INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

IOP PAB GROUP

NEWSLETTER

May 2013

Issue 7

Inside this issue:

Daresbury - First electrons

for VELA

2

PAB Group annual meeting 4

New concepts in X-ray FEL

pulses

8

Ion source technology

meeting (Nov 2012)

10

Training the Next Generation

of Accelerator Scientists and

Engineers

(March 2013)

11

Advanced Computing for

Accelerators

12

PAB Group Events 14

International Calendar 15

IOP PAB Committee 16

This is my first editorial in our newsletter since taking up the baton as Group Chair from

Mike Poole. Mike instigated the idea of an IoP Particle Accelerators and Beams Group; he

steered the Group’s formation through IoP, and went on to lead us through our first 5

years. He has been a true powerhouse and is a tough act to follow. We thank Mike and

wish him well in his ‘retirement’. However, Mike will continue to serve as a Member of

our Group Committee, as well as on the IoP Groups’ Committee, so we will benefit from

his energy, drive and wisdom for some time yet.

Under Mike’s leadership the Group grew from a handful to (as of last count) 225 mem-

bers! This is a remarkable achievement and the uptake reflects the keen interest in accel-

erator science, engineering and technology as a serious intellectual and professional disci-

pline in the UK. This was reflected in the attendance of 120 people at our very successful

2013 Group annual conference, held at the Cockcroft Institute in April. This year we tar-

geted younger researchers to give presentations on their own work and this resulted in a

broad set of excellent presentations and posters reflecting an impressive amount of accel-

erator work being done across the UK. The conference programme was framed appro-

priately by an opening ‘state of the nation’ talk from the STFC Chief Executive, John

Womersley, and a stimulating and entertaining closing talk from last year’s Group Prize

for Distinguished Contributions winner, Neil Marks. We were delighted to present the

2013 Group Prize to Ian Gardner, who will give a distinguished lecture at the 2014 con-

ference. Reports on all these activities are given later in this newsletter.

Although we continue to live through a ‘flat cash’ funding environment for science in the

UK, which puts severe (and increasing) pressure on budgets for accelerator activities,

there is no decrease in the demand for high-performance accelerators across the world. I

was recently privileged to attend the 4th International Particle Accelerator Conference

(IPAC), in Shanghai. The Asian community was well represented at their ‘local’ confer-

ence, and the activity in Asia that was reported there is very impressive, with many new

facilities coming online in China, Korea, Japan, and other countries. The UK was well rep-

resented at IPAC via contributions of papers, posters and presentations, but it is clear

that we will need to work increasingly hard, with very stretched resources, to continue

to lead and make an impact in the face of such stiff international competition.

The PAB Group is here to serve and support our accelerator community. One way in

which we do this is by organising and supporting events across the UK throughout the

year. So far in 2013 we have organised topical meetings on ion sources and ‘training the

next generation’ (see later), with further meetings in the pipeline on accelerators for se-

curity applications, plasma-wakefield based accelerators, accelerator engineering challeng-

es, and future accelerators for particle physics. Please continue to participate in these

events (they are usually free!) and suggest topics to us for future meetings and activities.

Finally, please encourage colleagues to join the PAB Group and participate in promoting

our discipline as a key driver of innovation in science, engineering and technology!

Phil Burrows

Editorial

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Laser Plasma Wakefield

Accelerators

Cockcroft Institute,

Daresbury Laboratory,

18 June, 2013

3rd ILC Beam Dynamics

Workshop on Low-

Emittance Rings

Oxford, 8-10 July , 2013

Accelerators for Security

Applications

Reading, September 2013

(AWE organised)

Full details on Page 14

PAB Events News from the Laboratories — Daresbury

First Electrons for VELA

On Friday 5th April, ASTeC’s new accelerator VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accel-

erator) achieved a significant electron acceleration milestone, which heralds exciting

new opportunities for industry to apply the latest particle accelerator technology to

commercial challenges, and for the accelerator community to exploit the machine’s

unique capabilities.

The facility was enabled by a £2.5m investment from Government, announced in Au-

gust 2011, for accelerator technology developments. VELA’s unique electron beam

characteristics, coupled with its exceptional repeatability and flexibility, make it ideal

for applications development across a broad range of key market sectors; everything

from seeing through aircraft luggage and developing more effective hospital radio-

therapy machines, to shrink-wrapping cable bundles and curing ink. This first suc-

cessful demonstration of VELA means that it is now expected to be ready for com-

mercial and research use later in 2013 with the first commercial users already

booked.

“VELA has huge potential for the development of novel technologies across many

sectors, such as security, healthcare and manufacturing. As the facility becomes op-

erational, we look forward to realising the impact of these technological advances for

the benefit of UK industry,” said Professor Susan Smith, Director of the Accelerator

Science and Technology Centre (ASTeC), following the achievement of this signifi-

cant milestone. “A lot of hard work has gone into the development of VELA, and it’s

great to see it starting to pay off.” A fA

Project manager Greg Diakun paid tribute to the efforts of the team: “The credit be-

longs to the enthusiasm and drive of the many team members who helped realise this

significant milestone.”

IOP PAB GROUP NEWSLETTER

The VELA team celebrate the achievement of first electrons

The VELA development has been backed by three major commercial partners – Siemens, Rapiscan and e2v, and over 80 companies ranging from blue-chips to SMEs have supported its construction. Strathclyde University has also collaborated with STFC to develop the VELA facility in order to demonstrate the operating performance of an advanced electron beam injector for laser-wakefield accelerator applications.

A new name

VELA started life as EBTF – the Electron Beam Test Facility. It was officially renamed in

March, inspired by the analogy of the machine’s capabilities with the highly regular, high-

ly characterised pulses of radiation emitted from the Vela pulsar, a vast natural particle

accelerator. Of the name change, the recently appointed ASTeC Business Development

Manager Dr Katharine Robertson said, “EBTF didn’t have much of a ring to it. The con-

nection to the pulsar really appealed to us, and it worked as an acronym (Versatile Elec-

tron Linear Accelerator) too. Everyone has got used to the change really quickly, and

we’re looking forward to promoting the facility more widely under this new name.”

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VELA's first beam of electrons successfully accel-erated and captured

Chancellor George Osborne enjoys a tour of VELA on his visit to Daresbury Laboratory in February 2013

PAB Group Annual Meeting

The 2013 annual meeting of the IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams group was held in

the Cockcroft Institute on 10th April.

The meeting was the most successful yet with over 120 participants. The day’s proceed-

ings commenced with a Town Meeting address by STFC Chief Executive John

Womersley. This was followed by the presentation of the 2013 PAB Prize for outstanding

professional contributions to Ian Gardner (ISIS, RAL) - with citation:

“To Ian Gardner for his many innovative contributions to the physics and engineering of

high-power proton accelerators and beams — and in particular for his development of

RF systems for spallation neutron sources, for his leadership in design, delivery and op-

eration of successful solutions for NIMROD, ISIS, ESS and other projects, and for his

significant contributions to steering the development of major national and international

accelerator facilities”.

Presentation to Ian Gardner by Phil Burrows and John Womersley

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Agenda - 10/04/2013

0930 - 1100 Registration: Refreshments available in the Atrium. Posters mounted

1100 - 1150 STFC Town Meeting

John Womersley - STFC

1150 - 1200 Presentation of 2013 IoP PAB Group Prize for Outstanding Professional Contribu-

tions to Dr Ian Gardner, ISI..

1200 - 1220 ISIS Developments 2013

Bryan Jones - STFC

1220 - 1240 FETs Developments 2013

Scott Lawrie - STFC/RAL/ISIS

1240 - 1300 Recent Developments at Diamond

Ian Martin - Diamond Light Source

1300 - 1315 PAB Group AGM

1315 - 1350 Lunch/Poster Session 1350 - 1400 Poster Prize Award(s)

1400 - 1420 Towards Zeptosecond-Scale Pulses from X-ray Free Electron Lasers

David Dunning - STFC Daresbury Laboratory

1420 - 1440 Controlled Injection and Fast and Accurate Modelling of Laser Plasma Accelerator

10 GeV Stages

Jonathan Smith - Tech-X UK Ltd

1440 - 1500 Micro-Bunching Conventional Particle Beams to Drive Plasma Wakefield Accelera-

tion

James Holloway - UCL

1500 - 1520 Undulator-Based Positron Source: Optimising the Undulator Photon Spectrum for

Positron Production

Mike Jenkins - Lancaster University and Cockcroft Institute

1520 - 1540 Design of a Transverse Deflecting Cavity for the Longitudinal Measurement of Elec-

tron Bunches on VELA

Louise Cowie - STFC

1540 - 1600 Development and Use of GEANT4 Simulations of Low Energy Proton Beam Target

Interactions for Medical Applications.

Naomi Ratcliffe - Huddersfield University

1600 - 1630 Refreshments in the Atrium. Removal of posters.

1630 - 1715 Prize Lecture by Winner of 2012 IoP Group Prize for Outstanding Professional Con-

tributions: 'Weird Magnets..

Neil Marks - STFC ASTeC

1st European Advanced Accelerator Concepts

Workshop

La Biodola, Isola d’Elba, Italy,

2-7 June, 2013

1st oPAC Topical Workshop: Grand Challenges in Accelerator Optimisation

CERN, 26-27 June 2013

Free-Electron Laser

Conference FEL 2013

New York City, USA,

26 - 29 Aug 2013

International Beam

Instrumentation Conference

(IBIC 2013)

Oxford, 16 - 19 Sep 2013

2013 North American Particle Accelerator Conference, NA-PAC’13

Pasadena, 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2013

Linear Collider Workshop

Tokyo, 11-15 Nov, 2013

Full details on Page 15

Calendar

Three prizes were awarded for best student posters: congratulations to Ayash Alrashdi

(Lancaster / CI) for “Novel Magnetic Design for Positron Source Target Wheel”, Scott

Mandry (UCL / MPI) for “A New Approach to Linear Acceleration: Proton-driven Plasma

Wakefield Acceleration” and Claire Scullion (Queens, Belfast) for “3-d Phantom for

Radiobiological Studies”.

Poster prize winners: Scott Mandry, Claire Scullion and Ayash Alrashdi

The day ended with the PAB prize lecture by the 2012 winner of the outstanding professional

contributions award, Neil Marks (Daresbury / Liverpool). Neil gave an entertaining tour through

his many innovative contributions to magnet design:

Weird Magnets I have Known (link opens in a new window)

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The scientific programme covered the broad range of accelerator research in the UK,

with speakers drawn from early career scientists (available here )

The PAB group wishes to acknowledge the support of the Cockcroft Institute and STFC

in hosting this event.

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Meeting Notice

Workshop at Daresbury Laboratory on

‘Environmental Applications of Accelerators’

On 9th

July 2013, Daresbury will host a meeting aimed at exploring the potential applica-

tions of accelerators in water and flue gas treatment. With an increasing industrial focus

on resource savings, and the adoption of good environmental practises backed by ever-

tightening regulatory requirements, accelerator-based solutions for environmental clean-

up and production efficiencies are now transferring from the high energy physics labora-

tory to the industrial workplace.

This HEPTech sponsored event brings together industry experts, scientists, application

engineers, supply-chain manufacturers and a range of funding bodies to discuss the po-

tential requirements, limitations and opportunities that these cutting edge advances bring

to a broad range of environmental applications. This event will clarify industry’s needs,

the supply chain’s requirements, and foster vibrant R&D collaborations which will accu-

rately target these requirements with innovative and cost-effective solutions.

New Concepts could make X-ray Free-Electron Laser pulses

shorter and brighter

Researchers from the Accelerator Science and Technology Centre (ASTeC), based at

the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Daresbury Laboratory and the Universi-

ty of Strathclyde, have been developing new techniques which could dramatically im-

prove the output properties of X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers [1]. Their research has been

published recently in two March issues of Physical Review Letters [2,3], with each Letter

respectively describing methods to improve two key measures of FEL performance by

approximately two orders of magnitude: pulse duration and brightness.

X-ray Free-Electron Lasers FELs, such as the LCLS at SLAC in California and SACLA at

Spring-8 in Japan, use high energy electron bunches produced by particle accelerators,

which are then propagated through a long sequence of alternating magnetic dipoles

called an undulator, to generate intense pulses of coherent X-rays. These new sources

generate X-rays that are about 109 times brighter than are available from conventional

synchrotron sources. It is no surprise, therefore, that FELs are opening up new windows

of research across a wide range of science, from studies of warm dense matter to the

imaging of the delicate molecular structures of living cells.

The research of [2] develops previous work by the same group to shorten the pulse dura-

tions that may be achievable from FELs to a few cycles at GW power levels. The method

has been coined a ‘Mode-Locked Afterburner’. Few-cycle X-ray pulses correspond to

RMS pulse durations of about 700 zeptoseconds (1 zs =10-21

s) at hard X-ray wave-

lengths of 1 Å = 10-10

s. These individual pulses form a train of X-ray pulses, each sepa-

rated by approximately 10 attoseconds (1 as =10-18

s). Given that in the Bohr model of the

hydrogen atom, of approximate size 1 Å, an electron takes about 24 as to travel 1 radian

around its orbit, such pulse trains would act as a strobe with the spatiotemporal resolu-

tion able to capture atomic processes. If the same method were applied in FELs that are

being proposed to operate at wavelengths around 0.2 Å, the RMS pulse durations scale

down to around 140 zs, opening up the potential to directly probe nuclear processes.

Figure 1: A schematic demonstrating the process of electron bunch/X-ray manipulation required in the FEL undulator to generate a train of few-cycle, zeptosecond-scale duration X-ray pulses.

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In the second Letter [3], a method is described that may improve the brightness of FEL

output in the X-ray by nearly two orders of magnitude. X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers

normally start-up from intrinsic noise in a process called Self Amplified Spontaneous

Emission (SASE). As a result of this noisy start-up, the output consists of regions that are

uncorrelated in phase – the pulses have poor temporal coherence. By introducing a

series of delays between the electron bunch and the radiation field as they propagate

through the undulator, the temporal coherence can be greatly improved so that the

output is close to being Fourier-transform limited. This improvement in the temporal

coherence leads to a higher brightness and their naming of the method High-Brightness

Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission (HB-SASE).

One of the applications that may benefit from this increased brightness is resonant

inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) which requires a substantial incident photon flux of

narrow spectral bandwidth – i.e. a high brightness.

Both of these proposals may be tested out at longer wavelengths at the Compact Linear

Accelerator for Research and Applications facility proposal based at the STFC Daresbury

Laboratory. CLARA aims to pave the way for a state-of-the-art FEL facility in the UK,

while simultaneously contributing to international R&D.

Brian W. J. McNeil, University of Strathclyde

References:

[1] Brian WJ McNeil & Neil R Thompson,

‘X-ray free-electron lasers’,

Nature Photonics 4, 814 (2010)

[2] DJ Dunning, BWJ McNeil & NR Thompson,

‘Few-Cycle Pulse Generation in an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser’,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 104801 (2013)

[3] BWJ McNeil, NR Thompson & DJ Dunning,

‘Transform-Limited X-Ray Pulse Generation from a High Brightness Self-Amplified

Spontaneous Emission Free-Electron Laser’,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 134802 (2013)

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IoP Meeting on ‘Ion Source Technology’

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 27 November 2012

On Tuesday the 27th of November 2012 the Institute of Physics, Particle Accelerators and

Beams Group and Thin Films and Surfaces Group hosted a meeting on ‘Ion Source

Technology’ at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The meeting was free to attend and was

supported by the groups and the Applied Physics and Technology Division. It was attended by

over 30 delegates.

There were nine invited speakers. Dan Faircloth (RAL) gave the welcome and opening

remarks. James O’shea from University of Nottingham gave a very interesting talk on

“Electrospray Deposition Sources”. Two informative talks from industry followed: Mervyn Davis

(Nordiko) “ICP Ion Beam systems for Etching and Deposition” and Leslie Lea (Oxford

Instruments) “Sources for Direct Surface Modification”. Then Arutiun Ehiasarian from Sheffield

Hallam University talked about his novel technique of “High Power Impulse Magnetron

Sputtering “.

After a very fruitful networking lunch another interesting talk from industry was given by Graham

Cooke from Hiden Analytical: “Sources for Mass spectrometry”. This was followed by two talks

from the national labs: “Sources for Particle Accelerators” by Dan Faircloth (RAL) and “Sources

for Fusion” by Roy McAdams (CCFE).

Andrew Holmes (Marcham Scientific) gave an excellent talk “Filter fields in Sources” that had

implications for all the types of sources so far discussed. The last and literally most far reaching

talk of the day was given by Steve Gabriel from the University of Southampton: “Electric

Propulsion for Space: An overview and some of the Technology Challenges”.

The day was rounded off with a general discussion. The day was very well received, with all

delegates agreeing that it had been an excellent opportunity to share ideas amongst the UK ion

source community.

For more information contact dan.faircloth@stfc.ac.uk

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Training the Next Generation of Accelerator Scientists and Engineers

PAB Group meeting held at John Adams Institute, Oxford: 19 March 2013

40 people from the UK (and overseas) attended to review and discuss training provision,

and the needs for trained personnel in our discipline. There were representatives from

UK training providers (John Adams Institute, Cockcroft Institute, Huddersfield University),

our national laboratory and facilities (ASTeC, Diamond, ISIS), in addition to industry, and

interested community members. We were also glad to welcome the Directors of the

CERN, JUAS and USPAS Accelerator Schools, who briefed us on the format and content

of these internationally-important schools.

Programme:

11.00 Morning session: training provision

Introduction + overview of training in Europe (TIARA survey):

(Philip Burrows) 20

Training provision in the UK:

John Adams Institute (Riccardo Bartolini) 20

Cockcroft Institute (Graeme Burt) 20

Doctoral Training Centre (Roger Barlow) 20

Accelerator schools:

CERN Accelerator Schools (Roger Bailey) 20

Joint Universities Accelerator Schools (Louis Rinolfi) 20

14.00 Afternoon session: needs for trained personnel

European ‘market survey’ of personnel needs (TIARA survey)

(Philip Burrows/Max Bradbury) 20

National facility perspective (David Findlay, Guenther Rehm, Susan Smith) 20

Industry perspective (Giulia Thompson) 20

Medical perspective (Ken Peach) 20

US view (Bill Barletta) 30

16.00 Discussion: new ideas for training delivery

The materials presented can be found at: http://tiara.physics.ox.ac.uk/training/index.html

Starting from almost zero about 10 years ago, the UK has now become one of the

leading global providers of accelerator training at the post-graduate level, and this is

recognised internationally. It is clear that a huge amount of excellent training is being

delivered, and that ongoing cooperation amongst the training providers can help improve

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efficiency, as well as cover comprehensively the numerous training subjects and skills

areas. The international accelerator schools remain essential, but there is a clear need

for more specialist training in critical skill-shortage areas such as RF systems.

On the demand side it is clear that construction of new European projects such as XFEL,

FAIR, ESS and others is creating a significant need for trained new personnel, both at

companies and at laboratories and institutes. Expansion of accelerator-based therapies

in medicine is also expected to grow, requiring trained personnel to run, for example,.

proton and ion accelerators at hadron therapy centres.

These issues are being explored on a European level via the TIARA EU FP7 project,

whose work package 5 covers ‘education and training in accelerator science in Europe’.

A primary aim is to develop recommendations for improved mechanisms for the training

of, and access to, accelerator-related personnel. These could then be considered by the

European Commission for support via the forthcoming major EU initiative: Horizon 2020.

For further details see:

http://tiara.physics.ox.ac.uk/education-training-survey/index.html

http://tiara.physics.ox.ac.uk/market-survey/index.html

Phil Burrows

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Advanced Computing for Accelerators

Expertise from the fields of high performance computing and particle accelerators was

brought together for a workshop at Daresbury Laboratory and the Cockcroft Institute,

aimed at harnessing the power of new parallel computing facilities for particle

accelerators. The three-day ‘Advanced Computing for Accelerators’ workshop, which ran

from 15th-17th January 2013, attracted a high level of interest, with over 70 delegates in

attendance. The format of each day was different, with practical sessions, presentations,

and lively discussion sessions.

Group photograph

The first day was a practical training session using the new Hartree Centre training suite,

in which the delegates got to experience first-hand the speed increases possible using

the Hartree Centre resources. Staff from the Hartree Centre, ASTeC and Tech-X instruct-

ed the delegates on running different particle accelerator simulation codes on the Hartree

Centre’s ‘Blue Wonder’ IBM iDataPlex parallel computer.

The second day featured a number of presentations from the writers of computer codes,

demonstrating the potential of parallel computing to simulate increasingly complex mod-

els at faster speeds, with case studies from both particle accelerators and other research

areas.

The third day consisted of discussion sessions, considering the present research chal-

lenges in particle accelerators and how they can be addressed with high performance

computing, plus next steps towards planning and funding future projects. Several promis-

ing ideas emerged and collaborations to take them forward were initiated.

The event was organised in collaboration between staff from STFC’s Hartree Centre and

ASTeC, and members of the University of Huddersfield and the Cockcroft Institute, with

support from these organisations and additional support from the IOP Particle Accelera-

tors and Beams Group.

Attendees from many institutions contributed, including STFC departments (ASTeC,

Hartree Centre, ISIS), UK universities (Huddersfield, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester,

Oxford, Strathclyde, Surrey) - including members of the Cockcroft and John Adams

Institutes, as well as from industry (IBM, Pulsar Physics, Tech-X) and European Labora-

tories (PSI).

The slides from the presentations given at the workshop are available here (link opens in

a new window).

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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

Laser Plasma Wakefield Accelerators

Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory, 18 June, 2013

National Vacuum Electronics Conference

QMUL, London, 25 June, 2013

3rd ILC Beam Dynamics Workshop on Low-Emittance Rings

(hosted by JAI for Accelerator Science and EuCARD2 project )

Oxford, 8-10 July , 2013

http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/lowemittance13/index.asp

Accelerators for Security Applications

Reading, September 2013 (AWE organised)

Contact: Aled Jones, AWE

Impedance Calculations for Short Bunches

1/2 day meeting

Diamond Light Source

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INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR

1st European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop

La Biodola, Isola d’Elba, Italy, 2-7 June, 2013

https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceOtherViews.py?confId=5564&view=standard

International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics, COOL'13

Murren, Switzerland, 10 - 14 June 2013

https://cool-13.web.cern.ch/COOL-13

IEEE Plasma Science Conference

San Francisco, CA, 16 - 21 Jun 2013

1st oPAC Topical Workshop: Grand Challenges in Accelerator Optimisation

CERN, 26-27 June 2013

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=243336

Lepton - Photon 2013

SLAC, CA, 24 - 29 Jun 2013

http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/lp13/

Free-Electron Laser Conference FEL 2013

New York City, USA, 26 - 29 Aug 2013

http://www.c-ad.bnl.gov/fel2013/

International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC 2013)

Oxford, UK, 16 - 19 Sep 2013

http://www.ibic2013.org

16th International Conference on RF Superconductivity, SRF 2013 Paris, France, 23 - 27 Sep 2013

http://www.srf2013.fr/

2013 North American Particle Accelerator Conference, NA-PAC’13

Pasadena, CA, 30 Sep—4 Oct 2013

http://www.napac13.lbl.gov

Linear Collider Workshop, LCWS13

Tokyo, japan, 11-15 Nov, 2013

http://www.icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/lcws13/

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

Deadline for submissions to the

next newsletter is

01 November 2013

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