DPF Instrumentation Award
About the DPF Instrumentation Awards
The DPF Instrumentation Award and DPF Instrumentation Early Career Award are bestowed annually to honor exceptional contributions to instrumentation advancing the field of particle physics through the invention, refinement, or application of instrumentation and detectors. The awards recognize accomplishments in one or more of the following areas:
- Conceptualization and development of unique instrumentation that has made a significant impact on the field.
- Demonstration of the innovative use of instrumentation.
- Stimulation of other researchers to use new techniques and methods.
- Authorship of research papers or books that have had an influential role in the use of instrumentation.
The DPF Instrumentation Award recognizes outstanding achievements in particle physics instrumentation that have had a major impact on the field through the awardee’s dedication over a substantial portion of an entire career, while the DPF Instrumentation Early Career Award recognizes achievements having a significant impact at an early career stage. For the purpose of this award, the early career stage is taken to be approximately 15 years from a Ph.D. or other terminal degree, with due account for interruptions and other factors in nominees’ careers.
Award recipients will be invited to present a lecture at the 2023 CPAD meeting.
Complete nominations have:
- A nominating letter of not more than 5,000 characters, about two pages.
- A biographical sketch or CV.
- At least two, but not more than three, seconding letters.
Nominations for the 2023 award will be accepted through Academic Jobs Online (AJO) from now through
August 31, 2023. Nominations will remain active for three years. The nominating letter and the CV should be uploaded to
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24987, click the "Nominate" link under "Description".
The names and email addresses of the supporting letter-writers should also be included in the nomination packet. The membership of APS is diverse, so the nominees should reflect that diversity. The nomination of women or members of underrepresented minority groups is therefore strongly encouraged. The membership is also global, so nominations of scientists from outside of the United States are welcome.
If you have any questions about the award, please contact the award chair, Kim Palladino.
2023 Instrumentation Awards
2023 DPF Instrumentation Award:
Peter Gorham, University of Hawaii
David Salzberg, University of California Los Angeles
“For their experimental proof and subsequent characterization of radio emission from high-energy particle cascades, the Askaryan Effect, which has been used in searches for the highest energy astrophysical (PeV and EeV) neutrinos.”
2023 Instrumentation Early Career Award:
Dan Dwyer, LBNL
“For his work on 3D pixelated readout technology for liquid argon time projection chambers (LArPix). This low power, low noise custom ASIC with dynamic i/O, capable of running in liquid argon, has helped open the field to advanced systems on chips.”
Previous Winners
2022 DPF Instrumentation Award – Bo Yu
Brookhaven National Laboratory
“For his definitive contributions to the development of liquid Argon time-projection chambers for neutrino experiments, and for his leadership and creative contributions to the designs of MicroBooNE, ProtoDUNE-SP, SBND, and DUNE. The committee recognized Dr. Yu for his breadth of innovative contributions and essential developments over an extended period.”
2022 DPF Instrumentation Early Career Award – Daniel Winklehner
MIT
“For the development of new accelerator technology enabling an order of magnitude increase in the current delivered from a compact proton cyclotron. This work was carried out using artificial intelligence techniques and has enabled the realization of the IsoDAR experiment that will play a decisive role in the search for sterile neutrinos.”
2021 DPF Instrumentation Award – Minfang Yeh
Brookhaven National Laboratory
“For his pioneering work in the development and production of high-performance water based liquid scintillators for particle physics experiments, including metal loaded scintillators for rare process experiments. This development has made possible a new generation of large neutrino detectors.”
2021 DPF Instrumentation Early Career Award – Kerstin Perez
MIT/Columbia University
“For the development of novel low-cost, large-area lithium-drifted silicon detectors that open sensitivity to rare low-energy cosmic antinuclei as signatures of dark matter annihilation or decay. These detectors can be used for a broad range of applications.”
2020 DPF Instrumentation Award – Juan Estrada
Fermilab
“For his creation and development of novel applications for CCD technology that probe wide-ranging areas of particle physics including cosmology, dark matter, neutrino detection and quantum imaging.”
2020 DPF Instrumentation Early Career Award – Lindley Winslow
MIT
“For the development of the ABRACADABRA detector: a powerful new search tool for axions, a broad class of well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates.”
2019 DPF Instrumentation Award - Hanguo Wang
UCLA
“For his seminal contributions to and sustained development of the use of liquid xenon and argon detectors for direct detection searches for dark matter, including the two-phase technique.”
2019 DPF Instrumentation Early Career Award - Ana Amelia Machado and Ettore Segreto.
University of Campinas, Brazil
“For the invention and development of the ARAPUCA photon detector, a novel and effective tool for measuring scintillation light in liquid argon detectors.”
2018 DPF Instrumentation Award - Rinaldo Santonico
The University of Rome, Tor Vergata
"For the development of large gap Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) and their successful application in a wide variety of experiments."
2018 DPF Instrumentation Early Career Award - Dr. Javier Tiffenberg
Fermilab and the University of Chicago
"For the development of the Skipper CCD and its application in light dark matter and coherent neutrino-nucleus interaction searches."
2017 - Blair Ratcliff
2017 - Lawrence Sulak
"For the development of novel detectors exploiting the Cherenkov radiation to enhance the capabilities of frontier experiments devoted to the study of beauty and charm hadrons and atmospheric neutrinos."
2017 Award Committee: Marina Artuso (Chair), Petra Merkel (Vice-chair), Hong Ma, Stephen Holland, Tim Nelson, Abe Seiden, Gary Varner
2016 - Stephen Holland
2016 - Gary Varner
"For the development of technologies for detection of signals in frontier experiments, especially the fully depleted charge coupled device and the 'oscilloscope on a chip' integrated circuit."
2015 - David Nygren
2015 - Veljko Radeka
"For widespread contributions and leadership in the development of new detector technologies and low-noise electronics instrumentation in particle physics as well as other fields, and in particular work leading to the development and instrumentation of large volume liquid argon time projection chambers that are now a key element in the global particle physics program."
2015 Award Committee: Howard Nicholson (Chair) CPAD, Sally Seidel (Vice-chair) DPF, Marina Artuso CPAD, Karsten Heeger DPF, Graham Smith CPAD