UK Accelerator Institutes Seminar Series Spring 2022 (Session 4)

Contribution List

9. Ion Sources

Dan Faircloth (STFC)

28/04/2022, 16:15

A quick journey through ion sources, from the plasma pioneers and hot filament ion sources, to microwave ion sources and Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion sources. Even higher charge states can be reached with Electron Beam ion sources. Vacuum arc and laser plasma ion sources are used for ‘hard to ionise’ materials. There are several good uses for negative ions, but how do you make them?...

1. ALS Upgrade Goals and Project Status

Christoph Steier (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Daniela Leitner (LBNL)

05/05/2022, 16:15

The ALS-U project will upgrade the existing Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Berkeley Lab to deliver diffraction limited photon beam performance and aims to increase the beam brightness by two orders of magnitude for soft x-rays compared to the current ALS facility. The storage ring design utilizes a nine-bend achromat lattice with reverse bending magnets and on-axis swap-out injection from an...

2. IsoDAR@YEMILAB and its next-generation proton cyclotron

Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield (GB))

12/05/2022, 16:15

The IsoDAR cyclotron design, for a neutrino experiment at YEMILAB, Korea, produces $60\,$MeV protons with a beam current of $10\,$mA. This is an order of magnitude larger than that from conventional machines and will be a game changer for medical isotope production.

This is achieved through three innovations: use of $\rm H_{2}^{+}$ as the accelerated particle, deploying an RFQ in place of...

3. The H2020 CompactLight Design Study

Andrea Latina (CERN)

19/05/2022, 16:15

CompactLight (XLS) is an H2020 Design Study funded by the Horizon 2020 Research Program and carried out by an International Collaboration of 26 partners and 5 third parties, including CERN, INFN, Elettra, and UKRI. The project, which started in January 2018 with a duration of 48 months, aimed at designing an innovative, compact, and cost-effective hard X-ray FEL facility complemented by a soft...

4. The Muon Collider

Daniel Schulte (CERN)

26/05/2022, 16:15

Recently, the muon collider has been recognised as an important option to be considered for the future of particle physics. It is part of the European Accelerator R&D Roadmap developed in 2021 and approved by the CERN Council. Also, interest is increasing in the Americas and in Asia, demonstrated, for example, by the ongoing Snowmass process. The presentation will give an introduction io the...

5. Distributed coupling Linear Accelerators and their applications

Sami Tantawi (SLAC)

31/05/2022, 16:15

We introduce a new type of linear accelerator for which the cells are isolated, and the RF is fed from a set of manifold waveguides that runs in parallel with the structure. These structures were originally motivated by the desire to optimize the accelerator cavity shapes for high gradient operation, which led to mostly isolated cells. We discuss the efforts being pursued to apply these new...

6. Lessons learnt in building a research capability for proton therapy; informing the design of a future Ion Therapy Research facility

Karen Kirkby (University of Manchester)

09/06/2022, 16:15

In April 2019 a meeting was held in Birmingham to discuss a future Ion Therapy Research Facility (ITRF). This meeting brought together a multidisciplinary audience including clinicians, clinical scientists, and academic scientists and engineers from across the life and physical sciences. Policy makers and funders also attended the meeting. The meeting agreed a consensus document and roadmap...

7. The CERN LHC Injector Complex

Rende Steerenberg (CERN)

16/06/2022, 16:15

The recently-upgraded CERN LHC Injector complex is not only a key ingredient for the production of high-brightness beams for the LHC and the future HL-LHC, but also provides various types of beams to a very rich and varied fixed-target programme. A pulse-to-pulse modulated settings scheme make the injector complex very versatile, allowing efficient beam-time sharing for the experiments. This...

8. Accelerator Physics at Fermilab's IOTA ring

Sergei Nagaitsev

The Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) at the Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) facility has been operating since 2018. The IOTA ring was first commissioned with 100-MeV electrons and, to date, performed three experimental runs. The IOTA research program aims at attaining maximum beam intensities and brightness in future ring accelerators while minimizing the...