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, June 11, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, June 12, 2024 (6:20 PM)

Monday, June 10, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

9:00 AM Registration
Registration
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Conference Welcome - Melissa Uchida (University of Cambridge (GB))
Conference Welcome
- Melissa Uchida (University of Cambridge (GB))
9:30 AM - 9:35 AM
9:35 AM Welcome to the Dalton Cumbrian Facility - Andy Smith (University of Manchester)
Welcome to the Dalton Cumbrian Facility
- Andy Smith (University of Manchester)
9:35 AM - 9:40 AM
9:40 AM The UK Accelerator Landscape - Deepa Angal-Kalinin
The UK Accelerator Landscape
- Deepa Angal-Kalinin
9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM 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 AM - 10:40 AM
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 AM Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM The Venom Neutron Facility at AWE - Nick Bazin (AWE)
The Venom Neutron Facility at AWE
- Nick Bazin (AWE)
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM RUEDI: Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction & Imaging - Tim Noakes (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
RUEDI: Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction & Imaging
- Tim Noakes (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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 PM Lunch 🥗
Lunch 🥗
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Sustainable HEP joint session: Sustainable accelerators
Sustainable accelerators
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Sustainability session: Welcome

1:10 PM Overview on the sustainability of future accelerators - Masakazu Yoshioka Masakazu Yoshioka (K)

1:40 PM Sustainable Accelerator R&D in the UK - Ben Shepherd Ben Shepherd
2:10 PM Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
2:10 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM Parallel talks: Parallel session I - Sustainable accelerators (Main room)
Parallel session I - Sustainable accelerators (Main room)
2:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:20 PM The psychology behind Sustainable Energy Transitions - Thijs Bouman

2:50 PM Evaluating the environmental impact of the ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source - Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, Oxford University)

3:05 PM Reducing the RF power demands for future colliders - Graeme Burt (Cockcroft/Lancaster University)

3:30 PM A Carbon-Neutral, Emission-Free Particle Accelerator for Ion Beam Analysis - Dan Faircloth

3:45 PM Thin film superconducting cavities for sustainable accelerators - Daniel Seal
Parallel talks: Parallel session II (Second room)
Parallel session II (Second room)
2:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:35 PM Summary and Feedback from the National Particle Accelerator Open Day 2023 - Haroon Rafique

2:50 PM Phase Shifters in Free-Electron Lasers - Alan Mak (Daresbury Laboratory)

3:05 PM The UK XFEL conceptual design and options analysis project - David Dunning

3:30 PM Status of CLARA Test Facility at Daresbury Laboratory - Deepa Angal-Kalinin

3:45 PM Beam dynamics of the RUEDI ultrafast electron diffraction beamline - Benjamin Hounsell
4:00 PM IOP PAB Group Prize talk: - Jim Clarke
IOP PAB Group Prize talk:
- Jim Clarke
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM 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
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6:15 PM Poster session and evening reception 🥂(1st floor)

6:15 PM - 7:30 PM

7:30 PM Conference dinner + Prizes 🥇(2nd floor)

7:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
9:15 AM 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))
9:15 AM - 9:55 AM
9:55 AM Proton Accelerators for FLASH - Rebecca Taylor (CERN)
Proton Accelerators for FLASH
- Rebecca Taylor (CERN)
9:55 AM - 10:25 AM
10:25 AM Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM 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 AM - 12:05 PM
Chaired by Brian McNeil
12:05 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:05 PM - 1:05 PM
1:05 PM Parallel talks: Parallel session I (Main room)
Parallel session I (Main room)
1:05 PM - 2:05 PM
Contributions

1:05 PM CLARA Dielectric Dechirper Performance Studied by Simulations - Beatriz Higuera Gonzalez

1:20 PM High frequency solutions to electron beam position measurements in the AWAKE common beamline - Bethany Spear (University of Oxford/ JAI)

1:35 PM Witness injection via laser-solid interaction for plasma wakefield accelerators - Thomas Wilson (University of Strathclyde)

1:50 PM Electron beam jitter suppression and diagnostic using terahertz-induced modulation - Joseph Bradbury (University of Manchester)
Parallel talks: Parallel session II (Second room)
Parallel session II (Second room)
1:05 PM - 2:05 PM
Contributions

1:05 PM Crystal experiments and recent measurements at CERN - Kay Dewhurst (CERN)

1:20 PM Monte Carlo Techniques for Modelling X-Ray Detector Systems - Lauryn Eley (University Of Liverpool)

1:35 PM 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)

1:50 PM 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)
2:05 PM Coffee 🍵
Coffee 🍵
2:05 PM - 2:25 PM
2:25 PM DCF and Applications of Ion Beams - Andy Smith (University of Manchester)
DCF and Applications of Ion Beams
- Andy Smith (University of Manchester)
2:25 PM - 2:55 PM
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.
2:55 PM Conference Close
Conference Close
2:55 PM - 3:05 PM

3:15 PM Tours of the Dalton Cumbrian Facility

3:15 PM - 5:30 PM

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