Research in High Energy Physics - MICE Studentship
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Advance MICE experiment.
Provide suitable PhD training in particle physics, instrumentation, and accelerator R&D, along with more general skills such as data anlayis and transferable skills such as team work, as needed.
Provide suitable PhD training in particle physics, instrumentation, and accelerator R&D, along with more general skills such as data anlayis and transferable skills such as team work, as needed.
Planned Impact
The training and skills acquired during a PhD in particle physics make the student very attractive to wide range of fields upon graduation - ranging from finance through to research.
Publications
Adams D
(2015)
Electron-muon ranger: performance in the MICE muon beam
in Journal of Instrumentation
Adams D
(2019)
First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
in The European Physical Journal C
Adams D
(2016)
Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam
in Journal of Instrumentation
Adams D
(2013)
Characterisation of the muon beams for the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment
in The European Physical Journal C
Adey D
(2017)
Overview of the Neutrinos from Stored Muons Facility - nuSTORM
in Journal of Instrumentation
Adey D
(2014)
Light sterile neutrino sensitivity at the nuSTORM facility
in Physical Review D
Apollonio M
(2012)
The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory
in Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Asfandiyarov R
(2019)
MAUS: the MICE analysis user software
in Journal of Instrumentation
Bayliss V
(2019)
The liquid-hydrogen absorber for MICE
in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Bayliss V
(2018)
The liquid-hydrogen absorber for MICE
in Journal of Instrumentation
| Description | The thesis prepared by the student presented a systematic evaluation of the cooling performance of the MICE channel using liquid hydrogen and lithium hydride as energy absorbing materials. The results are now being prepared for submission to Nature Physics. |
| Exploitation Route | The results presented in the thesis, and in the subsequent publication, will be input to the further development of ionisation cooling channels in the context of the CERN-based international Muon Collider Collaboration and, perhaps in the future, the development of a design for a neutrino factory. |
| Sectors | Other |
| Description | Development of proton and muon accelerators for science and innovation |
| Organisation | STFC Laboratories |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Development of accelerators for pulsed high-power proton sources, study of beam loss in synchrotron, design of FFAG muon ring for neutrino cross section measurements. Development of beam delivered to MICE at RAL. Organisation of Proton Accelerators for Science and Innovation workshops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of infrastructure and expertise in the above. Collaboration in organisation of the Proton Accelerator for Science and Innovation workshops. |
| Impact | Joint proposals for research work. Joint publications, listed elsewhere. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Development of proton and muon accelerators for science and innovation |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Department | ISIS Neutron and Muon Source |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of accelerators for pulsed high-power proton sources, study of beam loss in synchrotron, design of FFAG muon ring for neutrino cross section measurements. Development of beam delivered to MICE at RAL. Organisation of Proton Accelerators for Science and Innovation workshops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of infrastructure and expertise in the above. Collaboration in organisation of the Proton Accelerator for Science and Innovation workshops. |
| Impact | Joint proposals for research work. Joint publications, listed elsewhere. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Co-development of the conceptual design of a novel, laser-driven compact, accelerator system for biomedical applications. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The vision of the LhARA collaboration is to develop a laser-driven proton- and opn-beam source capable of driving a step change in capability in the delivery of beams for biological research and in clinical practice. The laser pulse that initiates the production of ions at LhARA may be triggered at a repetition rate of up to 10\,Hz. The time structure of the beam may therefore be varied to interrupt the chemical and biological pathways that determine the biological response to ionising radiation with 10\,ns to 40\,ns long proton or ion bunches repeated at intervals as small as 100\,ms. The technologies chosen to capture, transport, and accelerate the beam in LhARA have been made so that this unique capability is preserved. The LhARA beam may be used to deliver an almost uniform dose distribution over a circular area with a maximum diameter of between 1\,cm and 3\,cm. Alternatively the beam can be focused to a spot with diameter of $\sim 1$\,mm. Th ambition of the collaboration is to demonstrate in operation technologies that have the potential to be developed to make ``best in class'' treatments available to the many by reducing the footprint of future particle-beam therapy systems. The laser-hybrid approach will allow radiobiological studies and eventually radiotherapy to be carried out in completely new regimes, delivering a variety of ion species in a broad range of time structures and spatial configurations at instantaneous dose rates up to and potentially significantly beyond the current ultra-high dose-rate ``FLASH'' regime. |
| Impact | The LhARA consortium is the multidisciplinary collaboration of clinical oncologists, medical and academic physicists, biologists, engineers, and industrialists. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | MICE beam line, dipping target and beam line, tracker and MICE Step I data analysis |
| Organisation | International MICE Collaboration |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Construction of, and control systems for the MICE target, construction of the MICE Muon Beam. Construction, commissioning with cosmics, of the MICE tracker. Analysis of data from the MICE experiment and preparation for publication. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributions to the MICE dipping target, the decay solenoid and conventional magnet systems. Readout for the tracker and contributions to the commissioning. Development of algorithms for the analysis of MICE data and publication. |
| Impact | Publications in refereed journals (2); many talks at international conferences. |