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SPAFOA Members Meeting Day 2 at Berkeley Lab
November 25, 2015
Berkeley Lab SPAFOA Meeting
On September 23, 2015, the Superconducting Particle Accelerator Forum of America (SPAFOA) held a members’ meeting at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The half day at LBNL was spent with the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division (ATAP), with the Division Director Wim Leemans and Division Deputy Soren Prestemon hosting.
The ATAP division mission is to explore the frontiers of accelerator and photon source science and provide powerful new tools to serve our nation’s needs. Facilities include the Advanced Light Source (ALS), the Advanced Photon Injector Experiment (APEX), the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Center (BELLA), and the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment (NDCX-II). Areas explored involve accelerator science and beam dynamics, coating, high performance computing, laser plasma accelerators, novel laser technology, magnetic, pulsed power, RF instrumentation and RF feedback. ATAP is looking at technologies that will shrink the size of accelerators.
Presently ATAP consists of about 167 employees with 46 scientists, 22 engineers, 28 students, 35 technicians, 12 post docs, 13 affiliates, and 10 operations personnel. United States Department of Energy (DOE) programs worked on include Nuclear Explosive Safety (NES), the LCLS-II (gun, undulators, modeling); High Energy physics related projects including the LHC (magnets, modeling, RF Feedback), LBNF with PIP-II, and Nuclear Physics programs including FRIB (magnets, ECR sources), Magnet development, and ASL and APS-U (Advanced Photon Source-Upgrade) initiatives.
Besides the LCLS-II project, ATAP is also involved in two other DOE light source upgrades, the Advanced Proton Source Upgraded (APS-U) at Argonne National Laboratory, (headed for CD-1) and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) (conceptual) located at Berkeley Lab. The ALS upgrade would include a new storage ring, upgrades to injector, photon optics, and conventional facilities. The plan is for a three order of magnitude increase in brightness.
A new effort within the ATAP division is the Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology (BCMT). The Center’s mission is to serve as a focus for design in magnetic systems and science for DOE-OFS (Office of Science). This is a newly formed effort that intends to be the leading center for accelerator magnetic technology. Some of their goals are to generate new applications, develop new injector and solenoid magnets, and explore HTS applications outside High Energy Physics. Current programs at the BCMT include the LCLS-II permanent magnets, FRIB-ECR, DOE Gantry, LARP, and ASL PMUs. The Center believes that High Temperature Superconducting applications can’t be driven by HEP alone, they wish to develop applications outside HEP to help drive the market for new materials and techniques that then can be used in HEP. One current project is superconducting undulators in light sources.
All presentations from the day will be made available on the SPAFOA website.
The ATAP division mission is to explore the frontiers of accelerator and photon source science and provide powerful new tools to serve our nation’s needs. Facilities include the Advanced Light Source (ALS), the Advanced Photon Injector Experiment (APEX), the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Center (BELLA), and the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment (NDCX-II). Areas explored involve accelerator science and beam dynamics, coating, high performance computing, laser plasma accelerators, novel laser technology, magnetic, pulsed power, RF instrumentation and RF feedback. ATAP is looking at technologies that will shrink the size of accelerators.
Presently ATAP consists of about 167 employees with 46 scientists, 22 engineers, 28 students, 35 technicians, 12 post docs, 13 affiliates, and 10 operations personnel. United States Department of Energy (DOE) programs worked on include Nuclear Explosive Safety (NES), the LCLS-II (gun, undulators, modeling); High Energy physics related projects including the LHC (magnets, modeling, RF Feedback), LBNF with PIP-II, and Nuclear Physics programs including FRIB (magnets, ECR sources), Magnet development, and ASL and APS-U (Advanced Photon Source-Upgrade) initiatives.
Besides the LCLS-II project, ATAP is also involved in two other DOE light source upgrades, the Advanced Proton Source Upgraded (APS-U) at Argonne National Laboratory, (headed for CD-1) and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) (conceptual) located at Berkeley Lab. The ALS upgrade would include a new storage ring, upgrades to injector, photon optics, and conventional facilities. The plan is for a three order of magnitude increase in brightness.
A new effort within the ATAP division is the Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology (BCMT). The Center’s mission is to serve as a focus for design in magnetic systems and science for DOE-OFS (Office of Science). This is a newly formed effort that intends to be the leading center for accelerator magnetic technology. Some of their goals are to generate new applications, develop new injector and solenoid magnets, and explore HTS applications outside High Energy Physics. Current programs at the BCMT include the LCLS-II permanent magnets, FRIB-ECR, DOE Gantry, LARP, and ASL PMUs. The Center believes that High Temperature Superconducting applications can’t be driven by HEP alone, they wish to develop applications outside HEP to help drive the market for new materials and techniques that then can be used in HEP. One current project is superconducting undulators in light sources.
All presentations from the day will be made available on the SPAFOA website.
SPAFOA Members Tour Berkeley Lab
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Soren Prestemon of BNL Leads the tour
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Dr. Prestemon discusses Cold Mass Assembly
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