UK Accelerator Institutes Seminar Series Spring 2026 (Session 16)

Contribution List

27. Observation of quantum effects on radiation reaction in strong fields

Eva Los (University of Oxford)

14/05/2026, 16:00

Radiation reaction describes the effective force experienced by an accelerated charge due to radiation emission. Quantum effects dominate charge dynamics and radiation production for charges accelerated by fields with strengths approaching the Schwinger field, E_sch = 1.3 × 10¹⁸ Vm^-1. Such fields exist in extreme astrophysical environments such as pulsar...

29. Advanced imaging techniques with laboratory and laser driven x-ray sources

Silvia Cipiccia (UCL)

28/05/2026, 16:00

Synchrotron facilities are the gold standard for x-ray imaging. However, the high demand for easily accessible, low-cost sources has driven the widespread use of standard laboratory x-ray sources, based on solid rotating anode, nowadays used in industries, airports, as well as hospitals and universities.

In between the synchrotron and the standard laboratory sources, there is a new...

23. The LhARA Project

William Shields (RHUL)

11/06/2026, 16:00

LhARA is multidisciplinary & international collaboration that together are developing a proposed research facility that seeks to exploit laser-driven ions in a hybrid acceleration scheme that will deliver a systematic radiation biology programme and will lay the technological foundations for the transformation of proton and ion beam therapy.

The LhARA accelerator uses the target normal...

20. The Electron Ion Collider Project: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities - POSTPONED TO NEXT SESSION

Dr Tatiana Pieloni (EPFL)

18/06/2026, 16:00

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a next-generation, U.S. accelerator facility designed to collide electrons with protons and nuclei, enabling precision studies of the quark–gluon structure of matter. Beyond its scientific mission, the EIC represents a major advance in accelerator design, integrating innovative solutions for high luminosity, crab cavities and cooling technologies, and complex...

22. Seminar 4

16. Seminar 5

28. Seminar 6

25. Seminar 7

17. The Accelerator on a Nanophotonic Chip

Prof. Peter Hommelhoff (LMU Munich)

The highly successful RF accelerator technology is based on a structured vacuum, fit to the wavelength of the driving RF or microwave fields. The same principle can be used with light. Because the wavelength of light lies around 1 micron, acceleration structures need to be fabricated with a feature size on the sub-micron scale – a standard size for cleanroom-based nanofabrication. We will...