Particle Accelerators and Beams Conference 2023
The IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams group invite the community to our two-day Annual Conference; the UK’s premier national event in the field of particle accelerators. The scientific programme will feature plenary and keynote talks, a panel discussion, parallel sessions and a poster session. The conference is intended to bring the entire community together for two days of vibrant physics discussion, knowledge sharing and networking. We encourage participants at all career stages from PhD, through postdoc to senior professors to attend.
This year, we welcome you to the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, for an in-person conference on June 29 and 30. The start time is 10:00, with talks from 10:40, to allow for a long lunch break with a Poster Session. The first day will end with an evening Civic Reception and Conference Dinner where the Group and Poster Prizes will be awarded. Participants can take the opportunity to tour Strathclyde's laser-based accelerator SCAPA facility at the end of the second day. This promises to be a very special event and we hope that you will join us for this exciting UK conference!
We strongly encourage colleagues to submit an abstract for a poster or oral presentation.

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10:00
Registration and coffee 🍵
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Conference Welcome¶Speaker: Dr Melissa Uchida (University of Cambridge (GB))
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Plenary talk: Laser Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators¶Speaker: Dr Laura Corner (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
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Plenary talk: Muon colliders for a post-LHC HEP programme¶Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
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12:20
Lunch and Poster Session 🥗
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Parallel talks: Parallel session I (Level 1 Auditorium)¶Convener: Grace Manahan
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Terahertz-driven bunch manipulation for advanced accelerators¶Speaker: Dr Morgan Hibberd (The University of Manchester)
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Acceleration of a 100keV Electron Beam by Interaction with a Terahertz Pulse in a Tapered Dielectric Waveguide¶Speakers: Laurence Nix (Strathclyde), Laurence Nix (Lancaster University & Cockcroft Institute)
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Commissioning experiment on laser-driven proton acceleration on SCAPA¶Speaker: Mr Matthew Alderton (University Of Strathclyde)
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Ultra-compact X-ray free-electron laser near the cold beam limit¶Speaker: Ahmad Fahim Habib (University of Strathclyde)
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LhARA: The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications¶Speaker: William Shields
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Parallel talks: Parallel session II (Conference Room 3)¶Convener: Jason Mill
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Hybrid Electromagnet-Permanent Magnet Tuneable Optics for Low Emittance Storage Rings¶Speaker: Mr Alex Hinton
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GEANT4 neutrino beam simulations for the T2K experiment¶Speaker: Dr Lucas Nascimento Machado (University of Glasgow)
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Developing a Two-Colour All-Fibre Balanced Optical Cross-Correlator for Sub-Femtosecond Synchronisation¶Speaker: Jonathan Christie
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Optics design of a prototype high intensity Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerator (FFA)¶Speakers: Shinji Machida (STFC/RAL), Shinji Machida (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
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A double-crystal setup for LHC fixed-target experiments¶Speaker: Dr Kay Dewhurst (CERN)
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15:05
Coffee 🍵
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Plenary talk: Fast reactive tuners for RF (title tbc)¶Speaker: Nicholas Shipman (Lancaster University (GB))
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IOP PAB Group Prize talk: FELs, and everything else...¶Speaker: Dr Brian McNeil (University of Strathclyde)
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Keynote talk: A Vision for Fermilab¶Speaker: Lia Merminga
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Plenary talk: CERN's Collider Options: The Path Forward¶Speaker: Mike Lamont (CERN)
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10:40
Coffee 🍵
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Parallel talks: Parallel session I (Level 1 Auditorium)¶Convener: Hossein Ghasem (Diamond Light Source)
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Update on CLARA Facility at Daresbury Laboratory¶Speaker: Deepa Angal-Kalinin (Daresbuy Laboratory)
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Gammarchy in the UK: Design of a tunable, quasimonochromatic gamma ray beam source at Daresbury Laboratory¶Speaker: Alexander Morris
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Upgrades to the Injector Complex for Diamond-II¶Speaker: Ian Martin (Diamond Light Source)
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An Introduction to the UK XFEL Conceptual Design and Options Analysis¶Speaker: Dr Neil Thompson (CCLRC/ASTeC Daresbury Laboratory)
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STFC and Sustainable Particle Accelerators¶Speaker: Hywel Owen (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
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Concept of Circular-Linear energy recovery accelerator to probe the energy-frontier and partner Big Science and Industry¶Speaker: Ivan Konoplev (University of Oxford)
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Parallel talks: Parallel session II (Conference Room 3)¶Convener: Mel O'Leary (Dalton Cunbria Facility)
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An Optimisation Framework for Underexpanded Jets (tbc)¶Speaker: Oliver Simon Stringer (University of Liverpool (GB))
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Novel emittance diagnostics: utilising optical radiation for single-shot measurements¶Speaker: Catherine Swain (University of Liverpool)
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Propose a beam halo monitor for hadron machines based on an ionisation monitor with a supersonic molecular curtain beam¶Speaker: Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute)
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Neutron production in the relativistic frame using heavy ion bombardment¶Speaker: Andy Smith (University of Manchester)
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Multi-parameter Bayesian optimisation of laser-driven ion acceleration in PIC simulations¶Speaker: Ewan Dolier (University of Strathclyde)
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12:30
Lunch
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Panel discussion: The future of accelerators for High Energy Physics, chaired by John Womersley¶Speakers: Chris Rogers (RAL), John Womersley (European Spallation Source), Lia Merminga, Mike Lamont (CERN), Philip Nicholas Burrows (University of Oxford (GB)), Prof. Stewart Takashi Boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London), Yifang Wang
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14:40
Coffee 🍵
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Plenary talk: EPAC – A New, Advanced Facility for Applications of Laser-driven Accelerators¶Speaker: Daniel Symes (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
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Tours of the SCAPA facility¶
Tour groups will be arranged at 15:50 following Mark WIggins' talk introducing SCAPA.
If you want to join a tour, please stay after the talk to join a tour group.
Tours will return to the TIC, so you may wish to leave your luggage.
Note: the short walk from TIC to SCAPA includes a steep hill
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