Name: Particle Accelerators and Beams Conference 2023
Start: 2023-06-29T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2023-06-30T19:50:00+01:00
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Particle Accelerators and Beams Conference 2023

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

Monday 26 June 2023
Tuesday 27 June 2023
Wednesday 28 June 2023
Thursday 29 June 2023

10:00 Registration and coffee 🍵
Registration and coffee 🍵
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Conference Welcome - Melissa Uchida (University of Cambridge (GB))
Conference Welcome
- Melissa Uchida (University of Cambridge (GB))
10:30 - 10:35
10:35 Welcome to Strathclyde - Mark Wiggins (University of Strathclyde)
Welcome to Strathclyde
- Mark Wiggins (University of Strathclyde)
10:35 - 10:40
10:40 Keynote talk: The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) (title tbc) - Yifang Wang
Keynote talk: The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) (title tbc)
- Yifang Wang
10:40 - 11:20
11:20 Plenary talk: Laser Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators - Laura Corner (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
Plenary talk: Laser Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
- Laura Corner (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
11:20 - 11:50
11:50 Plenary talk: Muon colliders for a post-LHC HEP programme - Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
Plenary talk: Muon colliders for a post-LHC HEP programme
- Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
11:50 - 12:20
12:20 Lunch and Poster Session 🥗
Lunch and Poster Session 🥗
12:20 - 13:50
13:50 Parallel session I (Level 1 Auditorium)
Parallel session I (Level 1 Auditorium)
13:50 - 15:05
Contributions

13:50 Terahertz-driven bunch manipulation for advanced accelerators - 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 (Strathclyde) Laurence Nix (Lancaster University & Cockcroft Institute)

14:20 Commissioning experiment on laser-driven proton acceleration on SCAPA - 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
Parallel session II (Conference Room 3)
Parallel session II (Conference Room 3)
13:50 - 15:05
Contributions

13:50 Hybrid Electromagnet-Permanent Magnet Tuneable Optics for Low Emittance Storage Rings - Alex Hinton

14:05 GEANT4 neutrino beam simulations for the T2K experiment - 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 (STFC/RAL) Shinji Machida (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))

14:50 A double-crystal setup for LHC fixed-target experiments - Kay Dewhurst (CERN)
15:05 Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
15:05 - 15:30
15:30 Plenary talk: Fast reactive tuners for RF (title tbc) - Nicholas Shipman (Lancaster University (GB))
Plenary talk: Fast reactive tuners for RF (title tbc)
- Nicholas Shipman (Lancaster University (GB))
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 IOP PAB Group Prize talk: FELs, and everything else... - Brian McNeil (University of Strathclyde)
IOP PAB Group Prize talk: FELs, and everything else...
- Brian McNeil (University of Strathclyde)
16:00 - 17:00
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18:00 - 19:00

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19:00 - 21:30
Friday 30 June 2023
09:30 Keynote talk: A Vision for Fermilab - Lia Merminga
Keynote talk: A Vision for Fermilab
- Lia Merminga
09:30 - 10:10
10:10 Plenary talk: CERN's Collider Options: The Path Forward - Mike Lamont (CERN)
Plenary talk: CERN's Collider Options: The Path Forward
- Mike Lamont (CERN)
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 Parallel session I (Level 1 Auditorium)
Parallel session I (Level 1 Auditorium)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

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 - 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)
Parallel session II (Conference Room 3)
Parallel session II (Conference Room 3)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

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)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:20
13:20 Panel discussion: The future of accelerators for High Energy Physics, chaired by John Womersley - Mike Lamont (CERN) John Womersley (European Spallation Source) Yifang Wang Stewart Takashi Boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London) Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB)) Lia Merminga Chris Rogers (RAL)
Panel discussion: The future of accelerators for High Energy Physics, chaired by John Womersley
- Mike Lamont (CERN)
- John Womersley (European Spallation Source)
- Yifang Wang
- Stewart Takashi Boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB))
- Lia Merminga
- Chris Rogers (RAL)
13:20 - 14:40
14:40 Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
14:40 - 15:00
15:00 Plenary talk: EPAC – A New, Advanced Facility for Applications of Laser-driven Accelerators - Daniel Symes (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Plenary talk: EPAC – A New, Advanced Facility for Applications of Laser-driven Accelerators
- Daniel Symes (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Dedication to Adrian Cross - Kevin Ronald
Dedication to Adrian Cross
- Kevin Ronald
15:30 - 15:40
15:40 Overview of the SCAPA facility - Mark Wiggins (University of Strathclyde)
Overview of the SCAPA facility
- Mark Wiggins (University of Strathclyde)
15:40 - 15:50
15:50

15:50 - 17:30

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