Particle Accelerators and Beams Conference 2023

from Thursday 29 June 2023 (09:30) to Friday 30 June 2023 (19:50)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
29 Jun 2023
30 Jun 2023
AM
10:00 --- Registration and coffee ๐Ÿต ---
10:30 Conference Welcome - Dr Melissa Uchida (University of Cambridge (GB))   ()
10:35 Welcome to Strathclyde - Mark Wiggins (University of Strathclyde)   ()
10:40 Keynote talk: The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) (title tbc) - Yifang Wang   ()
11:20 Plenary talk: Laser Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators - Dr Laura Corner (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)   ()
11:50 Plenary talk: Muon colliders for a post-LHC HEP programme - Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (Science and Technology Facilities Council)   ()
09:30 Keynote talk: A Vision for Fermilab - Lia Merminga   ()
10:10 Plenary talk: CERN's Collider Options: The Path Forward - Mike Lamont (CERN)   ()
10:40 --- Coffee ๐Ÿต ---
11:00
Parallel talks - Hossein Ghasem (Diamond Light Source) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Update on CLARA Facility at Daresbury Laboratory - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (Daresbuy Laboratory)   ()
11:15 Gammarchy in the UK: Design of a tunable, quasimonochromatic gamma ray beam source at Daresbury Laboratory - Alexander Morris   ()
11:30 Upgrades to the Injector Complex for Diamond-II - Ian Martin (Diamond Light Source)   ()
11:45 An Introduction to the UK XFEL Conceptual Design and Options Analysis - Dr Neil Thompson (CCLRC/ASTeC Daresbury Laboratory)   ()
12:00 STFC and Sustainable Particle Accelerators - Hywel Owen (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)   ()
12:15 Concept of Circular-Linear energy recovery accelerator to probe the energy-frontier and partner Big Science and Industry - Ivan Konoplev (University of Oxford)   ()
11:00
Parallel talks - Mel O'Leary (Dalton Cunbria Facility) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 An Optimisation Framework for Underexpanded Jets (tbc) - Oliver Simon Stringer (University of Liverpool (GB))   ()
11:15 Novel emittance diagnostics: utilising optical radiation for single-shot measurements - Catherine Swain (University of Liverpool)   ()
11:30 Propose a beam halo monitor for hadron machines based on an ionisation monitor with a supersonic molecular curtain beam - Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute)   ()
11:45 Overcoming the tyranny of accelerators with PIMS - Stewart Freeman (SUERC)   ()
12:00 Neutron production in the relativistic frame using heavy ion bombardment - Andy Smith (University of Manchester)   ()
12:15 Multi-parameter Bayesian optimisation of laser-driven ion acceleration in PIC simulations - Ewan Dolier (University of Strathclyde)   ()
PM
12:20 --- Lunch and Poster Session ๐Ÿฅ— ---
13:50
Parallel talks - Grace Manahan (until 15:05) ()
13:50 Terahertz-driven bunch manipulation for advanced accelerators - Dr Morgan Hibberd (The University of Manchester)   ()
14:05 Acceleration of a 100keV Electron Beam by Interaction with a Terahertz Pulse in a Tapered Dielectric Waveguide - Laurence Nix (Lancaster University & Cockcroft Institute) Laurence Nix (Strathclyde)   ()
14:20 Commissioning experiment on laser-driven proton acceleration on SCAPA - Mr Matthew Alderton (University Of Strathclyde)   ()
14:35 Ultra-compact X-ray free-electron laser near the cold beam limit - Ahmad Fahim Habib (University of Strathclyde)   ()
14:50 LhARA: The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications - William Shields   ()
13:50
Parallel talks - Jason Mill (until 15:05) ()
13:50 Hybrid Electromagnet-Permanent Magnet Tuneable Optics for Low Emittance Storage Rings - Mr Alex Hinton   ()
14:05 GEANT4 neutrino beam simulations for the T2K experiment - Dr Lucas Nascimento Machado (University of Glasgow)   ()
14:20 Developing a Two-Colour All-Fibre Balanced Optical Cross-Correlator for Sub-Femtosecond Synchronisation - Jonathan Christie   ()
14:35 Optics design of a prototype high intensity Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerator (FFA) - Shinji Machida (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB)) Shinji Machida (STFC/RAL)   ()
14:50 A double-crystal setup for LHC fixed-target experiments - Dr Kay Dewhurst (CERN)   ()
15:05 --- Coffee ๐Ÿต ---
15:30 Plenary talk: Fast reactive tuners for RF (title tbc) - Nicholas Shipman (Lancaster University (GB))   ()
16:00 IOP PAB Group Prize talk: FELs, and everything else... - Dr Brian McNeil (University of Strathclyde)   ()
18:00
Civic reception ๐Ÿฅ‚ (until 19:00) ()
19:00
Conference dinner + Prizes ๐Ÿฅ‡ (until 21:30) ()
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:20 Panel discussion: The future of accelerators for High Energy Physics, chaired by John Womersley - Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB)) Chris Rogers (RAL) Lia Merminga Prof. Stewart Takashi Boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London) Yifang Wang John Womersley (European Spallation Source) Mike Lamont (CERN)   ()
14:40 --- Coffee ๐Ÿต ---
15:00 Plenary talk: EPAC โ€“ A New, Advanced Facility for Applications of Laser-driven Accelerators - Daniel Symes (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   ()
15:30 Dedication to Adrian Cross - Kevin Ronald   ()
15:40 Overview of the SCAPA facility - Mark Wiggins (University of Strathclyde)   ()
15:50
Tours of the SCAPA facility (until 17:30) ()