Bruce Schumm
University of California Santa Cruz
Seminar Information
Engineering Building Unit 2 (EBU2)
Room 479
Seminar Recording Available: Please contact seminar coordinator, Jake Blair at (j1blair@ucsd.edu)
The need for high-performance ionizing-particle diagnostics for operation in intense environments is arising across a number of fields, running the spectrum from fundamental science to commercial technology. Primary performance axes along which advancements will be required include speed (temporal resolution and frame rate) and radiation tolerance. Formed by a 2020 grant from the UC Office of the President, and now supported by the Department of Energy and LDRD funding, the Advanced Accelerator Diagnostics Collaboration has been addressing challenges along these two R&D dimensions. The talk will present progress, near-term prospects, and some longer-term perspectives from the collaboration’s work.
Bruce Schumm is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. Trained as an experimental particle physicist, of late his interests have broadened into addressing generic instrumentation challenges that can benefit a diverse array of scientific fields, including fusion energy R&D. He is the leader of the Advanced Accelerator Diagnostics Collaboration, which focuses on the development of enabling diagnostic capabilities for next-generation accelerator facilities. He is also the Technical Coordinator for the proposed PIONEER experiment – a precision stopped-pion experiment currently expected to run at Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute in 2029.