Nan Phinney - Curriculum Vitae

Brief Summary

Linear colliders have been my primary scientific focus for more than 35 years at SLAC. My most important contributions were on the SLC, where I worked on the control system, design and commissioning, and then led the SLC effort from 1990 until 1998. During this period, the SLC luminosity increased by nearly three orders of magnitude and this data provided the world’s most precise constraint on the mass of the Higgs boson. Since then I have worked on the NLC and the ILC. I co-chaired the Reliability subgroup of the 2nd Linear Collider Technical Review Committee, was a member of the US Technology Options Study, and was chief editor of the ILC Reference Design Report. I was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Elementary Particle Physics in 1995-7, and a member of both HEPAP Accelerator Subpanels in 1995-6 and 2005-6. I served as Chair of the APS Division of Physics of Beams in 2004 and was a founding member of the California Section, now Far West Section. I was the first Speaker of the APS Council of Representatives in 2015 and 2016 after corporate reform and a member of the APS Board of Directors. At APS, I co-chaired the group drafting the post reform Policies and Procedures in 2014, chaired the Strategic Planning Task Force in 2017, and was a founding member and 2022 Chair of the Ethics Committee. My last role at SLAC before retirement was as head of the Accelerator Design Department and Deputy Head of the Accelerator Research Division.

Present Position

Distinguished Staff Scientist, Emerita, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Research

Accelerator Physics - Electron-Positron Linear Colliders

Education

Ph.D. in Physics - May 1972, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Thesis: "Trident Production in a Coulomb Field"
Advisor: Dr. John Smith

M.A. in Physics - June 1969, SUNY-SB

B.S. in Physics, Magna cum laude - June 1966, from the Honors College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Professional Experience

Distinguished Staff Scientist, 2010 - present

Physicist, SLAC, July 1981 - 2010
2007 - 2016, Deputy Division Head, Accelerator Research
2010 - 2016, Department Head, Accelerator Design
2010 - 2012, FACET Project Leader
1990 - 1998, SLC Program Coordinator
1981 - 2010, Accelerator Physicist, Group Leader, Department Head

Experimental High Energy Physicist, CCOR group, CERN, 1974 - 1981
1981, Visiting Scientist, CERN
1975 - 1980, Research Associate, Oxford University, Oxford England
1974 - 1975, Research Associate, CERN

Charge de Recherche, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, 1972 - 1973

Honors

Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Physics of Beams, 1993
Recipient of the Marshall O’Neill Award from Stanford University, 2003

Professional Organizations and Committees

American Physical Society, since 1969
Division of Physics of Beams
Division of Particles and Fields
Forum on International Physics
Forum on History of Physics
Far West Section

APS Council of Representatives
2014 – Co-chair of Subcommittee on Policies & Procedures
2015-16 – Speaker of the Council
2015-16 – Chair, Council Steering Committee
2015-16 – Member of the APS Board of Directors
2015-16 – Member, Board Executive Committee

APS Division of Physics of Beams
2005 - Past Chair
2004 - Chair
2003 - Chair-elect, Nominating Committee chair, Meeting Program chair
2002 - Vice-chair, Fellowship Committee chair
2001, 1999 - member of Nominating Committee
1996-99 - member of Executive Committee

APS California (now Far West) Section
2001-04 – member of Nominating Committee
2010-12 – member of Executive Committee
2013-16 – Councilor

APS Task Force to Review APS Committees, 2022-present

APS Ethics Committee, 2019-present, Chair 2022

APS Strategic Planning Task Force, Chair 2017-18

APS Governance Committee, 2018-2020

APS Committee on Constitution & Bylaws, 2010-12, Chair 2012

USPAS Accelerator Prize Committee, 2009

APS R.R. Wilson Prize Committee, 2013-14

Conferences
2005 ILC/ALCPG Snowmass Workshops – Local Organizing Committee
2005 BDIR Workshop – LET Working Group Convener
2003 Particle Accelerator Conference - Organizing Committee
2002 International Workshop on Linear Colliders - Organizing Committee
2001, 1999 Particle Accelerator Conference - Program Committee
1989 International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems - International Scientific Advisory Committee
1987 Europhysics Conference on Control Systems for Experimental Physics - Scientific Programme Committee

Linear Collider Collaboration, 2013 – present

ILC Global Design Effort, 2005 –13

GDE Design & Cost Board, 2005 - 07

HEPAP SubPanel on Advanced Accelerator R&D, 2005-06

NSF Physics Board, Committee of Visitors, 2006

DOE LARP Review Committee, 2005

DOE Office of High Energy Physics, Committee of Visitors, 2004 and 2007

UK Linear Collider Machine Advisory Committee, 2003

ICFA Beam Dynamics Working Group on Remote Experiments in Accelerator Physics, 2003 - 08

US Linear Collider Task Force on Technology Comparison, 2003

2nd International Linear Collider Technical Review Committee, 2001 - 03

ICFA Task Force on Remote Operations, 2000

National Academy of Sciences Committee on Elementary Particle Physics, 1995 - 97

HEPAP Composite SubPanel for the Assessment of the Status of Accelerator Physics and Technology, 1995 - 96

URA Visiting Committee for Fermilab, 1994 - 96

APS Review Committee, Argonne, 1993

SSC Control System Design Review, SSC, 1989

AGS Booster Commissioning Review Committee, Brookhaven, 1989

ALS Control System Review, 1988

Reviewer for PRST-AB papers and NSF grants

SLAC Committees
MAP Institutional Board, 2012-2015
HiLumi-LHC Institutional Board, 2011-2014
Communications SubCouncil, 2012-14
LARP Advisory Committee, 2007-10
Radiation Safety Committee, 1998-2007
Communications Committee, Chair working group B, 2000
User's Organization Executive Committee, 1993-95

Ten most significant publications:

1. ILC Reference Design Report, August 2007 (Chief Editor)
2. Report of the HEPAP Subpanel on the Assessment of Advanced Accelerator Research and Development, July 2006
3. Reliability simulations for a linear collider By N. Phinney, T.Himel, M.C.Ross, P.Czarapata, H.Edwards, M.Huening. SLAC-PUB-10505 (Jul 2004)
4. International Linear Collider Technical Review Committee Second Report, SLAC-R-606, January 2003
5. 2001 Report on the Next Linear Collider, SLAC-R-571, June 2001
6. SLC final performance and lessons. By Nan Phinney. eConf C00082:MO102,2000. [physics/0010008]
7. Luminosity optimization feedback in the SLC. By L. Hendrickson, et al., SLAC-PUB-8027 (Mar 1999)
8. OBSERVATION OF BEAM-BEAM DEFLECTIONS AT THE INTERACTION POINT OF THE SLAC LINEAR COLLIDER. By P. Bambade, et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.62:2949,1989.
9. FIRST OBSERVATION OF BEAMSTRAHLUNG. By Giovanni Bonvicini, et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.62:2381,1989.
10. THE SLC CONTROL SYSTEM: STATUS AND DEVELOPMENT. By N. Phinney & Hamid Shoaee. Washington PAC 1987:078.

Invited Papers and Seminars:

“Accelerating Electrons”, 2013 SLAC Summer Institute, SLAC, July 2013
“ILC Accelerator: A 25-year effort towards an e+e- collider”, ILC Worldwide Event, Fermilab, June 2013
“RDR”, 9th ACFA Physics & Detector Workshop & ILC GDE Meeting, Beijing, China, February 2007
“RDR Writing”, ILC Workshop – Joint ECFA & GDE, Valencia, Spain, November 2006
“RDR Report Writing”, Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop, Vancouver, BC, July 2006
“Accelerator Design and R&D for the ILC”, April 2006 APS meeting, Dallas, TX, April 2006
“Impact of DR and Sources Design Choices on Commissioning & Availability”, 1st ILC Workshop, KEK, Japan, November 2004
“Commissioning Issues”, ILC-Americas Workshop, SLAC, CA, October 2004
“X-Band Linear Collider Report”, Linear Collider Workshop, Victoria, BC, July 2004
“US Perspective on LC and Update on X-Band LC”, Rencontres de Physique, La Thuile, Italy, March 2004
“Reliability Issues for Linear Colliders”, PAC 2003, Portland, OR, May 2003
“Reliability, Availability and Operability”, Linear Collider Workshop, Arlington, TX, January 2003
“Introduction to NLC and SLC Feedback”, Nanobeams Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2002
“2001 Technical Review Committee”, ECFA/DESY Workshop, St. Malo, France, April 2002
“The SLC”, SLD Collaboration meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 2001
“Expanding the Physics Reach of a Linear Collider”, Line Drive seminar, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, May 2001
“NLC Design”, Brookhaven Accelerator Physics seminar, Upton, NY, April 2001
“NLC Design”, SLAC Accelerator Physics seminar, Stanford, CA, April 2001
“NLC Design Status”, HEACC 2001, Tsukuba, Japan, March 2001
“NLC Status”, LC Physics and Detectors Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 2001
“SLC - Final Performance and Lessons”, LINAC 2000, Monterey, CA, August 2000
“SLC - Stanford Linear Collider” Symposium honoring Burton Richter, Stanford, CA, January 2000
“NLC Feedback Studies”, LC 99, Frascati, Italy, October 1999
“The NLC”, International Conference on Linear Colliders, Sitges, Spain, April 1999
“SLC - The First e+/e- Linear Collider”, Physics Department colloquium, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, April 1999
“Experimental Evidence for Beam-Beam Disruption at the SLC”, PAC 1999, New York, NY, March 1999
"Recent Luminosity Improvements at the SLC", European Particle Accelerator Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1998
"Lessons Learned from the SLAC Linear Collider", Symposium on Electron Linear Accelerators in honor of Richard B. Neal, SLAC, Stanford, CA, September 1997
“SLC - The First e+/e- Linear Collider”, Snowmass, CO, June 1996
"SLC - The First e+/e- Linear Collider", Physics Department colloquium, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, November 1995
"SLC - The First Linear Collider", Physics Department colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, May 1995
"SLC Performance and Lessons Learned for Future Linear Colliders", Accelerator Division seminar, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, April 1995
"SLC Performance", LC95, Tsukuba, Japan, March 1995
“The Stanford Linear Collider - SLC”, Physics Department colloquium, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA, December 1994
"Lessons to be Learned from Operating the SLC", Accelerator Department seminar, CEBAF, Newport News, VA, September 1994
"Lessons to be Learned from Operating the SLC", European Particle Accelerator Conference, London, England, June 1994
"The Status of SLC", ICFA Seminar on Future Perspectives in High Energy Physics, Hamburg, Germany, May 1993
"Review of SLC Performance", PS Division seminar, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, November 1992
"Review of SLC Performance", Research Progress Meeting, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, October 1992
"The SLAC Linear Collider", seminar, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, October 1992
"The SLAC Linear Collider", 16th International Linac Conference, Ottawa, Canada, August 1992
"SLC Performance and Plans", XXVI International Conference on High Energy Physics, Dallas TX, August 1992
"Review of SLC Performance", XVTH International Conference on High Energy Accelerators, Hamburg, Germany, July 1992
"SLC Status and Plans", seminar, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA, December 1991
"SLC Status and Plans", Particles and Fields '91, Vancouver, Canada, August 1991
"SLC Status and Plans", High Energy Physics Advisory Panel Meeting, Washington, DC, June 1991
"Status of the SLC", seminar, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, July 1990
"Status of the SLC", European Particle Accelerator Conference, Nice, France, June 1990
"The SLC Control System", Second International Workshop on Accelerator Control Systems, Los Alamos, NM, October 1985
"The SLC Control System", First Workshop on Accelerator Control Systems, Brookhaven, NY, January 1985

Reports:

ILC Technical Design Report, June 2013 (Co-editor)

CLIC Conceptual Design Report, October 2012 (Co-editor)

ILC Reference Design Report, August 2007 (Chief Editor)

Report of the HEPAP Subpanel on the

Assessment of Advanced Accelerator Research and Development, July 2006

U.S. Linear Collider Technology Options Study, March 2004

International Linear Collider Technical Review Committee Second Report, SLAC-R-606, January 2003

Status Report of the Interlaboratory Task Force on Remote Operations, SLAC-R-583, November 2001

2001 Report on the Next Linear Collider, SLAC-R-571, June 2001

International Study Group Progress Report on Linear Collider Development, SLAC-R-559, April 2000

Elementary Particle Physics - Revealing the Secrets of Energy and Matter, National Research Council, 1998

High Energy Physics Advisory Panel’s Composite Subpanel for the Assessment of the Status of Accelerator Physics and Technology, DOE/ER-0679, May 1996