Beam Acceleration Team and Projects
Our Team:
| Theme Leaders: | Graduate Students: | Post Docs: |
| Matthias Liepe, Cornell | Zhaslan Baraissov, Cornell | Nathan Sitaraman, Cornell |
| Steven Sibener, U Chicago | Van Do, U Chicago | |
| Mark Transtrum, BYU | Sam Dong, U Florida | |
| Gabriel Gaitan, Cornell | ||
| Aiden Harbick, BYU | ||
| Senior Investigators: | Ajinkya Hire, U Florida | Affiliates: |
| Tomás Arias, Cornell | Liana Shpani, Cornell | Jeffrey Elam, Argonne Lab |
| Richard Hennig, U Florida | Sadie Seddon-Stettler, Cornell | Don Hartill, Cornell |
| Matthias Liepe, Cornell | Caleb Thompson, U Chicago | George Japaridze, Clark Atlanta |
| David Muller, Cornell | Michael Van Duinen, U Chicago | Robert Laxdal, TRIUMF |
| Steven Sibener, U Chicago | Sarah Willson, U Chicago | Larry Wang, Clark Atlanta |
| Mark Transtrum, BYU | ||
PI / Postdoc or Grad Student Project Titles:
- Arias / Mendez Ab initio exploration of beyond-Nb SRF materials for low cooling power and high field performance
- Hennig / Hire / Dong Thermodynamics and Superconducting Properties of Novel SRF Superconductors
- Liepe / Shpani High-performance Nb3Sn
- Liepe / Gaitan CVD Growth of Nb3Sn Films
- Liepe / Sitaraman Advanced Material Systems for Enhanced SRF Performance
- Liepe / Stettler Advancing RF Performance via Au Layering and Oxide Passivation
- Muller / Baraissov Electron Microscopy characterization of the microstructure of materials for SRF cavities
- Sibener / Willson / Do Investigating the Atomic and Micron-Scale Morphological Development of Nb3Sn Leading to Smooth Homogeneous Thin Films
- Sibener / Van Duinen In Situ Measurements of High Temperature Surface Structure, Bonding, and Dynamics of Alloying Sn, Nb, and Zr from Initial Behavior to Resulting Film Growth
- Sibener / Thompson Investigating the Effect of Atomic Scale Surface Structural Changes from Alloying, Doping, and Defects on the Superconductivity of Nb, Nb3Sn and Zr with Simultaneous In Situ High Temperature Atomic-Scale Surface
- Sibener / Do / Willson Optimization of Nb SRF Surfaces: Atomic Visualization of Alloy Growth and Oxide Suppression
- Transtrum / Harbick Mesoscopic models of superconductivity for realistic materials and surfaces.