Accelerators are complex devices to create beams of high energy particles, this could be for industrial processing, treating cancer and particle physics at worlds largest particle collider (Large Hadron Collider). Accelerators are challenging systems and research and development are needed to create, higher energy, more stable, efficient, performant machines.    

Accelerator physics is a wide discipline encompassing, mechanics, relativity, electromagnetism, optics, dynamical systems and instrumentation.  

• High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) the upgrade to the LHC
• International Linear Collider (ILC) and Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) future lepton colliders
• Beam loss simulations using Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM)
• Medical accelerator simulations. Protons and X-rays are used to treat cancer and we perform simulations of these facilities
• Beam Instrumentation. Devices to measure the position, charge, length, energy, polarisation of high energy beams
• Advanced dielectric wakefield acceleration

Academics

Senior scientists

Researchers

Research students

• John Adams Institute Octoberfest 2018
• CERN Advanced Accelerator School 2018 at RHUL

1. BDSIM: An Accelerator Tracking Code with Particle-Matter Interactions. arXiv:1808.10745 
2. Direct Observation of Incoherent Cherenkov Diffraction Radiation in the Visible Range. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 121, No. 5, 054802, 01.08.2018.
3. Experimental Validation of a Novel Compact Focusing Scheme for Future Energy-Frontier Linear Lepton Colliders. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 112, No. 3, 24.01.2014.
4. Comparison between simulated and observed LHC beam backgrounds in the ATLAS experiment at Ebeam = 4 TeV. Journal of Instrumentation, 10.10.2018 

• Beam-line simulation using BDSIM
• HL-LHC beam instrumentation
• FETS beam instrumentation
• Advanced acceleration