Director: Prof Andrei Seryi
Accelerator Science and Beyond
Talk to prospective students
Presented by Prof Ken Peach
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Accelerators: high energy physics, nuclear physics, healthcare, security,
energy, life science, novel materials, industry, …
Tens of millions of patients receive accelerator-based diagnoses and
treatment each year in hospitals and clinics around the world
All products that are processed, treated, or inspected by particle
beams have a collective annual value of more than $500B
The fraction of the Nobel prizes in Physics directly
connected to accelerators is about 30%
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for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that
contributes to our understanding of the origin of
mass of subatomic particles, and which recently
was confirmed through the discovery of the
predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS
and CMS experiments at CERN's Large
Hadron Collider
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Louis Pasteur
Fundamental knowledge
Niels Bohr
Thomas Edison
Consideration of use
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What is JAI
 The John Adams Institute for
Accelerator Science is a centre of
excellence in the UK for advanced
and novel accelerator technology,
created in 2004 to foster accelerator
R&D in the universities
 JAI is based on 3 universities:
University of Oxford and RHUL
initially, with Imperial College
joining JAI in 2011
 JAI scale: ~25 academic professorial
staff, ~15 research staff, ~10
affiliates, ~35 post-grad students,
~6-10 PhD/year in Acc. science
Sir John Adams (24 May 1920 - 3 March 1984) was the
'father' of the giant particle accelerators which have made
CERN the leader in the field of high energy physics. John
Adams worked at the UK Atomic Energy Research
establishment on design & construction of a 180 MeV
synchro-cyclotron. He then came to CERN in 1953 & was
appointed director of the PS division in 1954. In 1961-66
Adams worked as director of the UK Culham Fusion Lab. In
1971 he returned to CERN and served until 1975 as
Director-General of then called Laboratory II, responsible
for the design & construction of the SPS. From 1976-80 he
was executive DG of CERN and instrumental in approval of
LEP. John Adams was a foreign member of Russian
Academy of Science. On the photo above Adams
announcing that CERN just passed the Dubna’s
Synchrophasotron world record of 10GeV.
http://www.adams-institute.ac.uk
within the UK SciTech ecosystem
Diamond Light
Source
Central Laser Facility
Daresbury Science & Innovation
Campus
ISIS neutron
source
Rutherford Lab & Harwell-Oxford Innovation
campus
Accelerator Science &Technology
Centre
is part of the world's most highly-regarded
university fostered innovation ecosystem
RAL CLF
ISIS
Diamond
Research & Enterprise
DL ASTeC
JAI Faculty
Simon Hooker
Riccardo Bartolini
Stewart Boogert
Peter Norreys
Pavel Karataev
Phil Burrows
John Cobb
Bucker Dangor
George Doucas
Brian Foster
Steve Myers
Glenn Christian
Mike Partridge
Ken Peach
Bleddyn Jones
Armin
Reichold
Chris Prior
Stuart Mangles
Andrei Seryi
Steve Rose
Roman Walczak
Zulfikar Najmudin
Stephen Gibson
Ken Long
Michele Warren
Ivan Konoplev
Also : JAI Academic and Industrial Affiliates (not shown)
Ted Wilson
Emmanuel
Tsesmelis
CERN
Research Facilitator
John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science
A Centre of Excellence in the UK for advanced and novel accelerator technology, providing
expertise, research, development and training in accelerator techniques, and promoting
advanced accelerator applications in science and society
Particle physics
JAI research directions
Enabling accelerator
techniques for
scientific, medical and
energy applications
Next generation
compact light sources
and laser-plasma
acceleration FEL
Advanced accelerator
instrumentation,
diagnostics and devices
Life science
Cancer therapy
Novel materials
Industry
Imaging of molecules
Advanced feedbacks
Novel lasers
directions: Advanced Beam Instrumentation
• Far-Infrared Coherent Radiation
– CSR, CDR for beam diagnostics
– Soft-X ray and microwave source based on
Thomson scattering of CDR
• Nano-resolution BPM
– C, S-band (~100nm resol.)
– Special ~nm resolution
LUXC, jointly with KEK
• Coherent Smith-Purcell radiation
– Longitudinal diagnostics –extending to fs range
• Laser – wire
• Ultra-fast nanosecond feedback
Laser wire
Smith-Purcell
diagnostics
instrumentation
directions: Enabling Acc. Techniques
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3rd Gen Light Sources
Future 4th Gen Light Source design
ISIS & ESS neutron sources
Neutrino Factory / m-cooling
Accelerators for cancer therapy
Ion sources
LHC upgrade
Linear Colliders
directions: Laser-Plasma Acceleration
1GeV acceleration in just 3cm of plasma
W. Leemans, B. Nagler, A. Gonsalves, C. Toth, K. Nakamura, C.
Geddes, E. Esarey, C. B.Schroeder, & S. Hooker, Nature Physics
2006
Simulation of laser-plasma acceleration
Rapid progress in beam energy achieved with laser-plasma acceleration shows
that the synergy of accelerators, laser and plasma is revolutionizing the field of
accelerator science
→ Compact X-ray light sources based on laser-plasma acceln
→ Aim to develop practical applications
Project developed in collaboration
with science centres in UK and worldwide
Laser Plasma accelerator
Modern synchrotrons (light sources) are big
machines (several 100s meters).
Similar electron energies can
be reached in a much more
compact accelerator using
the “wake” created by a
laser in a gas jet.
This could be used to build an accelerator compact
enough to fit in several tens of meters space but
powerful enough to be used as a light source (Free
Electron Laser).
Advanced light sources
Join work of Diamond Light Source
and JAI on conventional and laserplasma based light sources
Riccardo Bartolini
Joint efforts of laser-plasma experts with Simon
Hooker's group in Atomic and Laser Physics
(http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/hooker/) & JAI
provide a strong interdisciplinary environment
Simon Hooker
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S. M. Hooker, et al, Nature Physics 2, 696 - 699 (2006)
Laser plasma acceleration
For a student with an interest in synergy
of accelerator, laser and plasma science
To excite plasma oscillations: instead of a
single extremely high intensity laser pulse,
use a train of lower intensity pulses; works
theoretically, let’s try it experimentally!
If it works - tabletop lasers for plasma
accelerators, rather than national scale
facilities.
Cutting edge research at the forefront of laser
technology and accelerator science at JAI
Talk to:
Laura Corner and Roman Walczak.
http://www.adams-institute.ac.uk/l4a
Laura Corner
Roman Walczak
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•Accelerator R&D for electron-positron Linear Collider
•‘Higgs Factory’
• Selected site
 Japan
CERN 
Making electron and positron beams hit one another
at the Linear Collider
Ground vibrations
Kick beam back
cause beams to
into collision
miss one another
e+
Feedback
circuit
eMeasure
beam position
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•Philip Burrows
•Colin Perry
•Glenn Christian
•Young Im Kim
•Current students:
•Douglas Bett
•Alexander Gerbershagen
•Michael Davis
•Neven Blaskovic
•Jack Roberts
•Contact:
•p.burrows@physics.ox.ac.uk
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New student will work with the team to:
Design and build feedback
hardware
Install in beamlines at
KEK (Japan) & CERN
Experimental tests
with electron beams
Analyse data
Advanced RF generation and EM diagnostics
Advanced electromagnetic
design for generation of EM
radiation, diagnostics of beam,
creation of sci & tech
applications
Ivan Konoplev
Contour plots of electric and magnetic fields excited by the
pump wave inside cylindrical 2D periodic structure
MICE & Neutrino Factory Development
Muon
Collider
John Cobb
Neutrino
Factory
Victoria
Blackmore
To understand Neutrino Flavour Oscillations build a Neutrino Factory
Intense neutrino beams  Distant detectors  Observe CP violation
To reach the Energy Frontier build a Multi-TeV Muon Collider
Both require ‘cooled’ muon beams  ‘MICE’ COOLING DEMONSTRATION
Particle Therapy Cancer Research Inst. & Gray Inst.
• Charged Particles like Protons and Light Ions can kill cancer with less
damage to healthy tissue than conventional radiotherapy
Synchrotron – present technology
• Areas of research on the boundary of:
– Accelerator physics: new concepts
in accelerator design
– Detector physics: new ways to
diagnose, reducing dose
– Bio-medicine: more precise
treatment planning
Ken Peach
Clair Timlin
Mike Partridge
http://www.ptcri.ox.ac.uk/
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STFC-CASE studentship
Development and applications of
Frequency Scanning
Interferometry in Accelerator
Science
sponsored by
the National Physical Laboratory
• The AMULET group
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Armin Reichold
John Dale post-doc
Patrick Brockill post-doc
Andrew Lancaster grad stud
• Who we work with
– NPL co-ordinate metrology group
• develop absolute distance measurement technology
• push the boundary on long distance measurements
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ORC: Nano fibre based saturated absorption spectroscopy
SLAC: LCLS-II undulator development
CERN: CLIC accelerator and detector alignment
ETALON AA: commercialise our technology for industrial
applications
test undulator with FSI interferometers at SLAC
deep sub-micron drift resolution
20m measurements at NPL
Highlights
world record 20m absolute!
mean = 4.6
nm/m
sigma = 180
nm/m
1 μm
For JAI topics, talk to:
Resonant laser-plasma: Laura & Roman
Light Sources: Riccardo &
Simon
AMULET: Armin &
Patrick
Fast Feedback: Phil & Glenn
Advanced RF and EM
Muons: John & Victoria
Particle therapy: Ken & Claire
Helmholtz Virtual Institute
Helmholtz Virtual Institute for Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
Proton plasma wakefield
Phil Burrows
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Plasma Sources: (Imperial)
1m
Peter Norreys
• Z. Najmudin, Peter Norreys,
Phil Burrows (ICL & OX)
0.36 Torr:
n0 ≈ 1.2×1016 cm-3
n*/n0 ≈ 10-6
Accelerator science is also attractive because…
• You will invent and will learn to do this efficiently, inspired by
history of great inventions in accelerators and by the nature itself
DNA
Muon Collider cooling channel
Interacting Gears Synchronize Propulsive Leg Movements in a
Jumping Insect, Science, 13 Sep 2013, M.Burrows, G.Sutton
Accelerator science is also attractive because…
• Whether you are more inclined towards theory, or hardware
development, or simulations, there are tasks that will interest you
• Knowledge gained and developed has connections and applicable
to surprisingly remote disciplines
From stock market predictions
Planetary motions
to
• Our alumni are in high demand and working in great places
… in summary
• Accelerators are
– interesting
– challenging
– important
– useful
and fun too!
a great way to see the world
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