Advanced Accelerating Structures Based on Metamaterials

基于超材料的先进加速结构

• 批准号: 1415547
• 负责人: Chih-Kang Shih
• 金额: $ 42万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1415547&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advanced; Accelerating; Structures; Based; Metamaterials

This award will fund theoretical and experimental efforts on critical issues related to developing a new class of advanced particle accelerators based on exotic new materials: metamaterials of photonic matter. Metamaterials are artificial materials usually assembled from conventional microscopic materials. Photonic matter in this context is a new state of matter in which photons interact with each other, usually through mutual interactions with ordinary atoms. The metamaterials of photonic matter in this award will be used to advance techniques in particle accelerators. By taking advantage of highly unusual propagation properties of high-frequency electromagnetic waves in metamaterials, this award will develop both beam-driven (two-beam) and wave-driven accelerators utilizing highly unorthodox propagation geometries that will ultimately lead to developing high frequency switched matrix accelerators capable of overcoming the most severe challenge to high gradient acceleration: the breakdown of the accelerating structuresThis research brings together two areas of science: electromagnetics/metamaterials and accelerators. Graduate students will be involved in all stages of this project. Significant outreach effort to high school, undergraduate, and graduate Hispanic students in Texas is planned. High school students from local schools will conduct summer research in the PI's laboratories, collaborate with graduate students, and receive mentorship from the recently established Mentorship Networks among minority students in the San Antonio/Austin area aimed at enhancing the interest and awareness of nanoscale science among minority students. The Mentorship Network has been established through the NSF's Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) grant to UT-San Antonio/UT-Austin. One of the supported graduate students will have the opportunity to spend considerable time at Argonne National Laboratory and at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET) facility testing these novel accelerating structures using short ultra-relativistic beams.The intellectual focus of this work is the design, fabrication, and experimentally testing accelerating structures that support luminous electromagnetic waves capable of strongly interacting with ultra-relativistic electron beams. The award will also be used to investigate the possibility of utilizing the recently invented Photonic Topological Insulators (PTIs) based on metamaterials as novel accelerating structures. All accelerating structures will be tested at facilities at Argonne National Laboratory and at SLAC, with particular emphasis on structural breakdown at high accelerating gradients and on techniques needed for short wavelength operation.

该奖项将资助与开发基于奇特新材料（光子物质超材料）的新型先进粒子加速器相关的关键问题的理论和实验工作。超材料是通常由传统微观材料组装而成的人造材料。在这种情况下，光子物质是一种新的物质状态，其中光子通常通过与普通原子的相互作用来相互作用。该奖项中的光子物质超材料将用于推进粒子加速器技术。 通过利用超材料中高频电磁波的极不寻常的传播特性，该奖项将利用高度非正统的传播几何形状开发光束驱动（双光束）和波驱动加速器，最终将导致高频开关矩阵的开发能够克服高梯度加速最严峻挑战的加速器：加速结构的崩溃这项研究汇集了两个科学领域：电磁学/超材料和加速器。研究生将参与该项目的所有阶段。计划对德克萨斯州的高中、本科生和研究生西班牙裔学生进行重大的外展活动。来自当地学校的高中生将在 PI 实验室进行暑期研究，与研究生合作，并接受最近在圣安东尼奥/奥斯汀地区少数族裔学生中建立的导师网络的指导，旨在提高学生对纳米科学的兴趣和意识少数民族学生。该导师网络是通过 NSF 纳米技术跨学科研究团队 (NIRT) 向 UT-圣安东尼奥/UT-奥斯汀分校的资助建立的。一名受资助的研究生将有机会在阿贡国家实验室和 SLAC 国家加速器实验室的高级加速器实验测试设施 (FACET) 花费大量时间，使用短超相对论光束测试这些新颖的加速结构。这项工作的重点是设计、制造和实验测试加速结构，这些加速结构支持能够与超相对论电子束强烈相互作用的发光电磁波。 该奖项还将用于研究利用最近发明的基于超材料的光子拓扑绝缘体（PTI）作为新型加速结构的可能性。所有加速结构都将在阿贡国家实验室和 SLAC 的设施中进行测试，特别强调高加速梯度下的结构破坏以及短波长操作所需的技术。