Beam Acceleration Team and Projects

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	Sarah Willson, U Chicago

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 Zr_xNb₇ 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)
Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau studies of realistic materials and surfaces (Transtrum / Harbick)
Thermodynamics and superconducting properties of novel SRF superconductors (Hennig / Hire)

Beam Acceleration