Tord Ekelöf

Curriculum Vitae

Tord Johan Carl Ekelöf

Born 12.09.1945 in Uppsala, Sweden

Studentexamen (Baccalaureat) Katedralskolan i Uppsala 17.04.1964

Filosofie kandidat (B.Sc.), Uppsala University(UU) 07.06.1966

Civilingenjör (Master of Engineering) UU 02.09.1968

Filosofie doktor (Ph.D.) UU 31.05.1972

• Docent (Reader) UU 24.01.1977
• Professor of Elementary Particle Physics, UU 09.02.1998
• Director of the Accelerator Development Department, UU 01.01.2012
• Employments:
• Autumn 1969 Visiting Scientist, CERN
• Autumn 1969 Laboratorieassistent (Laboratory assistant), UU
• Spring 1970 Doktorandstipendium (Ph.D. fellowship), UU
• Autumn 1972 Research Fellow, CERN
• Spring 1975 Forskningsassistent (Research assistant), NFR (SRC) and UU
• Spring 1977 Research Associate, CERN
• Spring 1979 Staff Physicist, EP-Group Leader, CERN
• Autumn 1983 Forskare (Research Physicist), NFR and UU
• Autumn 1988 Research Associate, CERN
• Spring 1990 Högskolelektor (Reader) charged with research, NFR and UU
• Spring 1993 Forskningslektor (Research Reader), UU
• Autumn 1996 Research Associate, CERN
• Spring 1998 Professor of Elementary Particle Physics, UU
• Spring 2012 Project Leader and Director of Accelerator Development Division FREIA, UU
• Research Projects
• 1. Coherent elastic pi-helium scattering at the CERN PS 1968-1972 (S95), Thesis experiment
• 2. Proton diffraction dissociation at the CERN PS 1972-1975 (S122)
• 3. Excited nucleons in nuclei at the CERN PS 1974-1977 (S143)
• 4. Elastic pi-proton scattering and Coulomb interference at the CERN SPS 1975-1980 (WA9, NA8),
• Spokesperson (WA9)
• 5. Development of the RICH technique and conception of the DELPHI LEP experiment, 1979-1992,
• CERN Group Leader
• 6. Charm production at the CERN SPS Collider 1982-1989 (UA2-RICH), Spokesperson
• 7. Experimental build-up and physics analysis at LEP since 1992 (DELPHI,) Project Leader (FRICH),
• Team Leader (Electroweak Physics Analysis)
• 8. Preparation of the ATLAS experiment at LHC since 1985, Group Leader (Radiation Hard Electronics, Microstrip Silicon Detectors), Spokesperson for Swedish LHC Consortium 1998-2012, Uppsala ATLAS Group Leader 1990-2012, participation in data taking and analysis since 2010
• 9. Uppsala Group Leader in the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) Test Facility project since 1994
• 10. Uppsala Group Leader in the D0 experiment at the Fermilab collider 2001- 2006

• 11. Co-leader with Marcos Dracos/ Strasbourg CRNS/IN2P3 of the International Design Study for a world unique ESS neutrino Super Beam for leptonic CP violation discovery since 2012

• Selection of major (>10 MSEK) research grants of which I am Principal Investigator
• 1. Swedish instrumentation for experimentation at LHC; two KAW grants, 20 MSEK in 1998 and 16 MSEK in 2001
• 2. Swedish build-up and commissioning of experiments at LHC; VR grant 17 MSEK in 2001.
• 3. Computer equipment for a Swedish Grid test bed; KAW Foundation grant 22.56 MSEK in 2002.
• 4. Build-up and tests with the Two-Beam Test-Stand in the Compact Linear Collider CLIC; KAW Foundation grant 9.1 MSEK and VR grant 7.6 MSEK in 2005 and 4.1 MSEK in 2009
• 5. Computer equipment and operation for SweGrid; VR grant 22.4 MSEK 2007, 6.3 MSEK 2008 and 7 MSEK 2009
• 6. Helium 2K liquefier; KAW Foundation grant, 40 MSEK 2010
• Research organization assignments as from the year 2000 Tord Ekelöf 450912-1416
• 1982- 2006 DELPHI Collaboration Board Bilaga B
• 1992-2012 ATLAS Collaboration Board
• 1992- 2006 CERN Committee of NFR
• 1997- 2012 Chairman of the Swedish LHC Consortium
• 2000- Member of the SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) International Council
• 2000- 2012 Board member of the NorduGrid consortium
• 2001 Swedish member of Research Planning Subgroup of the OECD Consultative Group on High Energy Physics
• 2000-2006 Chairman of the recurrent Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) Detectors International Workshops
• 2002- Member of the Strategic Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the Swedish National
• Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC)
• 2004-2005 Charged by IUPAP C11 with the organization of the 2005 Lepton-Photon Conference in Uppsala
• 2005-2006 Local organizer of the European High Energy Physics School (“The CERN School”) in Aronsborg, Sweden June 2006
• 2005- Member of the CLIC Test Facility Collaboration Board
• 2006- 2012 Member of the Nordic Data Grid Facility (NDGF) CERN Committee
• 2006/12 - Chair of the international workshop “Prospects for charged Higgs discovery at colliders” in Uppsala 13-16 September 2006, 16-19 September 2008, 27-30 September 2010 and September 2012
• 2009- Chair of the Governing Board of the EU 7th framework project “European Coordination for
• Accelerator Research and Development” (EuCARD) and “European Coordination for Accelerator Research and Development II” (EuCARDII)
• 2010- Contractor for the Nordic Consortium of the EU 7th framework project “Test Infrastructure and Accelerator Research Area” (TIARA)
• 2011- Chair of the Steering Board of the ESS Superconducting Linear Accelerator Power Generation and Control Project at Uppsala University
• 2011 - Chair of the Governing Board of the European Coordination for Accelerator Research & Develpment
• Persons for whom I have been PhD thesis supervisor
• Bengt Lund-Jensen 1988, Lars-Owe Eek 1989, Kjell Fransson 1990, Jonas Medbo 1997, Fredrik Tegenfeldt 2001, Jerome Damet 2001, Mattias Ellert 2001, Yann Coadou 2003, Nils Gollub 2005, Cristian Hansen 2005, Peder Eliasson 2008, Martin Flechl 2010 and Camille Bélanger-Champagne 2011.
• Organisation of International Conferences
• Major conferences since 2005 of which I have been the main organizer
• 2004-2005 Charged by IUPAP C11 with organization of the 2005 Lepton-Photon Conference in Uppsala, Sweden
• 2005-2006 Local organizer of the European High Energy Physics School (“The CERN School”) in Aronsborg, Sweden June 2006
• 2006 Organizer of Spatind Nordic Particle Physics Conference, Spatind, Norway 2008-01-07
• 2006-12 – Chair of four “International Workshops on Prospects for charged Higgs discovery at colliders” in Uppsala 13-16 September 2006, 16-19 September 2008 and 27-30 September 2010 and 8-11 October 2012
• 2012 Organizer of “Higgs Fest Symposium”, Uppsala Castle, Uppsala, Sweden, 2012-09-27
• 2013 Chair of the LHC Nobel Symposium, Krusenberg, Sweden, 13-17 My 2013

Current activities

My current interest in High Energy Physics are in the search for the Higgs boson, in particular for the non-Standard Model charged Higgs boson, in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and in the development of a neutrino Super Beam experiment, using the ESS linear accelerator as proton driver, to measure CP violation in the neutrino sector.**

I have till recently led the Uppsala Collider group in the DELPHI experiment since the beginning of the 1980s and in the ATLAS experiment since the beginning of the 1990s.

As from 1978 I developed, proposed and built the Ring Imaging Cherenkov (RICH) detectors for DELPHI together with Tom Ypsilantis, Jaques Séguinot and others. My main physics interests in DELPHI were to use these RICH detectors to identify kaons to measure the ssbar asymmetry and to search for the charged Higgs boson.

In ATLAS we have developed and contributed Silicon microstrip detectors to the tracker, a contribution led by my Uppsala colleague Richard Brenner, and continued the search for charged Higgs bosons. More recently we included the search for, and measurement of, the neutral Higgs boson, in particular through its decay to τ+τ-.

In November 1997 I organized a Middle East Scientific Collaboration (MESC) conference in Torino on “Instrumentation for High Energy and Synchrotron Radiation Physics” attended by around 30 physicists from the Middle East and in June 1988 the first MESC/SESAME council meeting in Uppsala which became the starting point for the international SESAME Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory in the Middle East under the auspices of UNESCO located in Jordan, of which I currently am one of the two Council Delegates for Sweden as Observer Country.

In 2003 I initiated the organization and development of the Swedish data grid, Swedgrid, primarily for the analysis of LHC data and integrated that as part of the Nordic Tier1 node in the World LHC Computing Grid.

Since the 1990s I am involved in the CLIC e+e- collider development program at CERN and in 2005 we started, together with Volker Ziemann and Roger Ruber, to build up the CLIC Two Beam Test Stand which we are currently using to study the cause of discharges in the accelerating structures and their influence on the accelerated beam.

In 2011 I involved our Uppsala accelerator development group in the European Spallation Source (ESS) project in Lund, taking on the task to develop and test the system of the 352 MHz radio frequency (RF) source and accelerating cavities. For this a new accelerator development sub-department was created at Uppsala University of which I am currently the director. On the basis of our involvement in the ESS linac I proposed in 2012 the use of the future world unique 5 MW, 2.5 GeV ESS linac to produce a very intense neutrino Super Beam for CP violation measurements. Currently I am preparing together with Marcos Dracos and others an EU Design Study application for resources to pursue the studies of this project further.

At Uppsala University, there is the FREIA laboratory. Here physicists, engineers and technicians from all around the world test and develop new instrumentation and new accelerators. Accelerators are used for physics research and development of new materials and for the diagnosis and for treatment of diseases and archaeological dating. FREIA Laboratory is participating in the construction of the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund and the ongoing upgrade of the LHC accelerator at CERN by testing and developing new superconducting accelerator technology. In the future, FREIA will be in a position to participate in many exciting and high-tech national and international accelerator and instrumentation projects.