ACFA – IPAC’16 Accelerator Prizes
The Xie Jialin Prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field, with no age limit is awarded to Derek Löwenstein, BNL, USA, with the following citations:
Short citation
“For his many years of leadership in the accelerator field starting from the AGS Booster, which led to world-record proton intensity in the AGS, to the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), which is a highly successful accelerator facility with its unprecedented flexibility and outstanding luminosity performance.“
Long citation
“For his many years of leadership in the accelerator field especially that in the AGS Booster and BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). He led the construction of the AGS Booster, which culminated in the world-record proton intensity in the AGS. This work also formed the basis for the establishment of the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory. He was instrumental in realizing this dedicated facility to study radiobiological effects important to human spaceflight to Mars or other planetary missions. He continued his leadership in overseeing the commissioning, operation and upgrades of RHIC, the world’s first heavy ion and polarized proton particle collider. RHIC is a highly successful accelerator facility with its unprecedented flexibility and outstanding luminosity performance.”
The Nishikawa Tetsuji Prize for a recent, significant, original contribution to the accelerator field, with no age limit is awarded to Gwo-Huei Luo, NSRRC, Taiwan, with the following citations:
Short citation
“In recognition of his accomplishments and leadership in the management, construction and successful commissioning of the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS), which has exceeded its design goal as one of the world’s brightest light sources.”
Long citation
“For his outstanding contributions to accelerators at NSRRC, Taiwan, especially for his leading role in the management, construction, and commissioning of the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS). He has successfully brought the TPS project into a real bright light source. His dedication, broad expertise and leadership has contributed in a critical way to the success of the TPS, which must satisfy a number of challenging conditions that do not exist for a green-field machine. The other challenge was using superconducting cavities towards high current and high RF power. The construction of the superconducting RF system was indeed successful, and within four months after the start of operation of superconducting cavities in summer 2015, TPS has achieved a storage of 520 mA beam current that surpasses the design goal.”
The Hogil Kim Prize for a recent, significant, original contribution to the accelerator field, awarded to an individual in the early part of his or her career is awarded to Sam Posen, Fermilab, USA, with the following citations:
Short citation
“In recognition of his discovery in the development of high gradient superconducting radio frequency cavity using Nb3Sn film coating, and the demonstration of outperforming traditional Nb cavity.”
Long citation
“For recent important, original contributions to accelerator technology, especially to the development of Nb3Sn film coated superconducting rf cavities. Dr Posen’s achievements include in particular developing a process for producing a special Nb3Sn film on Nb and demonstration of excellent performance in critical field and Q-factor which are expected to outperform traditional Nb cavities. This discovery promises great improvements in the performance of future accelerator.”
