Fermilab Summer Students - 2009
Andrew Gillespie
College: Illinois State University, Illinois
Home: Normal, IL, USA
Mentor: Lance Cooley
Home: Normal, IL, USA
Mentor: Lance Cooley
Report: Abstract (pdf),
Metallurgical Analyses of Niobium for Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities (pdf)
Research: I assisted in metallurgical analyses of niobium for superconducting radio frequency cavities. The purpose of this work is to increase the accelerating gradients of SRF cavities for future linear accelerators.