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

LhARA Collaboration Meeting

Wednesday, 27 April 2022 - 10:00

Monday, 25 April 2022
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Wednesday, 27 April 2022

10:00 Prologue
Prologue
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 11:15
Contributions

10:30 Welcome and introduction - Ken Long (Imperial Coll.)

10:40 Proposal: status and plans going forward - Colin Whyte (Strathclyde)

10:50 Radiobiology: next steps for LhARA - Jason Parsons (Liverpool)

11:00 ITRF and LhARA - Hywel Owen (STFC)
11:15 Laser-driven proton and ion source
Laser-driven proton and ion source
11:15 - 12:15
Contributions

11:15 Current status of ion source work package for LhARA - Nick Dover (Imperial)

11:35 Underpinning ion source technologies and laser drivers - Ross Gray (Strathclyde)

11:55 High-repetition rate laser-solid interactions: Automation, optimisation, challenges - Charlotte Palmer (Queens )
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:00
13:00 Outreach, engagement, and PPI - Ajit Kurup (Imperial/STFC)
Outreach, engagement, and PPI
- Ajit Kurup (Imperial/STFC)
13:00 - 13:10
13:15
13:15 - 14:15
Contributions

13:15 Proposal update - Chris Baker (Swansea)

13:35 Ongoing experiments at Swansea - Titus-Stefan Dascalu (Imperial College London)

13:55 Discussion
14:15 Ionacoustic imaging
Ionacoustic imaging
14:15 - 15:15
Contributions

14:15 WP4: Ion acoustic dose mapping: - Jeff Bamber (Institute for Cancer Research)

14:23 Field standard dose measurement reference - John Matheson (STFC)

14:31 Forward modelling and dose map reconstruction, overview - Ben Cox (UCL)

14:39 Ionacoustic simulation, preliminary results - Anthea MacIntosh LaRocque (ICL)

14:54 Long term vision for use and impact - Emma Harris (ICR)

15:02 Discussion
15:15

15:15 - 15:30
15:30 Novel end-station development
Novel end-station development
15:30 - 16:30
Contributions

15:30 Overview of WP5 proposal - Tony Price (Birmingham)

15:50 Novel end-station developments: development of beam diagnostics - Kumar Narendar (Liverpool)

16:10 Spatial fractionation and beam monitoring at UoB - Tony Price (Birmghan)
16:30 Design and integration
Design and integration
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 LhARA Proposal overview - Jaroslaw Pasternak (ICL/STFC)

16:50 Stage 1: Design & Tracking - William Shields (RHUL)

17:10 FFA for Stage 2: Design & Tracking - Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (STFC)
17:30 Closing discussion
Closing discussion
17:30 - 18:00