Dr. Gerald A. Smith received his Ph. D. from Yale after completing research in experimental particle physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has extensive experience in particle beam optics, particle detectors, phenomenology of fundamental particle interactions, and computational analysis of particle physics data.

He was Research Physicist, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, and Instructor and Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley from 1961-67, and was member of the research team led by Physics Nobel Laureate Luis W. Alvarez, responsible for many important discoveries in particle physics. In 1967, Smith moved to Michigan State University, where he established a research laboratory involved with experiments at Fermilab. In 1983, Dr. Smith and his research group moved to Penn State University, where he became Head of the Department of Physics and Director of the Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science.

Using low energy antiproton storage ring facilities at CERN and Fermilab, Smith focused his research on the confinement of antimatter, and its interaction with matter. Since 1981, he has been a collaborator on CERN experiments PS177 (discovery of antiproton-induced fission), PS183 (search for new states of antimatter and matter), PS200 (trapping of antiprotons), and AD-1 (trapping of antiprotons, positrons, and formation of anti-hydrogen), and on Fermilab experiment #760 (antiproton formation of charmonium states).

Dr. McDevitt has extensive experience and backgroun in experimental nuclear physics and gamma ray counting systems, and is in charge of all gamma ray detection equipment at PRLLC. Dr. McDevitt worked with RF, HV, high voltage and particle accelerator systems while serving as Research Assistant (1997-2003) at the Triangle University Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). Dr. McDevitt served in the US Army as an Officer during 1992-1996.

Mr. Kirby Meyer co-designed the High Performance Antimatter Trap (HiPAT) in collaboration with the Propulsion Research Center at MSFC. He is conversant in neutral and non-neutral plasma physics, and is familiar with several codes used in these areas. He is familiar with contemporary rocket propulsion technology and turbomachinery.

Dr. Les Thode is an expert in basic theory, applied theory, model development, system analysis, code design and development, as well as theoretical-computational-experimental comparisons. He has worked in linear-and-nonlinear non-neutral plasma physics, PIC codes, electron-beam microwaves, high-power electron beam diodes, high-power radio-frequency accelerators, advanced directed energy, high-power free-electron lasers, solid-state vertical-cavity lasers, advanced programming techniques, brain tomography, gas-core nuclear rockets, molecular dynamics codes, strongly coupled plasma physics, atomic physics, and thermonuclear burn.

Mr. Vanderjack has over fifteen years experience in mechanical, electrical/electronic, vacuum, and cryogenic systems, including design fabrication and testing.