USPAS Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology

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The USPAS Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology from the US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) is an international award for the physics and technology of particle accelerators . It is awarded every two years and is endowed with $ 3,000. There are two winners each, one of which is awarded to scientists under 45 years of age.

It is considered to be one of the most important prizes in the field of accelerator physics alongside the Robert R. Wilson Prize of the American Physical Society, the EPS Accelerator Group Prizes of the European Physical Society and the IEEE Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award of the IEEE .

Award winners

Each with an official laudatory speech.

  • 1985 Helen T. Edwards for essential contributions to the realization of the first superconducting synchrotron , John MJ Madey for the invention and demonstration of the free electron laser (FEL), as well as special prizes for Ernest D. Courant and M. Stanley Livingston for the discovery of the principle of alternating gradients and the concept of the High Focus Accelerator and Robert R. Wilson for building the first High Focus Synchrotron and pioneering the development of high energy accelerators .
  • 1986 Helmut Piel and Maury Tigner for their contributions to Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) and Thomas Weiland for new methods to calculate electromagnetic fields in complex structures.
  • 1987 Klaus Halbach for high-field permanent magnets for accelerators and Lars Thorndahl for experimental and theoretical contributions to the stochastic cooling of particle beams.
  • 1988 IM Kapchinskii and VA Teplyakov for the radio frequency quadrupole , Andrew Sessler for pioneering work on collective beam phenomena (especially negative mass and wall resistance instabilities, resistive wall instabilities).
  • 1989 Daniel L. Birx for high-power magnetic switching with applications such as high repetition rate induction linear accelerators, free electron lasers and isotope separation with lasers, Karl L. Brown for insights into particle transport in beams and theoretical developments used worldwide.
  • 1990 Donald Prosnitz for high-power amplifiers for FELs (High Gain Free Electron Laser Amplifiers), Matthew Sands for papers on accelerator physics and contributions to electron accelerators.
  • 1991 Glen R. Lambertson for contributions to injection and extraction technology, measuring instruments on accelerators and microwave devices and Wolfgang Schnell for the development of accelerator modules and diagnostic systems for high-energy accelerators. Special prize to Rolf Wideröe for the discovery of high frequency alternating current (RF) acceleration
  • 1993 Richard L. Sheffield and John S. Fraser for the development of a powerful electron source combining a photocathode and high-frequency AC acceleration, Marc C. Ross for measurements and analysis of the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) and particle beam properties.
  • 1995 Herman Winick and James E. Spencer for the implementation of injection devices , which had a significant influence on synchrotron radiation sources, Tsumoru Shintake for the development and demonstration of a novel device for monitoring the particle beam geometry based on Compton scattering with a laser.
  • 1997 Daniel Boussard for original contributions to high-frequency acceleration (RF for short), longitudinal beam dynamics, feedback and the implementation of superconducting accelerators, Chandrasekhar Joshi for pioneering experiments on laser-generated plasma wave acceleration (high gradient, laser-driven, plasma beat-wave acceleration).
  • 1999 Bruce E. Carlsten for the concept of emittance compensation for RF photocathode electron sources , Robert L. Guckstern for theoretical contributions to the understanding of particle beams of high intensity (such as halo formation and collective instabilities).
  • 2001 Tor Raubenheimer for the development of control techniques for particle beam emittance and his leading role in the development of the second generation of linear accelerators, Dieter Mohl for his outstanding contributions to electron cooling and stochastic cooling and his influential role in the design and operation of storage rings for ions and antiprotons low energy.
  • 2003 Martin Reiser for essential contributions to the physics of particle beams of high intensity and his life's work in research, technology and teaching on the physics of particle beams, Samit Tantawi for contributions to the theory and technology of RF components for the generation and distribution of high frequencies with very high peak power for pulse compression systems for linear accelerators
  • 2005 Anton Piwinski charged for fundamental contributions to the understanding of particle beams in circular accelerators (In-ray scattering, beam-beam effects Synchro-betatron resonances), Wim Leemans for contributions to laser Kiel field accelerators (Laser wakefield accelerators), especially the Supply of high intensity laser beams to high intensity and beam quality electron beams.
  • 2007 Yaroslav Derbenev for essential contributions to the theory of beam polarization in accelerators and the control of Siberian snakes , the theory of electron cooling and the development of round-to-flat beam-optics transformations and novel six-dimensional cooling mechanisms for muons. Sergei Nagaitsev for his scientific leadership role in non-magnetized relativistic electron cooling for hadron beams to improve the luminosity of colliders.
  • 2009 Yoshiharu Mori for his contributions to the rebirth of the fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator with numerous practical applications and for the development of a new type of RF cavity and a compact neutron source. John Lewellen for contributions to high-power electron beam sources (new cavity geometries, field emission cathode gating , test apparatus)
  • 2011 Zhirong Huang for contributions to the world's first free electron laser for hard X-rays, Jean Delayen for a series of superconducting accelerator structures and for teaching
  • 2013 Jean-Luc Vay for computer simulation of particle beams (Lorentz boosted frame technique). Kwang-Je Kim for his life's work in particle beam physics and theoretical contributions to photocathode electron guns, synchrotron radiation and FELs as well as teaching.
  • 2015 Kaoru Yokoya for his numerous fundamental and far-reaching contributions to accelerator physics, including the understanding and modeling of beam-beam interaction, polarization in storage rings, beam instabilities, impedance of accelerators, coherent synchrotron radiation and novel accelerator concepts. Rami Kishek for fundamental work on multipactor discharge, his contributions to the understanding of the physics of space-charge-dominated rays and his outstanding mentoring activities for young scientists.
  • 2017 Alex Chao for insightful foundational and broad-based contributions to accelerator physics, including polarization, beam-to-beam effects, nonlinear dynamics, and collective instabilities, for his tireless leadership position and for inspiring and teaching generations of accelerator physicists and engineers . Anna Grassellino and Alexander Romanenko for breakthroughs that increased the quality factor of superconducting cavity resonators with nitrogen doping and similar techniques as the basic technology for new superconducting accelerators .
  • 2019 Frank Zimmermann For outstanding scientific leadership in the accelerator design and beam physics of hadron colliders and dedicated editorship of professional accelerator journals. Cameron Geddes For pioneering experiments on laser guiding, electron trapping, and high-quality beam production in laser-plasma accelerators.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson Engines of Discovery , World Scientific 2007, p. 174