Davidson and Roser share prize for pioneering accelerator science
Ronald Davidson of Princeton University and Thomas Roser of the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have been awarded the 2005 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award by the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The award was presented on 18 May at the Particle Accelerator Conference, PAC05, held in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Davidson, who is deputy head of the Theory Department and head of the Beam Dynamics and Non-neutral Plasma Division at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, receives the award for "pioneering contributions to the theory of charged particle beams with intense self fields, including fundamental studies of nonlinear dynamics and collective processes".
Davidson has made numerous fundamental theoretical contributions to several areas of pure and applied plasma physics, including intense charged particle beams and advanced accelerator concepts.
Roser, who is associate chair for accelerators and Accelerator Division head at Brookhaven, receives the award "for pioneering scientific work and introduction of new technology in the acceleration, storage and collision of polarized protons" at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). He has made significant contributions to the design and construction of the magnets known as Siberian snakes for RHIC and for the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, which feeds polarized protons into RHIC.