The ORION Center for Advanced Accelerator and Beam Physics Research

ORION 高级加速器和束流物理研究中心

• 批准号: 0240909
• 负责人: Thomas Katsouleas
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-15 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0240909&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ORION; Center; Advanced; Accelerator; Beam

This proposal is one of two linked proposals from a collaboration of Stanford, UCLA, USC, and SLAC to fund a Center, called the ORION Center, devoted to advanced accelerator and beam physics research. Together they include performing a wide range of pioneering experiments, building a shared, user-oriented facility, and developing and using supercomputing expertise and resources that are equivalent to experimental facilities. The physics will be diverse, including high energy-density plasma physics, beam physics of ultra-short pulse electron sources, direct laser acceleration, x-ray generation via beam-plasma interactions, and simulation and visualization integrated with experiments.Intellectual Merit The foundation of the ORION Center will be specialized accelerators and infrastructure at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) that will be available to the Center. Research will begin with experiments at the Final Focus Test Beam (FFTB), which is an extensively instrumented beamline at the end of the SLAC main linac that can deliver 30 GeV electron and positron beams. It is an exceptional facility for experiments in non-linear positron/matter and electron/matter interactions. Understanding these interactions is crucial for plasma based high-energy colliders, and these experiments are an integral part of the ORION Center.In the longer term, experiments will be concentrated at the ORION Research Facility, which will be based on the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA), an operating linac at SLAC capable of providing beams from 50 to 350 MeV. The ORION Facility will be user-oriented and open to experimenters studying all aspects of advanced accelerator science and technology. Broader ImpactsAdvanced accelerator research is attractive to young scientists because of the combination of forefront experimental, theoretical and computer-based research, state-of-the-art technologies, many opportunities for creativity, and the potential contributions to particle physics. For similar reasons, undergraduate and graduate research and education programs have proven quite attractive. The groups involved with this proposal have traditions of high-quality education as integral parts of their activities. The education outreach program will go beyond these traditional educational activities through partnerships with interested, local community colleges that involve their faculty and students and with a website describing ORION research projects.

该提案是斯坦福大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、南加州大学和SLAC合作的两个相关提案之一，旨在资助一个名为ORION中心的中心，致力于先进的加速器和束流物理研究。 它们包括进行广泛的开创性实验，建立一个共享的，面向用户的设施，以及开发和使用相当于实验设施的超级计算专业知识和资源。 物理学内容包括高能量密度等离子体物理学、超短脉冲电子源的束流物理学、直接激光加速、通过束流-等离子体相互作用产生的X射线以及与实验相结合的模拟和可视化。智力成果ORION中心的基础是斯坦福大学直线加速器中心（SLAC）的专用加速器和基础设施。 研究将从最终聚焦测试束（FFTB）的实验开始，这是SLAC主直线加速器末端的一条广泛仪器化的束线，可以提供30 GeV的电子和正电子束。 这是一个特殊的设施，在非线性正电子/物质和电子/物质相互作用的实验。 了解这些相互作用对于基于等离子体的高能对撞机至关重要，这些实验是ORION中心的一个组成部分。从长远来看，实验将集中在ORION研究设施，该设施将基于下一代线性对撞机测试加速器（NLCTA），SLAC的一个运行中的直线加速器能够提供50至350 MeV的光束。 ORION设施将面向用户，并向研究先进加速器科学和技术所有方面的实验者开放。先进的加速器研究对年轻科学家很有吸引力，因为它结合了前沿的实验、理论和基于计算机的研究、最先进的技术、许多创造性的机会以及对粒子物理学的潜在贡献。 出于类似的原因，本科生和研究生的研究和教育计划已经证明是相当有吸引力的。 参与该提案的团体将高质量教育的传统作为其活动的组成部分。 教育推广计划将超越这些传统的教育活动，通过与感兴趣的当地社区学院合作，让他们的教师和学生参与进来，并通过一个网站介绍ORION研究项目。