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, April 27, 2022 - 10:00 AM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:55 AM High-repetition rate laser-solid interactions: Automation, optimisation, challenges - Charlotte Palmer (Queens )
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM Outreach, engagement, and PPI - Ajit Kurup (Imperial/STFC)
Outreach, engagement, and PPI
- Ajit Kurup (Imperial/STFC)
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Contributions

1:15 PM Proposal update - Chris Baker (Swansea)

1:35 PM Ongoing experiments at Swansea - Titus-Stefan Dascalu (Imperial College London)

1:55 PM Discussion
2:15 PM Ionacoustic imaging
Ionacoustic imaging
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM WP4: Ion acoustic dose mapping: - Jeff Bamber (Institute for Cancer Research)

2:23 PM Field standard dose measurement reference - John Matheson (STFC)

2:31 PM Forward modelling and dose map reconstruction, overview - Ben Cox (UCL)

2:39 PM Ionacoustic simulation, preliminary results - Anthea MacIntosh LaRocque (ICL)

2:54 PM Long term vision for use and impact - Emma Harris (ICR)

3:02 PM Discussion
3:15 PM

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM Novel end-station development
Novel end-station development
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Overview of WP5 proposal - Tony Price (Birmingham)

3:50 PM Novel end-station developments: development of beam diagnostics - Kumar Narendar (Liverpool)

4:10 PM Spatial fractionation and beam monitoring at UoB - Tony Price (Birmghan)
4:30 PM Design and integration
Design and integration
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM LhARA Proposal overview - Jaroslaw Pasternak (ICL/STFC)

4:50 PM Stage 1: Design & Tracking - William Shields (RHUL)

5:10 PM FFA for Stage 2: Design & Tracking - Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (STFC)
5:30 PM Closing discussion
Closing discussion
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM