“The bigger accelerators that scientists use to collide particles have bunches of beams that circulate at one time,” Dick explains. “Beams become less intense and expand as they travel...We’re working to get [them] as small and bright as possible.”

CBB is pleased to announce new PhD Paul Cueva, whose thesis is "TRANSFORMING 4D-STEM DATA: DIFFRACTION TO CEPSTRA & ABERRATIONS TO BRIGHTNESS". Congratulations Dr. Cueva!

A team of scientists at the Center for Bright Beams, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, are working on the next generation of superconducting materials that will greatly reduce the costs associated with operating large particle accelerators.

Leaders from the accelerator community including committee chair Sergei Nagaitsev (pictured) identify four Grand Challenges of accelerator and beam physics (ABP) field and documents research opportunities to address them. This report will be used to develop a strategic research roadmap for the field of accelerator science.

Congratulations to postdoctoral scholar Dr. Jacob Graham, who will start his new position with NASA later this month. He will join the Planetary Environments Lab at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

His thesis,"Towards more efficient accelerating rf systems: Superconducting Energy Recovery Linacs and thermometry of high Q cavities." Congratulations Dr. Banerjee!

The AIP National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP) spent two years investigating the reasons for the persistent underrepresentation of African Americans in physics and astronomy and produced a report with its findings.

CBB is pleased to announce new CBB Ph.D. Will DeBenedetti!

Professor Yuri Orlov, an extraordinary accelerator scientist, human rights activist, and soviet dissident recently passed away. There will be a commemoration of his contributions to accelerators and activism on Wednesday, November 18th.

Christopher Morrison Pierce, M.S. ’19, a doctoral candidate in the field of physics, and Brennan Hyden, a doctoral candidate in the field of plant breeding, have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.