U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Graduates of the Indiana University/USPAS
Master of Science Degree in Beam Physics and Technology
2023
Victor Grzelak, thesis "The Fermilab Booster RF Modifications for the 800MeV Injection Era"
Linh Nguyen, thesis "Adiabatic Capture of Neutrons for High-Brightness Beams and Storage of Low- and High-Field-Seeking Spin States"
Troy Petersen, thesis
"Refurbishment and Cold Testing of the Wisconsin Free Electron Laser Electron Gun Cavity"
2021
John Kuharik, thesis "Qualifying AL-800 Garnet for the Fermilab Booster Perpendicular Biased 2nd Harmonic RF Cavity"
2019
Tegan Johnson, thesis "Thermionic Emission vs Field Emission for Non-Relativistic Electron Guns"
2018
Yung-Chuan Chen, thesis "Conceptual Design of Rotating Wire System with Bucking Using Multichannel Lock-In Amplifier"
Tyler Fronk, thesis "Aspects of Beam Stability at the LANSCE Accelerator Facility"
2017
Rudy Potter, thesis "Marx Generator Charged via Biperiodic Resonant Cascaded Transformers"
2015
Patrick Karns, thesis "Commissioning and Operation of the FNAL Front End Injection Line and Ion Sources"
Aakash Sahai, thesis
"Phase-Mixing Self-Injection Into Plasma-Wakefield Acceleration Structures Driven in a Rising Density Gradient"
2014
Alex Scheinker, thesis "Model Independent Particle Accelerator Control and Nonlinear Space Charge Compensation"
2013
Michael Backfish, thesis "Electron Cloud in Steel Beam Pipe vs Titanium Nitride Coated and Amorphous Carbon Coated Beam Pipes in Fermilab's Main Injector"
2012
John Lawvere, thesis "Geometric Optimization of the Plane Wave Transformer"
2011
Steve Vanderet, thesis "Modeling a Standing Wave Linear Accelerator's Dispersion Relationship and Field Profile via an Equivalent Circuit and Numerical Analysis"
2009
David Brown, thesis "High Efficiency Laser-Assisted H- Beam Conversion to Protons"
Dean Edstrom, thesis "Measurement of Beam Tunes in the Tevatron Using the BBQ System"
2005
Steven Daley, thesis "On Third Order Resonant Extraction of Protons from a Compact Medical Synchrotron"
2004
Eric Lindert, thesis "Transverse Profiling and Archiving of Ion Beams at ATLAS"
Dennis Nicklaus, thesis "Simulation of the Fermilab Main Injector Digital Dampers and Comparison with Beam Test Results"
Allan Sondgeroth, thesis "Development of Two Tools to Measure and Correct Betatron Tunes and Measure Transverse Emittances in the Fermilab Antiproton Accummulator"
2002
Nader Al-Harbi, published paper based on thesis, "Design of a Compact Synchrotron for Medical Applications"