V.P. Technology Development, Ph.D. (1975). Dr. Thomas J. Roberts is Scientist and Vice President for Technology Development at MuPlus, Inc. Having spent 17 years in experimental High Energy Physics and 24 years as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, he is a physicist and computer scientist with broad experience in all aspects of software development, systems architecture, and computational physics. Dr. Roberts is the author of G4beamline [3], a simulation program based on the Geant4 toolkit that is optimized for particle beams and systems. Dr. Roberts is also the Level 2 Manager for Cooling in the Muon Accelerator Program (MAP) [1], and an active participant in MAP’s simulation efforts.

V.P. Personnel, Ph.D. (1967). Dr. Charles M. Ankenbrandt is a senior accelerator physicist who spent most of his career at Fermilab, where he contributed for three decades to the design, operation, and improvement of Fermilab facilities. He has led the Booster Synchrotron Group, the Main Ring Group, and the Accelerator Theory Department. He invented "slip stacking" and co-invented "barrier buckets", techniques used heavily at Fermilab. He participated in the commissioning of the Tevatron as a fixed-target accelerator and as a collider. For more than a decade, first at Fermilab and since June, 2008 at Muons, Inc., he has concentrated on development of concepts and technologies relevant to neutrino factories and muon colliders.

MSEE (1977). Michael Neubauer has been actively involved in high power microwave technology for over 40 years. He has worked on all aspects of microwave tube design and manufacture at Varian Associates and designed and fabricated high power microwave components at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. While at Varian Mr. Neubauer held a number of positions: the position of Process Manufacturing Manager responsible for designing and maintaining process controls for a wide range of microwave technologies from High Voltage ceramics and rare-earth magnets to electron guns and thin film coatings; he also held the position of Applied Engineering Manager with the responsibility of bridging the gap between software simulations and microwave tube performance. He developed resistive coating techniques for BeO, Alumina, and Boron Nitride to eliminate charge accumulation. He has designed and tested electron guns, multi-stage depressed collectors, magnet systems, and slow wave circuits for microwave tubes. While at SLAC he designed, tested and manufactured high power microwave windows and HOM loads using HFSS, MAFIA, and ANSYS, and implemented a novel window compression ring technology which has now been successfully migrated to high power RF systems at LBNL, JLAB and LANL. He has designed klystron cavities, using the particle in cell code MAGIC, and is currently employed at Muons, Inc as their VP of Engineering. As part of the Mouns, Inc., collaboration team he has been the PI on 6 Phase I grants and 4 Phase II grants. These grants include HOM load designs, compressed coaxial and waveguide window designs, improved DC gun insulators, Phase and Frequency locked magnetrons, Crab Cavity designs, S-band Loads, and other RF sources. All of these projects included novel approaches to various problems encountered at the DOE labs.

Chief Operating Officer, Ph.D. (2005). Prior to joining Muons, Inc. in 2009, Dr. Flanagan was the Associate Head of Detector Systems at CDF. Dr. Flanagan has also served as the trigger project leader and as operations manager at CDF. He has designed, built, and commissioned real-time trigger system upgrades (hardware and software) for the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). While at CDF, Dr. Flanagan was the lead physicist responsible for the first observation of vector boson pairs in a hadronic Final State at the Tevatron collider. This observation was made possible by the trigger upgrades he developed and built. Prior to working in high-energy physics, Dr. Flanagan worked in both theoretical (heterogeneous models for AC and DC conductivity in conducting polymers and carbon nanotubes) and experimental (x-ray diffraction and ellipsometry) condensed matter physics. His experience with superconductors includes work on the fabrication and testing of a prototype 3T YBCO helical solenoid segment. Additionally, Dr. Flanagan has developed control software for a fiber optics based temperature monitoring system for high temperature superconductors and worked on high performance real-time software for quench detection.

Ph.D. (1966). Dr. Robert Abrams has designed, developed, and analyzed experiments at Argonne, Brookhaven, and Fermi National Laboratories. He has worked at Brookhaven and was a tenured faculty member at University of Illinois at Chicago before joining AT&T/Lucent Bell Labs. Since 2002, he has worked on the Fermilab CKM proposal, the electromagnetic calorimeters in the MIPP experiment for the University of Michigan, and the D0 experiment proportional drift tubes and scintillators for the muon detector system and ILC muon detector R&D for Indiana University and he led experiment #T956 to test prototype ILC muon detectors Fermilab. Since joining Muons, Inc./MuPlus, Inc. he has been a lead designer of an experiment to demonstrate cooling beams of muons (MANX). He was the PI of an SBIR on fast time-of-flight MCP detectors for muon cooling experiments, and been a lead contributor to a design of a mono-energetic beam of positrons for gamma-ray interrogation of cargo containers for detection of special nuclear materials. He has had extensive experience with several types of particle detectors.

Ph.D. (1991). Dr. Mary Anne Cummings is a particle physicist with broad experience in high energy experiments in both fixed target and collider settings. Before joining Muons, Inc. she worked at Northern Illinois University as a research professor on neutrino factory and muon collider R&D, and remains on the graduate faculty there as an adjunct. Her previous experience at NIU has included work on high energy physics experiments (the Minerva and DZero experiments at Fermilab) and astrophysics experiments (for AUGER and RICE). In particular she developed techniques for primary particle ID in cosmic ray showers. She has been the spokesperson for a proposed radiocoherence experiment at Fermilab in conjunction with the RICE collaboration (now part of ICECUBE). Her primary responsibilities on DZero included heading the muon detector calibration group and heading the “alljets” top quark analysis group, in the latter developed the use of jet width differences between quarks and gluon jets as a final state discriminant in multijet events. She recently worked with the group designing a 6-dimensional cooling experiment, MANX, and is currently working with the Fermilab Muon Acceleration Program and Muon Collider Physics Group on the challenging issue of backgrounds in the interaction regions of muon colliders and Higgs Factories.

MSEE (1978). Mr. Al Dudas has a MSEE degree from Cornell University, and has worked in engineering and applied physics for over 35 years, in places as diverse as SLAC, NRL, and Siemens, among others. His experience stretches from electron gun design, to high power RF generation with klystrons and gyrotrons, to medical linear accelerators, and high energy pulsed discharge lasers. He has been a Sr. Engineer at Muons, Inc. since 2009.

Ph.D. (1972). Dr. Vadim Dudnikov is an internationally recognized expert in the invention and development of ion sources, ion beam systems, and accelerators. He received a M. Sci. from the Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Novosibirsk, Russia and, one year later, while a student at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP), he completed the development of the charge exchange injection, which is still considered to be the best solution to the problem of charged particle injection. While he was at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP), Dr. Dudnikov developed many versions of negative ion sources for application in charge exchange injection. In 1971, he discovered the enhancement of negative ion generation in gas discharge by cesium admixture and invented the method of cesium catalysis to enhance negative ion formation in a gas discharge. This method, which dramatically enhances negative ion emission, is now the most widely used method for production of intense high-brightness negative ion beams. There are currently many versions of the Dudnikov type surface plasma negative ion source (SPS) with cesium catalysis. These sources hold the record for efficiency, intensity, brightness, and optimized design. Dudnikov’s discovery of the physical basis of the cesium catalysis has led to the development of SPS in all of the National Laboratories in the USA, Japan and other countries. Cesium catalysis is used in the Neutral Beam Injector for Nuclear Fusion devices. Dr. Dudnikov is a coinventor of the Atomic Beam Polarized Ion Source (ABPIS) with resonant charge exchange ionization of atoms by negative ions generated by interaction of plasma with cesiated surface. Dr. Dudnikov has developed ion beam systems for nano-lithography. He has also developed very high brightness electro-hydrodynamic ion beam sources for many ion species. His innovations in ion beam formation, transportation, space charge neutralization, separation, accumulation, and diagnostics are widely used in accelerators and in ion beam science and technology. In the USA, Dr. Dudnikov has worked in National Laboratories (BNL, ORNL, FNAL), in Universities (UMD, MIT), and in industry (SDI, SCI). For several years he worked as a Chief Scientist at Superior Design, Inc. (SDI), Peabody, MA on the development of the next generation of ion implantation equipment. He developed a program for improving H- negative ion sources, which is now under development at FNAL.

Ph.D. (1972). Dr. Stephen Kahn most recently worked at the Advanced Accelerator Group at BNL on neutrino factory and muon collider R&D. His previous experience at Brookhaven has been varied, including work on high energy physics experiments (neutrino bubble chamber experiments and the D0 experiment) and superconducting accelerator magnets (for ISABELLE, RHIC, the SSC and the APT). Work to design superconducting magnets included 2D and 3D finite-element field calculations using the Opera2d and Tosca electro-magnetic design programs along with structural finite-element calculations with ANSYS.

Ph.D. (1975). Dr. Grigory Kazakevich received his Ph.D. from Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics on development of an X-Band microtron and a compact photo-neutron facility basing on it. He has been actively involved in accelerator physics, high power microwave technique and technology and beam diagnostics for over 40 years. He published about of 100 scientific articles in Proceedings of Conferences and top rank scientific journals. He has developed, designed and built few RF cyclic accelerators (X-Band and S-Band); some of them with record parameters. Being a Senior Scientific Researcher of Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics and a project manager he developed, built and put into operation high-current S-band microtron driven by an injection-locked 2.5 MW magnetron. He developed with his colleagues an approach and a model for simulation of the frequency and phase of injection-locked magnetrons. Being invited as a Scientific Expert at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (South Korea) he was one of key persons in development of Terahertz Free Electron Laser based on the S-band microtron driven by the injection-locked magnetron. The first in the world Terahertz Free Electron Laser with the microtron-injector was successfully put into operation and the Project was nominated and awarded as Best Scientific Project of Year 2001 in South Korea. Being invited as a Guest Scientist at the Fermilab Dr. G. Kazakevich developed novel technique for electron beam diagnostics for the Project of electron cooling and for A0 Photoinjector. Being involved in the MuPlus Inc. research programs Dr. G. Kazakevich proposed and substantiated a two-stage CW injection-locked magnetron to drive superconducting cavities of linacs. The scope of his professional interest includes physics and techniques of particle accelerators, high-power RF sources and diagnostics of beams and radiation.

B.A. (2012). Justin Rodriguez received a B.A. in Physics and Computer Science from Cornell University where he is currently working on a M.S. in Applied Physics.  He mainly works on accelerator codes and simulations, especially ACE3P.

Ph.D. (19xx).

B.S., J.D. (19xx).

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1966