Anton Piwinski

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Anton Piwinski

Anton Piwinski (born September 18, 1934 in Arnsberg ) is a German physicist. He did research in accelerator physics at DESY.

Life

Piwinski attended the Laurentianum Arnsberg high school . After graduating from high school, he studied electrical engineering and then physics at RWTH Aachen University with a diploma in physics in 1963. He then worked in the computer industry for two years before going to the German electron synchrotron in 1966 . In 1970 he was at the University of Hamburg for Dr. rer. nat. PhD. At DESY he worked on the storage rings Doris, Petra and Hera. From 1984 to 1986 he was a visiting scientist at CERN , where he carried out theoretical investigations for the planned Large Electron-Positron Collider , and from 1990 to 1991 at SLAC , where he investigated asymmetrical storage rings. In 1974 he presented the first detailed theory of intra-ray scattering, which was developed by him and in the USA by James Bjorken and Sekazi Mtingwa . Intra-beam scattering limits the performance and beam quality of accelerators (both in colliders and in synchrotron radiation sources). It can be calculated precisely with programs based on the work of Piwinski and colleagues. Piwinski also made important contributions to beam-beam interaction, transverse-longitudinal coupling and satellite resonances. In 1999 he retired. In 2005 he received the USPAS Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology for fundamental contributions to the understanding of charged particle beams in circular accelerators (intra-beam scattering, beam-beam effects, synchro-betatron resonances) and in 2017 with Bjorken and Mtingwa the Robert R Wilson Prize for detailed theoretical description of scattering in particle beams.

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Individual evidence

  1. Dissertation: Particle losses in electron and positron storage rings due to scattering of synchrotron radiation .
  2. ^ Wilson Prize 2017