Brian Foster

Brian Foster (born January 4, 1954 in Crook (County Durham) ) is a British experimental elementary particle physicist.

Foster studied at Oxford University (PhD 1978) and was then a research assistant at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton and from 1982 at Imperial College in London. In 1984 he was at the University of Bristol (first lecturer , from 1992 reader and from 1996 professor) and from 2003 professor for experimental particle physics at Oxford and since 2004 head of the particle physics department. He is a Fellow of Balliol College. In 2011 he received an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at DESY and the University of Hamburg , where he has been Professor of Experimental Particle Physics since 2011.

Foster was involved in the discovery of gluon (1979) with the Tasso collaboration (in which he had been involved since his post-doctoral studies) at DESY's Petra accelerator ring , for which he and other members of the collaboration received a special prize in particle physics from the European Physical Society in 1995 . At Tasso he developed the Vertex Detector (VXD) in the 1980s and used it to investigate the physics of heavy quarks (bottom, charm) and leptons (tau). From 1984 to 1990 he headed the Tasso group at Bristol University. He then headed the development of the central drift chamber (CTD, Central Tracking Detector) of the Zeus experiment at the Hera accelerator at DESY, which was in operation from 1992. From 1999 to 2003 he led the Zeus collaboration during the upgrade of the accelerator to Hera II. He was also involved in the development of the electronics for the BaBar experiment at the SLAC .

He is involved in the development of accelerators and detectors. From 2002 to 2005 he was chairman of the European committee for future accelerators and since 2005 he has headed the design studies for the International Linear Collider for Europe.

In 2003 he received the Max Born Prize , in 1998 the Humboldt Research Prize and in 2008 he became a member of the Royal Society . In 2003 he became OBE .

Brian Foster is married and has two children.

Web links

• Brian Foster. In: Fellows Directory. The Royal Society 
• Alexander von Humboldt Professor Dr. Brian Foster. desy.org 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brian Foster. In: Prize Winner 2011. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2011, accessed on February 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Brian Foster. In: Fellows Directory. The Royal Society, accessed February 12, 2018 .