Abstract: The European Spallation Source (ESS), currently under construction in Lund, Sweden, is the world’s most powerful linear accelerator (linac) driving a neutron spallation source, with an ultimate beam average power of 5 MW at 2 GeV. The linac accelerates a proton beam of 62.5 mA peak current at 4 % duty cycle (2.86 ms at 14 Hz). The accelerator uses a normal conducting front-end...
Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron radiation facility, commissioned in 2006 and welcoming its external first users in 2007. The number of operating beamlines has grown steadily over time from the initial complement of 7 up to the present value of 35. This has only been possible by making several modifications to the structure of the storage ring, such as the ‘mini-beta’...
The ‘Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications’, LhARA, is conceived as a novel, uniquely flexible facility dedicated to the study of radiobiology. The technologies that will be demonstrated in LhARA have the potential to allow particle-beam therapy to be delivered in a completely new regime, combining a variety of ion species in a single treatment fraction and exploiting...
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) integrated study is preparing the long-term future of CERN with the study of two rings to be housed in a common tunnel, following the successful scheme of the LEP and LHC rings. In this seminar, I will present the status and aims of the on-going studies for the FCC-hh, together with the technological and accelerator physics challenges.
The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be the machine that will unlock the secrets of the strongest force in Nature. It will collide spin-polarised beams of electrons and ions, in order to study the properties of nuclear matter in detail via deep inelastic scattering. The EIC science case was developed by a large international community. In 2012 a White Paper was published, proposing the...
AWAKE is an accelerator R&D experiment to demonstrate for the first time ever, plasma wakefield acceleration of electrons in wakefields driven by a proton bunch and, in the future, take advantage of the large energy store in the proton bunch to reach very high energy gain in a single plasma.
The AWAKE Run 1 experiment finished successfully its proof-of-concept program by observing the strong...
Our team's activities centre around dynamic systems, predominantly for scientific inquiry. Our interest is in the physics-informed construction and use of digital twins in real-time control systems. Why? Our complex systems can have millions of process variables, change over time, and the subsystems can influence one another. Further, on top of controlling these systems as understanding of ...
The Fermilab Muon g-2 Collaboration has recently released its first measurement of the positive muon magnetic anomaly with a precision of 0.46 ppm. This measurement is consistent with the previous measurement made at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where there is a 4.2 standard deviation difference between the Standard Model prediction recommended by the Muon g-2 Theory Initiative and the...
