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Mats Lindroos | |
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| Born | 1961 |
| Died | (aged 62) |
| Alma mater | Chalmers University of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
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Mats Lindroos (1961 – 2 May 2024) was a Swedish accelerator physicist, technical coordinator of the ISOLDE facility at CERN and head of the Accelerator Division at the European Spallation Source.
Early life and education
[edit]Mats Lindroos received his PhD in subatomic physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1993.[1] He studied for his PhD degree also at University of Oxford (December 91 to September 93), in the Low Temperature Nuclear Orientation group, Clarendon Laboratory. He was also affiliated with the Cockcroft Institute.[2][3]
Immediately after his PhD degree, he joined the CERN ISOLDE physics group as a research fellow, participating in several experiments.[4] [5] [6] ISOLDE (Isotope Separator On Line Device) is a Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) facility, running at CERN since 1967.
Career
[edit]Mats Lindroos became CERN Staff member in April 1995, associated to the AB department (PS-division).[7]
At CERN he held various positions of responsibility, as PS Booster supervisor, ISOLDE technical coordinator (April 2000- December 2006), responsible for the EURISOL DS, for the HIE-ISOLDE proposal (since 2006) and for the BENE (CARE Network)[8] and EURONU Design Study.[9]
HIE-ISOLDE, now operational, was aimed at increasing the energy of radioactive ion beams from 3 MeV per nucleon (MeV/u) to 5.5 MeV/u (achieved in 2014) and to 10 MeV/u (in 2018), while improving intensity by a factor of about 10 compared to existing facilities. The project focused on the construction of a superconducting linear accelerator (SC LINAC).[10]
The EURISOL Design Study[11] aimed to shape the ultimate ISOL Facility for Europe, with design intensities 100-1000 times more intense than existing facilities like ISOLDE.
Mats Lindroos was involved in the feasibility studies and performance assessments of neutrino beta-beams, a next-generation concept for artificial neutrino beams.[12] This approach offers absolute beam purity (pure electron neutrino/anti-neutrino beams, depending on the parent ion) and precise a priori knowledge of the neutrino flux and energy spectrum.[13]He authored the book "Beta Beams" (World Scientific, 2009).[14]
In 2009 Sweden and Denmark were selected as host countries for the European Spallation Source (ESS) designed to be the world's leading facility for research using neutrons.[15] Mats Lindroos joined the project on secondment from CERN. He modelled the Accelerator Division on the CERN model, as a collaboration of ten countries to finalize the technical design. He led the accelerator Technical Design Report, delivered in 2013.[16] In 2014, Mats Lindroos was associated with Lund University as an adjunct professor.[3]
In 2015, he left CERN to formally join the ESS organization.[7] Since then, he led the Accelerator Division, stepping down in 2024 due to illness. He oversaw the design,[17] construction, and commissioning of the 2 GeV / 5 MW linear accelerator,[18] currently (as of 2026) operating at 800 MeV and 2 MW.[19]He had also been actively involved in exploring the physics potential of future ESS extensions, such as advanced neutron–antineutron oscillation experiments[20] and artificial neutrino beams for next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments (ESSnuSB).[21]
Awards and honors
[edit]Mats Lindroos had been a member of the IJCLab strategic advisory board (France), the IN2P3 scientific committee (France), J-PARC technical advisory committee (Japan), the PIP-II Fermilab technical advisory committee (US) and CERN’s Scientific Policy Committee.[22]
A Mats Lindroos’ Remembrance and Beam on Dump Celebration Event was organized at ESS, Lund, on 19 May 2025.[23]
References
[edit]- ↑ Lindroos, Mats. "Decay Properties and Hyperfine Interactions in oriented alpha-, beta- and gamma-emitting nuclei" (PDF).
- ↑ "Mats Lindroos (1961 – 2024)". CERN. 28 January 2026. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- 1 2 "Mats Lindroos (1961-2024) | ESS". ess.eu. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- ↑ Hoff, P.; et al. (5 August 1996). "Single-Neutron States in 133Sn". Physical Review Letters. 77 (6): 1020–1023. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1020. ISSN 0031-9007.
- ↑ Stone, N. J.; et al. (3 February 1997). "Magnetic Moments of Odd-ASb Isotopes to 133Sb: Significant Evidence for Mesonic Exchange Current Contributions and on Core Collective g Factors". Physical Review Letters. 78 (5): 820–823. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.820. ISSN 0031-9007. Archived from the original on 26 June 2025. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- ↑ Hancock, S.; Lindroos, M.; McIntosh, E.; Metcalf, M. (1 April 1999). "Tomographic measurements of longitudinal phase space density". Computer Physics Communications. 118 (1): 61–70. doi:10.1016/S0010-4655(99)00194-0. ISSN 0010-4655.
- 1 2 cern (5 July 2024). "Mats Lindroos 1961–2024". CERN Courier. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
- ↑ Baldini, A.; et al. (2006). Beams for European Neutrino Experiments (BENE): Midterm scientific report (Report). CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs. CERN. doi:10.5170/CERN-2006-005. 955252.
- ↑ "A High Intensity Neutrino Oscillation Facility in Europe | FP7 | CORDIS | Comisión Europea". CORDIS | European Commission. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- ↑ Mats Lindroos on behalf of CERN ISOLDE team (May 2005). "ISOLDE Technical report May 2005" (PDF). CERN ISOLDE. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
- ↑ Garoby, Roland; et al. (29 December 2017). "The European Spallation Source Design". Physica Scripta. 93 (1): 014001. doi:10.1088/1402-4896/aa9bff. ISSN 0031-8949.
- ↑ Benedikt, M.; Bechtold, A.; Borgnolutti, F.; Bouquerel, E.; Bozyk, L.; Bruer, J.; Chancé, A.; Delahaye, P.; Fabich, A.; Hancock, S.; Hansen, C.; Jensen, E.; Källberg, A.; Kirk, M.; Lachaize, A. (16 February 2011). "Conceptual design report for a Beta-Beam facility". The European Physical Journal A. 47 (2): 24. doi:10.1140/epja/i2011-11024-5. ISSN 1434-601X.
- ↑ Lindroos, Mats; Volpe, Cristina. "Facilities and Methods: Beta-beams". Nuclear Physics News. 14 (2): 15–19. doi:10.1080/10506890491034758. ISSN 1061-9127.
- ↑ Lindroos, Mats; Mezzetto, Mauro (2009). Beta Beams. World Scientific. ISBN 978-1-84816-377-5.
- ↑ Brumfiel, Geoff (29 May 2009). "Sweden snares neutron facility". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2009.530. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ↑ ESS technical design report. Lund: European Spallation Source (ESS. 2013. ISBN 978-91-980173-2-8.
- ↑ Eshraqi, M.; et al. (27 September 2010). "Beam Dynamics and Design of the ESS LINAC". Proceedings of HB2010, Morschach, Switzerland. HB2010. pp. 300–301. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
- ↑ Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet (27 May 2021). 11 ESS – nya idéer – nya möjligheter Mats Lindroos,. Retrieved 23 February 2026 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Elias, N.; et al. (1 June 2025). "ESS superconducting linac cold technical commissioning". Proceedings of the 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'25). IPAC'25. Taipei, Taiwan. pp. 1900–1903. doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-WEPB075.
- ↑ Addazi, A; et al. (14 June 2021). "New high-sensitivity searches for neutrons converting into antineutrons and/or sterile neutrons at the HIBEAM/NNBAR experiment at the European Spallation Source". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 48 (7): 070501. doi:10.1088/1361-6471/abf429. ISSN 0954-3899.
- ↑ Alekou, A.; et al. (1 December 2022). "The European Spallation Source neutrino super-beam conceptual design report". The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 231 (21): 3779–3955. doi:10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00664-w. ISSN 1951-6401.
- ↑ "205 | CERN Council". council.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
- ↑ European Spallation Source (19 May 2025). "Mats Lindroos' remembrance & Beam On Dump Celebration Event".
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