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
Abramowicz H
(2021)
Conceptual design report for the LUXE experiment
in The European Physical Journal Special Topics
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
Abreu H
(2021)
First neutrino interaction candidates at the LHC
in Physical Review D
Arteche A
(2022)
Electro-optical BPM development for High Luminosity LHC
Baldin A
(2021)
FLAP Collaboration: Tasks and Perspectives. Study of Fundamentals and New Applications of Controllable Generation of Electromagnetic Radiation by Relativistic Electrons Using Functional Materials
in Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters
D'Alessandro G
(2022)
First "Skin Depth" estimations using GEANT4 and FLUKA based simulations for CERN secondary beamlines
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
D'Alessandro G L
(2021)
Studies for the K12 High-Intensity Kaon Beam at CERN
Fedorov K
(2022)
Compact Remote Spectral Terahertz Imager
in Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves
Feng J
(2023)
The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Garcia Morales H
(2021)
Off-momentum cleaning simulations and measurements at the Large Hadron Collider
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Gnacadja E
(2022)
Optimization of proton therapy eye-treatment systems toward improved clinical performances
in Physical Review Research
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
Goldblatt A
(2022)
LINAC4 laser profile and emittance meter commissioning
Hernalsteens C
(2022)
A hybrid numerical approach to the propagation of charged particle beams through matter for hadron therapy beamline simulations
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Karataev P
(2022)
Observation of quasi-monochromatic resonant Cherenkov diffraction radiation
in Results in Physics
Karataev P
(2022)
Indicators of upcoming electric breakdown in a pyroelectric accelerator
in Applied Physics Express
Kling F
(2021)
Forward neutrino fluxes at the LHC
in Physical Review D
Lasocha K
(2021)
Feasibility Study of ChDR Diagnostic Device in the LHC