CASE/C-AD seminars for graduate students and postdocs

Goals

The main goal of the CASE seminars is to provides a venue where grad students and postdocs can get together, learn about each others' research and open their scientific horizons in general. The seminars will be a mix of student’s and postdoc’s presentations of their recent results, dry runs of conference presentations, reviews of journal articles, visits to BNL accelerators and testing areas and occasional invited presentations by senior scientists from BNL and SBU.

Schedule

The seminars are held every other Tuesday, from 4:30 to 5:30 pm in the RHIC Main Control Room meeting area (bldg. 911B, 2nd floor) at BNL.

Season 2016

• February 23, 2016: informative meeting.
• March 1, 2016: Beam Dynamics Studies for Coherent Electron Cooling Experiment by Yuan Wu (SBU/BNL).
  • Abstract: Coherent electron Cooling (CeC) is a proposed advanced beam cooling method that has the potential of reducing the ion beam emittance in significantly shorter amount of time compared to existing cooling methods. The newly constructed linear electron accelerator (Linac) for the CeC experiment needs to generate electron beam with the required properties in order to maximize the CeC cooling capacity. In this thesis, the author studied the beam dynamics of the CeC linac and simulated the electron beam using beam dynamics tracking code. By utilizing optimization algorithms and beam manipulation techniques, the author has explored the performance of the current CeC Linac. The author ran an end-to-end simulation to model the entire beam line from the generation of electron beam from photocathode to the transport of electron beam to the CeC Free Electron Laser (FEL) section. The results have shown many aspects of the current CeC Linac and would be beneficial to future operation, research and development.
  • Discussion facilitator: Jun Ma (SBU/BNL).

Season 2014

Coordinators: Prof. Sergey Belomestnykh and Dr. Qiong Wu.

• March 25, 2014: Recent Progress in RHIC Accelerator Science and Applications by Qiong Wu (BNL).
• April 8, 2014: Higher Order Mode Characterization and Damping in the BNL3 Linear Accelerator by Carlos Marques (SBU/BNL).
• April 22, 2014: Diamond detector -- material science, design and application by Mengjia Gaowei (SBU/BNL).

Other seminars

• February 23, 2016: Proposal & Grant Writing Presentation for Students and Postdocs organized by BNL. Venue: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 in RSB 1 & 2 in Bldg. 400 at BNL.

Literature

Collection of papers and talks on Accelerator Physics and Technology and beyond:

Beam Cooling

• M. Blaskiewicz, Cooling of High-Energy Hadron Beams, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 64, 299–317 (2014).

Superconductivity

• H. S. Padamsee, Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 64, 175–96 (2014).

Other fields

• R. M. May, Simple Mathematical Models with Very Complicated Dynamics, Nature 261, 459-467 (1976).
• R. R. Wilson, Radiological Use of Fast Protons, Radiology 47, 487-491 (1946).

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Contact person

Please send your questions and suggestions to Silvia Verdú-Andrés