Particle accelerators have been used for medicine since the earliest days after their invention, and already in 1896 Herbert Jackson realised that the greater energies and superior directionality afforded by…
The transition to permanent employment from postgraduate research is a challenging prospect in an ever more competitive job market. The European networks oPAC and LA3NET, both coordinated by the University…
The first commissioning with beam has been made with the new Transverse Deflecting Cavity on VELA. Use of this cavity allows the longitudinal properties of the electron beam to be…
The European Circular Energy-Frontier Collider (EuroCirCol) project started on 1 June 2015. EuroCirCol is a conceptual design study for a post-LHC research infrastructure based on an energy-frontier 100 TeV circular…
Particle accelerators have numerous applications across many fields including fundamental research, medicine, electronics, environment and energy. As the limits of performance are reached new methods for particle acceleration and beam optimisation are needed.…
IPAC’15, the sixth International Particle Accelerator Conference, was held in historic Richmond, Virginia, USA from May 3-8, 2015 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. With more than 1,000 contributed papers,…
The annual meeting of the Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS) took place on 23 and 24 April 2015. It was hosted by Prof. Carsten P. Welsch and joined scholars and…
Institution: University College London Dept/School/Faculty: Department of Physics and Astronomy PhD Supervisor: Dr J Underwood Ultrafast electron diffraction (ED) involves observing the changes in the electron diffraction pattern when the…
There are more than thirty thousand particle accelerators in the world, ranging from the linear accelerators used for cancer therapy in modern hospitals to the giant ‘atom-smashers’ at international particle…