Vladimir Shiltsev

Vladimir Shiltsev (born March 14, 1965) is a Russian-American Accelerator and beam physics and the Distinguished Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Shiltsev is best known for his works on particle supercolliders, invention of electron lenses, leadership in operation of the Tevatron Collider Run II, ATL law of the diffusive ground motion and numerous contributions to accelerator technology and beam physics.
== Early life, education and career ==
Shiltsev was born on March 14, 1965, in Ivanovka, Kyrgyzstan, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, and spent his early years in Osinniki, Russia. After finishing Physics and Specialized Educational Scientific Center, Russia, he entered Physics Department of the Novosibirsk State University which he graduated summa cum laude in 1988. Shiltsev got his PhD and Dr.Sci. (Habilitation) in accelerator and beam physics from Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk, Russia) in 1994 and 2017, correspondingly, and worked in leading accelerator laboratories in Novosibirsk and Protvino in Russia, the Superconducting Super Collider Lab in Texas (USA) and DESY before joining Fermilab as a Robert R. Wilson Fellow in 1996. There he initiated and led the project of beam-beam compensation with the Tevatron Electron Lenses. In 2001 he became the Head of the Tevatron Department and one of the leaders of the Collider Run II team of then the world's most powerful accelerator. In 2007–2018, he was the inaugural Director of the Fermilab Accelerator Physics Center.
== Research ==
Shiltsev's research interests include beam-beam effects and their compensation; beam dynamics, instabilities, space-charge effects and emittance control; beam cooling, noises and ground motion in large hadron colliders, linear e+e- colliders and muon colliders; particle collimation with electron lenses; high-power ultra fast high voltage devices and coherent synchrotron radiation effects. He authored five books including Electron Lenses for Super-Colliders (Springer, 2016) and Accelerator Physics at the Tevatron Collider (Springer, 2014, with V.Lebedev), and more than 400 publications. He is also an adjunct professor at the Norther Illinois University (DeKalb, IL). Shiltsev's major research accomplishments include:
1997 - Original idea and pioneering development of electron lenses – now in use for beam-beam compensation, halo collimation, Landau damping and space-charge compensation;
1990 - ATL law of ground diffusion – pioneering ground motion studies, theory and data analysis worldwide;
1994-98 Coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) theory – physics of the tail-head overtaking radiation effect, first time-domain theory and mitigation;
=== Accelerator Technology ===
2001-07- Head of the Tevatron Department – leadership of the world's most power accelerator in its luminosity progress during the Collider Run II from 10 · 1030 cm-2s-1 to 430 · 1030 cm-2s-1 ;
1996 - Critical personal contribution to four technology records – 31.5 MV/m SRF beam acceleration gradient (ILC spec); 12 T/s HTS SC magnet development; 3 ns 3 MHz HV beam kicker and technology of electron lenses;
1988 - Design work on variety of frontier beam facilities – FCC-hh, FCC-ee, HE-LHC, CepC, SppC, HL-LHC, PIP-II, Project-X, Muon Collider, neutrino factory, NICA, Higgs Factory, ILC, CLIC, VLHC, VLEPP, TESLA, S-band LC, UNK, SSC, Tau-Charm factory, etc.; development of the "αβγ" cost model of large accelerators and "CPT-theorem" of machine commissioning;
1986 - Construction and commissioning of new particle accelerators – 1 MeV H-/proton beam facility to study fast electron cooling (1987); 200-MeV TRAPP proton synchrotron for cancer therapy (1988); 300 MeV SRF electron linac (2017); 150 MeV/c IOTA e/p ring for beam physics research (2018).
=== Leadership ===
2007-18 - Organizer and inaugural Director of the Fermilab Accelerator Physics Center – the world's largest and diverse accelerator research organization, instrumental to define the future of the lab and of the US particle physics;
2005 - Leader of the US and international accelerator community – Fermilab laboratory steering group, Snowmass and P5 processes; Chair-line of the APS Division of Physics of Beams; OC and SPC of IPAC series, Program Chair NAPAC'16, ICFA panels, etc.;
2003-18 - Organization and leadership of three large programs toward the Muon Collider, LHC R&D and IOTA facility – co-lead of the Fermilab Muon Collider Task Force, later – the US Muon Accelerator Program; co-lead of the US LHC Accelerator Research Program (US LARP); initiator of the facility for the intense beam physics research IOTA/FAST (in operation since 2017).
== Education And Outreach ==
1997 - Supervision and career guidance – some 30 researchers personally mentored and supervised at the level of MS, PhD and post-docs; a dozen of them are now in leading positions at Fermilab, ANL, ESS (Lund), COSY (Julich), CERN, India, Mexico and Korea; more than 130 students went through the Lee Teng and Helen Edwards summer internships and Joint Fermilab-University PhD program organized and hosted within the FNAL Accelerator Physics Center
1997 - Lecture series – on the beam physics of supercolliders and on the electron lenses; taught at CERN, U.Chicago, Fermilab, Budker INP (Russia) and Northern Illinois University.
2003 - Outreach and history of physics – more than 50 lectures, colloquia and seminars worldwide on the progress and future of modern particle physics, history of particle accelerators and on Russian polymaths Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) and Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834–1907); more than 15 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, incl. Physics Today, Physics in Perspective, Science First Hands, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, Potential, Physics Uspekhi, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, etc
Shiltsev is a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Bologna Academy. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, American Physical Society (APS). Shiltsev has received the Nishikawa Accelerator Prize (IPAC/ACFA, 2019), the George Gamow award (RASA, 2016), the APS Outstanding Referee Award (2018) and the APS Robert Siemann Award (2015), the European Accelerator Prize (EPS, 2004). In 2018 he was the Chair the APS Division of Physics of Beams.
He also was elected President of International Russian Speaking Academic Science Association RASA| International Association of Russian Speaking Academic Scientists RASA in 2014-16, President of the American section RASA-USA (2012—2014), President of the Soyuz-NSU Alumni Association (2015-17), and served on the International Academic Council of Novosibirsk State University in 2014–2020.
== Honors and Awards ==
* 2004 European Physical Society Accelerator Prize for original, significant contributions to accelerator physics.
* 2008 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
* 2013 "Silver Archer Award - USA" in science for experimental replication of Lomonosov's discovery of the atmosphere of Venus.
* 2015 Robert H. Siemann American Physical Society.
* 2016 Gamow, Georgy Antonovich Gamow Award
* 2018 Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society.
* 2019 Nishikawa Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of accelerators (ACFA / IPAC19)
* 2019 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
* 2020 Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Europaea, M.A.E )
* 2020 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
* 2021 Elected Honorary Member (Fellow) of the Russian-American Science Association (RASA)
* 2021 Elected Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna (Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna).
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