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Training programme at the

John Adams Institute

R. Bartolini

John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science

University of Oxford

and

Diamond Light Source

IoP PAB Group Meeting

Oxford, 19 March 2013

Outline

JAI mission

Training strategy

graduate course

JAI lecture series

undergraduates courses

training by research

JAI students

present students

alumni

summary and funds

Conclusions and open problems



JAI mission

• The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science

– is a centre of excellence for advanced and novel accelerator technology,

created in 2004 to promote Accelerator Science and foster accelerator

R&D in the UK

– JAI become an internationally recognised centre for accelerator science

• training next generation of scientists

• strong research programme at the forefront of accelerator science

• connections with industry and outreach programme

• New STFC grant supports the JAI in 2012-2016 programme

– The JAI now based at three universities (OU, RHUL, IC)

– New forward looking programme



Foundations of the JAI programme



Training strategy

Education Research

graduate teaching programme

JAI Lecture series

undergraduate teaching programme

transferable skills courses

Cutting edge research

programmes at major national

and international facilities

PhD students are trained to start proficiently their research programme

PhD students take profit from cutting edge research and viceversa



JAI training



post-graduate

Plasma Physics

at IC

post-graduate

Accelerator Physics

at UO

post-graduate

High Energy Physics

at UO and RHUL

undergraduate

Accelerator Physics

at UO

undergraduate

Accelerator Physics

at RHUL

Graduate course in Oxford

Accelerator Physics :

Ted Wilson E. Tsesmelis, R. Bartolini

guest lecturers: F. Tecker, N. Marks and S. Sheehy, C. Plostinar

• Overview

• Transverse motion

• Longitudinal motion

• Imperfections

• Non-linearities and resonances

• Cavities

• Beam diagnostics

• Magnets

• Synchrotron radiation

• Undulators and Wigglers

• Space Charge effects

• Instabilities

• Beam Transport

• Linear Colliders

• Beam-Beam Effects



Michaelmas term and Hilary term

33 lectures

Broadcast on demand and all material is available on the JAI website

~ 5-10 students per year (open to Oxford, RHUL and IC students)

6 problem sets during two terms

Accelerator design project

different aspects of the accelerator are studied and designed

magnetic lattice (linear and nonlinear optics), magnets, RF

team work

formal presentation: OU PP subdept, JAI AB, labs e.g. ISIS, CERN

Graduate course in Oxford



Accelerator design project

2006/07 – Possible improvements to the Design of the DIAMOND Booster

(I. Martin, M Warden, B. Constance, M. Rayner)

2007/08 – Design of the CERN PS2

(R. Apsimon, L.Nevay, B. Pine, C. Plostinar and S. Sheehy)

2008/09 – Designing a Damping Ring for CLIC

(T. Aumeyr, D. Bett, T. Carlisle, P. Jackson)

2009/10 – Design Study of a Compressor Ring for a CERN SPL-based Neutrino

Factory

(N. Joshi, D. Abler, A. Gerbershagen , C.Tunnel, D. Warren )

2010/11 – The Large Hadron-electron Collider student design project

(F. Cullinan, M. Davis, A. Lancaster, E. Maclean,)

2011/12 – The rapid cycling synchrotron upgrade for ISIS

(N, Blaskovic Kraljavic, S. Dann, H. Von Jagwitz, S. Lawrie, T. Pulampong)



2013 Design project

LHeC upgrade: the ERLinac–Ring option

ERL Lattice design: T. Chanwattana + J. Roberts + F. Bakkali

Magnets: J. Roberts + F. Bakkali + C. Thornton + J. Puntree

RF: C. Thornton + T. Chanwattana + Syd Bahramimajd (RHUL)

Ring = LHC

Design of energy recovery linac

3 loops with 3 energies energies to

be accomodated (60 Gev output)



Graduate training

Optional graduate courses in OU

Hamiltonian Dynamics

C. Warsop (RAL)

Electromagnetism for accelerators and detectors

I. Konoplev

Accelerator Applications

K. Peach

guest lecturers: CERN, ISIS, Diamond

Transferable skills:

T. Huffman (K. Peach)

oral communication



Graduate training

Plasma Physics

Z. Najmudin, S. Mangles + other lecturers (IC)

Fundamental of plasma physics and diagnostics techniques

Plasma based acceleration

60 h teaching over two terms

High energy physics (at OU-RHUL-IC)

Particle Physics

Particle detectors

Statistics,

Computing, …

Transferable skills (at RHUL-IC)

academic writing

time management,

research ethics, …

All such courses are open to JAI students



Undergraduate courses

Oxford

Accelerator Physics 3rd year R. Bartolini

guest lectures T. Wilson and E. Tsesmelis

Short option – 12 h

Tutorial and Final exam in June

RHUL + UCL + QMUL + KCL London collegiate universities

Accelerator Physics: 3rd year P. Karataev

Consists of 26 lectures plus 5 seminars/tutorials

5 course work assignments

3 invited lectures per year

Final Exam

IC

Accelerator Physics 3rd year: J. Pozimski, A. Letchford

Plasma Physics 3rd year many lecturers



JAI lecture series

World leading scientists are invited to deliver special lectures on forefront research in

Accelerator Science: Thursday afternoon (organiser G. Christian)

Announced in accelerators-science-seminars and adams-events mailing lists and JAI

website. These lectures are broadcast with webex,

They are filmed and made available on the JAI website.

Compulsory for 1st year graduate students

Impressive record of speakers supported this event since 2004

S. Chattopadhyay: From Quark Confinement to Protein Dynamics via Nano-beams

and Attosecond Pulses (first JAI lecture Oct 2004)

…

P. Muggli: Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and the AWAKE project at CERN



JAI sponsored events

UK SuperB mini-workshop

Oxford, May 18-19, 2011

RREPS11: Radiation from Relativistic Electrons in Periodic Structures

RHUL, September 12-16, 2011

NVEC12: National Vacuum Electronics Conference

Oxford, June 25th, 2012

LOW RiNGs: 3rd Low Emittance Ring Workshop

Oxford, July 8th-10th 2013



Training by research

Students get their hands on cutting edge facilities such as Diamond,

Alice, Emma, MICE, ATF2, CTF3, PETRAIII, ISIS, FETS, CesrTA and

proposed future projects such as CLIC, PAMELA, LHC upgrade

FONT team

@ KEK-ATF

Imperial students on the

Gemini laser at RAL

Laser Wire team

inside PETRA III hall

JAI Students

2012 intake total 11: 5 in Oxford, 4 at RHUL and 2 at IC

Faissal Bakkali Taheri – (I. Konoplev - Smith Purcell)

Thakonwat Chanwattana – (R. Bartolini - 4th generation Light sources)

Jack Roberts – (G. Christian - FONT)

Christopher Thornton – (S. Hooker – LPWA development)

Carl Ayres (P. Karataev - Microwave detector development)

Jack Towler (S. Boogert - Cavity BPMs)

Konstantin Kruchinin (P. Karataev – H– laser wire)

Syd Bahramimajd (S. Boogert – LHC upgrade)

Johnatan Wood (S. Mangles and Z. Najmudin – X-rays from LPWA)

Kristian Podjer (Z. Najmudin – Laser Plasma diagnostics)

David Gamba (P.Burrows, CLIC)



JAI Students

2nd year: total 10 – 6 OU – 2 RHUL – 2 IC

James Cowley – (OU Laser plasma - SH)

Stephen Dann – (OU Laser Plasma – LC and RW)

Neven Blaskovic Kraljevic – (OU FONT - PB)

Scott Lawrie – (RAL part time – AS)

Heinrich von Jagwitz-Biegnitz (OU ion accelerators - AS)

Thapakron Pulampong – (OU Low emittance – RB)

Lorraine Bobb (RHUL + CERN - PK)

Joshua Stafford-Haworth (CERN, Ion source – RHUL GB)

George Hicks (IC ion acceleration - ZN)

Jason Cole (IC Laser Plasma – SM)

3rd year: total 7 – 4 OU – 3 RHUL

Andrew Lancaster (OU Undulator gap monitoring at LCLS2 – AR)

Michael Davis (OU FONT - PB)

Ewen Maclean (OU + CERN RB)

Jatuporn Puntree (OU – collective effects RB )

Francis Cullinan (RHUL - SB)

William Shields (RHUL+ Diamond THz detectors PK)

Robert Ainsworth (RHUL - SM)

4th year: total 5 – 2 OU – 1 RHUL - 2 IC

Daniel Abler (OU PTCRI- KP)

Daniel Warren (OU PTCRI – KP)

Nirav Joshi (RHUL – BB)

Michael Bloom (IC – SM))

Matthew Streeter (IC – SM))

Writing up : total 9 - OU 7 – RHUL 1 – iC 1

T. Aumeyr (RHUL – GB)

Ben Pine (OU+RAL – KP)

Ciprian Plostinar (OU+RAL - KP)

Christopher Tunnel (OU MICE – JC)

Timothy Carlisle (OU MICE – JC)

Douglas Bett (OU FONT – PB)

Alexander Gerbershagen (OU CERN – PB)

Gregory Moss (OU Survey of the ILC Linac –AR)

Nicholas Dover (IC - laser driven ion acc. - SM)





JAI Alumni

Penny Jackson (KP) – MSCs in 2012, now at DSTL Porton Down

Matthew Warden (AR) – 2012, now at NPL

Konstantin Lekomtsev (PK @ RHUL), May 2012 – now at KEK

Mark Rayner (JC) – 2011, University of Geneva T2K;

Charlotte Palmer (IC) – 2011, post doc Hamburg/DESY

Ayesha Rehman (IC ) – 2011, post doc Imperial College

Robert Apsimon (PB )- 2011, CERN Fellow - Beam Trasnport Group

Laurie Nevay (RW & LC) – 2011, Post Doc in Oxford then in RHUL

Ian Martin (RB) – 2011, Diamond staff

Ben Constance (PB) – 2011, CERN Fellow - Accelerator Dept.

Suzie Sheehy (KP) – 2010, ASTeC at RAL

Stephen Brooks (JC) – 2010, ASTeC at RAL

M. Micheler (PK) – 2010, German Indusrty

Victoria Blackmore (GD) – 2009, PDRA in Oxford

John Dale (AR) – 2009, NPL and Oxford

J. Carter (GB) – Finance in London

Christine Clarke (PB) – SLAC staff Accelerator Department

L. Deacon (GB) – CERN Fellow

John Green (WA) – Lockheed Martin then Astrium

M. Price (GB) – Finance in London

C. Swinson (PB) – BNL Acceleator Department

Total 21 students graduated at the JAI: all employed, the large

majority remained in Accelerator Physics related jobs

Funds for Students

STFC funds almost 50 % of our students via

PhD STFC quota for PP

JAI specific PhD funds

STFC CASE studentship with one industrial partner

(e.g. TMD, NPL, …)

CERN Doctoral Students

Joint JAI-Diamond – JAI-RAL – Siemens-EPSRC studentships

EU funds (e.g. OPAC, DITANET)

EPSRC and Thai Government funds

Other opportunities: Clarendon scholarship, Reid scholarship, …



Summary

1st year 11 students

2nd year 10 students

3rd year 7 students

4th year 5 students

Writing up 9 students

STFC 18 students

CERN 5 students

RAL-Diamond 5 students

EU 4 students

EPSRC 3 students

Thai Govt, 3 students

Others 4 students



21 students graduated from the JAI since 2008

Open problems

Early indication on this year admissions show that we are unlikely to repeat the

success of last year Application numbers are down (but so are the numbers for the

whole PP: UK applications down from 40 to 14).

This has triggered a discussion on how to attract students to JAI programmes

• the large majority of students look for PhD projects on the departmental website

visible and clear JAI link to these pages is essential

not many students are aware of the JAI at all

• clear presentation of attractive projects on the JAI webpage

Students like being part of research groups (possibly with fellow students)

• introduction talks to prospective student held in the department are VERY important

• words of mouth between students (and between potential supervisors)

• undergraduates, but also summer students programmes can help.



Open problems

Integration within the three universities

- modularity: cutting large AP course in OU and Plasma course in IC in

smaller modules that can be selected by the students

- design project closer to plasma and AP students interest

- improving infrastructure/logistics (webex, web repository for lectures)

- exchange students

- common research under development will foster integration

two major grants bids were recently submitted

CPGEM (PK) – Charged Particle Generated EM fields and radiation

Hi-FLUX (SH, SM, RB, AT) – high rep rate radiation from MPLPWA

Balance workload with other non specific AP courses: research start in year 1

…and more funds of course.



Conclusions

The JAI training programme has been recognised as a high standard and one of the

major pillar in the JAI programme by the Advisory Board and the JAI 2012 review

and the STFC.

Students are involved in major national and international programmes. They do

training by research and are fundamental in supporting and fostering the JAI

research programme.

Large number of students graduated and found no major difficulties in finding

further employment in accelerator science.

Integration of the three partner universities into a common training programme

is under development and will continue at faster pace



Special thanks to P. Karataev (RHUL) and S. Mangles (IC)

JAI teaching deputy coordinators

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