Mattia Checchin scored a hat trick of awards for best student poster based on his work on accelerating cavities. What else can he do?
superconducting radio-frequency technology
Mattia Checchin, a Ph.D. student from the Illinois Institute of Technology who is conducting his thesis research at Fermilab, has won first prize in the LINAC 16 student poster contest.
Fermilab’s recently assembled prototype cryomodule for the future LCLS-II is entering its next phase. In late July, the cryomodule was moved to new, temporary lodgings at Fermilab’s Cryomodule Test Facility, where it is hooked up to a new test stand, also just completed.
Each will receive $2.5 million, distributed over five years, to advance their work at the laboratory.
The first cryomodule for SLAC’s future light source, LCLS-II, is on schedule to be delivered at the end of the year.
Lab 2 is brand new, thanks to a recently completed renovation. Formerly an apprentice machine shop, the Village building now boasts a class 10 cleanroom and plenty of space for assembling SRF cryomodules.
Sam Posen of the Technical Division is awarded the 2016 Hogil Kim Prize for a recent, significant, original contribution to the accelerator field.
Members of Fermilab’s Technical Division recently achieved a record-high quality factor with a fully dressed cavity for a SLAC-headed project, Linac Coherent Light Source II.
The Indian Institutions and Fermilab Collaboration established in 2009 for the joint development of superconducting radio-frequency proton accelerator technology, has made significant progress in the development of PIP-II.
Eight cavities might sound like a nightmare to the average person. But when it comes to speeding up particles, it’s an aspiration.