Valery Ivanovich Telnov

Valery Ivanovich Telnov ( Russian Валерий Иванович Тельнов , English transcription Valery Ivanovich Telnov ; born 1950 in Podgornoje , Tomsk Oblast ) is a Russian physicist who works with particle accelerators .

Telnow was born in a small village in Siberia. As a pupil he won the physics prize at the Siberian Mathematics-Physics Olympiad and then went to a physical-mathematical special school at the Novosibirsk State University , where he then studied physics. In 1972 he made his diploma and in 1973 he received his doctorate there, doing research at the later Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics . He remained connected to the Budker Institute. There he became a senior scientist and at the same time professor at the University of Novosibirsk. He was guest residencies at KEK , SLAC , DESY and CERN .

Telnow is known for his proposal for a photon collider , which he first made in 1980 at a workshop. An article on this was published in 1983 in Nuclear Instruments and Methods. In the photon collider, the energy of an electron beam is transferred to photons. High-energy photons are generated by Compton scattering of laser photons on an electron beam from a particle accelerator. Photon colliders were proposed for the TESLA linear accelerator at DESY, in which Telnow was involved. It is also being discussed as an option for the planned International Linear Collider .

literature

• Andrew Sessler, Edmund Wilson Engines of discovery , World Scientific 2007, p. 147
• Telnov Introduction to the photon collider , 2007, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl.

Web links

• Homepage at the Budker Institute

Individual evidence

1. ^ I. Ginzburg, V. Serbo, G. Kotkin, V. Telnov Colliding gamma-gamma, gamma-e-beams on a base of one pass e + e-colliders , Nucl. Instr. Methods, Volume 205, 1983, p. 47, also the same JETP Letters, Volume 34, 1982, p. 491