The Charm of Theoretical Physics (1958–1993)

Maiani, L.; Bonolis, Luisa

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“…See the 2013 interview given by the theoretical physicist LucianoMaiani, 1999-2003 General, in the movie Touschek with AdA in Orsay. See also(Maiani and Bonolis 2017).22Max Born (1882-1970 had left Germany in 1933 and in 1936 settled in Edinburgh as Tait professor of Applied Mathematics. In 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction", sharing it with Walther Bothe "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith".…”

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Bruno Touschek in Glasgow. The making of a theoretical physicist

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In the history of the discovery tools of last century particle physics, central stage is taken by elementary particle accelerators and in particular by colliders. In their start and early development, a major role was played by the Austrian born Bruno Touschek, who proposed and built the first electron positron collider, AdA, in Italy, in 1960. In this note, we present a period of Touschek's life barely explored in the literature, namely the five years he spent at University of Glasgow, first to obtain his doctorate in 1949 and then as a lecturer. We shall highlight his formation as a theoretical physicist, his contacts and correspondence with Werner Heisenberg in Göttingen and Max Born in Edinburgh, as well as his close involvement with colleagues intent on building modern particle accelerators in Glasgow, Malvern, Manchester and Birmingham. We shall discuss how the Fuchs affair, which unraveled in early 1950, may have influenced his decision to leave the UK, and how contacts with the Italian physicist Bruno Ferretti led Touschek to join the Guglielmo

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“…L. M. The scene was set by the rising of the Standard Model in the 1970s after the discoveries of neutral weak current neutrino events and of charm, see e.g. the reconstruction presented in [Maiani 2017].…”

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The LHC timeline: a personal recollection (1980–2012)

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2017

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Abstract. The objective of this interview is to study the history of the Large Hadron Collider in the LEP tunnel at CERN, from first ideas to the discovery of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson, seen from the point of view of a member of CERN scientific committees, of the CERN Council and a former Director General of CERN in the years of machine construction.1 The SppS collider and LEP L. B. During the 1980s, at the time when LEP, the Large Electron Positron collider, was being completed, you began to be deeply involved with CERN. . . 1 L. M. Nicola Cabibbo had been in the Scientific Policy Committee (SPC) in the 1970s, when they had advised CERN to approve the construction of the protonantiproton collider proposed by Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer to search for the Intermediate Vector Bosons. It was a difficult machine and the positive recommendation of the SPC was a far-sighted decision.The pp-project of Rubbia, initiated in 1976, was based on the conclusion that with the unified theory of the electroweak interactions (Glashow, 1961;Weinberg, 1967;Salam, 1968) and the measurement of sin 2θ from Gargamelle, the predicted mass of the charged intermediate vector boson W was around 70 GeV, requiring a proton-antiproton collider to reach such energies. However, at FermiLab, Bob Wilson was not interested in the project. Rubbia, after strong opposition, convinced finally Léon van Hove and John Adams of a pp collider, at the CERN SPS, based on the Stochastic Cooling project of Simon van der Meer.The SppS started operation in 1981, after only 5 years of construction. An immediate outcome was the appearance of narrow jets even in a hadron machineThe text presented here has been revised by the authors based on the original oral history interview conducted by Luisa Bonolis and recorded in Rome, Italy, 1-3 March 2016. a e-mail: lbonolis@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de 1 We are indebted to Prof. Dieter Haidt for very informative exchange on the arguments discussed in this section.

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Bruno Touschek in Glasgow: The Making of a Theoretical Physicist

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Bonolis²

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The Charm of Theoretical Physics (1958–1993)

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Bruno Touschek in Glasgow. The making of a theoretical physicist

Bruno Touschek in Glasgow. The making of a theoretical physicist

The LHC timeline: a personal recollection (1980–2012)

Bruno Touschek in Glasgow: The Making of a Theoretical Physicist

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