Kurt Hübner (physicist)

Kurt Hübner (* 1937 ) is an Austrian physicist and engineer who works with particle accelerators .

Hübner first studied mechanical engineering and then worked part-time in his family's company, but then began again to study physics until he completed his doctorate. He then went to CERN in 1964 , where he stayed for the rest of his career. First he worked on the experimental storage ring CESAR and then on the intersecting storage ring , which he accompanied through its construction phase. Then he was part of the team that created the design study for the LEP , in particular making suggestions to use the proton synchrotrons (PS, SPS, PS booster) existing at CERN as injectors for electrons and positrons. The economic use of existing resources was an essential point in convincing the member states of the LEP. After LEP was decided in 1983, Hübner was responsible for implementing his proposal. Later he was involved in the studies and experiments for the future linear accelerator of the CERN CLIC, in the addition of the LEP and in CNGS (the neutrino beam experiment from CERN to Gran Sasso). In 1991 he became head of the Proton Synchrotron Department at CERN and from 1994 to 2001 director of the accelerator division. After that he was, for example, in the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) and in the scientific advisory committees of DESY and the linear accelerator in Orsay .

In 2002 he received the Accelerator Prize of the European Physical Society.

literature

• Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson Engines of discovery , World Scientific 2007, p. 149