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2023 European Physical Society Accelerator Awards
The European Physical Society Accelerator Group (EPS-AG) has offered four awards on the occasion of the 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’23) and selected the following winners, who have made outstanding contributions to accelerator science and technology, and who are committed to its peaceful use and collaboration.
The Rolf Wideröe Prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field with no age limit. The winner will receive an engraved medal, and make an oral presentation during the Accelerator Prizes Special Session during IPAC’23.
The EPS-AG Rolf Wideröe Prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field has been given to Katsunobu Oide, KEK and visiting scientist at CERN / University of Geneva, for his many conceptual contributions to linear and circular particle colliders. Examples include the Oide limit of final focus systems and the design of the final focus test beam at SLAC, crab crossing in circular colliders, the beam optics design code SAD, design work for KEKB and KEK-ATF, advanced lattice design for the FCC study, and his leading role
in design, commissioning and performance optimization of KEK accelerators.
The Gersh Budker Prize for a recent, significant contribution to the accelerator field with no age limit. The winner will receive an engraved medal, and make an oral presentation during the Accelerator Prizes Special Session during IPAC’23.
The Gersh Budker Prize for a recent, significant, original contribution to the accelerator field has been awarded to Mikhail Krasilnikov, DESY/Zeuthen, for his achievements in the development of high brightness electron beams and a high power, tunable THz SASE free electron laser based on those beams, demonstrating lasing at the PITZ facility in 2022.
The Frank Sacherer Prize for an individual in the early part of his or her career, having made a recent significant, original contribution to the accelerator field. The winner will receive a framed certificate, and a cash prize of 2.000,00 EUR, and will also make an oral presentation during the Accelerator Prizes Special Session during IPAC’23.
The European Physical Society Accelerator Group (EPS-AG) offers four awards during the 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’23) taking place in Europe. In addition two prizes for best students posters will be awarded during the conference.
The Frank Sacherer Prize for an individual in the early part of his or her career goes to Xingchen Xu, Fermilab, for his contributions in demonstrating the effectiveness of the internal oxidation method in Nb3Sn wires to strongly improve the performance of this superconductor by using artificial pinning centers, opening the way to the next generation of high field accelerator magnets.
The Bruno Touschek Prize, awarded to a student registered for a PhD or diploma in accelerator physics or engineering or to a trainee accelerator physicist or engineer in the educational phase of their professional career, for the quality of work and promise for the future. Applicants will be judged on the quality of the work submitted to the conference. The winner will receive a framed certificate, and a cash prize of 1.000,00 EUR and will have the opportunity to make a short oral presentation during the Accelerator Prize Special Session during IPAC’23.
The Bruno Touschek Prize, for his significant contribution to the design of the Electron Storage Ring (ESR) which is part of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). His work is aimed at a lattice design maintaining a high degree of beam polarization during collisions.
The Best Student Posters, awarded to 2 students whose work, presented in the special session for students, is particularly meritorious.
The winners, who have been announced during the Accelerator Prizes Special Session during IPAC’23 and have received a cash prize of 500,00 EUR, are:
Information about the prizes
The EPS-AG Accelerator Prizes Selection Committee chaired by Mike Seidel, PSI, decided the winners for prizes 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the basis of preliminary proposals and formal nominations.
Information concerning past recipients of the EPS-AG Accelerator Prizes may be found at the EPS-AG website.
Questions and nominations to be addressed to IPAC’23 Scientific Secretariat scientific.secretariat@ipac23.org
14.30
Prize session presentation
by M. Seidel (PSI)
14.35
Award cerimony of the 2 best student posters
Award ceremony of the Touschek prize
presentation by the Touschek prize winner
14.50
Award ceremony of the Frank Sacherer prize
presentation by the Frank Sacherer prize winner
14.55
Nb3Sn superconductors with artificial pinning centers
for high-field accelerator magnets
Xingchen Xu
15.10
Award ceremony of the Gersh Budker Prize
15.15
THz SASE FEL at PITZ: lasing at a wavelength of 100μm
Mikhail Krasilnikov
15.30
Award ceremony of the Rolf Wideröe Prize
15.35
THz SASE FEL at PITZ: lasing at a wavelength of 100μm
Katsunobu Oide
Thursday, May 11
from 14:30 to 15:50
Room Sala Grande
Palazzo del Cinema
14th International Particle
Accelerator Conference
7 – 12 May 2023
Venice, Italy
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