Beam Acceleration Team and Projects

Theme Leaders:	Graduate Students:	Post Docs:
Matthias Liepe, Cornell	Jasper Brown, U Chicago	Robert Burnley, U Chicago
Steven Sibener, U Chicago	Bariana Bowman, U Florida	Nathan Sitaraman, Cornell
Senior Investigators:	Van Do, U Chicago	Affiliates:
Tomás Arias, Cornell	Sam Dong, U Florida	Jeffrey Elam, Argonne Lab
Richard Hennig, U Florida	Gabriel Gaitan, Cornell	Don Hartill, Cornell
Matthias Liepe, Cornell	Alexis Grassl*, Cornell	George Japaridze, Clark Atlanta
David Muller, Cornell	Cristóbal Méndez, Cornell	Robert Laxdal, TRIUMF
Steven Sibener, U Chicago	Jake Parsons*, Cornell	Mark Transtrum, Cross Stream Consulting
	Sadie Seddon-Stettler, Cornell	Larry Wang, Clark Atlanta
	Liana Shpani, Cornell
	Michael Van Duinen, U Chicago

*Indicates Tigner Traineeship Fellow

PROJECT TITLE	PI/Postdoc or Grad Student
Ab initio exploration of beyond-Nb SRF materials for low cooling power and high field performance	Arias / Méndez
AI accelerated simulations for the design and growth of superconducting thin films	Hennig / Dong, Bowman
CVD Growth of Nb₃Sn Films	Liepe / Gaitan
CBD based growth of Nb-Zr	Liepe / Grassl*
Conduction-cooled SRF Modules	Liepe / Parsons*
High-performance Nb₃Sn	Liepe / Shpani
Advanced Material Systems for Enhanced SRF Performance	Liepe / Sitaraman
Advancing RF Performance via Capping Layers and Oxide Passivation	Liepe / Seddon-Stettler
Electron Microscopy characterization of the microsctructure of materials for SRF cavities	Muller
Impact of Nb2O5 Nanoscale Roughness on Sn Uptake and Nucleation Upon the Formation of Nb3Sn	Sibener / Brown
Optimizing Nb Surfaces – Oxide Passivation by Au Encapsulation	Sibener / Do
Zr alloying, passivation, and interdiffusion with Nb substrates	Sibener / Burnely
In Situ Measurements of High Temperature Surface Structure, Bonding, and Dynamics of Doping N and Alloying Sn or Zr from Initial Behavior to Resulting Film Growth	Sibener / Van Duinen
*Indicates Tigner Traineeship Fellow

Beam Acceleration