The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science
Lead Research Organisation:
Royal Holloway University of London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (JAI) is a centre of excellence for advanced accelerator science and technology. We perform R&D and training, provide expertise, and promote accelerator applications in science and society. The JAI currently comprises 20 faculty, 23 staff, and 38 PhD students from the Physics Departments of Oxford University (UOXF), Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), and Imperial College London (ICL). An additional 33 staff from the UK's national laboratories and CERN are affiliated with our research and teaching programmes. We have six guiding principles:
a) Develop, support and engagement of accelerator science facilities and R&D programmes of strategic importance for the UK;
b) Develop worldwide collaborations that enhance the capabilities available to us;
c) Develop novel acceleration and compact light source techniques and their applications;
d) Deliver a world leading training programme to develop the next generation of leaders in the field;
e) Communicate developments in the field to the public and decision makers;
f) Strengthen the links among the partner universities to deliver a programme that is greater than the sum of its parts.
For the period 2021-2025, we have focused on research areas that have the greatest benefit to national priorities:
* Low-emittance, high-brightness electron beams, including next-generation electron-positron colliders (ILC, CLIC), the Diamond Light Source (DLS) and its upgrade, and a future UK FEL.
* High-energy/high-intensity hadron beams, including current and future energy-frontier proton colliders (LHC, HL-LHC, FCC), and ISIS and its upgrade.
* Advanced acceleration techniques, including laser- and beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration.
* Particle-beam therapy applications using electron, proton and ion beams.
Through this programme we are supporting the UK's accelerator strategy by taking lead roles in both our national and overseas facilities including: DLS, ISIS and CLF at STFC/RAL, CLARA at STFC/DL, LHC, HL-LHC, CLIC, FCC and AWAKE at CERN, FLASHforward at DESY, and ATF/ATF2 at KEK.
These themes position us optimally to support our core goals of supporting major national and international accelerator developments; motivating our researchers and giving them skills in state-of-the-art technologies; and being able to transfer our knowledge to major collaborative developments and to industry.
a) Develop, support and engagement of accelerator science facilities and R&D programmes of strategic importance for the UK;
b) Develop worldwide collaborations that enhance the capabilities available to us;
c) Develop novel acceleration and compact light source techniques and their applications;
d) Deliver a world leading training programme to develop the next generation of leaders in the field;
e) Communicate developments in the field to the public and decision makers;
f) Strengthen the links among the partner universities to deliver a programme that is greater than the sum of its parts.
For the period 2021-2025, we have focused on research areas that have the greatest benefit to national priorities:
* Low-emittance, high-brightness electron beams, including next-generation electron-positron colliders (ILC, CLIC), the Diamond Light Source (DLS) and its upgrade, and a future UK FEL.
* High-energy/high-intensity hadron beams, including current and future energy-frontier proton colliders (LHC, HL-LHC, FCC), and ISIS and its upgrade.
* Advanced acceleration techniques, including laser- and beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration.
* Particle-beam therapy applications using electron, proton and ion beams.
Through this programme we are supporting the UK's accelerator strategy by taking lead roles in both our national and overseas facilities including: DLS, ISIS and CLF at STFC/RAL, CLARA at STFC/DL, LHC, HL-LHC, CLIC, FCC and AWAKE at CERN, FLASHforward at DESY, and ATF/ATF2 at KEK.
These themes position us optimally to support our core goals of supporting major national and international accelerator developments; motivating our researchers and giving them skills in state-of-the-art technologies; and being able to transfer our knowledge to major collaborative developments and to industry.
Publications
Shapovalov P. G.
(2023)
Violation of the conformity between the induction current and the emission current during the pyroelectric effect in a single crystal of lithium tantalate under vacuum conditions
in Technical Physics Letters
Gnacadja E
(2023)
Upgrade of a proton therapy eye treatment nozzle using a cylindrical beam stopping device for enhanced dose rate performances
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Lyapin A
(2022)
Towards Higher Stability in Large Scale Cavity BPM Systems
Abreu H
(2022)
The tracking detector of the FASER experiment
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Feng J
(2023)
The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
D'Alessandro G L
(2021)
Studies for the K12 High-Intensity Kaon Beam at CERN
Gian Luigi D'Alessandro
(2022)
Studies for current and future high intensity experiments at the CERN P42 and K12 beam lines
Shields W
(2023)
Start-to-end tracking of therapeutic ion beams in BDSIM
Ali M
(2024)
Stability of electrons and X-rays generated in a pyroelectric accelerator
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Kruchinin K
(2014)
Simulation Results of the FETS Laserwire Emittance Scanner
Ramoisiaux E
(2022)
Self-consistent numerical evaluation of concrete shielding activation for proton therapy systems Application to the proton therapy research centre in Charleroi, Belgium
in The European Physical Journal Plus
Senes E
(2024)
Selective electron beam sensing through coherent Cherenkov diffraction radiation
in Physical Review Research
Abreu H
(2024)
Search for dark photons with the FASER detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Oleinik A
(2024)
Regulation of particle generation processes in a pyroelectric accelerator using geometry
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Nevay, L
(2021)
Recent BDSIM Related Developments and Modeling of Accelerators
Walker S
(2022)
Pyg4ometry: A Python library for the creation of Monte Carlo radiation transport physical geometries
in Computer Physics Communications
Boogert,Stewart
(2024)
PYG4OMETRY update: a tool to create geometries for Geant4, BDSIM, G4Beamline and FLUKA