Recent Theses

2007

Nathanael Robert Usher, Digital Low-Level Radio Frequency Control and Microphonics Mitigation of Superconducting Cavities, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007.

David Joseph Meidlinger, Design, Fabrication and Testing of Superconducting RF Cavities for High Average Beam Currents, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2007.

2006

Jonathan David DeLauter, Radiation Resistant Superferric Magnets for Fragment Separators, M.S. Thesis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2006.

Susan Elizabeth Musser, X-Ray Imaging of Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2006.  PDF (3.38 MBytes)

Ahmad Aizaz, Thermal Design Studies in Niobium and Helium for Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2006.  PDF (5.79 MBytes)

2005

Adam Molzahn, Digital Phase Detection in a Variable Frequency RF System, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005.

Tarek Hamdi Kandil, Adaptive Feedforward Cancellation of Sinusoidal Disturbances in Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005.

Michael John O’Farrell, Low Level Radio Frequency Control of RIA Superconducting Cavities, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005.

2004

Adam Daniel Moblo, Low Beta Superconducting RF Cavity Power Coupler Development for the Rare Isotope Accelerator, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004.

Jose Alberto Rodriguez, Studies of Longitudinal Beam Dynamics in the Isochronous Regime with Strong Space Charge Effects Using a Small Isochronous Ring, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2004.  PDF (5.03 MBytes)

Edward Russell Forringer, Phase Space Characterization of an Internal Ion Source for Cyclotrons, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2004.  PDF (48.81 MBytes)

2003

Eduard Pozdeyev, CYCO and SIR: New Tools for Numerical and Experimental Studies of Space Charge Effects in the Isochronous Regime, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2003.  PDF (4.71 MBytes)

John Popielarski, HOM Analysis of Multicell Superconducting Cavities, M.S. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003.

2000

Christopher T. Ramsell, Experimental Study of an Ion Cyclotron Resonance Accelerator, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2000.  PDF (1.45 MBytes)