Compact muon sources

12 Jan 2015, 13:20 → 13 Jan 2015, 16:10 Europe/Zurich

Buckley Lecture Theatre (University of Huddersfield)

Workshop on future compact muon sources, jointly organised with the NMI3 project.

Monday, 12 January

13:20 → 13:30 Introduction

Speaker: Steve Cottrell

Slides 02-Cottrell.pptx

13:30 → 13:55 Future muon sources: Meeting overview

Speaker: Robert Cywinski (U)

Slides Future_Muon_Sources_2015.pptx

13:55 → 15:45 Session 1: Muon production and accelerator technologies

13:55 Simulations of muon production targets

Speaker: Dr Adriana Bungau (The University of Manchester)

Slides Muon_Workshop_2015.pdf

14:20 HiMB: Towards a new high intensity muon beam

Speaker: Peter-Raymond Kettle (Paul Scherrer Institut PSI)

Slides FMSW2015-Kettle.pdf FMSW2015-Kettle.pptx

14:45 Muon beamlines and Target Technologies at J-PARC

Speaker: Naritoshi Kawamura (KEK)

Slides FutureMuonSources_20150112.pptx

15:10 Future application of FFAG’s for muon production

Speaker: Yoshi Mori

Slides talk_FFAG14_mod.pdf

15:35 Discussion

15:45 → 16:05 Coffee

16:05 → 18:10 Session 2: Specialised beams

16:05 Comparison between laser and conventional muon sources

Speaker: Stephanie Ford

Slides lasers-accelerators_(1).pdf

16:30 MuCool: Towards a much improved phase space slow positive muon beam

Speaker: Andreas Knecht (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Slides Andreas_Knecht_-_muCool.pdf

16:55 An overview of the Muon International Cooling Experiment (MICE)

Speaker: Roy Preece (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides MICE_Overview.pptx

17:20 Muon collider technology

Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College London)

Slides 2015-01-12-Huddersfield-Long.pptx

17:45 Muon production using a high power cyclotron

Speaker: Luciano Calabretta

Slides Cyclotrons_for_Muon_Factories.ppt

19:00 → 21:30 Reception and dinner

Tuesday, 13 January

09:00 → 10:50 Session 3: Condensed matter μSR / New Techniques

09:00 Muons for condensed matter research

Speaker: Tom Lancaster

Slides lancaster_huddersfield.pptx

09:25 Muon spectroscopy of photo-excited states

Speaker: Alan Drew

Slides MuonSourcesTalk_Drew.pdf

09:50 Low energy muons at PSI

Speaker: Thomas Prokscha

Slides LowEnergyMuonsAtPSI.pdf

10:15 Low energy muons using laser ionisation

Speaker: Katsuhiko Ishida (R)

Slides Ishida-slow-muon-Huddesfield_20150113.pdf

10:40 Discussion

10:50 → 11:10 Coffee

11:10 → 12:30 Session 4: Update and outlook from the Facilities

11:10 PSI

Speaker: Elvezio Morenzoni

Slides Huddersfield-Morenzoni-FacilityPresentation-2015-nn.pptx

11:25 ISIS

Speaker: Adrian Hillier

Slides ISIS_Update.pptx

11:40 RIKEN

Speaker: Philip King

Slides FutureMuonSources_PhilipKing.pptx

11:55 J-PARC

Speaker: Naritoshi Kawamura (KEK)

Slides FutureMuonSources_kawamura.pptx

12:10 Discussion

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:20 Session 5: Novel applications of muons

13:30 Muon tomography - monitoring CO2 goestorage sites 24/7

Speakers: Jon Gluyas, Lee Thompson (University of Sheffield)

Slides FutureMuonSourcesJan2015jg.pptx

13:55 Probing muon error effects using facility beams

Speaker: Adrian Hillier

Slides Chips_huddersfield2.pdf

14:20 Researching and commercialising muon tomography for security screening

Speaker: Michael Sossong

Slides DSIC_Sossong_Muon_Sources_Workshop_Reduced.pptx

14:45 Progress towards muon catalysed fusion

Speaker: Katsuhiko Ishida (R)

Slides Ishida-muCF-Huddersfield_20150113.pdf

15:10 Discussion

15:20 → 15:40 Coffee

15:40 → 16:10 Summary and discussion

Speaker: Rob Edgecock (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

Slides muon-workshop.pptx