INTRODUCTION
The “Brightness Award” was first presented in 2003 as a prize designed to recognize and encourage innovative and significant recent achievements in the fields of ion source physics and technology. First suggested and sponsored by Bergoz Instrumentation, Saint Genis Pouilly, France, the Award has been given concurrently with International Conference on Ion Sources (ICIS) conferences every two years since. Bergoz Instrumentation continued its sponsorship until 2013. We are extremely grateful to Julien Bergoz for his strong support of our Community for these many years. Sponsorship for the last two rounds has been provided by the Kejin Taiji New Technology Co., Ltd. of Lanzhou, China. Incidentally, the “Brightness Award” name was proposed by Reinard Becker, from the Institut für Angewandte Physik, Goethe-Universität, Germany.
Nominations are solicited in the spring of the ICIS-conference year and are evaluated by the entire International Ion Source Conference Advisory Committee. The awardee is announced prior to the conference, is presented with a cash prize and certificate, and is invited to give an oral presentation at the Brightness Award ceremonial session.
2017 AWARD WINNER
The Brightness Award for this cycle was presented to the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Team of Martin Stockli, Robert Welton, and Baoxi Han of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for reliability improvements in high-duty-factor (6%), high-current (>60 mA) RF-driven H− sources. Through improvements in the antenna design and fabrication and the development of careful maintenance and conditioning routines, the SNS sources now can last for an entire run cycle of many weeks without failure. Their work was described by Team Leader Martin Stockli in a presentation entitled, “Highly Reliable, Maintenance-free, Record production of H− Ion Beams with Radio-Frequency (RF) driven H− Sources Establishes this Technology as the Standard for High-Duty-Factor, High-Current (>60 mA) H− Beam Production.”
PAST WINNERS
- 2003 :
Edward Beebe and Alexander Pikin (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Development of the high-current, high-charge state Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS) for injection of ions including gold and uranium into the RHIC complex.
- 2005 :
Evgeny Donets and his team (Joint Institutes for Nuclear Research, Dubna), Development of the String EBIS source, representing a break-through in efficiency and performance in EBIS sources.
- 2007 :
Jens Peters from DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-SYnchrotron Laboratory, Hamburg), Developments in high-current, high-brightness Cs-free H− sources.
- 2009 :
Claude Lyneis and Daniela Leitner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Hong-Wei Zhao and Daniel Zuqi Xie (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lanzhou, China), Developments of superconducting, third-generation ECR sources.
- 2011 :
Masahiro Okamura, from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Development of a laser source injecting highly-stripped ions directly into an RFQ. Mamiko Sasao, Tohoku University, Motoi Wada, Doshisha University, and Masashi Kisaki, National Institute of Fusion Sciences (Japan), Development of a positive helium ion source as a diagnostic device for ITER plasmas.
- 2013 :
Yuri Kudryavtsev, (University of Leuven, Belgium), Development of the In-Gas Laser Ionization and Spectroscopy (IGLIS) method; a high-efficiency, highly selective technique for ionizing short-lived radioactive isotopes.
- 2015 :
Richard Vondrasek, (Argonne National Laboratory), Development of improved designs for ECR charge breeders for radioactive beams at the ANL CARIBU facility.
