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AFRD Newsletter, September 2013-August 2014
MARCH 2017
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Director's Corner: Workshops Guide the Way Of all the modern ways to figure out what people want and how they can help make it happen, asking them remains one of the most effective — and getting them all in the same room is ideal for synergy and serendipity and iterative idea-development. That’s why meetings and workshops are a key part of how ATAP operates. Recently we have had a multi-laboratory follow-up to one part of DOE Big Ideas Summit, focusing on the big benefits possible with small accelerators; the LBNL-led U.S. Magnet Development Program refined its priorities and directions at its first general meeting; and the Workshop on the Dynamics of Radiation Effects in Materials spotlighted present and emerging ATAP capabilities. |
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April will bring an international collaboration meeting on the LHC Accelerator R&D Program (LARP) and the LHC Luminosity Upgrade project, efforts in which ATAP and our partners in the Engineering Division play key roles.
Meanwhile, we have been making ongoing critical contributions to the Linac Coherent Light Source-II project at SLAC, and the recently formed LBNL Project Management Advisory Board has given its highest rating to the LBNL LCLS-II team. Our recently formed Accelerator Modeling Program has published a paper describing a better way to cope with space charge in long-term tracking in high-intensity rings. Longtime expertise in our Fusion Energy and Ion Beam Technology Program is being applied to something that most of us in the accelerator community may not think about very often, but which is of the utmost importance to humankind — agriculture — with a noninvasive technique for in situ soil analysis. And LBNL Director Michael Witherell offers an update on the ALS Upgrade project.
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I invite you to read on and learn more about these efforts as we move toward the opportunities for progress that 2017 will bring.
DECEMBER 2016
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Director’s Corner: Years of Laying the Groundwork Led to Today’s Exciting Opportunities In the top highlight of a year with many candidates for that honor, the Advanced Light Source Upgrade, which is among the Laboratory’s highest prorities and will be among the biggest endeavors in its history, received Critical Decision Zero, the “statement of mission need” from the Department of Energy that marks its beginning as an official project. |
We have also been making ongoing critical contributions to major projects elsewhere in the DOE complex, including the Linac Coherent Light Source-II project at SLAC and the High-Luminosity Upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider. These efforts bring together longtime core competencies of ATAP and are reminders of our origin in Lawrence’s collaborative, multidisciplinary team-science approach.
This multi-institutional teamwork may be seen in smaller-scale efforts as well: recent examples described in this issue highlight achievements of our newly constituted Accelerator Modeling Program, which has made a technical breakthrough in a vexing problem together with colleagues at the University of Maryland as well as the University of Hamburg and DESY; and an accelerator stewardship-funded project that teams us with the University of Michigan and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in developing ways to combine high peak power with high average power in ultrafast lasers.
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I invite you to read on and learn more about these efforts, and to take a look back at our 2016 news as we turn our eyes toward new opportunities for progress in 2017. |
OCTOBER 2016
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Director’s Corner: ALS-U and Other Opportunities Fall brought wonderful news in the form of Critical Decision Zero for the Advanced Light Source Upgrade: its official beginning as a project, and the start of an exciting journey to a next-generation user facility for the Office of Science, LBNL, and ATAP. Read on to learn more about the R&D prospects unfolding in our future and how we are organizing to meet these challenges, as well as several honors earned recently by our people. |
Special Focus on ALS-U as Transformational X-Ray Project Takes a Step Forward
Appointments Position ATAP for New Opportunities
AUGUST 2016
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Director’s Corner: Helping Build LBNL’s Future While Contributing Across the DOE Complex |
JUNE 2016
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BESAC Gives Highest Marks to Proposed ALS Upgrade Early Career Research Program Awards for Mitchell, van Tilborg ATAP’s Existing ECRPs: Progress Toward High-Leverage Benefit PIP-II Receives First Beam; LBNL RFQ Linac Plays Key Role André Anders Wins Sugerman Award from SVC |
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APRIL 2016
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LCLS-II Sees CD-2 and -3 Major Milestones for APEX, LCLS-II Injector Source Berkeley Lab Magnet Help is Key to LHC Upgrade Workshops Forge Plasma Accelerator Futures Outreach Events Coming Up — Volunteers Wanted |
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FEBRUARY 2016
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LCLS-II Readiness Reviewed; Progress on Undulators, Electron Gun |
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NOVEMBER 2015
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Canted Cosine Theta Contributes to Cancer Therapy Capillaries, Not Quadrupoles, Focus LPA e– Beams New Ion Source Adds Intensity to NDCX-II R&D Progress and an Added Role in LCLS-II HiLumi-LHC Enters Construction Phase; ATAP Is There Honors for Steier, Madur, Lehe Safety: The Bottom Line—Preventing Fires |
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SEPTEMBER 2015
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PIP-II RFQ Ships Microfabricated Accelerators for Magnetized-Target Fusion Do You Have The Recipe for Diversity? Help Guide 5th Graders through Science Adventures Quake Preparedness: Are You Ready For “The Big One”? |
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JULY 2015
Putting Canted Cosine-Theta To Its First Test
Testing the First Full Prototype of an LCLS-II Undulator
Pushing the Envelope — The Long, Narrow Envelope — of Ion-Sputtering Coating
Volunteer for a Mission to the Adventure Zone
Safety: The Bottom Line
JUNE 2015 SPECIAL ISSUE
Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology: Bringing Capabilities in Magnets Together
APRIL 2015
“Can Do” on Canted Cosine-Theta Dipoles
National Security on the Move with High Energy Physics
BELLA Simulation Team Receives NERSC HPC Award
LCLS-II Does Well in DOE CD-3b, Cost Reviews
Safety: Always the Bottom Line
FEBRUARY 2015
APEX is Back and Better than Ever
A High Gradient toward the LHC’s Future
Leveraging Superconducting Magnet Expertise for FELs
Rare Isotopes Start with an Unusual Magnet
Neutralized Drift Compression of Ion Beams: NDCX-II Demonstrates Final Feature
Safety: Always the Bottom Line
DECEMBER 2014
BELLA Accelerates Electrons Beyond 4 GeV
APEX Passes Readiness Review for Return to Operation
LCLS-II Undulator and Gun Review
RFQ for IMP-Lanzhou Demonstrated at 10 Milliamperes
The Advent of AEDs in ATAP
Safety: Always the Bottom Line
OCTOBER 2014 (premiere issue)
BELLA Accelerates Electrons Beyond 4 GeV
Incoherent Pulse Combining Could Open Doors for LPAs
Winding the Way to Better Superconducting Magnets
A Critical Decision In Favor of LCLS-II
NDCX-II Reaches Energy Goal of 1.2 MeV
4th Annual Diversity Festival October 30
Electrical Safety: Don’t Take — Or Be — The Path of Least Resistance
“Openness, Feedback, and Perseverance”: Fostering a Culture of Safety
Other Recent News of ATAP Division
AFRD Newsletter
The Accelerator and Fusion Research Division (as ATAP was known until September 2014) published a newsletter for a largely intramural audience from September 2013 until August 2014. The monthly issues are available below.
- July-August 2014
- The Advanced Light Source comes back from its scheduled summer shutdown with new upgrades. A recap of the Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop. Get To Know Your Colleague: Jeroen van Tilborg. Links of the Month: a new parking policy to help expectant mothers.
- June 2014
- Scientific opportunities with the intense, pulsed ion beams of the AFRD facility NDCX-II. Daniele Filippetto wins prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program funding. Get To Know Your Colleague: Chuck Swenson. Links of the Month: Live video feed from the International Space Station and a guide to seeing it fly over, SpotTheStation.nasa.gov.
- May 2014
- Remarks on our reorganization by Division Director Wim Leemans. An appreciation of the life and career of the late Andy Sessler by retired AFRD Director and now US Particle Accelerator School Director Bill Barletta. Andre Anders wins the Dyke Award, the highest honor of the International Symposia on Discharge and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV). A recap of Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
- April 2014
- Highlights of recent improvements to the ALS. Mission of the Physical Sciences Directorate Workplace Life Committee. Get To Know Your Colleague: Russell Wilcox. Link of the Month: Workplace Climate Survey results.
- A milestone for the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE). Andre Anders wins the Dyke Award, the highest honor of the International Symposia on Discharge and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV). Get To Know Your Colleague: Arun Persaud. Link of the Month: Universe Today article on the direct evidence for cosmic inflation.
- February 2014
- Wim Leemans named AFRD Director. Steve Gourlay elected vice-chair of American Physical Society, Division of Physics of Beams. Get To Know Your Colleague: Joe Riley. Link of the Month: Google Maps goes underground in the Large Hadron Collider tunnel.
- January 2014
- Andrew Sessler wins DOE’s Enrico Fermi Award. Steve Gourlay elected vice-chair of American Physical Society, Division of Physics of Beams. Get To Know Your Colleague: James Swanson. Link of the Month: The Particle Adventure.
- December 2013
- Fernando Sannibale named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Canted Cosine-Theta (CCT) superconducting magnet. Get To Know Your Colleague: Alex Ratti. Link of the Month: Harvard test for implicit biases.
- November 2013
- Advanced Light Source pseudo-single-bunch operation with adjustable frequency. Back-up for children (and adult) dependent caregivers offered through LBNL. Get To Know Your Colleague: Hamed Tarawneh. Link of the Month: myfamily.lbl.gov.
- October 2013
- The LBNL Center for Science and Engineering Education marks its 25th birthday with a new name: the Workforce Development and Education Office. North American Particle Accelerator Conference overview. Get To Know Your Colleague: Herb Toor. Link of the Month: New York Times Magazine article on women in science.
- September 2013
- The premiere issue. Acoustic emissions serve as superconducting-magnet quench diagnostics. Advanced Light Source Sextupole Upgrade completed successfully. Get To Know Your Colleague: Steve Gourlay. Link of the Month: Maglev model train on a Möbius strip.
