Argonne Accelerator Institute Activites

Rod GerigArgonneMay 18, 2007

Presentation to the Fermilab-Argonne Directors’ Collaboration Meeting

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Accelerators at Argonne

Argonne has a long and rich tradition of accelerator based user facilities supporting programs in HEP, NP and BES– ZGS (HEP)– ATLAS (NP)– Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS, BES)– Advanced Photon Source (APS, BES)– Electron Microscopy Center

Although each of these projects led to ongoing accelerator R&D, the laboratory has not been known for a corporate accelerator R&D emphasis

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The Recent History - CARA

Kwang-Je Kim proposed “Coordinated Accelerator Research at Argonne, or CARA in March 2002 to address these concerns

Significant LDRD to accelerator issues in FY2003; Accelerator Strategic Initiative was launched in 2004

Many components of Institute began under Kwang-Je’s leadership of CARA

Bob Rosner further formalized this activity by creating the Accelerator Insititute in February of 2006

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Organization of Institute

All personnel reside in other divisions….

Director – Rod Gerig Chief Scientist – Kwang-Je Kim Associate Directors:

– Harry Weerts (Division Director of HEP)– Sandra Biedron (Director of Argonne Office of Naval

Research) Executive Committee: ALDs, chaired by J. Murray Gibson External Advisory Committee:

– Being formed

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Institute Activities

Charter created, approved by Executive Committee Initial membership nominated and approved

Candidates directly involved in Accelerator R&D beyond facility operations

Heads, not FTEs

Physicist Engineer Chemist Comp Sci Other TotalFellow 29 7 1 2 0 39Research Fellow 6 2 0 2 0 10Graduate Fellow 4 4 0 0 0 8Visiting Fellow 6 0 0 0 0 6Staff 0 0 0 0 1 1Total 45 13 1 4 1 64

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Accelerator R&D Activity at Argonne

HEP Division – Advanced Wakefield Accelerator (AWA), cathode R&D

Physics Division – Ongoing operation of ATLAS; Extensive R&D on Rare Isotope Beam Acceleration, low-beta SRF cavities, SRF cavity processing

APS – Operation and Upgrade of the light source; partner laboratory in the LCLS project (undulators); limited but growing R&D for the next generation light source; APS has also been the home of the EPICS control system core activity

IPNS role in SNS development, strategize for Argonne’s neutron science future

Chemistry linac; positron production Office of Naval Research (ONR) MCS, MSD

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Institute Goals

Locate next generation accelerator facilities in Northern Illinois

Advance accelerator technology Oversee a selected, strategic, lab-wide, and acclaimed

accelerator R&D portfolio

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Address these goals through five objectives

Educate the “next generation” Enhance Theory and Simulation capabilities Develop Experimental Facilities for accelerator R&D External communication Internal communication

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Institute Objectives

Education of accelerator physicists and engineers– Work with area Universities to establish Joint Appointments– Identify students– Provide expanded research opportunities at Argonne– Work with USPAS– Coordinate with Fermilab– Coordinate with Office of Science

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Institute Objectives

Theory – Simulation– Development of codes, parallelization of existing codes,

this work supported through Accelerator and Peta-scale Computing Initiatives, is increasingly a part of the SciDAC II proposal.

– Institute theory work enhances on-going theory work in divisions. Supported by Accelerator Initiative and directed by AI chief scientist; use of visiting scientists

– Establish publication technical note and publication record available for any accelerator R&D

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Institute Objectives

Establish New Experimental Facilities for accelerator R&D and enhance existing Facilites– Argonne already has several: AWA, ITS…..– Imperative for meeting Argonne/Institute goals– Much evidence and precedent that good facilities attract

good experiments and good students– Cross-cuts Office of Science (SC) programs (almost

everywhere these exist)…however….– We will need to develop an argument of unique capabilities

and demonstrate complimentary cooperation with facilities elsewhere

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Institute Objectives

External communication– Not meant, in any way, to supersede the communication

that takes place between scientists at Argonne and elsewhere.

– Represent management in accelerator issues with other laboratories, universities

– Involvement in inter-laboratory large scale projects– Liaison, along with “Government Affairs”, and

“Communication and Public Affairs”, to the public– Advocacy – The Institute plays a major role in collaboration with

Fermilab

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Institute Objectives

Internal collaboration and communication– Several good examples….

• ILC work is cross divisional• SRF materials

– Now includes non-SC entities with Office of Naval Research involvement

– Institute Quarterly Meeting: Keep the Argonne accelerator community informed about what is going on at Argonne, both at high level and technical level with brief updates

– “Beams and Applications” seminar series for technical presentations

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Summary

Argonne is getting organized to approach accelerator R&D as a lab-wide activity

Accelerator collaboration with Universities and Laboratories is increasing

Although many laboratories are forming accelerator institutes with similar goals, the internal structure will be very different