Claudia Tambasco receives CHIPP Prize 2018
Claudia Tambasco © Tatiana Pieloni, EPFL
Accelerator physicist Claudia Tambasco, working at the Particle Accelerator Physics Laboratory (LPAP), has been awarded the 2018 Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) Prize for research that has helped to improve the stability of proton beams in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). For the first time the prize goes to the research and developments in accelerator physics.
The CHIPP Prize rewards annually the best PhD student in Experimental or Theoretical Particle Physics. This year, the jury honored Claudia Tambasco “for her decisive contributions to the understanding of Landau damping and beam-beam effects at the LHC with Beam-Transfer-Function measurements that led to a substantial increase in luminosity". Landau damping has been used since the start of the LHC operations to reduce losses caused by interactions between the proton beam and the surrounding vacuum pipe.
With Claudia Tambasco's thesis work at the Particle Accelerator Physics Laboratory (LPAP) under the supervision of Prof. Leonid Rivkin and Dr. Tatiana Pieloni, the impact of the beam-beam interactions has been measured for the first time in LHC using the Beam Transfer Function (BTF) method and results led to a proposal that increased the integrated luminosity in the LHC.
Dr Tambasco continues her research studying the Future Circular Collider (FCC) designs at the Swiss Accelerator Research and Technology (CHART) institute that provides the Swiss support for the future high-energy frontier projects at CERN.