The Space Charge 2026 workshop will be held from 30 September to 2 October 2026 at the University of Oxford in the Physics Department and at Trinity College, hosted jointly by the John Adams Institute and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. As an exclusively in-person event, this three-day workshop will address the fundamental challenges that define the high-intensity frontier of accelerator physics.
Building on the momentum of major facility upgrades and achievements -- including SNS, J-PARC, CERN LIU, and CSNS -- and following earlier successful editions around the world at CERN (CH, 2013), Oxford (UK, 2015), Darmstadt (DE, 2017), CERN (CH, 2019), Knoxville (US, 2022), and Dongguan (PRC, 2024), this workshop comes at a decisive moment. The focus will be on distilling lessons learned, consolidating strategies, and quantifying their impact to increase the space charge limit with excellent control of beam loss.
With the next generation of high-intensity and high-power accelerator facilities on the horizon, Space Charge 2026 aims to provide the community with a clear synthesis of current understanding and a roadmap for future studies.
More information on the programme, logistics and the banquet at Trinity College on 1 October will be shared here in due course.
We look forward to welcoming you in Oxford.
Adrian and Shinji
