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:
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:
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:
"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