People and things

Paul Murphy recently retired as head of the particle physics group at Manchester.

On people Laboratory correspondents Maury Tigner of Cornell is one of the six recipients of this year's E.O. Argonne National Laboratory, USA M. Derrick Lawrence Awards in the US for his Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA contributions to high energy accel­ A. Stevens erator technology, including design CEBAF Laboratory, USA for Cornell's CESR Electron Storage S. Corneliussen Ring, the development of super­ CERN, Geneva conducting radiofrequency cavities G. Fraser and his direction of the conceptual Cornell University, USA design of the planned US Super­ D. G. Cassel conducting Supercollider (SSC). DESY Laboratory, Fed. Rep. of Germany P. Waloschek Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Walter E. Massey of Chicago, USA former Director of the Argonne M. Bodnarczuk Roger Rlin-Stoyie, Honorary Profes­ Laboratory becomes Director of the sor of Theoretical Physics at Sus­ GSI Darmstadt, Fed. Rep. of Germany US National Science Foundation, G. Siegert sex, becomes President of the UK succeeding Erich Bloch. Massey Institute of Physics for 1990-92. INFN, Italy leaves his position as Vice-Presi­ A. Pascolini dent of the American Physical So­ IHEP, Beijing, China Herbert Lengeler of CERN's Accel­ Qi IMading ciety, where Ernest M. Henley now erator Technology Division, and a becomes President-Elect. JINR Dubna, USSR member of the CERN Courier Advi­ B. Starchenko sory Panel, been nominated Hono­ KEK National Laboratory, Japan Peter Higgs of Edinburgh receives rary Professor of Physics at the S. Iwata the 1990 Scottish Science Award Technische Hochschule, Darm­ Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA for his work in theoretical physics, B. Feinberg stadt, Germany. particularly in the unification of fun­ y Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA O. B. van Dyck damental forces. This Award was attributed for the first time in Paul Murphy retires NIKHEF Laboratory, Netherlands F. Erne 1989. Novosibirsk Institute, USSR Paul Murphy retired recently as V, Balakin Michael Riordan, Science Informa­ head of the particle physics group Orsay Laboratory, France tion Officer at the Stanford Linear at Manchester. Involved in many Anne-Marie Lutz Accelerator Center (SLAC) and au­ early experiments at then new ac­ PSI Laboratory, Switzerland thor of the book 'The Hunting of J. F. Crawford celerators - the Liverpool 400 MeV the Quark', moves to Washington synchrocyclotron, the Bevatron at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Jacky Hutchinson to become Assistant to John S. Berkeley and the UK Nimrod proton Toll, President of the Universities' Saclay Laboratory, France synchrotron, he became Professor Elisabeth Locci Research Association, the govern­ of Experimental Physics at Man­ IHEP, Serpukhov, USSR ing body of both Fermilab and the chester in 1965 and moved his at­ Yu. Ryabov planned US Superconducting Su­ tention to another new machine, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA percollider (SSC). Michael is also the NINA electron synchrotron at M. Riordan SLAC's CERN Courier corre­ nearby Da res bury. He has turned Superconducting Super Coilider, USA spondent. his attention in more recent years N. V. Baggett to experiments at colliders - first TRIUMF Laboratory, Canada M. K. Craddock Mark Sakitt becomes Assistant Di­ the ISR at CERN, then with the rector of Planning and Policy at JADE experiment at the PETRA Brookhaven. ring at DESY, and most recently

CERN Courier, December 1990 25 Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE Blackett Laboratory Faculty Position in Experimental High Energy Physics Lectureship in Theoretical and/or High Energy Physics The Department of Physics at the University of California, Applications are invited for the post of lecturer in the Blackett Riverside expects to make a faculty appointment in the Laboratory. The appointee will join either the High Energy Physics area of experimental high energy physics on or after 1 July or Theoretical Physics Groups (or possibly both, jointly, if 1991. This tenure-track appointment will be at the level of appropriate). Assistant Professor. The department is seeking candidates The interests of the Theoretical Physics Group centre on unified with outstanding research records and strong commitment theories of elementary particles and their forces, for example, to teaching. The individual appointed will be expected to superstring theory, theories with gauge symmetry and/or join , for the near term, the ongoing Riverside research supersymmetry, QCD and quantum gravity. Current applications program in high energy electron-positron collisions. Please of these ideas include cosmology and thetheory of phase transitions. send a resume and arrange to have at least three letters of The present experimental programme is based on ALEPH recommendation sent to (principally analysis in heavy flavour physics and QCD) and ZEUS, also a search for Dark Matter. Long-term development of detectors Chair, Search Committee for LHC/SSC is underway and in the shorter term a new experiment Experimental High Energy Physics on b quark physics is planned at CERN. The group is a world centre Department of Physics for the development of silicon-based microdetectors. University of California, Riverside Salary according to experience in the range £12,086 - £22,311 Riverside, plus £1,767 London allowance. California 92 521 Applications comprising a c.v., a list of publications and the names USA and addresses of three referees should be sent to : The deadline for receiving applications will be 15 February The Head of Department 1991. Any applications received after this date will be Professor T.W.B. Kibble, FRS considered only if an appointment is not made from the Blackett Laboratory original pool. Imperial College Prince Concosrt Road London SW 7 2BZ The University of California, Riverside, is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer to arrive not later than Monday, 21 January 1991. Minority & women candidates are encouraged to apply

TRIUMF MESON RESEARCH FACILITY University of Alberta Simon Fraser University University of Victoria University of British Columbia

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES University of Alberta Nuclear Research Centre Dept. of Physics

The Subatomic Physics group at the University of Alberta has 3 openings for experimental and theoretical Research Associates. The group's interests include rare kaon decay tests of the Standard Model at Brookhaven, the spin structure function of the nucleon at HERA, parity violation and charge symmetry breaking at TRIUMF, elastic and Inelastic NN scattering at TRIUMF, and photonuclear studies at the Saskatoon CW electron accelerator.

Of the successful candidates who have received their Ph.D. degrees in physics within the last two years, two experimentalists and one theorist will be appointed. The successful applicants will be expected to make major contributions to the projects in which they choose to participate, and will be based accordingly at either Edmonton or Vancouver. Salary will be commensurate with experience.

Candidates should send their resume and three letters of reference as soon as possible to: Research Associate Search Committee, Nuclear Research Centre, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA T6G 2N5.

Closing date for applications is April 1,1991 and the positions will be filled as soon as possible thereafter.

We offer equal employmentopportunities to qualified male and female applicants.

26 CERN Courier, December 1990 The annual Summer Institute at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) always brings out the best of this lively Laboratory. This year's event attracted 269 participants. Here visiting Russian theorist Vladimir Gri- bov (left), with support from Mrs. Gribov, in­ teracts with James Bjorken.

with the Opal collaboration at CERN's LEP. At CERN he has also served on several Experiments Committees.

ICE A Chairman

The Chairman of ICE A, the Inter­ national Committee for Future Ac­ celerators, is A.N. Skrinsky, Direc­ tor of Novosibirsk's Nuclear Phy­ sics Laboratory, and no longer Yo- shio Yamaguchi, who stepped down at the end of last year. We regret the error which appeared in November issue, and our apologies to all concerned. A forthcoming issue will report on the important ICFA seminar on Future Perspectives in High Energy Physics, held at the Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, near Moscow, from 9-14 October.

American Physical Society elections

Mew officers of the Division of Par­ ticles and Fields of the American Physical Society were elected re­ cently. DPF officers now are Ed Berger (Chairman), A.J.Stewart Smith (Vice-Chairman), Bruce Bar- nett (Secretary-Treasurer), Fred Gil- man (Past-chairman), Stan Wojcicki (Division Councillor), William Bar- deen, Lowell Brown, Richard Field, Mary K. Gaillard, Paul Langacker, and Michael Witherell.

On 24 October CERN Director General Carlo Rubbia (left) and DESY Director Volker Soer- gel cut the ribbon to open the DESY exhibi­ tion at CERN's Microcosm expo centre. The exhibition, which lasts until February, in­ cludes full-scale components of the 6.3 ki­ lometre HERA electron-proton collider with its superconducting proton ring, soon to become operational at the Hamburg Labora­ tory.

(Photo CERN EM464. 10.90)

CERN Courier, December 1990 27 Res Jost Helmut Poth.

early 1950s he helped convince an initially dubious UK Government of the importance of establishing CERN, and his signature appears for the UK on the 1953 CERN Con­ vention document. His enthusiasm Helmut Poth 1948-1990 for CERN resulted in the UK being the first Member State to ratify this document, in December of the Talented German experimentalist same year. As Permanent Secreta­ Helmut Poth of Darmstadt died on ry of the UK's Department of 8 October at the age of 42, after a Scientific and Industrial Research, paragliding accident. After thesis his administrative skills were much work on x-ray spectra of light anti- in demand. He chaired the Interim proton ic atoms, he went on to take Finance Committee which helped an important part in the LEAR low prepare the administrative founda­ energy antiproton ring project at tions for the future Organization, CERN, representing Karlsruhe's KfK and after the formal establishment laboratory. As well as coining the of the Organization went on to be­ acronym LEAR, he helped shape come its Council Chairman, from the LEAR community by organizing Res Jost 1918- October 1954 to December 1957. an initial workshop at Karlsruhe in 1979. He took a particular interest Eminent Swiss theoretician Res in the technique of electron cool­ Jost, Honorary Professor at ETH Harry Palevsky ing, having visited its birthplace at Zurich, died on 3 October at the the Soviet Novosibirsk Laboratory age of 72. His fundamental and fre­ Harry Palevsky died on 17 Septem­ in 1981, and was co-leader (with quently elegant contributions have ber at the age of 71 in California, CERN's Helmut Haseroth) of the el­ become an integral part of modern where he had lived after retiring ectron cooling project at LEAR quantum mechanical scattering the­ from Brookhaven. Working from from 1980-1988, as well as being ory and relativistic field theory. 1942 to 1945 in the Manhattan spokesman of the LEAR PS 176 One-time assistant to Wolfgang Project prior to joining Brookhaven, collaboration studying x-ray spectra Pauli in Zurich and member of Prin­ he was first known through his ex­ of antiprotonic atoms. Most recent­ ceton's Advanced Study Institute, perimental verification of the Land­ ly he was preparing for experi­ he became Professor of Theoretical au theory of protons. He made ments at the new ESR heavy ion Physics at ETH Zurich in 1955. His pioneer studies of nuclear structure storage ring at GSI Darmstadt. He teaching in Zurich and elsewhere, in an experiment crucial to the ver­ was a prime mover in both beam notably the 'Les Houches' summer ification of Glauber theory, using cooling methods and in the experi­ schools, was very influential. Reci­ the Cosmotron's 1 GeV proton ments which exploit them, and his pient of the prestigious Max Planck beam. This brought him in closer untimely death is deeply regretted Medal, he was also a member of contact with CERN, where he spent by both communities. both the US and Austrian Academ­ a sabbatical year in the mid-60s. ies of Science. He will be remem­ His participation in the develop­ bered for his kindness, his sense of ment of nuclear weapons led him SPEAR leaves particle physics humour and his great culture. join the Pugwash movement. Harry has left a deep impression on all In October, the SPEAR electron those who had the privilege to ring at Stanford became fully dedi­ Sir Ben Lockspeiser 1891-1990 meet and to work with him. He cated to research for Stanford's was a man of culture with a high Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. UK scientist and scientific adminis­ sense for scientific knowledge and Conceived by Burton Richter in the trator Sir Ben Lockspeiser died on for its role in society. He also loved late 1960s, the 80-metre diameter 18 October at the age of 99. In the life, family and friendship. ring was built on a vacant lot at the

28 CERN Courier, December 1990 Mrs. Birte Toepfer presents theorist Lev Okun of Moscow with the 1990 Karpinski Prize, one of a series of prizes awarded by the Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg. It ac­ knowledges important contributions to im­ proving contacts between the Soviet Union and Germany as well as scientific achieve­ ment.

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) using money eked out of the Laboratory's operating budget. It came into operation in 1973, and in November of the following year produced the first psi particles, the sharp 3.1 GeV peak also seen by Sam Ting's experiment at Brook­ haven (where it was called the J), heralding the quantum number charm and a new era in particle physics. From 1979, SPEAR be­ came increasingly in demand as a source of synchrotron radiation.

Boost for TRIUMF KAON project

Prospects for approval of the pro­ Hochvakuum, Interatom, Leybold, CERN Accelerator School posed KAON Factory at the Cana­ NTG Neue Technologien and VG in­ dian TRIUMF Laboratory in Van­ struments. couver took a further step forward The CERN Accelerator School in September when Premier Vander (CAS) and the UK Rutherford Ap- Heavy matter in cosmic rays Zalm of British Columbia an­ pleton Laboratory are organizing a nounced that his government course on R.F. Engineering for Par­ Reexamination of cosmic ray data would double their financial com­ ticle Accelerators, to be held from from a detector flown from a Japa­ mitment to 236 million Canadian 3-10 April 1991 at Exeter College, nese balloon centre in 1981 has dollars. This represents one-third Oxford, aimed at staff in accelera­ unearthed two events with multiple of the total $708 million for a six- tor laboratories, universities and coincidences whose behaviour is ear construction period. Another manufacturing companies specializ­ consistent, using some extrapola­ one-third is to be raised from inter­ ing in r.f. and microwave equip­ tions of current accelerator data, national sources and from other ment. Further information from with fragments carrying a nuclear Canadian provinces. A two-year Mrs. S. Wartburg, CERN Accelera­ charge of about 14, and a mass $11-million preconstruction study tor School, SL Division, CERN, 370 times that of the proton. Sev­ completed earlier this year 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, bit- eral authors have suggested the (July/August, page 19) concluded net casral at cernvm.cern.ch possibility of heavy nuclear matter, 'on the basis of extensive inter­ Later next year CAS, this time containing heavier quarks than the national consultations, it is reason­ with NIKHEF-H, Amsterdam, will be conventional 'up' and 'down' varie­ able to expect that the total foreign organizing a course on Advanced ties, as a relic of the Big Bang. participation which can be nego­ Accelerator Physics from 16-27 tiated could be close to the $200 September at Noordwijkerhout, Ne­ million target'. The remaining one- therlands. Further information as third of the construction cost above, but bitnet casnik at LEP experiments would be provided by the Canadian cernvm.cern.ch federal government. The most recent CAS meeting After first featuring Delphi British Columbia also announced was the General Accelerator Phy­ (November, page 1) our ser­ its willingness to discuss contribu­ sics course, organized jointly with ies on the four experiments at tions to the operating costs. A de­ KFA, Julich, Germany, in Septem­ CERN's LEP electron-positron cision by the Canadian cabinet on ber. This attracted a two-day in­ collider continues in January the federal funding component is dustrial exhibition mounted by Al­ with Aleph. expected shortly. catel Hochvakuumtechnik, Balzers

CERN Courier, December 1990 29 SSC people and initial contracts

The Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) Laboratory, Ellis County, Texas, has considerably reinforced its management team. Edward J. Siskin, formerly executive vice-pre­ sident of Stone and Webster Engi­ neering Corp, becomes general manager. Paul Reardon, acting head of SSC accelerator systems division, becomes project manager. George Robertson, formerly Major General commanding the North Pa­ cific Division of the US Army Corps of Engineers, becomes deputy pro­ ject manager. Jon Ives, formerly Rear Admiral commanding the Pa­ cific division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, is ap­ pointed head of SSC's conventional 8 November - German Research Minister construction division. Don Ed­ Heinz Riesenhuber (left) presses the button wards, formerly head of SSC accel­ to start cooling of the second half of the now complete superconducting proton ring erator systems integration, be­ of the HERA electron-proton collider at the comes head of the new accelerator DESY, Hamburg, Laboratory, watched by Laboratory Director Volker Sorgel. Cooling design and operations division. of the first half of the 6.3-kilometre ring was Theodore A. Kozman, formerly already complete (page 13). SSC acting project manager, is ap­ pointed head of accelerator sys­ tems division. A $27-million contract for the first SSC cryogenic system has been awarded to Koch Process Systems Inc of Westborough, Massachusetts, in association with Sulzer Chemtech of Switzerland,

Cryogenics Consultants Inc of Al- Five charged particles picked up by the Ring lentown, Pennsylvania, and Cryog­ Imaging Cherenkov counter (RICH) of the enic Technology Services Inc of NA35 experiment at CERN. During its recent run with heavy ion beams, the NA35 Denver. streamer chamber experiment used a In addition, industrial giants Gen­ 50x50cm RICH as well as its Time Projec­ tion Chamber (TPC - see November, page eral Dynamics Corp and Westing- 7). This RICH, the first such large-area de­ house Electric Corp have been se­ vice operating with CCD readout, and filled lected to enter into negotiations for with liquid CeFu intercepted about 11 pho­ tons for each ring, permitting good separa­ a $200-million contract for design tion of pions and kaons. (The dotted lines and initial production of supercon­ are drawn to guide the eye, since the de­ ducting magnets for the SSC. tailed reconstruction is linked to streamer chamber analysis.) Together the TPC and RICH provide NA35 with the potential to ex­ ploit beams of heavier ions (lead). This RICH development was unfortunately omitted from the November article.

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