Beam Acceleration Team and Projects
Our Team:
| Theme Leaders: | Graduate Students: | Post Docs: |
| Matthias Liepe, Cornell | Zhaslan Baraissov, Cornell | Rachael Farber, U Chicago |
| Steven Sibener, U Chicago | Gabriel Gaitan, Cornell | Ben Francis, BYU |
| Mark Transtrum, BYU | Aiden Harbick, BYU | Zeming Sun, Cornell |
| Ajinkya Hire, U Florida | ||
| Senior Investigators: | Michelle Kelley, Cornell | Affiliates: |
| Tomás Arias, Cornell | Alison McMillan, U Chicago | Jeffrey Elam, Argonne Lab |
| Richard Hennig, U Florida | Thomas Oseroff, Cornell | Don Hartill, Cornell |
| Matthias Liepe, Cornell | Liana Shpani, Cornell | George Japaridze, Clark Atlanta |
| David Muller, Cornell | Nathan Sitaraman, Cornell | Robert Laxdal, TRIUMF |
| Steven Sibener, U Chicago | Caleb Thompson, U Chicago | Larry Wang, Clark Atlanta |
| Mark Transtrum, BYU | Michael Van Duinen, U Chicago | |
| Sarah Willson, U Chicago |
Project Titles (PI / Postdoc or Grad Student):
- Ab initio studies of lattice and electron excitations relevant to SRF performance and inverse-Q behavior (Arias / Kelley)
- Ab initio study of Nb and Nb3Sn surfaces and interfaces relevant to SRF performance (Arias / Sitaraman)
- Advanced Growth Methods for Next-Gen SRF Surfaces (Liepe / Gaitan)
- Detecting and Visualizing Alloy Growth Mechanisms of Nb3Sn and ZrxNb7 that inform Optimal Growth Procedures for Next-Generation SRF Materials (Sibener / Farber, Willson)
- Electroplating based Growth and Surface Oxides (Liepe / Sun)
- High-field Nb3Sn (Liepe / Shpani)
- Investigating the Atomic and Micron-scale Morphological Development of Nb3Sn leading to Smooth Homogeneous Thin Films (Sibener / Farber, Willson)
- Nb3Sn Composition, Strain and Electronic Structure (Muller / Barraissov)
- Optimizing surface layers for SRF Performance (Transtrum / Francis)
- SRF Surfaces by Design (Liepe / Oseroff)
- Surface scattering studies that connect Atomic-Scale Structure and Dynamics to the Superconductivity of SRF Materials by Design (Sibener / McMillan, Thompson, Van Duinen)
- Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau studies of realistic materials and surfaces (Transtrum / Harbick)
- Thermodynamics and superconducting properties of novel SRF superconductors (Hennig / Hire)