Steve Peggs
Adjunct Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Office: Brookhaven National Laboratory, RHIC
Research Group Website | Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2024 Aug 30)
Biography:
Stephen Peggs is a senior accelerator physicist at BNL and an adjunct professor at
Stony Brook University. He was closely involved in designing, building and commissioning
the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL. He also worked on several other
accelerators, including CESR at Cornell, the SPS collider at CERN, the SSC in Texas,
the Tevatron and the Main Injector at Fermilab, and the European Spallation Source
in Sweden. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Research Statement:
My primary accelerator physics research interests continue to be accelerator design
and performance, with a focus on linear and nonlinear beam dynamics. Accelerators
of current interest include RHIC, the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), Accelerator-Driven
Sub-critical Reactors, and a potential Muon Collider. The question "How does a particle
accelerator work?" is addressed at the graduate student level in a text book by Peggs
and Satogata: "Introduction to Accelerator Dynamics", Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-13284-9.