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30 YEARS OF BUBBLE CHAMBER PHYSICS
Bologna, 18 March 2003, at the Bologna Academy of Sciences
Aula Ulisse - Accademia delle Scienze
dell’Istituto di Bologna
via Zamboni 31- 40126 Bologna
General Information and
Purpose
A one-day
meeting on “30 years of bubble chamber physics” will be held at the Bologna
Academy of Sciences, via Zamboni 31, 40126 Bologna, Italy, on Tuesday March 18,
2003 (the week after the Neutrino Meeting in Venezia).
The aim of
the meeting is to recall the activity of the bubble chamber technique, the
landmark physics discoveries, the evolution of the international collaborations
and to honor some of its founding fathers. We hope to cover both the
technological evolution and the physics aspects, and to briefly discuss its
legacy.
The bubble
chamber, invented by D.A. Glaser in 1952 gave its major contributions to
particle physics from the late 1950’s till the 1980’s, using chambers of
increasing size. The beginning of the bubble chamber era was pioneered by US
groups. Later, major contributions came from European groups, and CERN played a
central role. In Italy the bubble chamber technique gave the occasion to
revitalize the field of particle physics, involving a large number of
physicists from many Italian Universities, coordinated by INFN, which also
created a central organization (CNAF).
The meeting
is sponsored by the Bologna Accademy of Sciences, the University and the
Department of Physics of Bologna, and the INFN (CNAF and Sezione di Bologna).
Advisory Committee
M. Baldo Ceolin (Padova), M. Basile
(INFN-Bologna), M.M. Block (Northwestern), E. Fiorini (Milano), I. Galligani (Bologna)
G. Giacomelli (Bologna), G. Kalmus (Rutherford), I. Mannelli (Pisa), M. Masetti
(CNAF), A. Michelini (CERN), L. Mosca (Saclay), G. Puglierin (INFN), S. Ratti
(Pavia), A. M. Rossi (Bologna), J. Steinberger (CERN), E. Valente (Roma 1), D.
Vignaud (College de France).
Organizing Committee
Silvio Bergia, Valeria Borelli,
Paolo Capiluppi, Anastasia Casoni, Fabrizio Fabbri, Attilio Forino, Giorgio
Giacomelli (co-Chair), Pietro Matteuzzi, Gianni Mandrioli, Maurizio Spurio,
Federico Ruggieri (co-Chair).
Program
of the Meeting (Preliminary)
9.30 Welcomes
G.
Giacomelli and G. Puppi: Introduction
M. Baldo Ceolin: The beginning, the first instruments
and the first results
G. G. Harigel: Bubble chambers: technology and impact
on high energy physics
I.
Mannelli: Parity violation in L° decay
11.20-11.40 Coffee break
M. M.
Block: The helium bubble chamber
E. Fiorini: The heavy
liquid bubble chambers. The weak neutral current
F.
Ruggieri: The role of INFN and CNAF
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 G. Kalmus: Baryon resonances. Neutrino beams
S. Ratti: Multihadronic
production
P. Waloschek: Particle
Physics and Society. Popularization of Science
Round table. The
legacy of 30 years of bubble chamber physics
17.00 End of the meeting
Coffee
HOTELS
We have booked
a number of rooms in the hotels:
·
ROMA www.hotelroma.biz price 110,00 euro for a
single room / 127,00 euro for a double room
·
TRE
VECCHI www.italy-hotels-rome-venice-florence-milan.com/hotel_tre_vecchi_bologna.htm
price 99,00
euro for a single room
While there should be no problem to
book a hotel for the night of 17/03/2003, it may be difficult to find new hotel
rooms for the night of 18/03/2003 because of a fair. We ask you to register as
soon as possible.
E-mail, Telephone and Facilities
Conference venue: Aula
Ulisse
Accademia
delle Scienze dell’Istituto Di Bologna
via
Zamboni 31- 40126 Bologna
Secretariat: Dipartimento
di Fisica
viale
C. Berti Pichat 6/2 - 40127 Bologna
phone: +39
051 2095233
Anastasia Casoni (phone +39 051 209 5245-5233)
e-mail: casoni@bo.infn.it
fax: +39 051
2095269
Giorgio
Giacomelli (phone +39 051 209 5233)
Federico
Ruggieri (phone +39 051 609 2761)
Fabrizio
Fabbri (phone +39 051 609 5242)
Maurizio
Spurio (phone +39 051 209 5248)
There will
be the possibility to use an overhead projector for transparency, and a PC
connected projector.