Bio
John Galambos is the director of the Proton Power Upgrade project at the Spallation Neutron Source. He has been involved in a variety of roles at SNS since its inception including design, construction, commissioning, power ramp-up and operation. He has led groups in accelerator physics, beam diagnostics, ion sources, high level accelerator software applications and high power target engineering. Before joining the accelerator and neutron scattering community he was involved in fusion, including participation in several large tokamak projects. John has a BS in physics (Emory U.) and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering (U. of Illinois.)
He is the recipient of DOE outstanding student mentor awards, the Fusion Power Associates excellence in fusion engineering award, is a member of the American Nuclear Society, and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Selected Publications
J. Galambos, "Operations Experience of SNS at 1.4 MW and Plans for Doubling the Beam Power",International Particle Accelerator Conference, 2019, Melbourne Australia, p. 4380-4385.
J. Galambos, “High Power Proton Beam Targets: Technological Evolution, Current Challenges and the Future”, International Particle Accelerator Conference, 2016, Busan, Korea, http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/ipac2016/papers/tuzb01.pdf
A. Shishlo, J. Galambos, A. Aleksandrov, V. Lebedev, M. Plum, “First Observation of Intrabeam Stripping of Negative Hydrogen in a Superconducting Linear Accelerator”, Physical Review Letters 108 (11), 2012, p.11480.
J. Galambos, “ SNS Operational Experience at the MW Level”, 46th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High- Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams Morschach Switzerland, 2010, p. 377-380, http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/HB2010/papers/tuo2c01.pdf
J. Galambos, S. Danilov, D. Jeon, J. A. Holmes, D. K. Olsen, F. Neri, M. Plum, “Comparison of Simulated and Observed Beam Profile Broadening on the Proton Storage Ring, and the Role of Space Charge”, Physical Review, Special Topics Accelerators and Beams, Vol. 3, (2000), p. 034201
J. Galambos, L.J. Perkins, S.W. Haney, J. Mandrekas, "Commercial Tokamak Potential with Advanced Physics Operation", Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 35, No. 5 (1995), 551-573.
J. Galambos, J. Gilligan, E. Greenspan, P. Stroud, G.H. Miley, "Discrete Nuclear Elastic Scattering Effects in Cat-D and D-3He Fusion Plasmas", Nuc. Fusion, 24, (1984), 739.