Swapan Chattopadhyay
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Swapan Chattopadhyay (born ?? in India) is a noted accelerator physicist. He is currently the director of the Cockcroft Institute for accelerator science, and holds a Chair in Physics at Liverpool University.
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Born and educated in Darjeeling and Calcutta in India as a National Scholar and National Science Talent Scholar until completion of his BSc (Calcutta University) and MSc (Indian Institute of Technology), Chattopadhyay received his PhD in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982 under the tutelage of Joseph Bisognano and Owen Chamberlain. He then continued at CERN as an “attaché scientifique” in the Super Proton Antiproton Synchrotron working with Daniel Boussard, Simon van der Meer and Carlo Rubbia, developing the early ideas for the stochastic cooling of bunched beams, which led to the discovery of the W and Z vector bosons at CERN, and which today are being applied successfully to phase space cooling of heavy ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He returned to Berkeley National Laboratory in 1984, where he led and defined the accelerator physics of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) and the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), where he pioneered the accelerator physics which underpinned the Berkeley-Stanford asymmetric B-factory (PEP-II) for CP-violation studies, and where he initiated the Berkeley FEL/Femtosecond X-ray Source and Laser-Plasma Acceleration development. He was a Senior Scientist, a Guest Professor, and the Founder/Director of the Center for Beam Physics at Berkeley, until his move to Jefferson Lab in 2001 after 25 years at the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
