Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Century - Hardcover

Oliver Brüning; Stephen Myers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814436399 ISBN 13: 9789814436397

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators have been a key tool in developing our understanding of the elementary particles and the forces that govern their interactions. This book describes the past 100 years of accelerator development with a special focus on the technological advancements in the field, the connection of the various accelerator projects to key developments and discoveries in the Standard Model, how accelerator technologies open the door to other applications in medicine and industry, and finally presents an outlook of future accelerator projects for the coming decades.

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About the Author

Oliver Brüning started his career at DESY in Hamburg where he participated in the studies and commissioning of the HERA collider. In 1995 he moved from DESY to CERN where he worked on design studies for the LHC collider and contributed to the commissioning of LEP2. From 2005 until 2015 he was head of the Accelerator and Beam Physics group at CERN. During the first commissioning of the LHC he was one of the 6 LHC initial Machine Coordinators and as of 2010 he is the deputy project manager for the HL-LHC upgrade project at CERN. Since 2014 he acts also as the Deputy Department Head of the Beams Department at CERN which looks after the operation and performance of the whole CERN accelerator complex.

Stephen Myers started at CERN as Engineer-in-Charge for the operation of the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) before moving on to the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP). In October 2008, he was nominated Director of Accelerators and Technology, responsible for the operation and exploitation of the whole CERN accelerator complex, with particular emphasis on the LHC and for the development of new projects and technologies. He directed the repair of the LHC after the accident in September 2008 and steered the operation of the collider in 2010, 2011, and 2012. On 4 July 2012 the collider had produced enough events to allow two large LHC experiments, ATLAS and CMS, to discover the Higgs boson. As of January 2014, Dr. Myers has been appointed the Head of the newly established Office of Medical Applications at CERN.

From the Back Cover

The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators have been a key tool in developing our understanding of the elementary particles and the forces that govern their interactions. This book describes the past 100 years of accelerator development with a special focus on the technological advancements in the field, the connection of the various accelerator projects to key developments and discoveries in the Standard Model, how accelerator technologies open the door to other applications in medicine and industry, and finally presents an outlook of future accelerator projects for the coming decades.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9814436399
• ISBN 13: 9789814436397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 856