LhARA Collaboration Meeting

Wednesday Apr 27, 2022, 10:00 AM → 7:00 PM Europe/London

RAL

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

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Prologue

Welcome, registration and coffee

Conveners: Debbie Loader (STFC), Ken Long (Imperial Coll.)

10:30 AM → 11:15 AM Introduction

Welcome and introduction

Convener: Ken Long (Imperial Coll.)

10:30 AM Welcome and introduction

Speaker: Ken Long (Imperial Coll.)

01-2022-04-27-LONG.pptx

10:40 AM Proposal: status and plans going forward

Speaker: Dr Colin Whyte (Strathclyde)

10:50 AM Radiobiology: next steps for LhARA

Speaker: Dr Jason Parsons (Liverpool)

11:00 AM ITRF and LhARA

Speaker: Dr Hywel Owen (STFC)

20220427 ITRF LhARA Collaboration Meeting Owen.pdf

11:15 AM → 12:15 PM Laser-driven proton and ion source

Conveners: Dr Boella Elisabetta (Lancaster), Dr Nick Dover (Imperial), Dr Ross Gray (Strathclyde)

11:15 AM Current status of ion source work package for LhARA

Speaker: Dr Nick Dover (Imperial)

20220427_LhARA_meeting_Dover.pdf

11:35 AM Underpinning ion source technologies and laser drivers

Speaker: Dr Ross Gray (Strathclyde)

RJG_Lhara_Day_Slides_April.pdf

11:55 AM High-repetition rate laser-solid interactions: Automation, optimisation, challenges

Speaker: Dr Charlotte Palmer (Queens )

2022LhARA_upload_redacted.pdf

12:15 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch

Convener: Debbie Loader (STFC)

1:00 PM → 1:10 PM Outreach, engagement, and PPI

Speaker: Dr Ajit Kurup (Imperial/STFC)

2022-04-27-LharaCM-Kurup.pptx

1:15 PM → 2:15 PM Proton and ion beam capture

Conveners: Dr Chris Baker (Swansea), Dr William Bertsche (Manchester)

1:15 PM Proposal update

Speaker: Dr Chris Baker (Swansea)

LhARA_Collaboration_Meeting_April2022-CBaker.pdf

1:35 PM Ongoing experiments at Swansea

Speaker: Titus-Stefan Dascalu (Imperial College London)

2022_04_27_LhARA_CM_TSD.pdf

1:55 PM Discussion

2:15 PM → 3:15 PM Ionacoustic imaging

Conveners: Dr Emma Harris (Institute for Cancer Research), Prof. Jeff Bamber (Institute for Cancer Research), John Matheson (STFC)

2:15 PM WP4: Ion acoustic dose mapping:

Speaker: Prof. Jeff Bamber (Institute for Cancer Research)

22-04-27 LhARA day Bamber.pdf

2:23 PM Field standard dose measurement reference

Speaker: John Matheson (STFC)

JM_260422.pptx

2:31 PM Forward modelling and dose map reconstruction, overview

Speaker: Prof. Ben Cox (UCL)

ionacoustics_kWave_Cox.pdf

2:39 PM Ionacoustic simulation, preliminary results

Speaker: Ms Anthea MacIntosh LaRocque (ICL)

Ionacoustic_Simulation_LhARA_270422.pdf

2:54 PM Long term vision for use and impact

Speaker: Dr Emma Harris (ICR)

22-04-27 LhARA day Harris.pdf

3:02 PM Discussion

3:15 PM → 3:30 PM Tea/coffee

3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Novel end-station development

Conveners: Prof. Carsten Welsch (Liverpool), Dr Ruth McLauchlan (Imperial NHS Healthcare Trust), Dr Tony Price (Birmingham)

3:30 PM Overview of WP5 proposal

Speaker: Dr Tony Price (Birmingham)

WP5 Proposal Update April2022.pptx

3:50 PM Novel end-station developments: development of beam diagnostics

Speaker: Dr Kumar Narendar (Liverpool)

LhARA Coolaboration talk 27 April 22_narender.pdf

4:10 PM Spatial fractionation and beam monitoring at UoB

Speaker: Dr Tony Price (Birmghan)

Seminar_final_2.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Design and integration

Conveners: Mr Neil Bliss (STFC/TD), Dr Pasternak Jaroslaw (Imperial)

4:30 PM LhARA Proposal overview

Speaker: Dr Jaroslaw Pasternak (ICL/STFC)

CollaborationTalk27042022.pdf

4:50 PM Stage 1: Design & Tracking

Speaker: Dr William Shields (RHUL)

20220427_WShields.pdf

5:10 PM FFA for Stage 2: Design & Tracking

Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (STFC)

220427_lagrange_lhara.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Closing discussion

Convener: Prof. Amato Giacca (Oxford)