Prof. Halina Abramowicz

Emeritus in School of Physics and Astronomy
ביה"ס לפיזיקה ואסטרונומיה אמריטוס
Prof. Halina Abramowicz
Phone: 03-6406094
Fax: 03-6407932
Office: Kaplun, 402

Research

Prof. Halina Abramowicz Participates in two international collaborations, the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which explores proton-proton interactions at unprecedentedly high centre of mass energy, and the FCAL Collaboration, which develops instrumentation for the forward region of future electron-positron colliders. Both, the present and future colliders, have the objective to explore the properties of the newly discovered Higgs boson. Her main interests and activities focus on precision measurements of the Standard Model predictions, in the strong interaction sector, as the ultimate tools to probe the physics beyond. 

 

Research Achievements include: measurements of the total proton-proton cross section at the energies available at the LHC and characterisation of the proton structure through measurements of double-parton scattering in various final states, extracted in an original way by applying machines learning techniques. On the detector R&D front, the group came up with a unique design of very thin silicon sensor detectors which reduce the radial size of electromagnetic showers by almost a factor two compared to previous developments. 

 

Future directions include: further studies of parton correlation and coherent effects in the proton at the LHC and participation in the design and construction of the LUXE experiment at the European XFEL facility at DESY (Hamburg) to explore non-perturbative quantum electrodynamics in the Schwinger limit of sparking vacuum. In the latter case, the group will apply its expertise in designing compact electromagnetic calorimeters acquired as part of the R&D effort for future electron-positron colliders.

Education

  • MSc, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University, 1974

  • PhD, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University, 1978

  • Habilitation, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University, 1988

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Prof., Warsaw University, 1978-1993

  • Associate and then Full Professor, Tel Aviv University, 1993-present

 

Commissions of Trust

  • Member of the Israeli Committee for High Energy Physics, 2005-present

  • Member of the Selection Committee for the Israel Prize in Physics, 2005

  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPSC), CERN, 2005-2008

  • Physics Chair of the ZEUS experiment, DESY, Hamburg, 2007

  • External Scientific Member of the Directorate of the Max Planck Institute of Physics, Munich, 2008-present

  • Deputy Spokeperson of the FCAL Collaboration, 2010-2013

  • Chair of the Particle Physics Department of the School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, 2010-2012

  • Deputy Chair and then Chair of the ATLAS Publication Committee, CERN, Geneva, 2013-2014

  • Member of the European Research Council Selection Committee for early-stage careers, 2014-present

  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Nikhef, Amsterdam, 2015-present

  • Chair of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA), 2015-2017

  • Secretary of the European Particle Physics Strategy Update, 2017-2020

Awards and Prizes

  • Nathan Cummings Chair of Experimental particle Physics, 2003-Present

  • Lisa Meitner Humboldt prize, Max Planck Institute, Munich and DESY, Hamburg, 2004-2006

  • Member of the Max Planck Society, 2008

  • Fellow of the European Physical Society, 2013

  • Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014

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