The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College 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.
Organisations
- Imperial College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Daresbury Laboratory (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Collaboration)
Publications
Alejo A
(2022)
Stabilized Radiation Pressure Acceleration and Neutron Generation in Ultrathin Deuterated Foils.
in Physical review letters
Assmann R
(2021)
Erratum to: EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 229, 3675-4284 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-000127-8
in The European Physical Journal Special Topics
Baggott RA
(2021)
Temperature Equilibration due to Charge State Fluctuations in Dense Plasmas.
in Physical review letters
Bogomilov M
(2022)
Multiple Coulomb scattering of muons in lithium hydride
in Physical Review D
Chakraborty K
(2021)
New physics at nuSTORM
in Physical Review D
Danson C
(2021)
A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Dickson L
(2022)
Mechanisms to control laser-plasma coupling in laser wakefield electron acceleration
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Doherty A
(2023)
Femtosecond multimodal imaging with a laser-driven X-ray source
in Communications Physics
Dover NP
(2023)
Enhanced ion acceleration from transparency-driven foils demonstrated at two ultraintense laser facilities.
in Light, science & applications
Finlay O
(2021)
Characterisation of a laser plasma betatron source for high resolution x-ray imaging
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Kettle B
(2021)
A laser-plasma platform for photon-photon physics: the two photon Breit-Wheeler process
in New Journal of Physics
Loughran B
(2023)
Automated control and optimization of laser-driven ion acceleration
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Loughran B
(2023)
Automated control and optimisation of laser driven ion acceleration
Maitrallain A
(2022)
Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator
in New Journal of Physics
Martin P
(2022)
Absolute calibration of Fujifilm BAS-TR image plate response to laser driven protons up to 40 MeV.
in The Review of scientific instruments
McIlvenny A
(2021)
Selective Ion Acceleration by Intense Radiation Pressure.
in Physical review letters
Nonnenmacher T
(2021)
Anomalous Beam Transport through Gabor (Plasma) Lens Prototype
in Applied Sciences
Streeter M
(2023)
Laser Wakefield Accelerator modelling with Variational Neural Networks
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Streeter M
(2022)
Characterization of laser wakefield acceleration efficiency with octave spanning near-IR spectrum measurements
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Streeter MJV
(2024)
Narrow bandwidth, low-emittance positron beams from a laser-wakefield accelerator.
in Scientific reports
Watt R
(2023)
Monte Carlo modeling of the linear Breit-Wheeler process within the geant4 framework
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Xu N
(2023)
Versatile tape-drive target for high-repetition-rate laser-driven proton acceleration
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Description | Science Board Member - Prof Z. Najmudin |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://stfc.ukri.org/about-us/how-we-are-governed/advisory-boards/science-board/ |
Description | AWAKE-II 2 |
Amount | £41,568,800 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X006301/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2023 |
End | 03/2025 |
Description | STFC 2022-23 Impact Acceleration Account |
Amount | £62,383 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 06/2023 |
Description | STFC Imperial John Adams 2021 DTP |
Amount | £307,394 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/W507532/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 09/2025 |
Description | ePW |
Amount | £2,002,882 (GBP) |
Organisation | ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | Hungary |
Start | 04/2021 |
End | 07/2023 |
Title | Zhi laser |
Description | Development of a high intensity laser system |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Enables target / diagnostic preparation in the Blackett Laboratory |
Title | X-ray absorption spectroscopy using an ultrafast laboratory-scale laser-plasma accelerator source |
Description | The data contained in this repository was used in the production of the publication "X-ray absorption spectroscopy using an ultrafast laboratory-scale laser-plasma accelerator source" |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7876185 |
Description | CRISP |
Organisation | Daresbury Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Development of a proposal to generate laser wakefield accelerated beams for XFEL applications |
Collaborator Contribution | Addition of laser wakefield control and machine learning |
Impact | Initial discussions to discuss development of an laser wakefield generated electron beamline on the new EPAC facility at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | CRISP |
Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development of a proposal to generate laser wakefield accelerated beams for XFEL applications |
Collaborator Contribution | Addition of laser wakefield control and machine learning |
Impact | Initial discussions to discuss development of an laser wakefield generated electron beamline on the new EPAC facility at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | CRISP |
Organisation | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
Department | Central Laser Facility |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development of a proposal to generate laser wakefield accelerated beams for XFEL applications |
Collaborator Contribution | Addition of laser wakefield control and machine learning |
Impact | Initial discussions to discuss development of an laser wakefield generated electron beamline on the new EPAC facility at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | CRISP |
Organisation | University of Liverpool |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development of a proposal to generate laser wakefield accelerated beams for XFEL applications |
Collaborator Contribution | Addition of laser wakefield control and machine learning |
Impact | Initial discussions to discuss development of an laser wakefield generated electron beamline on the new EPAC facility at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | CRISP |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Department | Department of Physics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development of a proposal to generate laser wakefield accelerated beams for XFEL applications |
Collaborator Contribution | Addition of laser wakefield control and machine learning |
Impact | Initial discussions to discuss development of an laser wakefield generated electron beamline on the new EPAC facility at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | CRISP |
Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development of a proposal to generate laser wakefield accelerated beams for XFEL applications |
Collaborator Contribution | Addition of laser wakefield control and machine learning |
Impact | Initial discussions to discuss development of an laser wakefield generated electron beamline on the new EPAC facility at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | CRISP |
Organisation | University of York |
Department | York Plasma Institute |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development of a proposal to generate laser wakefield accelerated beams for XFEL applications |
Collaborator Contribution | Addition of laser wakefield control and machine learning |
Impact | Initial discussions to discuss development of an laser wakefield generated electron beamline on the new EPAC facility at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Fusion Frontiers (York) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk on Laser Plasma Accelerators to York Fusion Frontiers course |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | School Visit (Krishna Avanti School) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Two visits. One a careers day presentation, and the second a Science Engagement (what is light?) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Talk on Fusion Energy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk to IEEE society on the prospects of Fusion Energy (especially inertial confinement fusion). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |