Global Collaboration for Positive Societal Impacts
Sustainable Technological Advancements
Accel-Link focuses on (i) accelerator applications having the potential to reduce energy usage, carbon emissions, and/or pollution, (ii) accelerator technologies that are more energy efficient, utilize less consumable resources (water, helium etc.), and have a minimized physical footprint, (iii) accelerator developments yielding medical benefits and/or aiding safe food delivery, and (iv) advancing the use of quantum technologies and materials.
Education, Training and Workforce Development
Cultivating the Next Generation of Highly Qualified Personnel
Concomitant to the advancement of accelerator science and technology is the education of the next generation of vocational and graduate level personnel through the creation of specialized accelerator-based educational facilities, through research projects at universities and National Laboratories around the world, and through commercial means. In addition, research and commercial environments fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion and/or advocating for, or bringing awareness to these principles shall be sought, nurtured, and promoted.
Science Communications
Enhancing Knowledge Exchange through Profiles, Commentaries, and Articles
At Accel-Link we will concentrate on science communication as it relates to particle accelerator applications and technologies, as well as aspects of the cultural and geographical milieu in which such applications are undertaken and such technologies are used. In particular, we will explore the people who ensure the accelerators are operating, and maintained. We will interview students to learn about what interests them, and to discover why they chose this area of research or skills development. We will profile administrators, and business people, famous inventors, behind the scenes workers, and, of course, scientists, engineers, and technologists. We will learn about the science, but we will also delve into the strange locations, or not so strange locations to operate an accelerator (up in a mountain, in a museum, in a dense central business district …. ), and the types of food available for lunch for the employees at a National Laboratory, or at a medical radioisotope production facility, and other factors, circumstances and activities that we humans do as we live our lives whilst being involved in the world of particle accelerators.
Photo Image Caption submitted by Dr. Chris Griffin, TRIUMF:
“A student carefully places the Regina Cube for Multiple Particles (RCMP) detector at the centre of the Griffin gamma-ray detector array. The RCMP detector is an array of silicon detectors, in a close cubic geometry, that detects charged particles emitted during beta-decay.”
Commercial Endeavours
Broadening the Impact of Accelerator Technologies
Accel-Link commercial activities involve consulting, contract research assignments, start-up investments, and Board advisement work. Accel-Link leverages the Founder’s network across many National laboratories, universities, accelerator manufacturing companies, end-user companies, and suppliers to connect the community to solutions, ideas, technologies and people from one particle accelerator market segment to another, or from one technology domain to another. Often techniques that are well known in one area of particle accelerator application, are not very well known in another, and highly beneficial new developments can occur by linking old or new ideas from one area to another. This applies to advancing discovery science, or inventing a next generation accelerator system or component for medical isotope production, or for semiconductor manufacture through advances in ion implantation.