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APS Awards
By David Harris
Three SLAC researchers were awarded prizes at the annual American
Physical Society meeting in Denver on May 2. John Seeman (AD) shared
with Katsunobu Oide (KEK) the Robert R. Wilson Prize, awarded ‘for
technical leadership and direct contributions to the development of high
luminosity B factories at KEK and SLAC. These machines have set new
world records for luminosities in colliding-beam storage rings.’
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APS award recipients (l to r):
Shahram Rahatlou (BABAR)
Katsunobu Oide (KEK), Ikaros Bigi (University of Notre Dame),
Anthony Ichiro Sanda (Nagoya University), Dmitry Teytelman (ARDA)
and John Seeman (AD). (Photo by Bill Cronin) |
On winning the prize, Seeman said, “the
award was a pleasant surprise and quite an honor. It also says a lot
about the laboratories and all the universities that made these
accelerators and detectors work. We have had a great collaborating
environment over the years.”
Two dissertation awards were presented to graduate students who
conducted their research at SLAC. Shahram Rahatlou (BABAR)
of UC San Diego, was awarded the Tanaka Dissertation Award ‘for his role
in the development of the tools needed for the analysis of B factory
data, including the tFIT program, a unique and comprehensive fitting
framework for time-independent analyses. The tools he developed played a
key role in the observation of CP violation in the B system by the
BABAR
collaboration. These tools will be essential to the ongoing program of
work as the B factories continue to probe the origins of CP violation.’
Dmitry Teytelman (ARDA/Stanford) was awarded the Dissertation in Beam
Physics Award ‘for his development of new feedback architectures and
algorithms for the diagnosis and control of coupled-bunch instabilities
in circular accelerators.’
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