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ACFA/IPAC'13 Accelerator Prizes
The Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA) and the 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'13) are pleased to announce the winners of the ACFA / IPAC'13 Accelerator Prizes.
With the introduction of a site rotating schedule among the three regions (Asia, Europe and North America), the ACFA/IPAC Accelerator Prizes are awarded once every three years when the IPAC is held in Asia, to those who made a significant achievement and or an original contribution to the accelerator field.
The Prizes Selection Committee, under the Chairmanship of Professor Jia-er Chen (National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing), met in January 2013 and selected the winners, commemorating the fourth IPAC (IPAC'13) to be held in Shanghai this year.
This time, the following people won the ACFA/IPAC Accelerator Prizes described below.
Prize A
He later contributed to initiating the major upgrade of BEPC (BEPCII), the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), the Chinese Accelerator Driven Subcritical System for nuclear waste transmutation (CADS) as well as proton therapy accelerators in China.
He has promoted accelerator-based science in China through extensive international collaboration worldwide and built-up a solid bridge between China and other parts of the world in the accelerator field.
Prize B
The prize, for an individual, having made a recent significant, original contribution to the accelerator field with no age limit, is awarded to Dr. Michael Borland (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA) for his original contributions in creating the ELEGANT program and its SDDS (Self Describing Data Sets) platform that are widely applied in design, simulation, and analysis of circular accelerators, ERLs and FELs.
Using ELEGANT, he predicted for the first time the CSR-driven microbunching instability in LCLS, which was eventually experimentally verified, and this discovery triggered an active on-going field of research.
Along with the development of simulating start-to-end jitter in LCLS, the first of such attempts, Borland also co-developed program toolkits used in the control systems applications for accelerators. His algorithms, methods and software have been widely adopted by accelerator facilities, in particular APS, BESSY, ELETTRA, LCLS, LHC, NSRRC, RHIC, SPring-8 and TJNAF, for numerous developments in the field of beam dynamics and non-linear optimizations.
Prize C
This stripper is characterized by its infinite lifetime, efficient stripping, and small beam degradation even for the most intense uranium ion beams and has made it possible to increase the intensity of uranium ion beams by an order of magnitude at RIKEN's RIBF, providing an immeasurable impact on the field of heavy-ion accelerators worldwide, such as the FAIR at GSI, FRIB at MSU/ANL, and RHIC at BNL.
Hiroshi Imao also developed an exceptionally compact and efficient positron accumulator that has led to the successful production of anti-hydrogen atoms in the ASACUSA collaboration at CERN.
The three Prizes will be presented to the laureates during the IPAC'13, which will take place from 13 to 17 May, 2013, in Shanghai, China.
Source: ACFA websiteACFA/IPAC'13 Accelerator Prize Winners