Swapan Chattopadhyay
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Swapan Chattopadhyay is a noted accelerator physicist. He is currently the director of the Cockcroft Institute
for accelerator science, and holds a Chair in Physics at Liverpool University.
, developing the early ideas for the stochastic cooling of bunched beams, which led to the discovery of the W and Z vector bosons at CERN
, and which today are being applied successfully to phase space cooling of heavy ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
at Brookhaven National Laboratory
. He returned to Berkeley National Laboratory in 1984, where he led and defined the accelerator physics of the Advanced Light Source
(ALS) and the Superconducting Super Collider
(SSC), where he pioneered the accelerator physics which underpinned the Berkeley-Stanford asymmetric B-factory (PEP-II) for CP-violation studies, and where he initiated the Berkeley FEL/Femtosecond X-ray Source and Laser-Plasma Acceleration development. He was a Senior Scientist, a Guest Professor, and the Founder/Director of the Center for Beam Physics at Berkeley, until his move to Jefferson Lab in 2001 after 25 years at the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He presently lives in Frodsham
, Cheshire
Cockcroft Institute
The Cockcroft Institute is an international centre for Accelerator Science and Technology in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened in September 2006. It is a joint venture of Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Manchester, the Science and...
for accelerator science, and holds a Chair in Physics at Liverpool University.
Biography
Born and educated in Darjeeling and Calcutta in India as a National Scholar and National Science Talent Scholar until completion of his BSc (Calcutta University) and MSc (Indian Institute of Technology), Chattopadhyay received his PhD in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982 under the tutelage of Joseph Bisognano and Owen Chamberlain. He then continued at CERN as an “attaché scientifique” in the Super Proton Antiproton Synchrotron working with Daniel Boussard, Simon van der Meer and Carlo RubbiaCarlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia Knight Grand Cross is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.-Biography:...
, developing the early ideas for the stochastic cooling of bunched beams, which led to the discovery of the W and Z vector bosons at CERN
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
, and which today are being applied successfully to phase space cooling of heavy ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is one of two existing heavy-ion colliders, and the only spin-polarized proton collider in the world. It is located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York and operated by an international team of researchers...
at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory , is a United States national laboratory located in Upton, New York on Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base...
. He returned to Berkeley National Laboratory in 1984, where he led and defined the accelerator physics of the Advanced Light Source
Advanced Light Source
The Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California is a synchrotron light source. Built from 1987 to 1993, it currently employs 210 scientists and staff. Part of the building in which it is housed was completed in 1942 for a 4.67 m cyclotron, designed by...
(ALS) and the Superconducting Super Collider
Superconducting Super Collider
The Superconducting Super Collider was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas that was set to be world's largest and most energetic, surpassing the current record held by the Large Hadron Collider. Its planned ring circumference was with an energy...
(SSC), where he pioneered the accelerator physics which underpinned the Berkeley-Stanford asymmetric B-factory (PEP-II) for CP-violation studies, and where he initiated the Berkeley FEL/Femtosecond X-ray Source and Laser-Plasma Acceleration development. He was a Senior Scientist, a Guest Professor, and the Founder/Director of the Center for Beam Physics at Berkeley, until his move to Jefferson Lab in 2001 after 25 years at the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He presently lives in Frodsham
Frodsham
Frodsham is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Its population is 8,982. It is approximately south of Runcorn, 16 miles south of Liverpool, and approximately south-west of Manchester...
, Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...