Katsunobu Oide

Katsunobu Oide ( Japanese 生出 勝 宣 , Oide Katsunobu ; * 1952 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese physicist who works with particle accelerators .

As a schoolboy around 1967, Oide and friends built a computer from relays that he had from his father, who worked for the Japanese telephone company. He studied at the University of Tokyo , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1975 and his master's degree in physics in 1977. In 1980 he received his doctorate there on gravitational wave experiments. From 1981 he was in the accelerator department of the KEK in Tsukuba , where he stayed for the rest of his career.

Initially he was involved in the development of the TRISTAN accelerator (a 30 GeV electron-positron collider, the first Japanese large-scale accelerator facility). He then developed computer codes for calculating the output stage focusing in linear accelerators and was also at the SLAC in 1988/89 in this context . In the 1990s he was involved in the accelerator development for the B meson factory at KEK ( KEKB ), from 1997 as head. KEKB is an asymmetrical electron-positron collider with two rings for electrons (energy 8 GeV) and positrons (energy 3.5 GeV). The Belle experiment was carried out on him .

In 2004 he received the Robert R. Wilson Prize . In 1989 he received the Nishikawa Prize for his research on the measurement of the final convergence in linear accelerators, in 2001, together with Fumihiko Takasaki, the Nishina Prize for the discovery of CP violation during B meson decay, and in 2002, together with Shin'ichi Kurokawa and Atsushi Enomoto den Suwa Prize for the realization of high luminosity at KEKB.

literature

• Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson Engines of Discovery , World Scientific 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 褒 賞 - 授 賞 者 一 覧 . In: 高 エ ネ 研 奨 励 会 (Foundation for High Energy Accelerator Science). 2009, Retrieved February 6, 2011 (Japanese). 
2. ^ Nishina Memorial Prize. Nishina Memorial Foundation, 2010, accessed February 6, 2011 .