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Direction of two of the LHC program awarded two Italian
:: 15 June, 2009
Guido Tonelli, a researcher at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), was elected international coordinator (spokesperson) of one of the four major experimental programs of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), the CMS (Compact Muon solenoid), the European laboratory CERN in Geneva. This is the second Italian to lead one of these programs, following the appointment last March of Fabiola Gianotti researcher at the head of the ATLAS program.
Guido Tonelli working in the field of particle physics in 1978 from participating in research at CERN and Fermilab (Chicago - USA). Among his works are the first precision measurements of average life of charmed mesons, the determination of the number of families of light neutrinos, measures of accuracy on the intermediate vector bosons W and Z, and experimental verification of the Standard Model fundamental interactions. It is one of the pioneers in the development of revealing in semiconductor physics and particles can be considered the "father" of the tracer in silicon which is the heart of the CMS. He has coordinated for many years the activity of the Italian research group working at CMS, or about 250 people, physicists and engineers from 14 sections of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). In 2006 he was appointed Vice-Chair International CMS.
The CMS is an experiment of proton proton collider, born of an international collaboration that brings together 2500 scientists from 138 universities and research centers, from 38 countries. The main goal is to identify the Higgs boson and the supersymmetric elementary particle that would explain the dark matter.
Four of the LHC Project's most exceptional suppliers have just been honoured in the fifth Golden Hadron awards ceremony. For the first time, a CERN team was among the prize-winners.
The CERN main workshop (Mechanical and Materials Engineering group, TS/MME) received the Golden Hadron Award at the prize-giving ceremony held at the Globe. From left to right, Saïd Atieh (TS/MME), Vincent Vuillemin (TS/MME group leader), Michel Caccioppoli (TS/MME), Lyn Evans (LHC Project Leader), Marc Polini (TS/MME-MS section leader), Jean-Luc Gayraud (Cegelec), Jean-Paul Bacher (TS/MME-AS section leader) and Paolo Ciriani (head of the TS Department).
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