Led the redesign of the ESS linac in 2012-2014 to reduce the cost of the linac by 75 million Euros. The redesign now forms the new baseline of the ESS accelerator complex.
American Physical Society Fellow
Elected in 2003 for important contributions in increasing the performance of the Fermilab Accelerator complexScientist III
Promoted in 2008 for “for sustained leadership and fundamental technical contributions in achieving full realization of the performance potential of the Tevatron Collider and for leadership in identifying future options for development of the Fermilab accelerator complex.” Scientist III is the highest tenured level at Fermilab and is equivalent to the tenure level of a full professor.Instrument Scientist with the 21cm Project Led the Fermilab effort in the 21 cm Cylindrical Radio Telescope Collaboration charged with developing instrument requirements and design.Project X
Conceived the initial fundamental concept of the Fermilab Project X which is a superconducting linac based on ILC technology.Associate Accelerator Division Head
In charge of systems, integration, and operations of the Fermilab accelerator complex. Supervisor of seven systems department heads that oversees the activities of approximately 150 people. In charge of day-to-day operations of the Accelerator complex. Oversaw a factor of three increase in total integrated, weekly integrated and peak luminosity from June 2003-June 2005. Member of the machine advisory committees for LHC, ILC, RHIC, and LANSCERun II Upgrades Technical Manager Technical architect of the Run II upgrades. The project will last about four years and will involve 60 full time staff members. The total project cost is estimated at about $30 million.Fermilab Antiproton Source Department Head The Antiproton Source Department was the largest source of antiprotons in the world. The source consisted of two synchrotrons each with a circumference of 500 meters. The source also contained 10 microwave stochastic cooling systems with a total bandwidth spanning 1-8 GHz. Responsible for supervising a staff of 20 people which included eight Ph.D’s. Oversaw the commissioning of the Antiproton Source for Run II. Invented the concept of the shot lattice and the 4-8 GHz transverse core cooling upgrade for a two-fold increase in beam brightness. Developed numerous instrumentation systems including antiproton closure systems for the Debuncher, Accumulator, and Tevatron.Fermilab Proton Source Department Head The Proton Source Department is responsible for one third of all the accelerators at Fermilab. These accelerators include a 130 meter long, 400 MeV LINAC with a pulsed RF power output of 110 megawatts, and an 8 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron that is 475 meters in circumference. The department head is responsible for supervising a staff of 34 people, which includes six Ph.D’s and six M.S.E.E’s. The annual budget of the Proton Source Department is over two million dollars in materials and services.RF and Microwave Engineering at Fermilab- Project leader for the Run II Accumulator 4-8 GHz Transverse Stochastic Cooling Upgrade.
- Conceived, designed, and oversaw the construction and commissioning of the Debuncher 4-8 GHz Stochastic Cooling Upgrade. Invented the concept of slotted waveguide slow-wave arrays to couple to the antiproton beam.
- Designed, constructed, and commissioned all the beam stabilization systems for the 1996-1997 Fermilab Fixed Target Run. - Employee Recognition Award on August 8, 1997 for work related to the 1996 Fixed Target Dampers.
- Introduced the concept using narrowband dampers for the Fermilab Booster. Designed and commissioned the Fermilab Booster narrow band damper system.
- Project leader of the Antiproton Source Stochastic Cooling Stack-Tail Upgrade. Invented the concept of planar loops.
- Project leader for the Debuncher Stochastic Cooling Transverse Aperture Upgrade
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering 30-May-1987
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research in the area of superconducting RF devices. Research for the thesis involved the fabrication of integrated superconducting Josephson Junction VFT circuits for use in a millimeter-wave distributed amplifier circuit - Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering 31-Dec-1984
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Report topic: The Superconducting Vortex Flow Transistor. - Masters of Science in Physics 31-May 1983
University of Illinois-Urbana - Bachelors of Science in General Engineering - Secondary field: Physics 31-May-1982
University of Illinois-Urbana
Honors
- Frank Rogers Bacon Fellowship (Wisconsin)
- Hartman Fellowship Award (Cornell)
- Graduation with Highest Honors (Illinois)
- University Honors - Bronze Tablet (Illinois)
- Edmund J. James Scholar (Illinois)
- New Design Approaches for High Intensity Superconducting Linacs - The New ESS Linac Design
David McGinnis,
5th International Particle Accelerator Conference IPAC-14 Invited Talk - A Very Intense Neutrino Super Beam Experiment for Leptonic CP Violation Discovery based on the European Spallation Source Linac
E. Baussan et al,
arXiv.org>hep-ex>arXiv:1309.7022 A Snowmass 2013 White Paper. - RF strip-line anodes for Psec large-area MCP-based photodetectors
Herv Grabas et al,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment 09/2013; 711:124=131. - A ground-based 21cm Baryon acoustic oscillation survey
Hee-Jong Seo Scott Dodelson John Marriner, Dave McGinnis, Albert Stebbins, Chris Stoughton, Alberto Vallinotto,
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 721, Number 1, August 2010 - 21 cm Intensity Mapping
J. Peterson et al,
arXiv.org>astro-ph>arXiv:0902.3091 - A Measurement of the Rate of type-Ia Supernovae at Redshift z ≈0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
SDSS Collaboration (Benjamin Dilday et al.),
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 682, Number 1, Jan 2008 - First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
SDSS-II Collaboration (Chen Zheng et al.),
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 135, Number 5, Feb 2008 - The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Photometry and Supernova IA Light Curves from the 2005 Data
SDSS-II Collaboration (Jon A.. Holtzman et al.),
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 136, Number 6, Dec 2008 - The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary
J. Frieman et al,
The Astronomical Journal 12/2007; 135(1):338. - Beam decelerations with variable momentum compaction in the Fermilab anti-proton accumulator
D.P. McGinnis, G. Stancari, S.J. Werkema,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 506, Issue 3, 1 July 2003, Pages 205-216 - A Nondestructive fast beam profile monitor
W.S. Graves, V. Bharadwaj, D. McGinnis,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Volume 364, Issue 1, 21 September 1995, Pages 13-18 - An Introduction to stochastic cooling
J. Marriner, D. McGinnis ,
The Physics of Particle Accelerators Vol. I, Volume 249, pp. 693-761, March 10, 1992 - Theory and Design of Microwave Planar Electrodes for Stochastic Cooling of Particle Beams
McGinnis, D.P,
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 4, No. 11, October 1991. - Vortex Flow Devices
D. P. McGinnis, J. B. Beyer, and J. E. Nordman,
Microwaves and RF, Vol. 27, No. 9, 71, September 1988 - A broad-band microwave superconducting thin-film transformer
McGinnis, D.P., Beyer, J.B.,
Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on , vol.36, no.11, pp.1521-1525, Nov 1988 - A cryogenic system for RF measurements on superconducting vortex flow transistors
McGinnis, D.P., Beyer, J.B., Nordman, J.E.,
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on , vol.37, no.2, pp.274-276, Jun 1988 - Vector S-parameter measurements of the superconducting vortex flow transistor
McGinnis, D.P., Beyer, J.B., Nordman, J.E.
Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on , vol.35, no.2, pp.240-244, Feb 1988 - Gain measurements of the superconducting vortex flow transistor at high frequencies
McGinnis, D. P., Beyer, J. B., Nordman, J. E.,
Journal of Applied Physics , vol.63, no.8, pp.2828-2830, Apr 1988 - Distributed amplifier using Josephson vortex flow transistors
McGinnis, D. P., Beyer, J. B., Nordman, J. E.,
Journal of Applied Physics , vol.59, no.11, pp.3917-3919, Jun 1986
Conference Proceedings
- The European Spallation Source
M. Lindroos, M. Eshraqi, D.P. McGinnis,
FRYAA2 Proceedings of PAC2013, Pasadena, CA USA - European Spallation Source Afterburner Concept
D.P. McGinnis, M. Lindroos, R. Miyamoto,
THPWO073 Proceedings of IPAC2013, Shanghai, China - Applications of High Power Induction Output Tubes in High Intensity Superconducting Proton Linacs
Frank Gerigk, M.R.F. Jensen, R. Garoby, M. Lindroos, D. McGinnis, E. Montesinos, A. Sunesson,
14th IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference, IVEC, Paris; 05/2013 - Design Options of the ESS Linac
M. Eshraqi, H. Danared, D.P. McGinnis,
Proceedings of IPAC2013, Shanghai, China THPWO072 - The ESS Linac Design
M. Lindroos, H. Danared, C. Darve, D.P. McGinnis, S. Molloy,
TH2A01 Proceedings of LINAC2012, Tel-Aviv, Israel - Investigation of Feedback Control for Klystron Ripple
R. Zeng, D.P. McGinnis, S. Molloy, A.J. Johansson,
Proceedings of IPAC2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA THPPC083 - Control Performance Improvement by Using Feedforward in LLRF
R. Zeng, D.P. McGinnis, S. Molloy, A.J. Johansson,
THPPC082 Proceedings of IPAC2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Upgrade Strategies for High Power Proton Linacs
M. Lindroos, H. Danared, M. Eshraqi, D.P. McGinnis, S. Molloy, S. Peggs, K. Rathsman, R.D. Duperrier, J. Galambos,
WEPS064 Proceedings of IPAC2011, San Sebastian, Spain - Debuncher cooling performance
P.F. Derwent, David McGinnis, Ralph Pasquinelli, David Vander Meulen, Steven Werkema,
BEAM COOLING AND RELATED TOPICS: International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics - COOL05, March 2006 - Performance and upgrades of the Fermilab Accumulator stacktail stochastic cooling
P.F. Derwent, Ed Cullerton, David McGinnis, Ralph Pasquinelli, Ding Sun, David Tinsley,
BEAM COOLING AND RELATED TOPICS: International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics - COOL05, March 2006 - Fermilab Tevatron Operational Status
McGinnis, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2005. PAC 2005. Proceedings of the , vol., no., pp. 484- 488, 16-20 May 2005 - Slotted waveguide slow-wave stochastic cooling arrays
McGinnis, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999 , vol.3, no., pp.1713-1715 vol.3, 1999 - The 4-8 GHz stochastic cooling upgrade for the Fermilab Debuncher
McGinnis, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999 , vol.1, no., pp.59-61 vol.1, 1999 - Measurement and simulation results of Ti coated microwave absorber
Sun, D., McGinnis, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999 , vol.2, no., pp.854-856 vol.2, 1999 - Controlling the resistive wall instability in the Fermilab Main Ring
Capista, D., McGinnis, D., Steimel, J., Kourbanis, I., Still, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997 , vol.2, no., pp.1721-1723 vol.2, 12-16 May 1997 - Observation and cure of longitudinal coupled-bunch instabilities in the Fermilab Main Ring
Assadi, S., Kourbanis, I., McGinnis, D., Steimel, J.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997 , vol.2, no., pp.2323-2325 vol.2, 12-16 May 1997 - Slip Stacking for the Fermilab luminosity upgrade
Shukla, S., Ankenbrandt, C., Capista, D., Kourbanis, I., Marriner, J., McGinnis, D., Steimel, J., Tomlin, R.
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997 , vol.1, no., pp.144-146 vol.1, 12-16 May 1997 - Overview of coupled bunch active damper systems at FNAL
James Steimel, James L. Crisp, Heng-jie Ma, John Marriner, Dave McGinnis,
7th Beam Instrumentation Workshop (BIW 96), Argonne, Illinois, 6-9 May 1996 - Analog dampers in the Fermilab Booster
Herrup, D.A., McGinnis, D., Steimel, J., Tomlin, R.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995 , vol.5, no., pp.3010-3012 vol.5, 1-5 May 1995 - A study of the longitudinal coupled bunch instability in the Fermilab Main Ring
Junck, K., Marriner, J., McGinnis, D., Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995.,
Proceedings of the 1995 , vol.5, no., pp.3013-3015 vol.5, 1-5 May 1995 - 132 nsec bunch spacing in the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider
Holmes, S.D., Holt, J.A., Johnstone, J., Marriner, J., Martens, M., McGinnis, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995 , vol.1, no., pp.434-436 vol.1, 1-5 May 1995 - Status of the Fermilab booster after the 400-MeV upgrade
D. McGinnis,
4th European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 94), London, England , 27 Jun - 1 Jul 1994 - The design of beam pickup and kickers
D.P. McGinnis,
6th Beam Instrumentation Workshop (BIW 94), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,2-6 Oct 1994 - Damping in the Fermilab Booster
Steimel, J.M., Jr., McGinnis, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993 , vol., no., pp.2100-2102 vol.3, 17-20 May 1993 - Reducing the coupled-bunch oscillation in the Fermilab Booster by optimizing RF voltage
Shan, J.P., McGinnis, D., Tomlin, R.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993 , vol., no., pp.3787-3789 vol.5, 17-20 May 1993 - Bunched beam stochastic cooling in the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
Jackson, G., Buchanan, E., Budlong, J., Harms, E., Hurh, P., McGinnis, D., Pasquinelli, R., Peterson, D., Poll, D., Seifrid, P.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993 , vol., no., pp.3533-3535 vol.5, 17-20 May 1993 - A pseudo real time tune meter for the Fermilab Booster
Wu, G., Bharadwaj, V., Lackey, J., McGinnis, D., Tomlin, R., Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993.,
Proceedings of the 1993 , vol., no., pp.2228-2230 vol.3, 17-20 May 1993 - Performance of the upgraded Stacktail Momentum Cooling system in the Fermilab antiproton source
Pasquinelli, R.J., McGinnis, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993 , vol., no., pp.2361-2363 vol.3, 17-20 May 1993 - A clean way to measure nonlinear momentum compaction factor a1
Skan, J.P., Kourbanis, I., McGinnis, D., Ng, K.Y., Peggs, S.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993 , vol., no., pp. 35- 37 vol.1, 17-20 May 1993 - Measurement techniques using the Tektronix 3052 DSP System
Steimel, J.M., Jr., McGinnis, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993 , vol., no., pp.2231-2233 vol.3, 17-20 May 1993 - Coupled bunch mode instabilities measurement and control
D.P. McGinnis,
1991 Accelerator Instrumentation Workshop, 28-31 Oct 1991, Newport News, Virginia - Longitudinal damper for the SSC
D. Boussard, J. Bridges, J. Fox, D. McGinnis,
Proceedings, Supercolliders and superdetectors, Erice 1991/1992,173-180 - Coupled bunch dipole mode measurements of accelerating beam in the Fermilab Booster
McGinnis, D., Marriner, J., Bharadwaj, V.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1255-1257 vol.2, 6-9 May 1991 - Beam transfer function measurements of accelerating beam in the Fermilab Booster
McGinnis, D., Marriner, J., Bharadwaj, V.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1258-1260 vol.2, 6-9 May 1991 - Design of 4-8 GHz stochastic cooling equalizers for the Fermilab Accumulator
McGinnis, D., Marriner, J.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1392-1394 vol.3, 6-9 May 1991 - Design of 4-8 GHz bunched beam stochastic cooling arrays for the Fermilab Tevatron
McGinnis, D., Budlong, J., Jackson, G., Marriner, J., Poll, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1389-1391 vol.3, 6-9 May 1991 - A test of bunched beam stochastic cooling in the Fermilab Tevatron collider
Jackson, G., Buchanan, E., Budlong, J., Harms, E., Lee, G., Marriner, J., McGinnis, D., Pasquinelli, R., Peterson, D., Poll, D., Rohde, D., Seifrid, P., Voy, D.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1758-1760 vol.3, 6-9 May 1991 - Bunched beam Schottky signal measurements for the Tevatron stochastic cooling system.
G. Jackson, J. Marriner, D. McGinnis, R. Pasquinelli, D. Peterson,
Workshop On Advanced Beam Instrumentation (ABI) 22-24 Apr 1991, Tsukuba, Japan - Operation of the Fermilab Accumulator for Medium Energy Proton-Antiproton Physics
V. Bharadwaj, C. Bhat, D. Broemmelsiek, M. Church, M. Gormley, A. Hahn, E. Harms, S. Y. Hsueh, G. Jackson, J. MacLachlan, J. Marriner, D. McGinnis, J. Peoples, P. Rapidis, X. Q. Wang, S. Werkema,
2nd European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 90) 12-16 Jun 1990, Nice, France - Bunched Beam Cooling in the FNAL Accumulator
J. Marriner, G. Jackson, D. McGinnis, R. Pasquinelli, D. Peterson, J. Petter
2nd European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 90)12-16 Jun 1990, Nice, France. - Single superconducting thin film devices for applications in high Tc materials circuits
Hohenwarter, G.K.G., Martens, J.S., McGinnis, D.P., Beyer, J.B., Nordman, J.E., Ginley, D.S.,
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.25, no.2, pp.954-956, Mar 1989 - Frequency response of 4-8 GHz stochastic cooling electrodes
McGinnis, D., Petter, J., Marriner, J., Misek, J., Hsueh, S.Y.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1989. Accelerator Science and Technology., Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE , vol., no., pp.639-641 vol.1, 20-23 Mar 1989 - New 4-8 GHz core cooling pickups and kickers for the Fermilab accumulator
Petter, J., McGinnis, D., Marriner, J., Misek, J.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1989. Accelerator Science and Technology., Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE , vol., no., pp.648-650 vol.1, 20-23 Mar 1989 - Novel stochastic cooling pickups/kickers
Petter, J., McGinnis, D., Marriner, J.,
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1989. Accelerator Science and Technology., Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE , vol., no., pp.636-638 vol.1, 20-23 Mar 1989 - A film transmission line resonator to measure the microwave surface resistance of YBa2Cu3O7-x
Martens, J.S., Hohenwarter, G.K.G., McGinnis, D.P., Beyer, J.B., Ginley, D.S.,
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.25, no.2, pp.984-986, Mar 1989 - Observation of microwave comb generation with a Josephson junction array
Hohenwarter, G.K.G., McGinnis, D.P., Beyer, J.B., Nordman, J.E.,
Microwave Symposium Digest, 1989., IEEE MTT-S International , vol., no., pp.447-450 vol.1, 13-15 Jun 1989 - A modified superconducting current injection transistor and distributed amplifier design
McGinnis, D.P., Beyer, J.B., Nordman, J.E.,
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.25, no.2, pp.1262-1265, Mar 1989 - Experimental results of a vortex flow transistor amplifier
McGinnis, D.P., Hohenwarter, G.K.G., Ketkar, M., Beyer, J.B., Nordman, J.E.,
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.25, no.2, pp.1258-1261, Mar 1989 - Design of variable phase velocity kinetic inductance delay lines and their measured characteristics when fabricated by a simple Nb based process
Hohenwarter, G.K.G., Martens, J.S., Beyer, J.B., Nordman, J.E., McGinnis, D.P.,
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.25, no.2, pp.1100-1103, Mar 1989 - Optimization of circuit parameters for the vortex flow transistor
McGinnis, D., Nordman, J., Beyer, J.,
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.23, no.2, pp. 699- 702, Mar 1987