Existing JLab SRF Capabilities

Expertise

Jefferson Lab’s present range of SRF expertise resides in three closely collaborating departments in the Accelerator Division:

• The Institute for SRF Science and Technology (which is called simply SRF Institute in these Web pages, and which is under consideration for expansion as a U.S. Department of Energy SRF technology center),
• The Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators, which conducts a broad program of theoretical and experimental research in accelerator and beam physics, and
• The Engineering Department is home to the majority of mechanical, RF, and electrical engineers and designers, important contributors to JLab's SRF systems.

With this expertise Jefferson Lab already has a considerable capability for design, development, and prototyping of new SRF systems for the wider science and technology community. This was demonstrated when the laboratory designed and developed cavities, cryomodules, and the refrigeration system for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee) on a very tight schedule. Jefferson Lab is also actively involved with Michigan State University’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and with Argonne National Laboratory in the development and testing of cavities and control systems for the envisioned Rare-Isotope Accelerator (RIA), and is collaborating with Cornell University and with Daresbury Laboratory in England in the design and construction of their SRF-driven light sources.

Staff

A staff of 65 FTEs is dedicated to SRF activities at Jefferson Lab, including 8 Ph.D.-level scientists, 20 professional engineers, 3 graduate students and post-doctoral scientists, in-house technologists, and several visitors. The technical infrastructure is complex enough to require about 10 FTEs within these numbers for operations and maintenance.