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, September 18, 2025 (9:30 AM) to Friday, September 19, 2025 (5:30 PM)

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

9:30 AM Arrival with tea/coffee: Arrival with tea/coffee
Arrival with tea/coffee
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: WF19
10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WF19
Contributions

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

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

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

11:00 AM Simulation Data and Beamline Improvements - Calvin Dyson

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

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: WF19
1:30 PM WPB: Source
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: WF19
Contributions

1:30 PM Intro - Nicholas Dover (Imperial College London)

1:35 PM Developments for SCAPA Bunker B - Ben Torrance

1:45 PM Progress Towards a Calibrated High Repetition-Rate Thomson Parabola Spectrometer at SCAPA - Ben Torrance

1:55 PM Optimisation of high rep rate diagnostic design using synthetic modelling - Nicholas Dover (Imperial College London)

2:05 PM Open discussion
2:30 PM WPB: Ion acoustic
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: WF19
Contributions

2:30 PM LION beam experiment, current status - Maria Maxouti

2:45 PM Further optical measurements and simulation for LION analysis - Peter Hobson

2:55 PM LION beam simulation update - Calvin Dyson

3:05 PM Listening to the plastic - an idea - Colin Whyte

3:10 PM Benchmarking ion-acoustic signals with Cherenkov radiation imaging and gel dosimetry: A proposal. - Richard Amos

3:15 PM Summing Up and next steps - Jeff Bamber

3:20 PM Open discussion
3:30 PM Coffee

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: WF19
4:00 PM WPB: Novel end station
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: WF19
Contributions

4:00 PM Update on Gas Jet and Publications - Narender Kumar (University of Liverpool, Cockcroft Institute)

4:10 PM Consultation Meetings Recap

4:20 PM LET simulations

4:30 PM Discussion
Friday, September 19, 2025
9:30 AM WPB (Capture)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: WF19
Contributions

9:30 AM Progress, status and plans - Poram Ruksasakchai (Swansea University)
10:30 AM Coffee

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: WF19
11:00 AM Taking LhARA Forward
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: WF19
Contributions

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

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

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

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: WF19
1:00 PM Peer Group Meetings
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: WF19
Contributions

1:00 PM Aims, objectives, goals ... - Pat Price (Imperial College London)

1:20 PM Pre-/clinical peer group meeting, status report - Richard Amos (University College London)

1:40 PM Meeting series, IoP engagement - Kenneth Long (STFC)
2:00 PM WPB (Design and integration)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: WF19
Contributions

2:00 PM FFA review - Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College London/RAL-STFC) William Shields (Royal Holloway, University of London)

2:20 PM FFA magnet - Ta-Jen Kuo (Imperial College London)

2:40 PM Stage 1 simulations - Matthew Pereira (RHUL)
3:00 PM Coffee

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: WF19
3:30 PM Closing Session
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: WF19
Contributions

3:30 PM Next steps, organisation - Kenneth Long (STFC)

3:40 PM Close out - Amato Giaccia (Oxford and Stanford Universities)

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