Name: LhARA Collaboration Meeting #8
Start: 2025-09-18T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-19T17:30:00+01:00
Location: The Medical School, University of Birmingham

LhARA Collaboration Meeting #8

from Thursday, 18 September 2025 (09:30) to Friday, 19 September 2025 (17:30)

Monday, 15 September 2025
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Thursday, 18 September 2025

09:30 Arrival with tea/coffee
Arrival with tea/coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: WF19
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Room: WF19
Contributions

10:00 Introduction and goals - Kenneth Long (STFC)

10:15 Outreach, engagement, communication - Pat Price (Imperial College London)
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Room: WF19
Contributions

10:30 Radiobiology Preparation and Plans - Emma Melia (University of Birmingham)

11:00 Simulation Data and Beamline Improvements - Calvin Dyson

11:30 Simulations of Uniformity Improvements - Alfredo Fernandez-Rodriguez Diaza Ariyanto
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: WF19
13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Room: WF19
Contributions

13:30 Intro - Nicholas Dover (Imperial College London)

13:35 Developments for SCAPA Bunker B - Ben Torrance

13:45 Progress Towards a Calibrated High Repetition-Rate Thomson Parabola Spectrometer at SCAPA - Ben Torrance

13:55 Optimisation of high rep rate diagnostic design using synthetic modelling - Nicholas Dover (Imperial College London)

14:05 Open discussion
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Room: WF19
Contributions

14:30 LION beam experiment, current status - Maria Maxouti

14:45 Further optical measurements and simulation for LION analysis - Peter Hobson

14:55 LION beam simulation update - Calvin Dyson

15:05 Listening to the plastic - an idea - Colin Whyte

15:10 Benchmarking ion-acoustic signals with Cherenkov radiation imaging and gel dosimetry: A proposal. - Richard Amos

15:15 Summing Up and next steps - Jeff Bamber

15:20 Open discussion
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: WF19
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: WF19
Contributions

16:00 Update on Gas Jet and Publications - Narender Kumar (University of Liverpool, Cockcroft Institute)

16:10 Consultation Meetings Recap

16:20 LET simulations

16:30 Discussion
Friday, 19 September 2025
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Room: WF19
Contributions

09:30 Progress, status and plans - Poram Ruksasakchai (Swansea University)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: WF19
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: WF19
Contributions

11:00 LhARA initiative; introduction and discussion - Kenneth Long (STFC) Pat Price (Imperial College London)

11:20 Biological programe; introduction and discussion - Jason Parsons (University of Birmingham)

11:40 Industrial engagement; introduction and discussion - Colin Whyte (University of Strathclyde) Kenneth Long (STFC)
12:00

12:00 - 13:00
Room: WF19
13:00
13:00 - 14:15
Room: WF19
Contributions

13:00 Aims, objectives, goals ... - Pat Price (Imperial College London)

13:20 Pre-/clinical peer group meeting, status report - Richard Amos (University College London)

13:40 Meeting series, IoP engagement - Kenneth Long (STFC)
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: WF19
Contributions

14:00 FFA review - Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College London/RAL-STFC) William Shields (Royal Holloway, University of London)

14:20 FFA magnet - Ta-Jen Kuo (Imperial College London)

14:40 Stage 1 simulations - Matthew Pereira (RHUL)
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
Room: WF19
15:30
15:30 - 16:10
Room: WF19
Contributions

15:30 Next steps, organisation - Kenneth Long (STFC)

15:40 Close out - Amato Giaccia (Oxford and Stanford Universities)