09442nam 2200493 450 99649035150331620230223100724.09783031038266(electronic bk.)9783031038259(MiAaPQ)EBC7098138(Au-PeEL)EBL7098138(CKB)24866034600041(PPN)264956893(EXLCZ)992486603460004120230223d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBruno Touschek's extraordinary journey from death rays to antimatter /Giulia PancheriCham, Switzerland :Springer International Publishing,[2022]©20221 online resource (493 pages)Springer BiographiesPrint version: Pancheri, Giulia Bruno Touschek's Extraordinary Journey Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031038259 Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Part I The Years of Learning: From Austria and Germany to the UK -- 2 The Vienna Years: 1921-1942 -- 2.1 Family History -- 2.2 The School Years -- 2.2.1 What Touschek Told Amaldi About His School Years -- 2.2.2 Comments About the Austrian School System and Touschek's Matura -- 2.2.3 1939: Dreaming of England from Rome -- 2.3 Trying to Study Physics: Expulsion from the University of Vienna in May 1940 -- 2.4 Bruno Touschek, Paul Urban and Arnold Sommerfeld -- 3 Bruno Touschek's Extraordinary Journey to Munich, Hamburg and Berlin: 1942-1943 -- 3.1 Sommerfeld's Day in Munich -- 3.2 Hamburg: 1942 -- 3.2.1 The Bombing of Lübeck -- 3.2.2 A Racial Slur and Search for a New Home -- 3.2.3 Depression -- 3.2.4 Jobless -- 3.3 To Berlin: New Friends and Work at Löwe Opta Radio -- 3.4 February 1943: Egerer's Crazy Plans -- 4 The Road from Norway: Rolf Widerøe and the Strahlentrasformator -- 4.1 Particle Accelerators -- 4.1.1 Roads from the North of Europe and Elsewhere: Linear Accelerators, Beam Transformers, Cyclotrons and Induction Accelerators -- 4.1.2 Rolf Widerøe and His Dreams -- 4.1.3 A Transformer to Accelerate Charged Particles -- 4.1.4 Ernest Lawrence's Merry Go-Round -- 4.2 Scientific Articles and Death-Ray Proposals -- 4.2.1 An Issue of the Physical Review Arrives in Trondheim -- 4.2.2 How Rolf Widerøe Went Back to His Dream -- 4.2.3 The Article Which was Never Published -- 4.3 Betatrons and Death-Rays Projects in Germany -- 4.3.1 The Siemens Project -- 4.3.2 The Schmellenmeier's Project and Richard Gans -- 4.3.3 Schiebold's Death-Ray Project -- 4.4 Widerøe's Article and the Death-Ray Projects -- 4.4.1 Touschek and His Contribution to the Death-Ray Projects -- 5 Bruno Touschek and Widerøe's Betatron in 1943-1945: The Dark Years.5.1 Secrets Works in Early 1943 -- 5.2 February-July 1943: How Widerøe's Betatron Came to Be and the Articles … -- 5.2.1 More About Interest for Betatrons as Death Rays and How They Found Their Way in the RLM -- 5.2.2 Beating the Norweger Point by Point -- 5.3 University at Last! -- 5.4 Colliding Clouds in the Northern Sky and Darkening Times -- 5.4.1 How Bruno Missed the Point -- 5.4.2 How Reliable is the Date of the Storage Ring Patent? -- 5.5 A Death Sentence, and Fire-Bombing in Berlin: September Through December 1943 -- 5.6 1944: Academic Lectures and a Work Completed -- 5.6.1 1944: The Betatron Starts to Be Built in Hamburg and Bruno is Called to Forced Labor in Berlin -- 5.6.2 A Lecture During an Alarm -- 5.6.3 O.T. Calls Again: cui bono? -- 5.7 1945: Towards the End -- 5.7.1 March 1945: The Betatron Leaves Hamburg -- 5.8 Fuhlsbüttel Prison and a Brush with Death -- 5.8.1 Bruno's Pardon and the Reich Commissioner for Death-Rays -- 5.8.2 Left for Dead on the Way to Kiel -- 5.9 Why was Touschek Arrested? -- 5.10 A Note in Invisible Ink and Its Long Life After Fuhlsbüttel Prison -- 6 Bruno Touschek in Germany After the War: 1945-46 -- 6.1 German Science and the Mission of the T-Force -- 6.1.1 Operation Epsilon -- 6.1.2 The T-Force and Widerøe's Betatron -- 6.2 From Destruction to Reconstruction: Starting Anew in Göttingen -- 6.3 1946: Touschek Between Göttingen and Glasgow -- 6.3.1 Getting a Diploma in Göttingen -- 6.3.2 Doubts and Uncertainty -- 6.4 Who Made the Decision for Touschek's Move to Glasgow in 1947 … -- 7 Bruno Touschek in Glasgow: The Making of a Theoretical Physicist -- 7.1 Backstage in UK and Crucial Particle Physics Developments Elsewhere -- 7.1.1 The UK Accelerator Program in 1945-1946 -- 7.1.2 1946: Reaching Out to the Reconstruction of European Science -- 7.1.3 Post War Revolutions in Particle Physics.7.2 1947-1949: Getting a Doctorate in Glasgow -- 7.2.1 Arriving in Glasgow Accompanied by a Guard -- 7.2.2 Bruno Touschek and Werner Heisenberg -- 7.2.3 1948: Settling in Glasgow -- 7.2.4 1949: Getting the Doctorate -- 7.3 Lecturer in Glasgow: 1950-1952 -- 7.3.1 Fallout from the Fuchs Affair -- 7.3.2 Bruno Touschek and Max Born-1950-1952 -- 7.3.3 Planning Betrayal -- 7.3.4 A Visit from Walter Thirring -- 7.3.5 The Southern Way -- Part II Towards Ada through Italy and France -- 8 A Laboratory on the Hills: Frascati and the Italian Road to Particle Accelerators -- 8.1 Italy Before the War -- 8.2 Edoardo Amaldi: Creator of CERN and the Friend Who Would … -- 8.2.1 Through the War Towards the Reconstruction -- 8.2.2 A Laboratory for All European Scientists -- 8.2.3 Meanwhile, in Italy -- 8.3 How Italy Entered the Road to Become a Particle Accelerator Builder -- 8.3.1 The Director Who Built the Frascati National Laboratories -- 8.3.2 How Giorgio First Learnt of Betatrons -- 8.3.3 The People Who Built the Machine -- 8.3.4 How to Build Things from Nothing (e.g. a National Laboratory and a Particle Accelerator) -- 8.3.5 The Site -- 8.4 To Higher Energies Through the Kinematical Advantage of Head-on-Collisions -- 8.5 Strada del Sincrotrone Km. 12 -- 8.6 July 1957 to April 1959: Assembling the 1100 MeV Frascati Electro Synchrotron -- 9 Touschek in Rome in the 1950s -- 9.1 First Papers -- 9.1.1 Good Times -- 9.1.2 Stuck in Italy? -- 9.2 When Bruno Met Elspeth -- 9.2.1 Elspeth Yonge -- 9.2.2 What Motorcycle Accidents are Good for -- 9.2.3 1955: Marriage and Other Things -- 9.3 How Different Roads Converged to Make AdA -- 9.3.1 New Particles and the Non Conservation of Parity -- 9.4 Physics with a Baby in the House -- 9.5 Pauli is Gone -- 10 1959-1961: The Making of AdA -- 10.1 Aunt Ada -- 10.2 Summer 1959: Evenings in Varenna.10.3 Conferences and New Entries: Positrons and Electrons -- 10.3.1 July 1959: To Kiev -- 10.3.2 What was New in Kiev -- 10.3.3 A Seminar in October 1959, a Question from Touschek and How Theorists in Rome Got on the Action -- 10.4 The Making of AdA -- 10.4.1 February 17th 1960: A Meeting for the Future of the Laboratory -- 10.4.2 The Construction -- 10.4.3 Enthusiasm and Disappointments -- 10.5 Who Started First: Frascati or Novosibirsk? -- 11 Bruno Touschek and AdA: From Frascati to Orsay -- 11.1 The 1961 Geneva Conference -- 11.2 And Then Came Pierre Marin and Georges Charpak: Un vrai bijou -- 11.3 The 1961 Conference at Aix-en-Provence -- 11.4 Letters and Visits -- 11.4.1 A Stormy Beginning -- 11.4.2 Visits and Meetings: Towards the Transfer of AdA -- 11.5 How AdA Left Italy and Arrived in France -- 12 Touschek with AdA in Orsay -- 12.1 The Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire -- 12.2 AdA's Arrival and Installation in Orsay: Summer 1962 -- 12.2.1 First Experiments: Weekends and Long Nights or Sixty Hours in a Row -- 12.2.2 Italians in Paris -- 12.3 The Winter of 1962-63 -- 12.3.1 Looking for Two gammaγ Rays -- 12.3.2 The AdA Effect -- 12.3.3 After the Discovery of the Touschek Effect -- 12.3.4 Single Bremsstrahlung: The Calculation That Helped to Confirm That Collisions Had Taken Place -- 12.4 The Summer of 1963 -- 12.4.1 Summer Studies in Brookhaven -- 12.4.2 Dubna and the New Institute in Novosibirsk: Une grande première -- 12.5 Observing Collisions -- 12.5.1 December 1963: Starting the Final Runs -- 12.6 What Was Happening Beyond the Iron Curtain -- 12.7 After AdA -- 12.7.1 How Touschek Found the Way to Prove That Electron-Positron Colliders Would Work -- Part III Maturity -- 13 ADONE: A Legacy of Wins and Losses -- 13.1 ADONE and Its Golden Years -- 13.1.1 1963: A Storm Temporarily Avoided.13.1.2 Bernardini's Idea to Look for Vector Mesons -- 13.1.3 Touschek's Theory Group and His Legacy of Photon Resummation -- 13.1.4 Touschek's Contribution to ADONE -- 13.2 ADONE: Problems and First Results -- 13.2.1 Lions and Tigers and Bears: The Appearance of Quarks and Color at ADONE -- 13.2.2 Intermezzo: Bruno During the Years 1969-1973 -- 13.2.3 The November Revolution: Winners and Losers -- 13.3 Bruno's Last Year at CERN -- 14 Epilogue: A Personal Memory -- 15 Postface -- Appendix References -- -- Index.Springer biographies.Colliders (Nuclear physics)PhysicistsBiographyColliders (Nuclear physics)Physicists539.72Pancheri Giulia53333MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ996490351503316Bruno Touschek's Extraordinary Journey2915796UNISA