IMR: Phase Ib Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) Technology R&D

0807731 Gruner该奖项来自材料研究部和化学部，支持康奈尔大学进行加速器和X射线技术研发(R&A；D)，以非现场特定方式推进建设超高光谱亮度、硬X射线相干光源(CLS)的准备工作，如能量回收直线加速器和X射线自由电子激光。CLS的高相干性和时间特性将改变科学和工程，并将使许多使用现有X射线源不可行的实验成为可能。可能的能力包括研究超快化学反应，材料和生物结构的全息成像，确定蛋白质结构的新方法，极高压力下物质的性质，以及玻璃、无序和多晶材料的性质。需要继续研发实现CLS所需的电子束和X射线技术。康奈尔大学建议利用以前NSF奖项组装的仪器进行基于能量回收直线加速器技术的研发，特别强调必要的(1)超导电子加速器、(2)电子源、(3)电子束物理和诊断、(4)电子束动力学和(5)能够处理CLS X射线束的X射线束线组件。研发将涉及与美国和海外的其他实验室合作。培训技术工作队伍将是这项工作的主要成果。世界范围内对加速器物理学家和光束线科学家的强烈需求使得这种培训变得更加重要，他们熟悉新的高亮度同步加速器束的仪器和挑战。这项工作包括一个有效的、基于多样性的、广泛的面向K-12和本科生社区的外展计划。

0807731 Gruner This award from the Division of Materials Research and the Division of Chemistry supports Cornell University to perform accelerator and x-ray technology research and development (R&D) to advance in a non-site specific way preparation for construction of an ultrahigh spectral brightness, hard x-ray coherent light sources (CLS), such as Energy Recovery Linacs and X-ray Free Electron Lasers. The high coherence and temporal properties of a CLS would transform the sciences and engineering and would enable numerous experiments that are not feasible using existing x-ray sources. Enabled capabilities would include studies on ultrafast chemical reactions, holographic imaging of materials and biological structures, new ways to determine the structure of proteins, properties of matter under extremely high pressures, and properties of glasses, disordered, and polycrystalline materials. Continued R&D is needed on the electron beam and x-ray technologies required to realize a CLS. Cornell proposes to utilize apparatus assembled under previous NSF awards to perform R&D based on the Energy Recovery Linac Technology, with specific emphasis on the requisite (1) superconducting electron accelerators, (2) electron sources, (3) electron beam physics and diagnostics, (4) electron beam dynamics, and (5) x-ray beamline components capable of handling CLS x-ray beams. The R&D will involve collaborations with other laboratories, both in the U.S. and abroad. Training the technical work force will be a major product of the work. This training is made more important by intense world-wide demand for accelerator physicists and beamline scientists familiar with the apparatus and challenges of new high brightness synchrotron beams. The work includes an effective, diversity-based, broad outreach program to the K-12 and undergraduate communities.