JAIfest 2015

Thursday 10 Dec 2015, 09:00 → 18:10 Europe/Zurich

Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre (University of Oxford)

09:00 Coffee/tea on arrival

Session 1

Convener: Dr Glenn Christian (University of Oxford (GB))

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Andrei Seryi (John Adams Institute)

2 Latest progress toward high intensity FFAG accelerators

3 Generation of Laser Pulse Trains for Tests of Multi-Pulse Laser Wakefield Acceleration

4 Radiation pressure driven ion acceleration in near critical density targets

5 Coherent combination of fibre lasers: steps towards realistic applications

11:00 Coffee/Tea

Session 2

6 Positron Acceleration in a Non-linear Ion-Wake Excited by Plasma Electron Wakefields

7 High energy and high charge electron acceleration in self guided laser wakefield accelerators

8 Pushing beam power boundaries in proton accelerators

9 Quantitative single shot, spatially resolved plasma wakefield diagnostics

10 Photoinjector Development at Daresbury Laboratory

13:00 Lunch

Session 3

11 FLASHForward – beam-driven wakefield acceleration at FLASH

12 Status of the Diamond Light Source Upgrade

13 Design, development and use of the spectrometer for investigating coherent THz radiation produced by micro-bunching instabilities at Diamond Light Source

14 High Power THz generation using pre-bunched electron beams

15 Single short Smith-Purcell diagnostics: concept and progress

16 Development of room temperature THz detectors at RAL

15:45 Tea/Coffee

Session

17 Status and developments for the Compact Linear Collider

18 ProBE: Proton Boosting Extension for Imaging and Therapy

19 Continuous frequency scanning interferometry

20 Advanced diagnostics at the HL-LHC, Linac4 and FETS

21 Recent LHC BDSIM developments

22 MICE status and plans