The prize honors decades of innovation and collaboration across CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Fermilab to measure the muon's anomalous magnetic moment with extraordinary precision. We are especially proud that one of the award recipients is Young-Kee Kim, a Center for Bright Beams faculty member from the University of Chicago and leader in the Beam Dynamics and Control research theme.  

Congratulations to Charles Zhang for winning one of two prizes for Best Poster at IPAC'26 for his poster titled, "Experimental Reconstruction of Source 4D Phase Space Without Prior Knowledge of the Transfer Matrix."     A distinguished jury, composed of recognized experts in the field, evaluated the student presentations and selected the prize winners.

whose thesis is,“Multiscale Electron Microscopy of Defects in Nb-based Superconducting Materials"  

CBB is pleased to announce the graduation of PhD Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Aguilera, whose thesis is “STUDY OF COHERENT SYNCHROTRON RADIATION EFFECTS USING GENERATIVE PHASE SPACE RECONSTRUCTION” 

Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer and recognizes individuals for pioneering new and innovative approaches in their fields.Muller was elected for his advances in atomic-scale electron microscopy and materials characterization, which have expanded the fundamental understanding of matter and enabled new insights into renewable energy, semiconductor devices, biology and other research fields.

2025 Year in ReviewAccelerator Materials Workshop.    CBB Research at Work.    Research Highlights.    CBB Alumni.    Welcome New Members.    Projects.   Year in Pictures.    

Over the past decade, the Center for Bright Beams has been a leader in designing new materials to improve the performance of particle accelerators. CBB scientists apply advanced materials science to the devices that produce and accelerate beams, which operate in extreme conditions and must deliver performance at the edge of materials feasibility. The inaugural Materials for Bright Beams Workshop, held at Cornell University, marked a major milestone—bringing together researchers from across disciplines to dive into the science and chart the future of materials for accelerators.  

Jake Parsons received 2nd Prize in the Early Career Researcher Presentation category at the SRF2025 conference held in Tokyo, Japan for his presentation, “Performance of the Cornell Conduction-Cooled Nb₃Sn Cavity Cryomodule."