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• John M. Jowett   Accelerator Physicist at CERN (you have to retype this  ...) My Twitter feed   Principal activity:  Heavy Ion Beams, Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions, in the LHC   Recent papers on inSPIRE (should show latest writings that may not have been included in the links below).   Press release on US National Academis report on the Electron Ion Collider and download link to report    High Energy Particle Physics Board of the European Physical Society (now also on Facebook and Twitter )   APS Fellowship citation   Latest talks and writings ...    CERN Courier article on 2015 Heavy Ion run of LHC (or click "luminosity" here  ) A more informal version of the first part: Plumbing new heights   Talk at LHC Performance Workshop, Chamonix 2016, on Heavy Ion Operation after LS2   Opinion article about the new energy frontier at the LHC        Review article on Ion Colliders (written together with Wolfram Fischer),   (open-access preprint version)     Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 17, 021006 (2014) - Hadronic and electromagnetic fragmentation of ultrarelativistic heavy ions at LHC     Repurposing the Large Hadron Collider - School of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh, October 2014   Future heavy-ion performance of the LHC at RLIUP workshop   My brief account of Nobel Week 2013 with Peter Higgs (under heading "Unforgettable experience").   Infineon prize for Pascal Hermes' thesis.   Search for my papers, reports and other media on CERN CDS   LHC heavy ion team papers at IPAC'13, Shanghai, 12-17 May 2013   LHC collides protons with lead ions for the first time - CERN   Note: First proton-nucleus collisions in the LHC- the p-Pb pilot physics Note: p-Pb Feasibility Test and Modifications of LHC Sequence and Interlocking Note: Optics, crossing angle and aperture in p-Pb physics conditions in the LHC   Report: Intra-beam Scattering and Luminosity Evolution for HL-LHC Proton Beams   Talk: Proton-nucleus collisions in the LHC: the first physics run at pA@LHC workshop, CERN, 4 June 2012.   Talk: Heavy Ions in 2012 (and the plan up to LS3) and paper at LHC Performance Workshop, Chamonix, February 2012    Talk at  Quark Gluon Plasma - La frontiera di energia, gli esperimenti ed i risultati (Frascati 18 January 2012) Talk: Prospects for the LHC heavy-ion programme in the coming decade at EPS-HEP2011, Grenoble, July 2011   Talk: Heavy Ions in 2011 and Beyond and paper at the LHC Performance Workshop, Chamonix, January 2011   Talk: Heavy and light nuclear collisions at the LHC  at Workshop on Challenges for Precision Physics at the LHC, Paris 15-18 December 2010   Talk: Facilities for the Energy Frontier of Nuclear Physics at INPC2010,  Preprint of paper, CERN version,  to be published (July 2010, Vancouver, Canada)   Talk: Design Status of the Large Hadron-Electron Collider (LHeC)  at DIS2010 in Florence (April 2010, Florence, Italy)   Talk at 2009 Chamonix workshop on Ions in the LHC   The LHeC - Deep Inelastic Electron-Nucleon Scattering at the LHC

  This was one of the world's first Web pages and has been modified piecemeal over the years.  That is why it is such a mess.  I add links and references somewhat randomly.   Paper: Time evolution of the luminosity of colliding heavy-ion beams in BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN Large Hadron Collider   Paper on Measurements of heavy ion beam losses from collimation   Paper on LHC as a Nucleus-Nucleus Collider  (preprint, more information in the slides) in proceedings of  Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India.   Paper on Beam losses from ultraperipheral nuclear collisions between Pb ions in the LHC   Paper on Bound-Free Pair-Production at RHIC  and news reports from Nature, AIP, CERN Courier ,RHIC News, ...   Our papers, photos and posters at EPAC2006.   LHC Project Note 379, BFPP losses and quench limit for LHC magnets   American Physical Society Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics Award for Roderik Bruce   LHC Project Note 402, Beam Loss Monitors for Heavy Ion Operation     Workshop on Proton-Nucleus Collisions at the LHC - where it all started   NSAC and  Review of U.S. Program in Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics   Computable Data Functions with a beautiful nuclear physics example   New Scientist story   Some Accelerator Physics Forums by others for which there seem to be no links elsewhere.

  
  

Some old personal collections and links
(maintained only sporadically recently ...)

Accelerator physics	Search for my writings in: SPIRES   CERN Document Server   JACoW Conferences   Google Scholar  Stanford
LHC Optics Web	Physics and Mathematics
Computing	Madtomma (MAD inside Mathematica)
Search Inside CERN	Older papers, reports,talks...
CERN phone book	Contact information
CERN Library	CERN Library Catalogue

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• Formerly (until end 2005) Scientific Secretary of the LHC Machine Advisory Committee

• Formerly (until end 2003) Chairman of the ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel

 Formerly I worked on LEP and other, mainly electron-positron, colliders. I was a contributor to the initial study of the LHC in 1984.

Last updated: 17 September 2018 JMJ