CERN Courier September 2012 Faces & Places CERN AMS experiment marks one year in space On 25 July, CERN celebrated the first year in space for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) with a visit from the crew of the shuttle mission, STS-134, who successfully delivered AMS to the International Space Station (ISS) last year. Launched on 16 May 2011, the experiment was already sending data back to Earth by 19 May (CERN Courier July/August 2011 p18 and p23). The data are received by NASA in Houston and then relayed to the AMS Payload Operations Control Centre (POCC) at CERN for analysis. A second POCC has recently been inaugurated in Taipei. STS-134 was the last flight for the Endeavour space shuttle, crewed by commander Mark Kelly, pilot Gregory STS-134 astronauts (left to right) Andrew Feustel, Gregory Chamitoff, Gregory Johnson, Johnson, mission specialists Gregory Michael Fincke and Mark Kelly in the AMS Payload Operations Centre at CERN. (Image Chamitoff, Michael Fincke, Andrew credit: Anna Pantelia/CERN.) Feustel and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori. During Two days before the event at CERN, three the celebrations at CERN, the astronauts of the astronauts also laid a commemorative unveiled a commemorative plaque on the plaque for the EPS at Les Cosmiques, a lawn outside the POCC to mark the occasion former high-altitude laboratory on one and later gave a public lecture at CERN. side of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain The AMS detector’s first year in space in Western Europe, to mark 100 years of has been a learning curve: data have been research into cosmic rays. Johnson, Kelly used to calibrate the detector and understand and Vittori laid the plaque, which marks an fully its performance in the extreme thermal EPS Historic Site Laboratory. conditions encountered in space. However, The French National Centre for Scientific it has already collected some 17 billion Research founded the laboratory to study cosmic-ray events and has been able, for cosmic rays in 1943, at a site 3613 m above the first time, to identify electrons with sea level. Les Cosmiques was officially energies exceeding 1 TeV before they enter inaugurated in 1946 in the presence of Irène the atmosphere. “This holds great promise Left to right: Johnson, Kelly and Vittori Joliot-Curie and stayed operational until 1955. for the AMS research programme that’s now stand with the EPS plaque at the site of the ● To view the astronauts’ public lecture getting underway,” says AMS spokesperson former cosmic-ray research lab, Les at CERN, see http://cdsweb.cern.ch/ Samuel Ting. Cosmiques. (Image: Mike Struik/CERN.) record/1464066. A W ar DS Lebrun receives Kamerlingh Onnes Medal Philippe Lebrun of CERN has received Philippe Lebrun. The Kamerlingh Onnes Award was the Kamerlingh Onnes Medal from the (Image credit: established in 1948, at the 40th anniversary Royal Dutch Association of Refrigeration Anna Pantelia/ of the KNVvK. It is awarded for excellent (KNVvK) in recognition of his CERN.) contributions to the development or ground-breaking contributions to the field of application of refrigeration in the broadest cryogenic science and technology that made sense. Lebrun led CERN’s Accelerator the LHC possible. Erik Hoogendoorn, the Technology department during the chair of the KNVvK, presented him with the construction of the LHC, which uses several award on 25 June in Delft, during the 10th thousand high-field superconducting IIF/IIR Gustav Lorentzen conference on magnets operating in superfluid helium natural refrigerants. below 2 K. 63 CCSep12-FacesPlaces.indd 63 08/08/2012 10:09 CERN Courier September 2012 Faces & Places IEEE-NPSS honours Chris Parkman ... The Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Left to right: Sergio Zimmermann, Jean-Pierre Martin (CANPS award chair), Patrick Engineers/Nuclear and Plasma Science Le Dû, Chris Parkman and Stefan Ritt (CANPS chair). (Image credit: IEEE-NPSS-CANPS.) Society (IEEE-NPSS) has been given to Chris Parkman who worked at CERN for Parkman joined CERN in 1970, designing of the ATLAS electronics group. He was more than 40 years. He received the award computer interfaces and read-out modules instrumental in establishing the use of the for his “outstanding development and user for experiments at the Proton Synchrotron. VME bus in the LEP experiments and in support of modular electronics for the He went on to work for many experiments the specification of VME standards. He was instrumentation in physics applications” at subsequent machines, in particular the also for many years a key member of the during the 18th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider, ESONE Committee for the standardization Conference, held in Berkeley on 11–15 June. and most recently the LHC, as a member of modular electronics. ... and achievements in accelerator development Hasan Padamsee. (Image credit: Cornell.) Vitaly Yakimenko. (Image credit: BNL.) The IEEE-NPSS has also honoured Hasan Padamsee of Cornell University and Vitaly Conferences (PAC or IPAC) held in North selected “for contributions to the science Yakimenko of Brookhaven National America, recognizes individuals who have and technology of RF superconductivity”. Laboratory (BNL). They received the made outstanding contributions to the Yakimenko, who became the director of Particle Accelerator Science and Technology development of particle-accelerator science Brookhaven’s Accelerator Test Facility in Award on 24 May at the 2012 International and technology. 2005, was selected “for contributions to Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) in Padamsee, who joined Cornell’s high-brightness electron beams and to their New Orleans. This award, which is granted at Superconducting RF group in 1973 and application to advanced accelerators and each occurrence of the Particle Accelerator was its head between 1987 and 2009, was light sources”. IOP medals: from particles to the cosmos Studies at the smallest and the largest Left: Graham Ross, who scales in the universe are among the areas receives the Dirac Medal. of research recognized in the 2012 awards (Image credit: Oxford from the UK’s Institute of Physics. University.) 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