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Story from: DPhil Oxford 2013, Paul Andreas Walker: “Laser Wakefield Acceleration of Electrons to GeV Energies and Temporal Laser Pulse Compression Characterization in a Capillary Discharge Waveguide”


Story from: PhD RHUL 2012, Konstantin Lekomtsev "Investigation of Coherent Diffraction Radiation from a dual target system at CTF3 and its application for longitudinal bunch profile diagnostics"


High Energy Accelerator Research Organization KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

Final focus section of Accelerator Test Facility 2

Landmarks nearby:

Tokyo night view: Fuji mountain during Sakura season:

and a LOT MORE…

Great Science! + Great Culture! = Great Experience!

Message from Konstantin Lekomtsev • PhD student at JAI Royal Holloway: 2009 – 2012 • Researcher at KEK: 2012 - 2016


“Femtosecond mode”: • Ti:Sapphire laser system • e‐ bunch length ~100fs • e‐ bunch charge < 100pC • Micro-bunch electron beam (4 micro-

bunches achieved) • Transverse beam dimensions 200 x 200 um

LUCX (Laser Undulator Compact X-ray) facility at KEK

Transverse profile of the beam:


Novel source of THz radiation (corrugated dielectric capillary):

• Terahertz frequency range includes frequencies from 0.3 to 10 THz.

• This part of electromagnetic spectrum has a variety of potential applications ranging from fundamental, e.g. studies of physical systems dynamics, to security applications, such as screening of concealed materials in airports.

Measurements of THz radiation:


Ciprian PlostinarPhD Oxford 2015 “Design Principles for High Power Linear Accelerators”


Ciprian Plostinar is working since recently at ESS – European Spallation Source

•  Senior Accelerator Scientist at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory –  Near Oxford

•  Designs incredibly powerful, future particle accelerators

•  Father of two

@cplostinar

“This is an incredibly unique job, in a creative, stimulating and international environment, offering

exciting career opportunities and a real sense of purpose.”


Harwell Campus


Harwell Campus

•  STFC –  ISIS Neutron Source –  Central Laser Facility –  Space Science –  Computing

•  Diamond •  ESA, MRC, Etc •  Thales, Airbus, Etc. •  Startups •  +++


Last%few%months…%@J-PARC – Japan @C-SNS – China @ESS – Sweden

@CERN – Switzerland @FERMILAB – USA @”Home”


Story from: DPhil Oxford 2009, John Dale "A Study of Interferometric Distance Measurement Systems on a Prototype Rapid Tunnel Reference Surveyor and the Effects of Reference Network Errors at the International Linear Collider"


>  Current projects/facilities at DESY include: "  European XFEL

"  Petra III

"  FLASH

"  FLASHForward

"  REGAE

"  SINBAD

"  PITZ

"  ILC

"  LHC

"  IceCube

"  ALPS

"  HERA

"  DESY

"  And many more.

Photos of the FLASHForward PWFA test lab. under installation

“Studying accelerator physics at the JAI has given me the opportunity to work at world leading research institutes around the world“ Dr John Dale, PostDoc and former JAI student.

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Hamburg


Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Hamburg

•  DESY is one of Germany’s national research centres with research focused in the areas of:

–  Particle Accelerators –  Photon Science –  Particle Physics

>  DESY: "  Founded December 18th 1959

"  Member of the

"  Over 2300 employees, scientists, engineers and students.

"  More than 3000 guests from 45 countries per year.

"  Annual budget of ~230 Million Euros + project grants.


Story from: DPhil Oxford 2013, Alexander Gerbershagen "CLIC Drive Beam Phase Stabilisation"

Paul Scherrer Institute • Largest Swiss laboratory

• ~1900 employees

• Located in northern Switzerland

• Lakes, mountains, waterfalls, glaciers within one hour of drive

Nearby city of Zürich

• Largest city of Switzerland

• Has worldwide 2nd highest quality of living1

• Has wordwide highest salaries2

1After Vienna, according to Mercer Quality of Living Survey 2015. 2 According to Forbes Media LLC study 2016

Several main research areas

Human health

Energy and

environment

Particle physics

Matter and

materials

Proton therapy for cancer treatment combines the latter two areas

«Accelerator science is not only exciting, but also has a wide

range of applications with a direct benefit for the society.»


Story from: DPhil Oxford 2008, Christine Clarke: "The IP Collision Feedback System at the ILC and its Sensitivity to Expected Electromagnetic Backgrounds"

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (USA)

• SLAC has 50+ years of accelerator science • Operated by Stanford University for the DOE Office of

Science • High energy physics experiments resulted in 3 Nobel Prizes • Now, SLAC focuses on using accelerators as light sources:

• We produce the world’s brightest x-rays • We discover new drugs, new materials, new clean fuels,

study how proteins work, study materials at 2 million degrees C and much more!

World’s longest particle accelerator

2 miles (3 km)

Located in Silicon Valley, California

Electrons and positrons are accelerated to 99.9999999% speed of light

Slides by Christine Clarke (DPhil student at JAI 2006-2008)

SLAC User and Test Beam Facilities

• Scientists from all around the world can perform experiments at SLAC • From development of cancer treatments to

materials for jet engines to detectors for Antarctica

• 3,400 scientists use SLAC’s light source and accelerator test beam facilities annually

• We continue to revolutionise accelerator science: • World-leading program in building

accelerators for the future- made from plasma!

10 TW laser system used for creating plasma

“Plasma Cell” – 200 times better than conventional accelerator technology

Slides by Christine Clarke (DPhil student at JAI 2006-2008)

The field of accelerator physics is challenging and dynamic- fantastic

for any young scientist.


Story from: DPhil Oxford 2010, Suzie Sheehy: "Design of a non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator for charged particle therapy“


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