The proceedings from the first three International Symposiums on the History of Particle Physics, which were held at Fermilab in 1980 and 1985 and at SLAC in 1992.
William Thomas / AIP.
From November 10 to 14, there will be a major gathering of physicists, historians, philosophers, science writers, and others at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, for the fourth iteration of a symposium series on the history of particle physics. The series began at Fermilab in 1980, and all the previous symposiums produced proceedings that continue to be essential references for historians of modern physics.
The series is returning after a hiatus of 33 years thanks to the initiative of physicist-historian Michael Riordan, former CERN communications head James Gillies, former CERN director-general Chris Llewellyn Smith, and other members of the program committee. The symposium will cover roughly the period from 1980 to 2000, when increasingly ambitious experimental facilities worked to verify and flesh out predictions from the Standard Model, when theorists expanded their thinking about what physics might await beyond the Standard Model, and when the center of gravity in high-energy physics shifted decisively toward Europe.
The symposium is dedicated to the memory of former CERN director-general Herwig Schopper, who died earlier this year at the age of 101. The public can watch the entire symposium via a live webcast.
—Will Thomas
The tunnel for the Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider at CERN was purposely built large enough to accommodate the later Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This photograph shows a mock-up for an idea, later abandoned, to build the LHC over the LEP.
© CERN
Program
Opening keynotes: John Krige and Chris Quigg
Session: Establishing the standard model as a quantum field theory
Kent Staley and Ugo Amaldi, moderators and discussion leaders
Peter Jenni, Electroweak gauge bosons and the observations of jets at the SPS collider
Mel Shochet, Electroweak gauge bosons and the observations of jets at CDF and D0
Monica Pepe-Altarelli, Physics at LEP1 and LEP2
Morris Swartz, Electroweak physics at the SLD
Siegfried Bethke, QCD at LEP
Elisabetta Gallo, The rise of perturbative QCD: deep inelastic scattering at HERA
Richard Keith Ellis, Theoretical tools: Perturbative QCD as a quantitative tool
Bryan Webber, Parton shower Monte Carlo simulations
David Cassel, Third generation of quarks and leptons: Upsilon spectroscopy and B-meson mixing
Paul Grannis, Discovery of the top quark
Evening discussion: Science citizenship—roles and duties in society
Kostas Gavroglu, moderator
James Gillies, Communicating through adversity
Sudeshna Datta-Cockerill, Diversity and inclusion
Ugo Amaldi, The professionalisation of knowledge transfer
Neil Calder, Towards strategic communications
Session: Accelerator developments
Catherine Westfall and Lyn Evans, moderators and discussion leaders
Martin Wilson, The development of superconducting cable
Philippe Lebrun, Cryogenics and the use of superfluid helium
Lucio Rossi, Superconducting magnet development from the ISR to the LHC
Hasan Padamsee, Superconducting cavity development
Alexander Skrinsky, Contributions from Novosibirsk
Akira Yamamoto, Superconducting magnets for detectors
Session: Detector developments
Kostas Gavroglu and Michel Spiro, moderators and discussion leaders
Robert Klanner, Silicon vertex detectors
Dave Nygren, Central trackers
Michel Spiro, Calorimetry in particle physics in the ’80s and ’90s
Tord Johan Carl Ekelof, Particle identification
Lucie Linssen, Neutrino Detectors
Leo Stodolsky, Cryogenic detectors
Hans Von Der Schmitt, Trigger and DAQ
Veljko Radeka, Electronics
Rene Brun, Software tools
Session: Collision course
Kurt Hubner and Will Thomas, moderators and discussion leaders
Lyn Evans, The CERN proton-antiproton collider
Robert Crease, ISABELLE and RHIC
Stephen Holmes, Fermilab and the Tevatron
Tor Raubenheimer, The SLAC Linear Collider and R&D
Viktor Matveev, Particle physics in the Soviet Union and Russia
Ferdinand Willeke, HERA
Jonathan Dorfan, The SLAC B factory
Taka Kondo, TRISTAN and KEK B
Session: Quests for new physics
Luciano Maiani and Richard Dawid, moderators and discussion leaders
Jonathan R. Ellis, The search for the Higgs and the BEH mechanism
Savas Dimopoulos, GUTs
Wolfgang Lerche, Strings
Riccardo Barbieri, SUSY
Christoph Rembser, SUSY searches at LEP
Helen Quinn, Axions
Evening discussion:
Reaching out and making a difference—the growth of formal and informal engagement
Roger Highfield, moderator
Marge Bardeen, Educational initiatives
Paola Catapano, Visits and exhibitions
Lucy Hawking, The role of popular writing
Michael Riordan, The role of in-house magazines
Session: Particle astrophysics and cosmology
Barry Barish and Antonis Antoniou, moderators and discussion leaders
Alan Guth, Inflation
Michael Turner, Particle dark matter
Rocky Kolb, Cosmological particle physics
Jaco de Swart, Observations on the emergence of the new field of particle cosmology
Takaaki Kajita, Kamiokande and SuperK
Alexei Smirnov, Solving the solar neutrino problem
Alan Watson, Neutrino telescopes and high-energy cosmic rays
Lawrence Sulak, Alessandro Bettini, Frank Avignone, and Leo Stodolsky, Rare searches
Luisa Bonolis, Observations on the evolution of cosmic ray research and astroparticle physics
Session: Going international
Barry Barish and Ulrike Felt, moderators and discussion leaders
Albrecht Wagner, The HERA model
Enzo Iarocci, Gran Sasso experiments
Michael Riordan, Second thoughts on the Supercollider
Chris Llewellyn Smith, The political history of the LHC
Walter Hoogland, Impact of the Web: CERN
Bebo White, Impact of the Web: going global
Emmanuel Tsesmelis, Demographic shifts in particle physics
Agnieszka Zalewska, The experience of Poland in the transition to CERN membership
Vladimir Shiltsev, Post-1980s diaspora of Russian particle physicists
Hirotaka Sugawara, Japan and world HEP
Jinyan Liu, The rise and internationalisation of particle physics in China
Closing session: Barry Barish and Fabiola Gianotti
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