Name: Particle Accelerators and Beams Conference 2024
Start: 2024-06-11T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-06-12T18:20:00+01:00
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Particle Accelerators and Beams Conference 2024

from Tuesday 11 June 2024 (08:00) to Wednesday 12 June 2024 (18:20)

Monday 10 June 2024
Tuesday 11 June 2024

09:00 Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Conference Welcome - Melissa Uchida (University of Cambridge (GB))
Conference Welcome
- Melissa Uchida (University of Cambridge (GB))
09:30 - 09:35
09:35 Welcome to the Dalton Cumbrian Facility - Andy Smith (University of Manchester)
Welcome to the Dalton Cumbrian Facility
- Andy Smith (University of Manchester)
09:35 - 09:40
09:40 The UK Accelerator Landscape - Deepa Angal-Kalinin
The UK Accelerator Landscape
- Deepa Angal-Kalinin
09:40 - 10:10
10:10 ISIS upgrade: 40 years of the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source - Billy Kyle (ISIS, STFC, UKRI)
ISIS upgrade: 40 years of the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
- Billy Kyle (ISIS, STFC, UKRI)
10:10 - 10:40
The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source celebrates its 40th year of operation in December 2024. At one time the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source, ISIS still has a global impact producing neutrons and muons for condensed matter research, owing in-part to the wide range of instrumentation at its disposal across two target stations. This talk will cover the current status and planned upgrades at the ISIS facility, such as the MEBT upgrade to the ISIS injector; the overall landscape of neutron production facilities around the world, wherein the closure of reactor-based sources poses the risk of a “neutron drought”; and the progress of the ISIS II upgrade design effort, which encompasses both traditional driver designs such as the RCS, as well as a novel FFA option.
10:40 Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 The Venom Neutron Facility at AWE - Nick Bazin (AWE)
The Venom Neutron Facility at AWE
- Nick Bazin (AWE)
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 RUEDI: Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction & Imaging - Tim Noakes (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
RUEDI: Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction & Imaging
- Tim Noakes (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
11:30 - 12:00
The Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Imaging (RUEDI) facility has been recently approved by the UKRI Infrastructure Fund to be a new ultrafast science capability for the UK based at Daresbury Laboratory. It will deliver single-shot, time-resolved, imaging with MeV electrons, and ultrafast electron diffraction down to 10 fs timescales. RUEDI is being designed to enable the following science themes: dynamics of chemical change; materials in extreme conditions; quantum materials; energy generation, storage, and conversion; and in vivo biosciences. The evolution of the design of the facility will be outlined along with the remaining challenges to deliver a world leading capability.
12:00 Lunch 🥗
Lunch 🥗
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Sustainable accelerators
Sustainable accelerators
13:00 - 14:10
Contributions

13:00 Sustainability session: Welcome

13:10 Overview on the sustainability of future accelerators - Masakazu Yoshioka Masakazu Yoshioka (K)

13:40 Sustainable Accelerator R&D in the UK - Ben Shepherd Ben Shepherd
14:10 Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
14:10 - 14:20
14:20 Parallel session I - Sustainable accelerators (Main room)
Parallel session I - Sustainable accelerators (Main room)
14:20 - 16:00
Contributions

14:20 The psychology behind Sustainable Energy Transitions - Thijs Bouman

14:50 Evaluating the environmental impact of the ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source - Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, Oxford University)

15:05 Reducing the RF power demands for future colliders - Graeme Burt (Cockcroft/Lancaster University)

15:30 A Carbon-Neutral, Emission-Free Particle Accelerator for Ion Beam Analysis - Dan Faircloth

15:45 Thin film superconducting cavities for sustainable accelerators - Daniel Seal
Parallel session II (Second room)
Parallel session II (Second room)
14:20 - 16:00
Contributions

14:35 Summary and Feedback from the National Particle Accelerator Open Day 2023 - Haroon Rafique

14:50 Phase Shifters in Free-Electron Lasers - Alan Mak (Daresbury Laboratory)

15:05 The UK XFEL conceptual design and options analysis project - David Dunning

15:30 Status of CLARA Test Facility at Daresbury Laboratory - Deepa Angal-Kalinin

15:45 Beam dynamics of the RUEDI ultrafast electron diffraction beamline - Benjamin Hounsell
16:00 IOP PAB Group Prize talk: - Jim Clarke
IOP PAB Group Prize talk:
- Jim Clarke
16:00 - 17:00
17:00 Discussion of the UK's present accelerator focus: input to the European Committee for Future Accelerators (EFCA) - Haroon Rafique
Discussion of the UK's present accelerator focus: input to the European Committee for Future Accelerators (EFCA)
- Haroon Rafique
17:00 - 18:00
18:15

18:15 - 19:30

19:30

19:30 - 23:30
Wednesday 12 June 2024
09:15 FLASH and VHEE studies at CLEAR facility at CERN - Manjit Dosanjh (University of Oxford (GB))
FLASH and VHEE studies at CLEAR facility at CERN
- Manjit Dosanjh (University of Oxford (GB))
09:15 - 09:55
09:55 Proton Accelerators for FLASH - Rebecca Taylor (CERN)
Proton Accelerators for FLASH
- Rebecca Taylor (CERN)
09:55 - 10:25
10:25 Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
10:25 - 10:45
10:45 Panel discussion: Current challenges in accelerator technologies and future sustainability - Brian McNeil
Panel discussion: Current challenges in accelerator technologies and future sustainability
- Brian McNeil
10:45 - 12:05
Chaired by Brian McNeil
12:05 Lunch
Lunch
12:05 - 13:05
13:05 Parallel session I (Main room)
Parallel session I (Main room)
13:05 - 14:05
Contributions

13:05 CLARA Dielectric Dechirper Performance Studied by Simulations - Beatriz Higuera Gonzalez

13:20 High frequency solutions to electron beam position measurements in the AWAKE common beamline - Bethany Spear (University of Oxford/ JAI)

13:35 Witness injection via laser-solid interaction for plasma wakefield accelerators - Thomas Wilson (University of Strathclyde)

13:50 Electron beam jitter suppression and diagnostic using terahertz-induced modulation - Joseph Bradbury (University of Manchester)
Parallel session II (Second room)
Parallel session II (Second room)
13:05 - 14:05
Contributions

13:05 Crystal experiments and recent measurements at CERN - Kay Dewhurst (CERN)

13:20 Monte Carlo Techniques for Modelling X-Ray Detector Systems - Lauryn Eley (University Of Liverpool)

13:35 CARP (Computational Assessment of Radionuclide Production): Development of a new tool for modelling medical radionuclide production by particle beam irradiation - Duncan Mayhem (National Nuclear Laboratory)

13:50 Ion-beam implantation to simulate radiation damage in novel metallic systems for nuclear fusion applications - Sam Yeates (The University Of Sheffield) Sam Yeates (The University of Sheffield)
14:05 Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
14:05 - 14:25
14:25 DCF and Applications of Ion Beams - Andy Smith (University of Manchester)
DCF and Applications of Ion Beams
- Andy Smith (University of Manchester)
14:25 - 14:55
The Dalton Cumbrian Facility is wholly owned and operated by the University of Manchester and is a world leading centre for radiation science research. A major component of the Facility’s infrastructure is a suite of commercially sourced electrostatic ion accelerators, ion sources and beamlines. Intense, energetic ion beams are used to simulate accelerated radiation damage effects experienced by a wide range of materials used in the nuclear power industry across the full fuel cycle and in both fission and fusion reactors. Of equal importance to the mechanical damage inflicted, intense radiation exposure is also responsible for alterations in a wide range of chemical processes throughout the industry. Although DCF’s primary mission is in support of the UK’s civil nuclear power programme, radiation effects are also prominent in many other disciplines from space exploitation to biological effects and medical benefits. DCF’s interests are expanding into these fields to improve our broad understanding of how radiation interacts with matter and can induce changes. This talk will give a broad overview of DCF’s ion beam facilities with some examples of experimental methods and radiation studies conducted using them.
14:55 Conference Close
Conference Close
14:55 - 15:05

15:15

15:15 - 17:30