LhARA Collaboration Meeting

Name: LhARA Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2022-04-27T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-04-27T19:00:00+01:00
Location: RAL

Wednesday 27 Apr 2022, 10:00 → 19:00 Europe/London

RAL

R68 CR12

Description

ZOOM: https://cern.zoom.us/j/61030599508?pwd=K1MwZWhCT2RVRGRPTTlxOC9vUG1SQT09

Debbie Loader

debbie.loader@stfc.ac.uk

01235 445338

Registration

Participants

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- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Prologue
  
  Welcome, registration and coffee
  
  Conveners: Debbie Loader (STFC), Ken Long (Imperial Coll.)
- 10:30 → 11:15
  Introduction
  
  Welcome and introduction
  
  Convener: Ken Long (Imperial Coll.)
  - 10:30
    
    Welcome and introduction 10m
    
    Speaker: Ken Long (Imperial Coll.)
    
    01-2022-04-27-LONG.pptx
  - 10:40
    
    Proposal: status and plans going forward 10m
    
    Speaker: Dr Colin Whyte (Strathclyde)
  - 10:50
    
    Radiobiology: next steps for LhARA 10m
    
    Speaker: Dr Jason Parsons (Liverpool)
  - 11:00
    
    ITRF and LhARA 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Hywel Owen (STFC)
    
    20220427 ITRF LhARA Collaboration Meeting Owen.pdf
- 11:15 → 12:15
  Laser-driven proton and ion source
  
  Conveners: Dr Boella Elisabetta (Lancaster), Dr Nick Dover (Imperial), Dr Ross Gray (Strathclyde)
  - 11:15
    
    Current status of ion source work package for LhARA 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Nick Dover (Imperial)
    
    20220427_LhARA_meeting_Dover.pdf
  - 11:35
    
    Underpinning ion source technologies and laser drivers 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Ross Gray (Strathclyde)
    
    RJG_Lhara_Day_Slides_April.pdf
  - 11:55
    
    High-repetition rate laser-solid interactions: Automation, optimisation, challenges 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Charlotte Palmer (Queens )
    
    2022LhARA_upload_redacted.pdf
- 12:15 → 13:00
  
  Lunch
  
  Convener: Debbie Loader (STFC)
- 13:00 → 13:10
  
  Outreach, engagement, and PPI 10m
  
  Speaker: Dr Ajit Kurup (Imperial/STFC)
  
  2022-04-27-LharaCM-Kurup.pptx
- 13:15 → 14:15
  Proton and ion beam capture
  
  Conveners: Dr Chris Baker (Swansea), Dr William Bertsche (Manchester)
  - 13:15
    
    Proposal update 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Chris Baker (Swansea)
    
    LhARA_Collaboration_Meeting_April2022-CBaker.pdf
  - 13:35
    
    Ongoing experiments at Swansea 20m
    
    Speaker: Titus-Stefan Dascalu (Imperial College London)
    
    2022_04_27_LhARA_CM_TSD.pdf
  - 13:55
    
    Discussion 20m
- 14:15 → 15:15
  Ionacoustic imaging
  
  Conveners: Dr Emma Harris (Institute for Cancer Research), Prof. Jeff Bamber (Institute for Cancer Research), John Matheson (STFC)
  - 14:15
    
    WP4: Ion acoustic dose mapping: 8m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Jeff Bamber (Institute for Cancer Research)
    
    22-04-27 LhARA day Bamber.pdf
  - 14:23
    
    Field standard dose measurement reference 8m
    
    Speaker: John Matheson (STFC)
    
    JM_260422.pptx
  - 14:31
    
    Forward modelling and dose map reconstruction, overview 8m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Ben Cox (UCL)
    
    ionacoustics_kWave_Cox.pdf
  - 14:39
    
    Ionacoustic simulation, preliminary results 15m
    
    Speaker: Ms Anthea MacIntosh LaRocque (ICL)
    
    Ionacoustic_Simulation_LhARA_270422.pdf
  - 14:54
    
    Long term vision for use and impact 8m
    
    Speaker: Dr Emma Harris (ICR)
    
    22-04-27 LhARA day Harris.pdf
  - 15:02
    
    Discussion 13m
- 15:15 → 15:30
  
  Tea/coffee
- 15:30 → 16:30
  Novel end-station development
  
  Conveners: Prof. Carsten Welsch (Liverpool), Dr Ruth McLauchlan (Imperial NHS Healthcare Trust), Dr Tony Price (Birmingham)
  - 15:30
    
    Overview of WP5 proposal 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Tony Price (Birmingham)
    
    WP5 Proposal Update April2022.pptx
  - 15:50
    
    Novel end-station developments: development of beam diagnostics 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Kumar Narendar (Liverpool)
    
    LhARA Coolaboration talk 27 April 22_narender.pdf
  - 16:10
    
    Spatial fractionation and beam monitoring at UoB 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Tony Price (Birmghan)
    
    Seminar_final_2.pdf
- 16:30 → 17:30
  Design and integration
  
  Conveners: Mr Neil Bliss (STFC/TD), Dr Pasternak Jaroslaw (Imperial)
  - 16:30
    
    LhARA Proposal overview 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Jaroslaw Pasternak (ICL/STFC)
    
    CollaborationTalk27042022.pdf
  - 16:50
    
    Stage 1: Design & Tracking 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr William Shields (RHUL)
    
    20220427_WShields.pdf
  - 17:10
    
    FFA for Stage 2: Design & Tracking 20m
    
    Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (STFC)
    
    220427_lagrange_lhara.pdf
- 17:30 → 18:00
  
  Closing discussion
  
  Convener: Prof. Amato Giacca (Oxford)