A proposal for the programme of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science 2021-2025
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford 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
Accettura C
(2023)
Towards a muon collider
in The European Physical Journal C
Alejo A
(2022)
Demonstration of kilohertz operation of hydrodynamic optical-field-ionized plasma channels
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Atonga E
(2023)
Gravitational waves from high-power twisted light
Batsch F
(2021)
Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma.
in Physical review letters
Batsch F
(2021)
Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma
in Physical Review Letters
Boella E
(2021)
Collisionless shock acceleration in the corona of an inertial confinement fusion pellet with possible application to ion fast ignition.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Chappell J
(2021)
Experimental study of extended timescale dynamics of a plasma wakefield driven by a self-modulated proton bunch
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Feng Q
(2022)
Suprathermal electrons from the anti-Stokes Langmuir decay instability cascade
in Physical Review E
Howard S
(2023)
Hyperspectral Compressive Wavefront Sensing
Howard S
(2023)
Hyperspectral compressive wavefront sensing
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
| Description | Hyperspectral phase imaging for high-intensity laser characterization |
| Amount | £63,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | R77496-CN001 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Title | Multi-GeV Wakefield Acceleration in a Plasma-Modulated Plasma Accelerator |
| Description | Input decks for the particle-in-cell code WarpX used in a new study to simulate the accelerator stage of a recently proposed laser-plasma accelerator scheme [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 184801 (2021)], dubbed the Plasma-Modulated Plasma Accelerator (P-MoPA). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10061008 |
| Title | Stability of the Modulator in a Plasma-Modulated Plasma Accelerator |
| Description | Input decks for the particle-in-cell code WarpX used in a new study to simulate the modulator stage of a recently proposed laser-plasma accelerator scheme [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 184801 (2021)], dubbed the Plasma-Modulated Plasma Accelerator (P-MoPA). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7734260 |
| Description | CALA Laser Facility at the Ludwig Maxillian University Munich |
| Organisation | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) |
| Department | Faculty of Physics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We performed an experiment at the CALA 3 PW laser facility between October - December 2021. The idea was to use the SHRIMP device, developed under this grant, to image the evolution of a laser wakefield accelerator on a single shot. The SHRIMP provides an ultra-fast movie on a single CCD detector with the use of a tranverse optical probe beam to the 3 PW pump pulse when focused into a gas-jet target. We obtained unexpected results that are now under analysis using multi-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CALA 3 PW laser was provided for the experiment. |
| Impact | The data is currently under analysis. I expect to be able to provide a publication in next year's review. |
| Start Year | 2021 |