WEXN01

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URL	https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-WEXN01
Title	Accelerator workforce development
Authors	C. Clarke, J. Schmerge, M. Bai SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory A. Valishev, M. Kaducak, S. Posen, S. Gourlay Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory A. Stolz, J. Wei Facility for Rare Isotope Beams A. Seryi, E. Pozdeyev, V. Ziemann Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility B. Carlsten Los Alamos National Laboratory C. Geddes, L. Phair Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory E. Arenholz, L. Lari, M. Palmer, M. Minty Brookhaven National Laboratory F. Pilat, G. Johns Oak Ridge National Laboratory P. Piot, W. Wittmer Argonne National Laboratory T. Meyer Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Abstract	Accelerator science has been hugely influential on research, contributing to physics Nobel Prize-winning research every three years. The DOE Office of Science invests in accelerator science to sustain America’s excellence and constructs and operates large-scale scientific user facilities to be vital tools of discovery. Developing the next breakthroughs in accelerator science, and designing, building, and operating user facilities, requires a large, highly skilled workforce of accelerator scientists, engineers, and technical (AS&E) staff. Some portions of the AS&E workforce are best planned with a long-term, national perspective in mind. A roundtable meeting was called with participants comprising 9 DOE National Laboratories and the Office of Science Nuclear Physics User Facility FRIB. An approximate census of the current accelerator workforce at those institutions was assembled along with an approximate workforce projection with a 10-year horizon. Critical and endangered skillsets were identified and best practices for workforce development were shared. In recognition of the wider ecosystem, plans were discussed to expand the roundtable participants to universities and critical members of the accelerator industry in the next year.
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Conference	6th North American Particle Accel. Conf. (NAPAC2025)
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Location	Sacramento, CA, USA
Date	10-15 Aug 2025
Publisher	JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Board	Tor O. Raubenheimer (SLAC), Roark A. Marsh (LLNL), Eric Prebys (UC Davis), Ling Wang (MSU), Petr M. Anisimov (LANL), Kip Bishofberger (LANL), Gustavo Bruno (ANL), Zhichu Chen (SARI), Jan Chrin (PSI), Kelly Jaje (ANL), Jaeyu Lee (POSTECH), Magdalena Montes-Loera (SLAC), Mary Saethre (PHENOTYPE), Tasha Summers (SLAC), Kent Wootton (ANL)
Online ISBN	978-3-95450-261-5
Online ISSN	2673-7000
Received	08 August 2025
Revised	13 August 2025
Accepted	15 August 2025
Issued	28 January 2026
DOI	10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-WEXN01
Pages	625-629
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