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Medani Sangroula

Accelerator Physics, Collider Accelerator Department

Medani Sangroula

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Collider Accelerator Department
Bldg. 911B, Room 208
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-7069
msangroul@bnl.gov

Pronouns: He/him/his

Medani P. Sangroula is an Accelerator Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. His research focuses on the design and optimization of particle accelerator components, including Beam Position Monitors (BPMs), stripline injection kickers, collimators, BBQ kickers, tune-meter kicker assemblies, and high-power RF input couplers. He also conducts beam-induced heating and thermal analysis for critical Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) vacuum chamber components and manages RHIC IPM profile tuning and troubleshooting during RHIC operations. Previously, he contributed in the operation of particle (electron) accelerator for the Coherent Electron Cooling (CeC) project. 

Dr. Sangroula earned his Ph.D. in Accelerator Physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, in 2018, where his dissertation focused on "Coupling Impedance Measurement and Analysis of Critical Vacuum Chamber Components for the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U)" at Argonne National Laboratory. During his Ph.D., he developed a novel coupling impedance measurement technique using the Goubau Line method.

Before joining BNL in 2019, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT, designing and optimizing the RF input coupler for the IsoDAR RFQ.

Expertise | Education | Appointments | Publications

Expertise

Design optimization of accelerator components,  beam-induced heating and thermal analysis, wakefield and impedance analysis, beam instrumentation, beam operations, TDR simulations

Education

Ph. D. in Accelerator Physics, Illinois Istitute of Technology, Chicago IL

M. Sc. in Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal

Professional Appointments

2021- Present: Staff Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York

2019- 2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York

2018- 2019: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

2014- 2018: Graduate Research Assistant, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

2012- 2014: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Science Chicago, IL

Selected Publications

  • M. Sangroula, C. Liu, I. Pinayev, R. Hulsart, R. Michnoff, A. Blednykh, C. Hetzel, D. Gassner, F. Micolon, J. Bellon, K. Matsushima, V. Ptitsyn (2024) Design of the Cryogenic BPM pick-up for the EIC Hadron Storage Ring https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-WEPG10
  • Sangroula M, Blednykh A, Hetzel C, et al (2024) Update on the Beam-induced Heating and Thermal Analysis for the EIC Vacuum Chamber Components https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/ipac2024/pdf/MOPS21.pdf
  • Sangroula M, Bellon J, Blednykh A, et al (2022) Localized Beam Induced Heating Analysis of the EIC Vacuum Chamber Components. Proceedings of the 5th North American Particle Accelerator Conference NAPAC2022:USA. https://doi.org/10.18429/JACOW-NAPAC2022-WEPA85
  • Sangroula M, Liaw C-J, Liu C, et al (2022) Design Update on the HSR Injection Kicker for the EIC
  • Sangroula MP, Winklehner D, Schuett M (2021) Design and optimization of the RF input-coupler for a low-frequency, split-coaxial RFQ. Journal of Instrumentation 16:P08061. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/p08061
  • Sangroula MP, Lindberg RR, Lill RM, Zabel R (2020) Measuring vacuum component impedance for the Argonne Advanced Photon Source upgrade. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 23:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevaccelbeams.23.082803
  • Sangroula MP, Liaw CJ, Liu C, et al (2025) Design of the EIC hadron storage ring stripline injection kicker with a novel impedance tuning capability. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams 28:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevaccelbeams.28.020401
Medani Sangroula

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Collider Accelerator Department
Bldg. 911B, Room 208
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-7069
msangroul@bnl.gov

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