Faculty and Student Teams Program

Project Descriptions

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
RF measurements on a ILC-style cavity BPM

Requesting applications from science or engineering faculty members at institutions serving students underrepresented in science, engineering, mathematics and technology, to work on instrumentation or neutrino source R&D. Fermilab can ONLY host teams with NSF support.

Project Description

The goal is to tune as well as perform an RF characterization of the ILC-style cavity Beam Position Monitor (BPM) using a network analyzer.  The students need to become familiar with RF cavities and the application of dipole mode structures for beam position measurements (theory), as well as the use of a vector network analyzer (S-parameter measurements). In case that we are able to install the pickup into the beam-line (Photoinjector), some interest in beam optics and physics would be very helpful.

Project Qualifications

Student: The students could be Electrical Engineering or Physics majors.

Applicants Responsibilities and Relationship to Project

Applicants will receive support under the Department of Energy Faculty and Student Team (FaST) Research Program to work collaboratively with the project research team at the Laboratory. The team will work at Fermilab for up to 10 weeks during the year starting during the summer. Summer and academic year visits to Fermilab will be scheduled by mutual agreement between the research project directors at Fermilab and the successful applicant. Faculty will be expected to identify students from their campus to participate in FaST program offered by the Department of Energy at Fermilab. Ideally, faculty will provide some mentorship and/or advising support to students during the summer research activities. It is expected that the faculty member will become an integral part of the research team working on this project and will support the project through the academic year on her or his campus.

Support and Financial Commitments

See Financial Information.

For More Information Contact:

Manfred Wend
manfred@fnal.gov