We installed our permanent #magnet samples on tripods in the CEBAF #accelerator enclosure. These, along with those in my previous post, will be used to study how the magnets degrade in a #radiation environment.
#physics #science #particleaccelerator
#acceleratorphysics
#acceleratorscience
Each plate in this photo contains 4 sets of 4 permanent #magnets. Each will have 36 point measurements with a Teslameter, and 12 measurements with a Helmholtz Coil/Fluxmeter. 48 measurements/plate, lots of plates left to get baseline measurements.
A nice write up about the truly groundbreaking and unique #particle #accelerator where I was trained, and returned to work years later.
https://www.jlab.org/news/stories/benchmarking-cebaf
Jefferson Lab's CEBAF is not huge, but its impact has been for decades.
Spent most of the day with a crew of new #accelerator operators, assembling and organizing our permanent #magnet pair assemblies. These will be measured, and then installed in the CEBAF enclosure to see if/how they degrade from #radiation exposure.
So proud to announce that my PhD student, Alex Coxe, can now be addressed as Dr. Alex Coxe!
Many thanks to his Academic Advisor, Balša Terzić for setting this train in motion, and all the support along the way.
Tomorrow, I'll be giving the Physics Dept. Colloquium at Old Dominion University.
The talk will be for a general physics audience, and discuss the current CEBAF machine, the FFA@CEBAF Energy Upgrade, and our permanent magnet degradation studies!
Elise Cutts: Physicist Sekazi Mtingwa considers himself an apostle of science: The leading accelerator physicist is a mentor, activist, policy expert and humanitarian
"Ask physicist Sekazi Mtingwa how he ended up where he is today, and he’ll start with his grandmother’s deeply religious home. Growing up there in Atlanta, young Mtingwa somehow got the idea that he was the second coming of Christ.
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"That year snowballed into seven, during which he and theoretical physicist James Bjorken developed the theory of intrabeam scattering — which describes how charged particles spread out when packed together into high-energy beams."
#physics #physicists #acceleratorphysics
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sekazi-mtingwa-physics-accelerator-service
New #AcceleratorPhysics out of the University of Texas, laser wakefield acceleration of electrons to 10(ish) GeV using a petawatt (!) laser
article: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-tiny-particle-accelerator-just-achieved-a-major-energy-milestone
@smurthys The control systems for most particle accelerators and other large #physics experiments are built on C++. It might sound like a niche application, but it’s a surprisingly large ecosystem of libraries, services and device drivers for controlling some of the world’s largest machines.
https://www.tango-controls.org
https://epics-controls.org
https://doocs.desy.de
#cpp
#acceleratorphysics
Poster is waiting in room M for visitors during today's poster session! #ipac23 #acceleratorphysics #conference #physics
Buongiorno Lido! #conferencelife #ipac23 #running #acceleratorphysics
Looking forward to adding to my lanyard collection at #ipac23 ! #acceleratorphysics
Sneak peak at one of our #IPAC23 posters. Perhaps not a final draft, but getting there.
Looking forward to presenting this and conversing with colleagues!
Helped give a quick Jefferson Lab #accelerator tour to some people from the DOE and Brookhaven. My station was the NW Recombiner, while Yves Roblin showed the West Arc and Todd Satogata showed the North Linac. I really enjoy giving tours.
Questions about the photos?
Great to see my friend's book for sale at the CERN library/book store! Without Todd's help, my PhD would have been much different.
#physics #accelerator #acceleratorphysics #CERN #jeffersonlab #JLab
I had the pleasure of working with Dr Lia Merminga when I was a PhD student at Jefferson Lab.
Now she's the head of Fermilab's PIP-II project
Accelerator excellence
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/accelerator-excellence
