FFAG 2011 workshop

13 Sept 2011, 09:00 → 16 Sept 2011, 13:30 GB

Danson Room (Trinity College, Oxford)

Tuesday 13 September

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome and announcements

Speaker: Chris Prior (Unknown)

09:10 → 09:55 Status of EMMA

Speaker: Bruno Muratori (Unknown)

09:55 → 10:30 Status of FFAGs at KURRI

Speaker: Dr Yoshihiro Ishi (KURRI)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:45 Status and future of FFAGs at Kyusyu University

Speaker: Prof. Yoshiharu Mori (Kyoto University)

11:45 → 12:30 Advances in nonlinear NS FFAGs

Speaker: Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Advancement of FFAGs

Speaker: Prof. Yoshiharu Mori (Kyoto University)

14:45 → 15:15 Theoretical and experimental studies of a straight scaling FFAG line at KURRI

Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Lagrange

15:15 → 15:45 Serpentine acceleration in scaling FFAGs

Speaker: Ms Emi Yamakawa (Kyoto University)

15:45 → 16:05 Tea

16:05 → 16:50 Studies of a vertical orbit excursion FFAG

Speaker: Stephen Brooks (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

16:50 → 17:30 Project-X and a Neutrino Factory - proton bunching and acceleration options

Speaker: David Neuffer (Fermilab)

Wednesday 14 September

09:00 → 09:30 EMMA closed orbit, injection and extraction studies

Speaker: David Kelliher (ASTeC/RAL/STFC)

09:30 → 10:00 A Slow Resonance Crossing Experiment in EMMA

Speaker: Mr Jimmy Garland (Manchester University)

10:00 → 10:40 FFAGs for high power proton acceleration

Speaker: Leo Jenner (Imperial, UK)

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:45 Tracking protons in FFAGs and synchrotrons with tiny arcs

Speaker: Dr Kai Hock (Cockcroft Institute)

11:45 → 12:30 High current studies of proton FFAGs

Speaker: Dr Sam Tygier (Manchester University)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 An R&D FFAG for injection, 2 bunch stacking and ejection studies, with potential as an ISIS injector

Speaker: Mr Grahame Rees (RAL)

14:40 → 15:15 H- charge exchange injection into the 150 MeV FFAG

Speaker: Dr Kota Okabe (Fukui University)

15:15 → 15:45 Modelling FFAGs with COSY INFINITY

Speaker: Prof. Kyoko Makino (Michigan State University)

15:45 → 16:00 Tea

16:00 → 18:00 PRISM Session

Convener: Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London)

16:00 Review of recent studies of the PRISM FFAG

Speaker: Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College, London)

Thursday 15 September

09:00 → 09:30 A fixed-field solenoid lattice for an energy recovery internal target scheme

Speaker: Dr Chris Rogers (STFC)

09:30 → 10:15 RF in KURRI FFAGs

Speaker: Dr Tomonori Uesugi (KURRI)

10:15 → 10:45 Practical magnet design for FFAGs

Speaker: Prof. Neil Marks (STFC ASTeC)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 12:00 Optimisation of a low energy FFAG for industrial applications

Speaker: Prof. Roger Barlow (MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY)

12:00 → 12:30 Simulations of an isochronous non-scaling FFAG

Speaker: Suzie Sheehy (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

12:30 → 13:50 Lunch

13:50 → 14:00 Group photograph

14:00 → 14:45 Status of PAMELA

Speaker: Ken Peach (Particle Physics-University of Oxford)

14:45 → 15:15 Design of compact scaling FFAGs for medium energy hadron applications

Speaker: Dr Bin Qin (KURRI)

15:15 → 15:45 Proton/carbon NS FFAG for cancer therapy

Speaker: Dejan Trbojevic (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:45 → 16:15 Tea

16:15 → 17:00 Superconducting NS FFAG gantry for carbon cancer therapy

Speaker: Dejan Trbojevic (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:00 → 17:30 NS-FFAG gantry and transport line design for the PAMELA project

Speaker: Dr Richard Fenning (Brunel University)

19:00 → 19:30 Reception

19:30 → 22:30 Banquet

Friday 16 September

09:15 → 09:50 Possible induction acceleration in the EMMA NS FFAG

Speaker: Prof. Neil Marks (STFC ASTeC)

09:50 → 10:10 EMMA upgrades

Speaker: Bruno Muratori (Unknown)

10:10 → 10:30 Beyond EMMA (1)

Speaker: Prof. Roger Barlow (MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:20 Beyond EMMA (2)

Speaker: Shinji Machida (STFC/RAL)

11:20 → 11:40 Possible future international collaborations

Speaker: Prof. Yoshiharu Mori (Kyoto University)

11:40 → 12:30 Discussion: identify outstanding issues and future directions of work

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch