News

• Mar. 2023: Gaurab Rijal joined our group! Welcome Gaurab!

• Mar. 2023: Dillon Merenich successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congratulations!

• Feb. 2023: Brendan Leung and Dillon Merenich attended the 2023 US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) in Houston, TX

• Dec. 2022: Brendan Leung and Dillon Merenich presented their research at the CAST review meeting held in Naperville, IL

• Nov. 2022: Xueying Lu presented an invited plenary titled "Breakdown Insensitive Accelerating Regime in Structure Wakefield Acceleration" at the Advanced Accelerator Concept workshop AAC'22 (https://www.aac2022.org/ )

• Aug. 2022: NIU Master's student, Marc Crowell, joined the group for PHYS659 (Independent Study, Fall 22)

• Aug. 2022: The group attended 2022 North America Particle Accelerator Conference in Albuquerque, NM

Brendan Leung presented a poser named "Design of a W-Band Corrugated Waveguide for Structure Wakefield Acceleration"

Dillon Merenich presented a talk named "Design and Fabrication of a Metamaterial Wakefield Accelerating Structure"

• July 2022: Xueying Lu attended the Community Summer Study (Seattle Snowmass Summer Meeting 2022).

A poster presentation can be found here:

https://indico.fnal.gov/event/22303/contributions/243718/

A short talk can be found here:

https://indico.fnal.gov/event/22303/contributions/246915/

• June 2022: Xueying Lu received a travel grant to attend the 2022 PIC Math Interdisciplinary Data Science Workshop

• June 2022: Our group was at US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS).

Xueying Lu co-instructed Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics and Technology.

Brendan Leung and Dillon Merenich both received scholarship to attend the session.

• May 2022: Research paper is online:

F.  Lemery, et al., "Drive beam sources and longitudinal shaping techniques",  JINST 17, P05036 (2022).

• May 2022: Xueying Lu gave an invited talk at the International Workshop on Breakdown Science and High Gradient Technology (HG2022).

The presentation can be viewed here: 

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1080222/contributions/4766675/

• May 2022: Research paper is online:

J. Picard, et al., "Generation of 565 MW of X -band power using a metamaterial power extractor for structure-based wakefield acceleration",  Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 25, 051301 (2022)

• Mar. 2022: Xueying Lu participated in the Snowmass process (Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise)

White papers  have been submitted to the Accelerator Frontier (https://snowmass21.org/accelerator/).

Please find details here:

X. Lu, et al., "Advanced RF Structures for Wakefield Acceleration and High-Gradient Research"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08374

C. Jing, et al., "Continuous and Coordinated Efforts of Structure Wakefield Acceleration (SWFA) Development for an Energy 

Frontier Machine"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08275

M. Bai, et al., "Strategies in Education, Outreach, and Inclusion to Enhance the US Workforce in Accelerator Science and Engineering"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08919

C. Benedetti, et al., "Advanced accelerator linear collider demonstration facility at intermediate energy"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08425

• Jan. 2022: Morgan Turner (NIU Physics) joined the group for PHYS659 (Independent Study, Spring 22)

• Jan. 2022: Dillon Merenich won USPAS Winter 2022 student scholarship

• Dec. 2021: Xueying Lu presented her work on advanced accelerators at UChicago Physics (virtual)

• Nov. 2021: Book chapter published:

Michael Shapiro et al., "Experimental Hot Test of Beam/Wave Interactions with Metamaterial Slow Wave Structures", in 

"High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies Using Metamaterials", IEEE, 2022 

• Oct. 2021: Brendan Leung started working with our group after finishing his Master's studies at NIU

• Sep. 2021: Our group is featured in the Department of Energy Office of Science University Research news headline

Find the news headline here:

https://www.energy.gov/science/listings/university-and-stakeholder-news (Sep 13, 2021)

https://twitter.com/doescience/status/1437435407952658434?s=20

• Aug. 2021: Dillon Merenich joined NIU Physics & our group. Dillon has been admitted to the Chicagoland Accelerator Science Traineeship (CAST) Program funded by the US Department of Energy

• Aug. 2021: Xueying Lu presented a talk and a poster at the DOE Review meeting at ANL (virtual)

• Jun. 2021: Bart Frey, a local high school teacher, is going to work with the group this summer through the NIU Research Experience for Teachers (RET)

• May 2021: Xueying Lu presented a research highlight talk to DOE at the ANL monthly meetings

• May 2021: Xueying Lu won the Department of Energy Early Career Award, which will support her research on advanced wakefield accelerators in the next five years

See media reports here:

"NIU physicist receives DOE Early Career Research Award" 

(NIU Newsroom and DOE University Research Highlight)

newsroom.niu.edu/2021/08/23/niu-physicist-receives-doe-early-career-research-award/ 

"DOE names six Argonne scientists to receive Early Career Research Program awards"

www.anl.gov/article/doe-names-six-argonne-scientists-to-receive-early-career-research-program-awards 

• May 2021: We are grateful that the Department of Energy is providing a new grant to support research on high-gradient high-efficiency acceleration, in collaboration with colleagues at NIU and IIT

• Mar. 2021: Xueying Lu is invited to present a virtual colloquium at Bard College

• Feb. 2021: Research paper is online

Xueying Lu, et al.  “A proton beam energy Modulator for rapid proton therapy”, RSI 92, 024705 (2021).

• Jan. 2021: Xueying Lu gave an invited plenary at the IEEE Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (AAC'20) (virtual)

• Nov. 2020: Xueying Lu gave an invited plenary at the 2020 APS Prairie Section Fall Meeting (virtual)

• Aug. 2020: Xueying Lu joined NIU/ANL as Assistant Professor