LhARA Collaboration Meeting

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

RAL

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

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

Speaker: Ken Long (Imperial Coll.)

01-2022-04-27-LONG.pptx

10:40 Proposal: status and plans going forward

Speaker: Dr Colin Whyte (Strathclyde)

10:50 Radiobiology: next steps for LhARA

Speaker: Dr Jason Parsons (Liverpool)

11:00 ITRF and LhARA

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

Speaker: Dr Nick Dover (Imperial)

20220427_LhARA_meeting_Dover.pdf

11:35 Underpinning ion source technologies and laser drivers

Speaker: Dr Ross Gray (Strathclyde)

RJG_Lhara_Day_Slides_April.pdf

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

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

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

Speaker: Dr Chris Baker (Swansea)

LhARA_Collaboration_Meeting_April2022-CBaker.pdf

13:35 Ongoing experiments at Swansea

Speaker: Titus-Stefan Dascalu (Imperial College London)

2022_04_27_LhARA_CM_TSD.pdf

13:55 Discussion

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:

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

22-04-27 LhARA day Bamber.pdf

14:23 Field standard dose measurement reference

Speaker: John Matheson (STFC)

JM_260422.pptx

14:31 Forward modelling and dose map reconstruction, overview

Speaker: Prof. Ben Cox (UCL)

ionacoustics_kWave_Cox.pdf

14:39 Ionacoustic simulation, preliminary results

Speaker: Ms Anthea MacIntosh LaRocque (ICL)

Ionacoustic_Simulation_LhARA_270422.pdf

14:54 Long term vision for use and impact

Speaker: Dr Emma Harris (ICR)

22-04-27 LhARA day Harris.pdf

15:02 Discussion

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

Speaker: Dr Tony Price (Birmingham)

WP5 Proposal Update April2022.pptx

15:50 Novel end-station developments: development of beam diagnostics

Speaker: Dr Kumar Narendar (Liverpool)

LhARA Coolaboration talk 27 April 22_narender.pdf

16:10 Spatial fractionation and beam monitoring at UoB

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

Speaker: Dr Jaroslaw Pasternak (ICL/STFC)

CollaborationTalk27042022.pdf

16:50 Stage 1: Design & Tracking

Speaker: Dr William Shields (RHUL)

20220427_WShields.pdf

17:10 FFA for Stage 2: Design & Tracking

Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Lagrange (STFC)

220427_lagrange_lhara.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 Closing discussion

Convener: Prof. Amato Giacca (Oxford)