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Geoffrey Krafft

Accelerator Physicist


Contact:

  • Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators
    Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
    12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606
  • 757-269-7557 (phone)
    757-269-5024 (fax)
  • krafft@jlab.org

Education:
  • B.A. Physics and Mathematics, Rutgers University, 1978
  • M.A. Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1980
  • Ph. D. Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1986

Career:
  • Staff Scientist, Jefferson Lab, 1986-2001
  • Interim Director, Center for Advanced Studies of Accelators, Jefferson Lab, 2001

Prizes and Awards:

  • Fellow, American Physical Socity, 2001

Research Highlights:
  • Theoretical Studies of Collective Effects in Accelerators
  • Electron Beam Diagnostics Devices
  • Applications of Recirculating and Energy Recovering Accelerators
  • Novel Sources of Electromagnetic Radiations

Selected Recent Publications
  • "The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at Jefferson Lab",
    C. W. Leemann, D. R. Douglas, and G. A. Krafft,
    Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2001

  • "Study for a Proposed Phase I Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) Synchrotron Light Source at Cornell University",
    I. Bazerov, S. Belomestnykh, D. Bilderback, K. Finkelstein, E. Fontes, S. Gray, S. M. Gruner, G. A. Krafft, L. Merminga, H. Padamsee, R. Helmke, Q. Shen, J. Rogers, C. Sinclair, R. Talman, and M. Tigner,
    CHESS Technical Memo 01-003, JLAB-ACT-01-04, 2001

  • "Sustained Kilowatt Lasing in a Free-Electron Laser with Same-Cell Energy Recovery",
    G. R. Neal, C. L. Bohn, S. V. Benson, G. Biallas, D. Douglas, H. F. Dylla, R. Evans, J. Fugitt, A. Grippo, J. Gubeli, R. Hill, K. Jordan, G. A. Krafft, R. Li, L. Merminga, P. Piot, J. Preble, M. Shinn, T. Siggins, R. Walker, and B. Yunn,
    Physical Review Letters, 84, 662 (2000)

  • "Short Pulse Synchrotron Light from Jefferson Lab's Nuclear Physics Accelerator",
    G. A. Krafft, Proceedings of the 1999 Particle Accelerator Conference, pgs. 2448-2450, 1999
(and complete list of papers)

Conference Presentations
  • "Accelerator Physics of Recirculating Electron Accelerators",
    G. A. Krafft, L. Merminga, and I. Bazarov,
    Invited presentation to the Workshop on Energy Recovery Linac Sources of Synchrotron Radiation, SRI2001 Conference, Madison, WI (2001)

  • "An Energy Recovery Linac-On-Ring Collider",
    L. Merminga, G. A. Krafft, and V. Lebedev,
    Proceedings of the International High Energy Accelerator Conference, (2001)

  • "Measuring and Controlling Energy Spread in CEBAF",
    G. A. Krafft, J.-C. Denard, R. W. Dickson, R. Kazimi, V. A. Lebedev, and M. G. Tiefenback,
    Proceedings of the 20th International Linac Conference, 721 (2000)

  • "Diagnostics for Ultrashort Bunches",
    G. A. Krafft,
    Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Beam Instrumentation, 48 (1997)

Professional Activities
  • Member of American Physical Society
  • Member of PAC Program Committees, 1999, 2001



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