IOP PAB GROUP NEWSLETTER
Transcript of IOP PAB GROUP NEWSLETTER
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS
IOP PAB GROUP
NEWSLETTER
Dec 2013
Issue 8
Inside this issue:
A new concept for X-ray
Free-Electron Lasers
2
IOP Plasma Wakefield
Accelerators Meeting
4
Linear Collider UK Meeting,
JAI, Oxford
6
Precious cargo arrives at
RAL
9
4th Vacuum Symposium UK
Conference
11
PAB Group and UK Events 14
International Calendar 15
IOP PAB Committee 16
As 2013 draws to a close it is appropriate to look back on the PAB Group’s achieve-
ments over the past year, as well as take a look ahead to some of the activities we have
planned for 2014.
2013 was a landmark year for us as our Group membership soared to more than 300! To
be precise, as of November 19th, we had a total of 314 members, comprising 26 Fellows,
77 Members, and 211 Associate, Student and Affiliate Members of the IoP. This increasing
membership is a reflection of the high degree of interest in our field: particle accelerators
are exciting and technologically cutting-edge devices that enable a broad range of science
from high-energy particle physics through to studies of the structure, properties and func-
tions of atomic and molecular systems in physics, chemistry, biology and materials scienc-
es.
The award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, for
theoretical work that was experimentally verified by experiments at the Large Hadron
Collider, is only the latest in a distinguished line of Nobel (and other) prizes awarded for
fundamental science discoveries that were made possible by the development of particle
accelerators. And congratulations to Lyn Evans, who was awarded the IoP’s 2013
Glazebrook Medal ‘for his outstanding leadership of the Large Hadron Collider project’.
We were delighted to award the 2013 PAB Group Prize for Distinguished Contributions
to Ian Gardner ‘for his many innovative contributions to the physics and engineering of
high-power proton accelerators and beams’.
Thanks to our active and engaged membership, and the initiative of our dynamic Group
Committee, we organised 6 highly successful Group meetings and events in 2013:
‘advanced computing for accelerators’ (Daresbury, January); ‘training the next genera-
tion’ (Oxford, March); ‘plasma wakefield accelerators’ (Daresbury, June); ‘accelerators for
security applications’ (AWE, September); a national postgraduate open day (Daresbury,
December); and we look forward to our final meeting of 2013: ‘accelerators for future
spallation sources’ (Huddersfield, December 12th). In addition the Group was delighted
to sponsor externally-organised meetings, including the National Vacuum Electronics
Conference (‘NVEC’), a workshop on low-emittance rings, and the Vacuum Symposium.
For 2014 we already have several Group activities organised. A meeting on ‘opportunities
at the proposed CLARA FEL test facility’ will be held at Daresbury on January 13th, and
on January 31st we are co-sponsoring (with STFC) a community meeting on ‘plasma wake-
field acceleration’ at IoP HQ. More details are given in this newsletter. Other meetings
are planned on ‘accelerator engineering’ as well as ‘future particle-physics accelerators’,
and of course we will arrange our annual conference – more details on these will follow
early in 2014.
Please support your Group’s events and activities in 2014, and don’t hesitate to contact
any member of the Committee with any other suggestions for how we can support the
UK accelerator community.
Best wishes for the festive season,
Phil Burrows
Editorial
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Accelerators for Future
Spallation Sources: ESS,
MYRRHA and the ISIS
Upgrade
Cockcroft Institute,
Daresbury, 12 Dec 2013
IoP CLARA Community
Meeting
Cockcroft Institute,
Daresbury, 13 Jan, 2014
Plasma Wakefield
Acceleration
STFC - IOP PAB Group
Joint Workshop
Institute of Physics,
London, 31 Jan, 2014
Full details on Page 14
PAB Events News from the Laboratories — Daresbury
A New Concept for 'Perfect Pulses' from X-ray Free-Electron Lasers
ASTeC researchers have been developing a new technique which they first proposed in 2010
to dramatically improve the output quality of X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers (FELs). The technique
should make the X-ray pulses more reproducible and provide users with many more photons
in the very narrow wavelength bands relevant to their experiments. In effect the useful
‘brightness’ of the FEL can be greatly enhanced. The work has been done in collaboration with
the University of Strathclyde and was recently published in Physical Review Letters.
X-ray Free-Electron Lasers FELs (such as the LCLS at SLAC in California, SACLA at SPring-8 in
Japan) use high energy electron bunches, produced by particle accelerators, to generate intense
pulses of X-rays. While these FELs are currently opening up many new frontiers across science
their full potential is still limited by the chaotically noisy time structure and wavelength compo-
sition of the pulses of X-rays they produce. What is really needed for a number of applications
are reproducible pulses where each X-ray photon is at almost exactly the same wave-
length. Such ‘Perfect Pulses’ could open up new scientific frontiers, such as in time-resolved X-
ray spectroscopy or studies of molecular and cluster fragmentation.
Although other methods do exist for generating high quality pulses from FELs these can require
complex optical components or synchronisation with other lasers which limits the wavelength
tuning or repetition rate of the output. The new method proposed by the ASTeC researchers
and collaborators does not rely on optics or lasers and can therefore be used at any wave-
length or repetition rate. The idea is to use extra magnets along the FEL to slow down the
electron bunches so they slip back through the X-ray pulse and ‘smear out’ the noise. By doing
this, the narrow wavelength band of the X-ray photons is reduced by a factor of over one hun-
dred and all the pulses become smooth and reproducible . Computer simulations of the tech-
nique predict it may be possible to produce ‘near-perfect’ pulses of X-rays.
This is just one of the novel FEL concepts that could be proven in principle then further devel-
oped on a dedicated FEL test facility, such as the proposed CLARA project, an upgrade to the
existing VELA Facility at Daresbury Laboratory.
The two images show in grey the normal output pulse from a hard X-ray FEL. The first image shows
the pulse time structure, and the second image the breakdown of power over different wavelengths.
With the new technique applied the output would be as shown in red. The pulse profile has been
dramatically smoothed and the range of wavelengths of the X-ray photons has been compressed into
a far narrower band.
IOP PAB GROUP NEWSLETTER
Original Paper:
B. W. J. McNeil, N. R. Thompson and D. J. Dunning, “Transform-Limited X-Ray Pulse Genera-
tion from a High-Brightness Self-Amplified Spontaneous-Emission Free-Electron Laser”, Physical
Review Letters110, 134802 (2013).
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 134802 (2013) (link opens in a new window)
© 2013 Science and Technology Facilities Council - All Rights Reserved.
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International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC ‘13)
From 12th to 17th May a group of 16 staff and students represented ASTeC at IPAC ’13 in
Shanghai, China. This is the largest annual international conference in accelerator science, with
over 1000 delegates.
ASTeC facilities and science were well represented in the main sessions of the conference. De-
tailed measurements using the ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers in Combined Experiments) and
EMMA (Electron Machine with Many Applications) accelerators were the main topic of a talk by
Kai Hock from the University of Liverpool. ALICE, one a few operating ERLs worldwide, also
featured in another talk by R. Hajima from the Japanese Atomic Energy Authority on “Beam
Commissioning of Energy Recovery Linacs”.
Recent publications from N. Thompson and D. Dunning from the MARS (Magnets and Radiation
Sources) group on novel free electron laser design schemes featured in talks by S. Reiche and J.
Wu from Paul Scherrer Institute and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre.
Apart from the main oral sessions, a key part of IPAC conferences are the poster sessions, at
which ASTeC presented around 35 papers as either lead or contributing author.
The contributions reflected the diverse range of research and technology development carried
out in the center. A number of papers highlighted the recent achievement of first beam on VE-
LA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator) at Daresbury Laboratory in April this year. Progress
on the design of a proposed advanced test facility for future light sources ‘CLARA’ (Compact
Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications) was also covered in detail.
ASTeC’s strong knowledge base in FFAG (Fixed Field Alternating Gradient) accelerators was
strongly represented with papers on lattice and beam dynamics both in EMMA and for future
accelerators. Hadron and muon accelerator expertise was represented in papers on the Front
End Test Stand developments at RAL, ASTeC’s contributions to ISIS upgrades and designs for
the Neutrino Factory. The status and recent achievements of the Muon Ionisation and Cooling
Experiment (MICE) at RAL was also presented.
James Jones with his poster ASTeC participants Philippe Goudket and
Reza Valizadeh
Technological developments are an integral part of ASTeC’s research and were described in pa-
pers on permanent magnet quadrupoles for the Compact Linear Collider project, the UK super-
conducting planar undulator project, Crab Cavities for the Large Hadron Collider High Luminos-
ity Upgrade and the Daresbury International Cryomodule Project.
The conference wouldn’t run so smoothly without the contributions of staff to assist in it’s run-
ning. As a member of the JACOW publishing team, Sue Waller supported the publication of the
paper submissions, throughout the duration of the conference. Deepa Angal-Kalinin, leader of
the Accelerator Physics Group, chaired the contributed oral session on beam instrumentation
and feedback.
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IOP Plasma Wakefield Accelerators Meeting
The IOP Plasma Wakefield Accelerators meeting was held at Daresbury Laboratory on 18th
June. The one-day meeting brought together experts from nine UK departments and institutes
to discuss recent advances in plasma wakefield accelerators and strategies for advancing the
UK’s interests in this area.
The program of talks covered many aspects regarding Laser and Particle driven Wakefield accel-
erators, enabling technologies and their applicability to free-electron lasers. Most accelerator
technologies are now sufficiently mature that it is doubtful that non-incremental progress will be
possible. For that sort of break-through novel solutions become necessary and advocates of
plasma wakefield acceleration schemes believe they can deliver them. PAB Group sponsored this
meeting as a forum for UK interested parties, to review progress and to discuss next steps. The
attendance of 46 reflects the active research interest in this important topic.
Raoul Trines (STFC-RAL), Ranaul Islam (Strathclyde) and Simon Hooker (Oxford) opened the
meeting with talks on photon acceleration models, bubble regime simulations and use of wave-
guides. Two talks on proton driven systems, given by Guoxing Xia (CI) and Zulf Najmudin
(ICSTM), featured experimental reviews and details of the AWAKE project; it was noted that
simulations concluded that major practical applications would require much shorter proton
bunches than so far achieved.
Brian McNeil (Strathclyde) examined the challenges of one possible application of the technolo-
gy, to next generation FEL sources. This talk was complemented by an overview from James
Jones (ASTeC-DL) on short pulse diagnostics, noting that sub-ps resolutions were already envis-
aged in R&D test facilities such as the proposed CLARA project at Daresbury.
Marco Borghesi (QUB) reviewed the alternative approach of direct laser driven acceleration (ie
not wakes) of ions, including experimental achievements. Clearly there are many ‘horses for
courses’ areas for potential development.
The meeting concluded with a useful discussion on future strategy for R&D progress chaired by
Professor Andrei Seryi of the John Adams Institute . It was evident that the UK already punches
beyond its weight in this area, but that this could not continue without significant new
investment, perhaps mainly from STFC but also with EPSRC assistance. Effective collaboration
between university groups and also the STFC laboratories DL and RAL, was crucial. It was
accepted that this needed much more groundwork in the coming months, and that further
‘forum’ style meetings in 2014 would be valuable.
Thanks must go to the excellent speakers on the day and the IOP-PAB group, the Cockcroft
Institute and STFC for their support of this event.
Mike Poole
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Professor Zulfikar Najmudin from Imperial
College with Trina Thakker, STFC
Professor Marco Borghesi of Queens University Belfast
Publication of the CLARA conceptual Design Report
The Conceptual Design Report of the proposed new Free
Electron Laser Test Facility, CLARA, was published on the
ASTeC web site in July 2013, and is available for download
here:
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASTeC/News+and+events/43857.aspx
News from the Laboratories — John Adams Institute
Linear Collider UK Meeting, Oxford, September 2013
UK community members discussing the International Linear Collider at the September LCUK meeting at
the John Adams Institute, Oxford University, September 2013.
In September 70 members of the UK particle physics community met in Oxford and participated
in an informal meeting of the Linear Collider – UK (LCUK) group. The meeting, which attracted
several distinguished international speakers, was focussed on reviewing the status of the Interna-
tional Linear Collider (ILC) project that has been proposed by the Japanese high-energy physics
community to be built in Japan, and on exploring opportunities for UK involvement.
The ILC is a proposed 20-30km long electron-positron collider whose design has been devel-
oped over the past decade by an international team of several hundred accelerator physicists
and engineers. Several members of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science have played
key roles in leading the design of this gargantuan accelerator facility. A core purpose of the ILC
would be to serve as a Higgs boson ‘factory’, producing tens of thousands of Higgses per year in
a very clean experimental environment, thereby allowing precision measurements of the parti-
cle’s properties in a complementary fashion to ongoing studies at the LHC.
In the past 18 months developments have proceeded apace. Following the announcement of the
discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in 2012, the Japa-
nese community announced its intention to bid to host the ILC in Japan. The ILC Technical De-
sign Report was officially completed and presented to the International Committee on Future
Accelerators (ICFA) in June 2013, and in September 2013 a recommendation for the ILC site
(Kitakami, Iwate prefecture) was made. The project has a high political profile in Japan, with
broad cross-party and industrial support, and over the coming months the Japanese Govern-
ment is expected to initiate discussions on implementing the project with potential international
partners.
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The timely Oxford meeting, organised by Phil Burrows (JAI) and Mark Thomson (Cambridge),
reviewed the ILC physics programme, as well as the accelerator and detector designs. The con-
clusion is that there are many opportunities for the UK to be (further) involved in realising both
the accelerator and the detectors, and the group agreed to work on honing our strategy for
advancing the project in the UK. Follow-on meetings are planned for November 2013.
CLIC Workshop 2014
Accelerator, Detector and
Physics Studies
CERN, 3-7 Feb. 2014
LA3NET 3rd Topical Workshop on Novel Acceleration Techniques
HZDR, Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany, 28-30 Apr. 2014
oPAC Workshop on Beam Diagnostics
Vienna, 8-9 May 2014
IPAC 2014
Dresden, 16-20 June 2014
Free-Electron Lasers, FEL’14
Basel, 25-29 Aug. 2014
27th Linear Accelerator Conference, LINAC’14
ICC, Geneva, 1-5 Sep. 2104
Full details on Page 15
Calendar
JAI participate in UK-Russia Joint Committee on Scientific and Technical Co-operation
Participants of the 11th session of the Ministerial UK Russia Joint Committee on Scientific and
Technical Co-operation, 17 October 2013, Royal Society, London. Photo courtesy of UK Science
and Innovation Network (SIN)-Russia.
In October 2013, JAI participated in the 11th session of the Ministerial UK-Russia Joint Commit-
tee on Scientific and Technical Co-operation, held at the Royal Society, London. The meeting
represented an important milestone in strengthening the cooperation between the two coun-
tries. The meeting was hosted by Prof Martyn Poliakoff, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society,
and was organised by the British Embassy’s Science & Innovation Network (SIN)-Russia led by
Dr Julia Knights and Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science in cooperation with the UK’s
Department for Business Innovation and Skills, and the Royal Society.
The JAI was represented at the event by Prof A.Seryi, who had a chance to describe to the par-
ticipants the opportunities for life science and technology arising from recent developments in
accelerator science.
The Joint Statement, signed by Minister Vince Cable, Secretary of State for the UK’s Department
for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Minister Dmitry Livanov of the Russian Ministry of Educa-
tion and Science, highlighted in particular, accelerator science and particle physics, energy effi-
ciency and life sciences, as well as Space, climate and Arctic science as the priority areas for bilat-
eral cooperation over the next two years in research science.
AWE — Particle Beams for National Security Applications
On the 9th of September the Atomic Weapons Establishment hosted a Particle Accelerators and
Beams Group event entitled ‘Particle Beams for National Security Applications’. The meeting was
well attended with over 40 registrations from various Universities, National Laboratories, and
Companies from all over the UK. Six talks were given over the afternoon on state of the art
particle accelerators, proposed designs, computational modelling techniques, as well as existing
and emerging applications.
Aled Jones, AWE
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Professor Roger Barlow, University of Huddersfield, presents
‘PIP: a small proton ns FFAG for generating neutrons’
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News from the Laboratories — RAL
Precious cargo arrives at RAL
The first 1m long section of the Front End Test Stand (FETS) Radio Frequency Quadrupole
(RFQ) accelerator has arrived for inspection at the Rutherford Appleton Lab (RAL). FETS is
being developed as a driver for a wide range of future applications including neutron spallation
sources, neutrino factories, muon colliders, ADSRs and nuclear waste transmutation. The FETS
RFQ has been designed and built in the UK by ISIS, Imperial College and NAB Precision Engi-
neering Hitchin.
Machined from 16 blocks of high purity copper, the finished RFQ will be 4 meters long. Each 1
m long section is comprised of 4 separate vanes. The vanes have very precise undulations ma-
chined along their tips. These undulations shape an electric field, that first bunches the beam
then accelerates it to 3 MeV.
Peter Savage, Imperial College, Lead Mechanical Engineer on the FETS project said, “We’re using
a novel bolted together design. It has been a challenge, but I am sure we can meet the required
10 µm tolerance.”
“Machining the copper without using coolant or lubricant has been a real headache for NAB, but
persistence has paid off”, said Peter. Having passed all inspection tests the final machining of the
last 3 sections is now underway with delivery to RAL expected in early 2014.
The two FETS leaders, Alan Letchford, ISIS, and Juergen Pozimski, Imperial College are confident
about the progress, they say, ”We hope to accelerate our first beam through the FETS RFQ
near the end of 2014.”
The finished RFQ will operate at 324 MHz and accelerate a 60 mA H– beam at a 2 ms, 50 Hz
duty cycle. Alan makes an important point, "The engineering is critical, this is a very precise ob-
ject which we're going to hammer with 1 MW of microwave power.”
Dave Wilshire, STFC Metrology Section, inspecting
the first 1m long section of the FETS RFQ.
UK Pulsed Power Symposium 2014 18 March 2014
Loughborough, UK, 2014
18 March | Holywell Park Conference Centre |
Loughborough University | United Kingdom
Following the acknowledged success of the previous UK Pulsed Power Symposium Loughbor-
ough 2011, a further Symposium will now take place in 2014. This one-day international event at
Holywell Park Conference Centre on the Loughborough University campus is an opportunity to
meet the leading names in UK Pulsed Power Physics and Technology and to discuss recent ad-
vances in the broad range of applications of pulsed power. The event will include a key-note ad-
dress, three high level oral and poster sessions, two coffee breaks and lunch. An optional dinner
at the Burleigh Court will end the day.
Co-Chairs:
Professor Bucur Novac, Loughborough University IEEE UK&RI Industrial Electronics Section
Chair
Professor Ivor Smith, Loughborough University
More details at:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eese/news/events/uk-pulsed-power-symposium-2014.html
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4th Vacuum Symposium UK Conference
On 16/17 October 2013 at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, the 4th Vacuum Symposium UK Confer-
ence was pleased to host a variety of technical meetings of general and specialist interest that
attracted 294 registered delegates. This meeting is now established as an annual event alongside
Vacuum EXPO and provides a much needed forum for scientists, academics, technicians and in-
dustrial users who share ‘vacuum’ as a common interest.
This year there were four, free to attend, technical meetings arranged with support from a num-
ber of commercial sponsors as well as the Institute of Physics and the British Vacuum Council.
The Vacuum-based coating technology and applications meeting provided an update on
methods where vacuum and the use of plasmas and energy-assistance methods are used in indus-
trial coating processes. Erwin Kessels from the Technical University of Eindhoven gave an inter-
esting overview of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) which allows for the deposition of uniform,
ultrathin films with Ångstrom-level resolution and with a high conformality on complex (nano)
structures. Other contributions related to energy-assisted physical vapour deposition methods
where energetic atoms of coating material are deposited on a substrate, often with additional
energy provided by energetic ion bombardment. An overview of the effects of energy-assistance
on coating properties was given by John Colligon which highlighted the importance of added en-
ergy per depositing atom and the effects of impurities on the properties of the deposited materi-
al. Subsequent talks by Arutiun Ehiasarian (High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering: HIPIMS)
and James Dutton (High Target Utilisation Sputtering: HiTUS) illustrated the latest methods for
producing coatings using energy-assistance. Talks on applications of the coatings included a Plas-
ma-Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition diamond coating process described by Chris Walker
of Diamond Hard Coatings Ltd which allows formation of well-bonded carbon materials on a
range of substrates. Another novel coating was described by Ben Wardzinski of the European
Space and Technology Laboratory (ESTL). Traditionally lead has been used to coat ball-bearings
but, owing to the toxic nature of lead, alternatives, such as Indium, are being sought. The results
showed that indium had a reasonable lifetime and, although this was shorter than lead, its friction
coefficient was lower.
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A third application of coatings as a pumping surface for synchrotron and accelerator systems was
described by Oleg Malyshev of STFC Daresbury Laboratory. Alloys of Ti, Zr, Hf and Zr and of
individual metals have been tested and shown to have good pumping properties, low activation
energies and reduced electron-stimulated desorption yields.
The All Aspects of Leak Detection meeting proved very popular with delegates wishing to
learn more about leak detection methods and see latest instruments presented by vacuum
equipment suppliers. The opening invited talk presented by Dr Richard Pilkington on the ‘History
of leak detection’ was an excellent start to the meeting setting the scene for the remaining talks.
Presentations included leak detection challenges for particle accelerators and the design of leak
detection systems. A particular highlight was the talk by an invited speaker from PTB in Berlin,
Dr Karl Jousten. Karl developed the theme ‘Vacuum metrology for Science and Industry’ by
considering the requirements for leak detection in qualification and certification. At the end of
the meeting a one hour hands on session held in the vacuum exhibition hall allowed delegates to
see the latest leak detectors available on the market and to try them out.
The Functional Thin Films meeting provided a comprehensive mix of presentations on the
production, characterisation and commercial applications of functional coatings. Speakers from a
range of prestigious industrial and academic institutions gave high-quality presentations in
sessions on “Characterisation of Functional Thin Films”, “Industrial Processing”, and “Materials
and Applications”. The subjects covered ranged from high barrier measurement and electrical
characterisation, to applications in OLEDs, flexible electronics and PV, and issues arising from
industrial scale-up and production. The meeting provided a valuable opportunity for the
industrial and academic communities to meet and exchange ideas; and to keep updated on the
key issues facing UK research into Functional Thin Films.
The RGA Calibration in Industry and Research meeting was the 11th meeting organised by
the RGA User Group. The programme focussed on the requirements that users have for
calibrating quadrupole mass spectrometers and developments in providing suitable calibration
techniques including insitu methods.
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The meeting was pleased to welcome Dr Karl Jousten (PTB, Berlin) and Dr Janez Setina (IMT,
Slovenia) as leading scientists in this field. They covered the topics of ‘Recent steps towards
traceability for partial pressure and outgassing measurements’ and ‘First results of investigations
of metrological characteristics of QMS within EMRP IND12’ (a European project). Other talks
included an overview of the use of RGA at Diamond Light Source, latest results from
comparative tests carried out in ASTeC at Daresbury Laboratory and a closer look at
Quadrupole mass spectrometry in vacuum technology by Dr Jonathan Batey.
Another key element of the symposium again this year was the provision of Vacuum Training.
Demand for basic and advanced training in vacuum science and technology within the UK
continues to be high. This was underlined by the fact that each of the courses offered this year
were oversubscribed before the symposium began. A total of 38 individuals received training
through 3 different training courses over 2 days with a total attendance figure across all courses
of 83. The majority of attendees were vacuum users from UK industry where applications of
vacuum continue to increase. A new training course on ‘Clean Vacuum & UHV’ was offered for
the first time this year and was delivered by Dr Ron Reid (vacuum consultant). The course
proved very popular and has helped many to grasp a better understanding of this increasingly
important area.
Plans are underway to develop an interesting programme for the 5th Vacuum Symposium
UK, those interested in participating or arranging technical programmes are invited to express
their interest through the Vacuum Symposium web site at vacuum-uk.org .
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Useful Links
http://www.scitech.ac.uk/
http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/
http://www.adams-institute.ac.uk/
www.diamond.ac.uk
http://www.desy.de/index_eng.html
http://www.linearcollider.org/newsline/
PAB GROUP & UK EVENT S
Accelerators for Future Spallation Sources: ESS, MYRRHA and the ISIS Upgrade
Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory, 12 Dec 2013
https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/
IoP CLARA Community Meeting
Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory, 13 Jan, 2014
https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/iop-clara-community-meeting-194
Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
STFC — IOP PAB Group Joint Workshop
Institute of Physics, London, 31 Jan, 2014
You can register for this event at http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ASBworkshop.
For further detail please contact [email protected]
IOP PAB Committee Meeting
Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory, 26 Feb. 2014
IOP PAB Annual Meeting
Imperial College, London (date TBD: probably 31 Mar. 2014)
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INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR
CERN CLIC Workshop 2014
Accelerator, Detector and Physics Studies
CERN, Geneva, 3—7 Feb. 2014
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=275412
LA3NET 3rd Topical Workshop on Novel Acceleration Techniques
HZDR, Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany, 28-30 Apr. 2014
Registration at CERN Indico
oPAC Workshop on Beam Diagnostics
Vienna, Austria, 8-9 May 2014
Registration at CERN Indico
IPAC 2014
Dresden, Germany, 16-20 June 2014
http://www.ipac14.org/
Free-Electron Lasers, FEL’14
Basel, Switzerland, 25-29 Aug. 2014
http://www.fel2014.ch/
27th Linear Accelerator Conference, LINAC’14
ICC, Geneva, Switzerland, 1-5 Sep. 2104
http://linac14.org/
IBIC14
Monterey, California, 15-19 Sep. 2014
(organised by SLAC)
Phone: 020 7470 4800
Fax: 020 7470 4848
IoP Particle Accelerators and Beams Group
IoP PAB Committee
Chair: Prof. Phil Burrows (Oxford)
Secretary: Dr. Peter Williams (Daresbury)
Treasurer: Dr. Brian McNeil (Strathclyde)
Prof. Allan Gillespie (Dundee); Newsletter
Dr. Hywel Owen (Manchester); Web Manager
Dr. John Thomason (RAL)
Prof. Mike Poole (Daresbury)
Prof. Susan Smith (Daresbury)
Mr. Aled Jones (AWE)
Dr. Riccardo Bartolini (Diamond Light Source & JAI)
Dr. Adina Toader (Manchester)
Dr. Paul Beasley (Siemens); Industrial representative
Dr. Jonathan Smith (Tech-X UK): Industrial representative
James Henderson (Strathclyde); co-opted student
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