Peking University Professor Yan Xueqing wins the Hogil Kim Award at IPAC 2019
Jun 27, 2019
Peking University, Jun 27, 2019: The International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) recently announced the winners of the 2019 Hogil Kim Accelerator Awards. Professor Yan Xueqing from the Institute of Heavy Ion Physics and the State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, received the Hogil Kim Accelerator Award, in recognition of his proposed laser steady-state photovoltage acceleration method and the construction of 1% energy dispersion contraption— an important contribution to the laser accelerator device. This is the first time the Hogil Kim Prize has been awarded to an accelerator physicist working in China. As usual, the award ceremony was held at the annual conference, which took place in Australia this year.
Yan Xueqing won the Hogil Kim Accelerator Award at the Global Accelerator Conference
The International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) is the world's largest and most extensive accelerator physics academic consortium jointly organized by the particle accelerator conferences from Europe, Asia and the US. IPAC has set up three awards for accelerator physics each year, namely the Xie Jialin Prize, the Nishikawa Tetsuji Prize and the Hogil Kim Prize, as well as the best oral presentation and best poster for doctoral students. These are the most authoritative and influential awards in the international accelerator physics community.
Laser acceleration is a new development of particle acceleration technology. The research progress of laser acceleration in China has attracted attention internationally. Prior to Yan Xueqing, academician Fang Shouxian of the Institute of High Energy Physics also won the Xie Jialin prize in 2013.
Yan Xueqing graduated from the Department of Engineering Physics of Tsinghua University in 1999. In 2004, he received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Heavy Ion Physics, School of Physics, Peking University (under the supervision of academician Chen Jiaxuan) and has since been working at PKU as a faculty member. In the past ten years, Yan and his colleagues have proposed a steady phase optical pressure acceleration method and a critical density plasma lens method. With the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Yan Xueqing led the team to build the first 1% dispersive laser proton accelerator device, which realized the breakthrough of laser ion accelerator technology.
Recently, with the support of Peking University and the Beijing municipal administration, the research team participated in the construction of Huairou Science City, and has made plans to build a world-class laser acceleration innovation center in Huairou. The application of laser proton accelerators in nuclear medicine, space radiation environment simulation, inertial confinement fusion, international thermonuclear fusion reactors and high energy density physics has brought new opportunities for the rapid development of STEM as well as emerging interdisciplinary studies in China.
Written by: Ma Xiao
Edited by: Fu Wenyun
Source: PKU News (Chinese)
