Bruno Touschek in Germany after the War: 1945-46

Bonolis, Luisa; Pancheri, G.

doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.09075

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“…Notice that, as we have seen from our previous note, entitled Bruno Touschek in Germany after the war and based on Touschek's two letters from Glasgow in April 1946, Dee must have met Touschek already in April 1946(Bonolis and Pancheri 2019). 19 I. N Sneddon (1919Sneddon ( -2000.…”

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“…In the fall of the academic year 1946-47, the Principal of Glasgow University welcomed a in the field present in Germany at the time, and his knowledge was prized by the Allied T-force, who had advised for him to be moved to the UK (Bonolis and Pancheri 2019). After interrogations in Wimbledon, Touschek had then been moved from Kellinghusen to Göttingen, where Heisenberg was starting the reconstruction of scientific life in Germany and, on April 1st 1946, had been in Glasgow, where he expected to stay as a research assistant for about a year.…”

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“…After interrogations in Wimbledon, Touschek had then been moved from Kellinghusen to Göttingen, where Heisenberg was starting the reconstruction of scientific life in Germany and, on April 1st 1946, had been in Glasgow, where he expected to stay as a research assistant for about a year. However, problems arising from his Austrian citizenship, blocked this appointment, as discussed in (Bonolis and Pancheri 2019). While the paper handling in the UK was being sorted out, he had to go back to Göttingen where he obtained his Physics Diploma in June.…”

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“…While the paper handling in the UK was being sorted out, he had to go back to Göttingen where he obtained his Physics Diploma in June. He spent the rest of the year as Heisenberg's assistant (Amaldi 1981, Bonolis andPancheri 2019), worried about his immediate future.…”

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Bruno Touschek in Glasgow. The making of a theoretical physicist

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2020

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In the history of the discovery tools of last century particle physics, central stage is taken by elementary particle accelerators and in particular by colliders. In their start and early development, a major role was played by the Austrian born Bruno Touschek, who proposed and built the first electron positron collider, AdA, in Italy, in 1960. In this note, we present a period of Touschek's life barely explored in the literature, namely the five years he spent at University of Glasgow, first to obtain his doctorate in 1949 and then as a lecturer. We shall highlight his formation as a theoretical physicist, his contacts and correspondence with Werner Heisenberg in Göttingen and Max Born in Edinburgh, as well as his close involvement with colleagues intent on building modern particle accelerators in Glasgow, Malvern, Manchester and Birmingham. We shall discuss how the Fuchs affair, which unraveled in early 1950, may have influenced his decision to leave the UK, and how contacts with the Italian physicist Bruno Ferretti led Touschek to join the Guglielmo

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Bruno Touschek (1921–1978). The Path to Electron-Positron Collisions

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2023

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The 100th anniversary of Bruno Touschek’s birth also marks 60 years since the first beams of electrons and positrons circulated in AdA, the first ever matter-antimatter collider, built in Frascati National Laboratories following Touschek’s visionary proposal of February 1960. Touschek’s path to such idea is briefly outlined, beginning with his early years as a student—first in Vienna and later in Germany—through his first experiences with Rolf Widerøe’s betatron and the electron synchrotron accelerator in Glasgow after the war, along with his relationships with the fathers of modern physics in Europe, to his arrival in Italy, where crucial reflections during the 1950s led him to the profound belief that matter-antimatter annihilations should become a primary goal for future physics. Based on these premises, Touschek and his collaborators dared to take on the challenge of realizing what at the time seemed an “unthinkable idea”: keep beams of electrons and positron circulating for hours in the vacuum chamber of a storage ring and making them collide.

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Bruno Touschek in Germany after the War: 1945-46

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Bruno Touschek in Glasgow. The making of a theoretical physicist

Bruno Touschek in Glasgow. The making of a theoretical physicist

Bruno Touschek (1921–1978). The Path to Electron-Positron Collisions

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