John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science
The accelerator physics group is part of the John Adams Institute, a joint venture between Royal Holloway, University of Oxford and Imperial College
There is PhD funding available within the Centre for Particle Physics group. For more information please check here.
About
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.
Research
- 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
Members
Academics
| Prof Stephen Gibson | Group leader, deputy director of JAI - HL-LHC and FETs |
| Prof Stewart Boogert | BDSIM |
| Dr Pavel Karataev | Beam radiation and instrumentation |
Senior scientists
| Dr Alexey Lyapin | Senior Research Officer |
| Mr Gary Boorman | Senior Research Officer |
Researchers
| Dr Alessio Bosco | Research Associate |
| Dr Laurie Nevay | Research Associate |
| Dr William Shields | Research Associate |
| Dr Alberto Arteche | Research Associate |
| Dr Thomas Hofmann | Honorary Research Associate |
| Dr Robert Kieffer | Project Associate CERN |
Research students
| Siobhan Alden | PhD student |
| Majid Ali | PhD student |
| Daniele Butti | PhD student |
| Theodoros Christodoulou | PhD student |
| Gian Luigi D'Alessandro | PhD student |
| Kirill Fedorov | PhD student |
| Helene Guerin | PhD student |
| Daniel Harryman | PhD student |
| Helena Lefebvre | PhD student |
| Robert Murphy | PhD student |
| Andrei Oleinik | PhD student |
| Srinidhi Rajagopalan | MSc Euromasters student |
| Niki Vitoratou | PhD student |
Alumni
| Dr Andrey Abramov | PhD 2020 |
| Dr Swann Levasseur | PhD 2020 |
| Dr Stuart Walker | PhD 2020 |
| Dr Michele Bergamaschi | PhD 2019 |
Selected publications
- BDSIM: An Accelerator Tracking Code with Particle-Matter Interactions. arXiv:1808.10745
- Direct Observation of Incoherent Cherenkov Diffraction Radiation in the Visible Range. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 121, No. 5, 054802, 01.08.2018.
- 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.
- Comparison between simulated and observed LHC beam backgrounds in the ATLAS experiment at Ebeam = 4 TeV. Journal of Instrumentation, 10.10.2018
Masters and PhD projects
- Beam-line simulation using BDSIM
- HL-LHC beam instrumentation
- FETS beam instrumentation
- Advanced acceleration
