Center for Bright Beams

该奖项将资助建立明亮光束中心（CBB）。CBB的首要研究目标是将带电粒子束的强度（“亮度”）提高两个数量级，同时降低关键加速器技术的成本。通过提高加速器在这些领域的研究能力，CBB将促进从物理学到化学到生物学等科学学科的重大进步。它将与国家实验室和公司开展合作研究，利用他们的各种专业知识，并将技术转让给他们。它将有助于将研究整合到仪器中，以推进生命科学、材料科学、凝聚态物理、粒子物理和核物理的前沿知识。CBB的工业合作伙伴将把他们的发明纳入制造集成电路、生产医用放射性同位素和开发新药的仪器中。CBB将把他们的明亮光束技术转移到加速器组件，电子显微镜，光刻和晶圆检测的市场领导者。为学生提供多方面的综合教育计划，全面满足学生的需求，并代表STC的增值。在现有REU项目的基础上，为本科生中代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生提供暑期研究项目的机会，并将增加暑期研究的总研究职位数量。在研究生阶段，STC将为URM的学生提供奖学金。CBB将准备一个多样化的劳动力来解决加速器科学家的短缺问题。三个研究主题已经建立了支持目标：光束生产：开发电子源，将光束亮度提高两个数量级。束流加速：开发下一代超导射频（SRF）空腔，其低温效率比现有空腔高10倍，加速场强比现有空腔高2倍。光束传输和存储：开发a)在电子显微镜和线性加速器中保持光束亮度的光束传输系统；b)在光源和高能物理的电子存储环中增加平衡光束强度的光束光学。

This award will fund the creation of the Center for Bright Beams (CBB). CBB's overarching research goal is to increase the intensity ("brightness") of beams of charged particles by two orders of magnitude while decreasing the cost of key accelerator technologies. CBB will promote significant advances in scientific disciplines ranging from physics to chemistry to biology by enhancing the capabilities of the accelerators essential to research in these fields. It will conduct collaborative research with national laboratories and companies, leveraging their diverse expertise, and will transfer technology to them. It will help integrate the research into instruments that advance the frontiers of knowledge in life sciences, materials science, condensed matter physics, particle physics, and nuclear physics. The CBB's industrial partners will incorporate their inventions into instruments for manufacturing integrated circuits, producing medical radioisotopes, and developing new pharmaceuticals. CBB will transfer their bright beam technology to market leaders in accelerator components, electron microscopy, photolithography, and wafer inspection. A multifaceted, integrated education program for students comprehensively addresses the needs of students and represents a value added by the STC. Opportunities for undergraduate under-represented minority (URM) students in summer research programs build on existing REU programs and will increase the number of total research positions available for summer research. At the graduate level, the STC will offer fellowships dedicated to URM students. CBB will prepare a diverse workforce to address the shortage of accelerator scientists.The three research themes have established supporting goals: Beam Production: Develop electron sources that increase beam brightness by two orders of magnitude. Beam Acceleration: Develop next-generation superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities that outperform today's cavities by a factor of ten in cryogenic efficiency and by a factor of two in accelerating field strength. Beam Transport and Storage: Develop a) beam transport systems that preserve beam brightness in electron microscopes and in linear accelerators and b) beam optics that increase equilibrium beam intensity in electron storage rings for light sources and for high energy physics.