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SUMMARY:Honorary Lecture - Prof. Tatsuya Nakada: "Making an experiment wit
 h b-quarks from A to Z"
DTSTART:20231106T163000
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Professor Tatsuya Nakada\n"Making an experiment with b-quark
 s from A to Z"\nThe b-quark is about five time heavier than the proton and
  the second heaviest quark. Unexpectedly from the large phase space availa
 ble from its mass\, it has a rather long lifetime of an order of 10-12 sec
  compared to other lighter quarks. This would allow quantum fluctuations t
 o play an important role in the decay processes and they become sensitive 
 to not yet discovered very heavy elementary particles which cannot be prod
 uced by the accelerators.  To carry out detailed studies of b-quark decay
 s\, dedicated accelerators with dedicated experiments and a dedicated expe
 riment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were constructed. This present
 ation will illustrate how such endeavours\, which naturally start from phy
 sics motivation\, are actually executed\, through the experience of the sp
 eaker.\n\nBiography\nAfter doctorate degree from the University of Heidelb
 erg in 1984\, Tatsuya Nakada worked as a research associate at the Swiss I
 nstitute for Nuclear Physics\, later became Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) 
 and was awarded a permanent researcher position in 1990. With leave of abs
 ence from PSI\, worked at CERN as Scientific Associate and later Senior Re
 search Staff from 1997 to 2008 leading the realisation of the LHCb experim
 ent at CERN Large Hadron Collider\, and also was Professor Extraordinaire 
 of the University of Lausanne from 1999 to 2003. Lastly\, Professor of Ele
 mentary Particle Physics from 2003 to 2020 and since March 2020 Emeritus P
 rofessor\, of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The main researc
 h work has been realisation of flavour physics experiments in elementary p
 article physics. Recipients of Honorary Doctorate from the University of Z
 ürich and Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society for this c
 ontribution. Served in many committees at CERN\, ERC and in several Asian\
 , European and US laboratories\, being a chair in some of them. \n 
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