SLAC Synchrotron Lab Director Keith Hodgson wins DOE’s E. O. Lawrence Award

By Tom Mead

SSRL Director Keith O. Hodgson has been named a recipient of the Department of Energy’s Ernest O. Lawrence Award for 2002. It is the DOE’s most prestigious award.

Bestowed by the U.S. Government and presented by the Secretary of Energy, the award recognizes exceptional and relatively recent contributions to the development, use or control of nuclear energy ­- broadly defined to include the science and technology of particle, nuclear, atomic and molecular interactions.

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In July 2001 a young SLAC intern, Katherine Pope, was struck by a car and killed as she merged across two traffic lanes approaching the SLAC entrance on Sand Hill Road. This prompted cyclists and the city of Menlo Park to review the safety of this roadway.

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Experiment E-158 at SLAC hopes to force a revision of the Standard Model—one of the most elegant and powerful predictive tools in science.

The experiment seeks to measure the electroweak mixing angle—the proportions in which the weak and electromagnetic forces combine to form the electroweak interaction—with the best accuracy ever achieved at low energies.

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