edited by G Isidori, INFN, Frascati, ISBN 88 86409 17 6.
Volume XIII in the Frascati Physics Series contains the proceedings of the memorial meeting held in Frascati in November 1998. The meeting marked the 20th anniversary of the death of electron-positron collider pioneer Bruno Touschek. The meeting was reported in CERN Courier.
Touschek made physics and physicists realize the importance of particle-antiparticle colliders, and opened the door to one of the most fruitful periods of particle physics research. Touschek himself was also an interesting and flamboyant figure. The presentations at the meeting underlined the importance of his contributions and his special character.
Chapters include: The Frascati decision and the AdA proposal, by Giorgio Salvini; Remembering Bruno Touschek, his work his personality, by Carlo Bernardini; From AdA to ACO – reminiscences of Bruno Touschek, by Jacques Haïssinski; The ADONE results and the development of the quark-parton model, by Massimo Testa; Electron-positron storage rings from ADA to LEP, by Emilio Picasso; Physics at present electron-positron colliders, by Guido Altarelli; Physics at DAFNE, by Paolo Franzini; Status of DAFNE, by Miro Andrea Preger; The physics at an e+e_ linear collider, by Marcello Piccolo. The book also has a list of Touschek’s scientific papers, some photographs and a few of Touschek’s sketches.
For more information on Touschek see The Bruno Touschek legacy, by Edoardo Amaldi.
