JAI Fest

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Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB)), Stephen Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London), Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College London)
Description

John Adams Institute Festival

    • 11:30 12:00
      Arrival and lunch / refreshments (Denys Wilkinson Building level 5) 30m
    • 12:00 15:00
      Session 1 (Denys Sciama): Chair: Stephen Gibson: Future frontier colliders
      Convener: Stephen Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
    • 15:00 15:30
      Tea / coffee break 30m
    • 15:30 18:10
      Session 2 (Denys Sciama): Chair Zulfikar Najmudin: Novel acceleration and diagnostics
      Convener: Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College London)
      • 15:30
        Beam Instabilities at ISIS 20m
        Speaker: Robert Williamson (STFC)
      • 15:50
        Using the IBEX Paul trap to test nonlinear integrable optics 20m
        Speakers: Lucy Kate Martin (University of Oxford (GB)), Lucy Martin (University of Oxford)
      • 16:10
        Loss reduction techniques for synchrotron slow extraction and beam delivery: simulations and recent measurements at MedAustron 20m

        Slow extraction using third integer resonance and a thin electrostatic septum is a common extraction scheme employed when a continous beam delivery is required downstream, such as in medical ion-therapy treatment or for fixed target physics experiments. Moreover, the beam often needs to be split in the transfer line after being extracted, if a simultaneous continuous spill is requested by more than one user. This is the case in the SPS North Area transfer line (TT20), where a Lambertson splitter septum is used. Both the extraction and the splitting processes are intrinsically lossy, as some particles inevitably impact with the septa blades or the aperture. In this contribution, loss reduction techniques are explored with the aim to reduce overall losses from the synchrotron to the user. Different slow extraction techniques, namely quadrupole sweep, betatron core and constant optics (COSE), are compared in simulations as well as through recently acquired data taken at the MedAustron ion beam cancer treatment facility in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.

        Speaker: Pablo Andreas Arrutia Sota (University of London (GB))
      • 16:30
        Experimental Considerations for Staged Acceleration on Astra Gemini 20m
        Speaker: Nic Gruse (Imperial College)
      • 16:50
        Modelling the Signal to Noise Ratio of Breit-Wheeler Detection Experiments with Geant4 20m
        Speaker: Rob Watt (Imperial College)
      • 17:10
        Low-Density Waveguides for multi-GeV Laser-Plasma Accelerators 20m
        Speaker: Alex Picksley (University of Oxford)
      • 17:30
        Narrow energy spread, GeV electron beams from shock injection in a laser wakefield accelerator 20m
        Speaker: Cary Colgan (Imperial College London)
      • 17:50
        Using X-rays from a laser wakefield accelerator to perform ultrashort multi-Kev absorption spectroscopy 20m
        Speaker: Brendan Kettle (Imperial College London)
    • 18:10 19:40
      Drinks & nibbles 1h 30m