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Center for Accelerator Science and Education

The Center for Accelerator Science and Education (CASE) will pursue cutting edge accelerator science and R&D, training of next generation accelerator scientists - graduate and post doctoral – through courses, laboratory and experiments on accelerators. Undergraduate opportunities will play a significant goal of attracting students to the graduate program through introduction to accelerator courses, accelerator laboratory work and summer research opportunities at BNL. The proposed educational program will start with a short term abbreviated educational program of undergraduate, graduate and R&D that will evolve over time.

Goals The main goals of CASE are: To train scientists and engineers with the aim of advancing the field of accelerator science; Courses taught by CASE Faculty including PHY 445/515 Spring 2012 CASE Faculty hosted and taught at the June 2011 US Particle Accelerator School PhD and MSI theses from students at the BNL ARDD To develop a unique program of educational outreach that will provide broad access to a research accelerator; and, To attract Federal and industrial funding for an expanding interdisciplinary research and education program that utilizes accelerators. The development of CASE capitalizes on resources at both institutions: The BNL Accelerator Research and Development Division is a premier center for accelerator development in a broad spectrum of sciences, with many outstanding scientists already affiliated with and teaching at SBU; many of the SBU faculty in various fields already use the existing accelerator based facilities at BNL for their own research; Stony Brook University has a recently retired research accelerator – the Tandem Van de Graaff (TvDG) – whose control room has been renovated to become a modern Physics Teaching Laboratory (PTL) that serves graduate, undergraduate students as well as K-12 teachers and students.

The Collaboration Dr. Thomas K. Hemmick CASE Director, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University Dr. Vladimir Litvinenko CASE Director, Senior Scientist, Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory Dr. Ilan Ben Zvi Deputy Director for Research, Senior Scientist, Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory CV for Dr. Ben Zvi Dr. Abhay Deshpande Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University Research Dr. Paul Grannis Distinguished Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University Dr. Derek Lowenstein Senior Scientist, Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory Dr. Steve Peggs Superconducting Magnet Division, Brookhaven National LaboratoryHome Page Dr. Axel Drees Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University Dr. Linwood Lee Emeritus Professor of Physics, Stony Brook University Dr. Roy Lacey Professor of Chemistry, Stony Brook University Socoro Delquaglio Project administrator, Stony Brook University

Research Opportunities CASE faculty are involved in many exciting projects. Please contact us for more information. We are looking for students to work on the Stony Brook Tandem Van de Graff accelerator to: Finish implementing the new control system. Implement new experiments for the Stony Brook Graduate Laboratory. These are ideal MSI minor projects. Contact: Thomas K Hemmick <Thomas.Hemmick@stonybrook.edu> We are looking for graduate students to do thesis research on Superconducting RF (SRF). This is currently the leading accelerator technology with a huge demand for post docs, staff members and faculty. Develop various SRF cavities for linear accelerators and storage rings Develop advanced techniques in high-power electron and ion beams. There are both MSI and Ph.D. topics. Contact: Ilan Ben-Zvi <Ilan.Ben-Zvi@StonyBrook.edu>

Past Projects 9MV FN-8 Tandem Van de Graaff First on its own and then as an injector to the Superconducting Heavy Ion Linac, FN-8 was used for Nuclear Physics research at Stony Brook for 40 years. Pb/Sn plated Split Loop Resonator The Stony Brook Superconducting Heavy Ion Linac was commissioned in 1983 and used until 2007. Superconducting RF research at Stony Brook led to the development of the SQWR, the SRFQ and the CPM based SRF controller, among other achievements. NSL LAB History From July 26-30, 2010, CASE held a Workshop in accelerator physics for high school teachers and students.