals physics teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. 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