The Faraday Cup Award Hall Of Fame
The next Faraday Cup Award will be presented at the 2008 Beam Instrumentation Workshop, May 4-8, 2008, to be hosted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
(Nomination acceptance for the 2008 edition is now closed)
What is the Faraday Cup Award?
The Faraday Cup Award is intended to recognize and encourage innovative achievements in the field of particle accelerator beam instrumentation. It is donated by Bergoz Instrumentation., of Saint Genis Pouilly, France, manufacturers of electronic instruments to non-destructively measure fast pulses, DC and AC currents, and the properties of beams from high energy particle accelerators. The award consists of a $US5000 prize and a certificate, which are presented at the Beam Instrumentation Workshop (BIW), whose Program Committee is solely responsible for selection of the recipient.
How did the Faraday Cup Award Originate?
The Beam Instrumentation Workshop (BIW) was started to provide a forum for in depth discussions of techniques for measuring charged particle beams produced in high energy accelerators. The large US and European Particle Accelerator Conferences dedicated a few sessions to instrumentation, making it difficult to have significant interaction among those in the field. It became apparent to Dick Witkover at BNL that a conference or workshop dedicated to instrumentation was needed. After meetings with representatives from the other National Labs across the US the first Accelerator Instrumentation Workshop was held at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1989. The idea for the Award was born during the last day round-table discussion as a means of encouraging young engineers and physicists to become more innovative. Discussions between Bergoz and the Organizing Committee continued through the Beam Instrumentation Workshop (as it was now called) at the Fermi National Laboratory in 1990, with final agreement on how to keep the Award fair and non-commercial reached in 1991. The procedures for selecting the winner were written, primarily by Bob Shafer soon after and have remained virtually unchanged since. The clever name of the Award, referring to both a trophy and a measurement device, is attributed to Bob Webber.
How are winners selected?
The Faraday Cup Award is presented for an outstanding contribution to the development of an innovative beam diagnostic instrument of proven workability. The prize is only awarded for demonstrated device performance and published contribution.Rules for Selection of the Faraday Cup Awardee
Beam Diagnostic Instrument:
A device to measure the properties of charged elementary particle, atomic or simple molecular beams during or after acceleration, or the properties of neutral particle beams produced in an intermediate stage of charged particle acceleration. The device may operate by detecting secondary beams of charged, neutral, massive or mass less particles. But its purpose should be to diagnose the primary charged particle beam. The mass of primary beam particles shall be no greater than the order of 1000 atomic mass units.
Delivered Performance:
The performance of the device should have been evaluated using a charged particle beam, rather than in a "bench top" demonstration.Publication:
A description of the device, its operating principle, and its performance should have been published in a journal or in the proceedings of a conference or workshop that is in the public domain. Laboratory design notes, internal technical notes, etc., do not qualify but may be submitted to support other publications. Full and open disclosure is necessary to the extent that a potential user could design a similar device. More than one article may be submitted (together) to satisfy this requirement; for example, an article describing the principle plus another article describing the performance.Eligibility
Nominations are open to candidates of any nationality for work done at any geographical location. There are no restrictions for candidates, with the only exception that they cannot be members in charge of the BIW Program Committee. In the event of deciding between works of similar quality, preference will be given to candidates in an early stage of their beam instrumentation career. The award may be shared between persons contributing to the same accomplishment. Once accepted by the Award Committee a nomination shall remain eligible for two successive competitions unless withdrawn by a candidate.Disclosure
The Award Committee may release the names of entrants and a list of publications related to an entry if requested by a third party. Unpublished supporting material will not be disclosed nor will the names of persons supporting a nomination. Discussion regarding individual entries, scoring, etc. is regarded as confidential and will not be disclosed.Nominations
The nomination package shall include the name of the candidate, relevant publications, a statement outlining his/her personal contribution and that of others, letters from two professional accelerator physicist, engineers or laboratory administrative personnel who are familiar with the device and its development. A copy* of this package, suitable for copying, must be submitted to the BIW Program Committee Chair.
*Publications can be alternatively submitted by email to the BIW Program Committee Chair in pdf format or by indicating the address of a public web page(s) where they can be freely downloaded.
Past Recipients of The Faraday Cup Award2006 Haixin Huang, BNL, and Kazuyoshi Kurita, Rikkyo University
2004 Toshiyuki Mitsuhashi, KEK
2000 Kay Wittenburg, DESY
1998 Andreas Peters, GSI
1996 Walter Barry, LBL and Hung-chi Lihn, SLAC
1994 Edward Rossa, CERN
1993 Donald W. Rule & Ralph B. Fiorito, NSWC
1992 Alexander V. Feschenko, INR
The Famous Faraday Cup Posters
Each year since its inception the Faraday Cup Award competition has been announced through a poster designed specially for the purpose by the well known artist-philosopher Pecub. These posters are shown below in thumbnail size. For a larger view, click on the image. To return to this page use the "BACK: button of your browser.
