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Early life and education
[edit]Rama Calaga grew up in India and at an early age, he became deeply interested with physics. Calaga recognizes however, that his conception of physics was "more a fascination than reality."[1] When he was 18[2], Calaga moved to the United States and attended Truman State in Missouri to obtain his undergraduate degree. Being a small school, its population of physics students was quite low - eight while Calaga was there. Although there were only eight students, there were seven professors that made up the physics department. Calaga accredits his motivation for going to graduate school and studying for a Ph.D to these professors, who spent countless hours on the few students that they had.
Before he finished his undergraduate, Calaga attended an REU - a research experience for undergraduates that is funded by the National Science Foundation. There, he participated in hands-on, experimental research in particle physics. This spurred him to study particle physics for his Ph.D, which he received from Stony Brook University in 2016.
Research Career
[edit]Directly after receiving his Ph.D in physics, Calaga went to work for the particle physics lab CERN as an applied physicist specializing in accelerator physics. He was brought there by a former program known as LARP. This lab is also known as the LHC - the large hadron collider. It is the largest machine ever made by human kind, so large that it is hosted by two countries, Switzerland and France. The machine runs underneath these two countries, making an enormous "doughnut" that particles encircle at extremely high velocities - close to the speed of light.
Since arriving in 2016, Calaga has mostly worked on superconducting radio-frequency cavities used for acceleration and deflection of particle beams. Before he had even arrived at CERN, Calaga had been working with a colleague who is one of their scientists. Together, they proposed the idea of a special type of deflecting cavity, called "crab cavities," that would increase the number of particle collisions at the LHC by 70%. This would be an enormous improvement. These cavities are currently being implemented in the LHC with the assistance of the UK, US, and Canada, and will be implemented by 2026.
Awards
[edit]- 2022 USPAS Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Science and Technology[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Careers ASE Rama Calaga - CASE". case.physics.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ^ "Rama Calaga | High Luminosity LHC Project". hilumilhc.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ^ "2022 USPAS Early-Career Award to Rama Calaga | High Luminosity LHC Project". hilumilhc.web.cern.ch. Retrieved 2025-03-24.