Cesr Conversion

2008年，康奈尔电子存储环（CESR）将结束近三十年来为CLEO实验提供的正电子碰撞。届时，将有可能将CESR重新配置为一个测试加速器，CesrTA，用于针对高强度光束发展和国际线性对撞机（ILC）项目的重要加速器研发工作。CESR提供了一个独特的机会来研究光束物理和仪器对ILC组件的设计和操作至关重要，称为“阻尼环”，这可能是ILC和其他可能项目中最具挑战性的加速器系统。使CESR成为试验加速器所需的改变是适度的，以便及时提供研究结果。这项工作对科学的广泛影响是显著的。通过交互算法使用实时测量来优化光束性能，在其他几个高复杂性的研究领域也有应用。这里正在开发的快速x射线剖面监测器和为CesrTA开发的其他仪器将对同步辐射研究和其他加速器应用非常有用。对于这项工作的广泛影响来说，最重要的是对加速器和x射线束流线科学家的实际培训，这些科学家在世界各地担任核物理和粒子物理以及x射线科学实验室的负责人和工作人员。此外，教职员工和学生参与广泛的推广和教育计划，涉及研究生和本科生以及特别强调K-12的公众。实验室的智力和物质资源被用来直接促进年轻人的科学冒险，并在他们自己的教室和校园的小组环境中为科学教师提供讲习班和直接支持。此外，该实验室一直在与纽约市城市环境和阿巴拉契亚边缘农村地区的代表性不足的人口合作。在帮助纽约州教师应对不断变化的科学课程方面，为课堂编写教材也是这项工作的重要组成部分。

In 2008 the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) will end nearly three decades of providing electron-positron collisions for the CLEO experiment. At that time it will be possible to reconfigure CESR as a test accelerator, CesrTA, for important accelerator R&D work directed to high intensity beam development and the International Linear Collider (ILC) project. CESR offers a unique opportunity with which to investigate beam physics and instrumentation critical to the design and operation of the ILC component known as "damping rings" that are perhaps the most challenging accelerator system in the ILC and other possible projects.. The changes required to make CESR available as a test accelerator are modest so that research results will be available in a timely fashion. The scientific broader impacts of this work are significant. The use of real time measurements for the optimization of beam performance via interactive algorithms has applications in several other areas of research of high complexity. The fast x-ray profile monitors being developed here and the other instrumentation developed for CesrTA will be very useful for synchrotron radiation research and other accelerator applications. Of primary importance for the broader impact of this work is the hands-on training of accelerator and x-ray beam line scientists that serve around the world as principals and staff of laboratories for nuclear and particle physics and x-ray science. Further, faculty, staff and students participate in a broad gauged program of outreach and education involving graduate and undergraduate students and the general public with special emphasis on K-12. The laboratory's intellectual and physical resources are used to promote the adventure of science directly to young people as well as to provide workshops and direct support for teachers of science in their own classrooms and in group settings on campus. In addition, the Lab has been collaborating with underrepresented populations in both urban settings of New York City and rural areas here on the edge of Appalachia. Creation of materials for the classroom is also an important part of this work in helping teachers in New York State deal with changing science curricula.