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
Krasny M. W.
Gamma Factory Proof-of-Principle experiment
Davut C
(2025)
Design and experimental verification of a bunch length monitor based on coherent Cherenkov diffraction radiation
in Physical Review Research
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
Stummer,Florian
(2024)
Background mitigation concepts for Super-NaNu
Shields,William
(2024)
A review of the Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) user community
Ghasem,Hossein
(2024)
Collimator study for the Diamond-II storage ring
Redaelli,Stefano
(2024)
Crystal collimation of heavy-ion beams
Abraham R
(2024)
Neutrino rate predictions for FASER
in Physical Review D
Senes E
(2024)
Selective electron beam sensing through coherent Cherenkov diffraction radiation
in Physical Review Research
Metzger F
(2024)
Kaon beam simulations employing conventional hadron beam concepts and the RF separation technique at the CERN M2 beamline for the future AMBER experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Ali M
(2024)
Identification of material by X-ray fluorescence analysis with a pyroelectric X-ray generator
in Journal of Instrumentation
Lechner,Anton
(2024)
Dust-induced beam losses in the Large Hadron Collider
CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs
(2024)
CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs, Vol. 2 (2024): Interim report for the International Muon Collider Collaboration
Aloyan L
(2024)
Enhanced DNA damage induced by ultrashort electron beams in the presence of a Cu-containing porphyrin
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Boogert,Stewart
(2024)
PYG4OMETRY update: a tool to create geometries for Geant4, BDSIM, G4Beamline and FLUKA
Abraham RM
(2024)
First Measurement of ?_{e} and ?_{µ} Interaction Cross Sections at the LHC with FASER's Emulsion Detector.
in Physical review letters
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
McCallum,Mark
(2024)
Cavity Beam Position Monitors pulse Injection source
Shields,William
(2024)
Progress & developments of BDSIM
Abreu H
(2024)
Search for dark photons with the FASER detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Bosman,Max
(2024)
Design and deployment of an in-vacuum Electro-Optic BPM at the CERN SPS
Oleinik A
(2023)
I-V curve of the electron flow generated during a pyroelectric effect in lithium tantalate single crystal in vacuum conditions
in Europhysics Letters
Shields W
(2023)
Start-to-end tracking of therapeutic ion beams in BDSIM
Abreu H
(2023)
First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC.
in Physical review 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
Helena Lefebvre
(2023)
Machine-induced background of the ATLAS, CMS and FASER experiments
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
Feng J
(2023)
The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Ramoisiaux E
(2023)
Concrete shielding activation for proton therapy systems using BDSIM and FISPACT-II
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Goldblatt A
(2022)
LINAC4 laser profile and emittance meter commissioning
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
Lyapin A
(2022)
Towards Higher Stability in Large Scale Cavity BPM Systems
Oleinik A
(2022)
Peculiarities of the pyroelectric current generated using a LiNbO3 single crystal driven by low-frequency sinusoidal temperature variation
in Journal of Applied Physics