Nigel Lockyer
Nigel Lockyer OBE | |
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Born | Nigel Stuart Lockyer November 5, 1952 |
Nationality | American, British |
Alma mater | York University, Ohio State University |
Awards | Panofsky Prize (2006), American Physical Society Fellowship, and Bryden Award (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics (high-energy particle physics) |
Institutions | Fermilab |
Nigel Stuart Lockyer
Prior to becoming Fermilab's Director, Lockyer served as Director of TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, from May 2007 to September 2013, and was a Professor of Physics at the University of British Columbia and University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Scotland, raised in Canada, and attended graduate school in the United States.
Early life and career
Lockyer was born in Annan, Scotland. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1975 from York University in Toronto, and in 1980 obtained his Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
After receiving his Ph.D., Lockyer spent four years at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University as a postdoctoral research fellow, working with Nobel Laureate Burton Richter, who directed SLAC from 1984 to 1999.[1] At SLAC, he was a spokesperson for the Mark-II collaboration.
In 1984, Lockyer began his 23-year career as a physics faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] While at UPenn Lockyer also lectured on Benjamin Franklin, and taught a class with playwright Tom Stoppard on his Arcadia.
Research and contributions in medicine and energy
Lockyer is a
From 2002 to 2004, Lockyer served as co-spokesperson for a 600-person international collaboration known as CDF, the Collider Detector at Fermilab experiment at the laboratory's Tevatron particle accelerator. The project achieved world acclaim for discovering and studying the top quark, one of the fundamental building blocks of nature, a counterpart to the bottom quark.[3]
TRIUMF
Lockyer served as director of
Fermilab
Fermilab has the most powerful neutrino beams in the world to explore the nature of
The facility required for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) will comprise the world's highest-intensity neutrino beam at Fermilab and the infrastructure necessary to support detectors installed deep underground at Sanford Lab. Using accelerators at Fermilab, an intense beam of neutrinos would be produced and travel 1300
Construction of an underground facility, including labs and neutrino detector in the Black Hills of South Dakota will begin in 2017 and is expected to be completed in 2023, while construction at Fermilab is scheduled to be completed between 2024 and 2026.
In order to supply the required intense bean of neutrinos to the detectors at the new and far sites Fermilab has proposed the Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II). The project, which will improve Fermilab's particle accelerator complex with a major overhaul and power boost, will involve retiring the cooper linac and building a new superconducting radio-frequency linac. The proposed upgrade to the linear accelerator involves an international collaboration with India, whose Department of Atomic Energy will contribute hardware in exchange for experience in building high-intensity superconducting radio-frequency proton linacs.[9]
The largest of Fermilab's new projects is the recently completed
Fermilab is a U.S hub for research into the Higgs boson and other high energy phenomena and is making major upgrades of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector—one of two large detectors located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Europe.
Fermilab is involved in cosmic research through the Dark Energy Survey, which includes over 120 scientists from 23 institutions in the United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Germany. The project relies on a Dark Energy camera, a high-resolution camera built at Fermilab for a telescope in Chile that will look for evidence of dark energy that is responsible for the expansion of the universe. In March 2015, a team of researchers using data collected during the first year of the survey discovered a rare dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.[11]
In the fields of
A new state-of-the-art facility being built at Fermilab, the Illinois Accelerator Research Center, or IARC, will provide resources for accelerator industrialization. The facility will allow not only scientists and engineers from Fermilab, but those from Argonne National Laboratory and Illinois universities to collaborate with partners from industry to develop breakthroughs in accelerator technology and new applications in energy and environment, medicine, industry, national security and discovery science.[13]
Awards and honors
Lockyer is a fellow of the American Physical Society and is well known in the physics community for his work on the particle known as the bottom quark. In 2006, Lockyer was awarded the American Physical Society's W.K.H. Panofsky Prize for having measured the abnormally long lifetime of the B quark while at SLAC's Mark-II. [3] In 2014 Lockyer received the Pinnacle Achievement Bryden Award from York University for achievement in his field.[14] In May 2015, Lockyer received an honorary doctoral degree from Northern Illinois University.[15]
He was appointed
References
- ^ "Fermilab Today: Nigel Lockyer appointed director of Fermi". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "UChicago News: Nigel Lockyer of Canada's TRIUMF lab named Fermilab director". 20 June 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Fermilab Director Profiles: Nigel Lockyer". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "DUNE Factsheet" (PDF). Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "LBNF/DUNE newsroom | News". Retrieved 2019-06-27.
- ^ "Fermilab: Short-Baseline Neutrino Program (SBN)". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Fermilab: Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF)". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Press Release: Thune Receives Important Update on Sanford Underground Research Facility". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Fermilab: Proton Improvement Plan-II". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Press Release: Fermilab experiment sees neutrinos change over 500 miles". 7 August 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Press Release: Scientists find rare dwarf satellite galaxy candidates in Dark Energy Survey data". 10 March 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Fermilab: Dark matter dark energy". Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ^ "Fermilab: Illinois Accelerator Research Center". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "2014 Bryden Alumni Recipients". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "NIU Today: Fermilab director Nigel Lockyer to receive honorary NIU doctorate". Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N27.
External links
- Fermilab
- Fermilab: Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF)
- Fermilab: Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC)
- Chicago Tribune article on DUNE
- The Toronto Star interview with Nigel Lockyer
- Vancouver Sun video interview with Nigel Lockyer Archived 2013-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Vancouver Sun article on Nigel Lockyer Archived 2012-08-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Ottawa Citizen article on Nigel Lockyer
- York University profile on Nigel Lockyer
- APS Prize profile on Nigel Lockyer