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Technical Reports and Papers

I am currently (2005) working with the ASTeC Intense Beams Group at RAL.  As well as wherever else they may be published, I am putting a copy of all my reports for work up here on the web.

TitleDateNotes
Simulations of Neutrino Factory Muon Capture with ChicaneJune 2002
Research Status Talk at ISIS Accelerator Division Meeting (.ppt, 1.18 MB) / Web versionNovember 2003
Simulations of Neutrino Factory Muon Capture with Chicane (58 KB)December 2003
General Research Talk at RAL/DL Joint Accelerator Workshop (.ppt, 1.41 MB) / Web versionApril 2004
Research Status Talk at UK Neutrino Factory Meeting (.ppt, 2.08 MB) / Web versionMay 2004
Paper presented at EPAC'04: "Quantitative Optimisation Studies of the Muon Front-End for a Neutrino Factory"June 2004
Article in PPARC's Frontiers magazine, about the Muon1 projectJune 2004
Poster Presented at EPAC'04 (.ppt, 2.10 MB) / View as imageJuly 2004
Poster for the CERN50 UK technology transfer event (.ppt, 1.48 MB) / View as imageSeptember 2004Collaborative poster: top section by Ken Long; middle section by myself; front-end test stand by David Findlay; target studies by Roger Bennett.
Research Status Talk at Muon Week in DESY (.ppt, 397 KB) / Web versionNovember 2004
Simulations of Pion Production in a Tantalum Rod Target using MARS15January 2005
Talk on Target Pion Production Studies at Muon Week, CERN (.ppt, 436 KB)March 2005
Talk Presented at NuFact'05, Comparing Pion Production in MARS15 and GEANT4 (.ppt, 693 KB)June 2005GEANT4 results thanks to Kenny Walaron
Talk Given at European Neutrino Group (ENG) meeting, Comparing Pion Production in MARS15 and GEANT4 (.ppt, 722 KB)August 2005This is almost exactly the same as the NuFact'05 talk I gave; GEANT4 results thanks to Kenny Walaron
Talk Given at CERN International Scoping Study meeting, Comparing Pion Production in MARS15 and GEANT4 (.ppt, 680 KB)September 2005Similar talk again, some initial slides on pulse structure added for context
Computed Pion Yields from a Tantalum Rod Target: Comparing MARS15 and GEANT4 Across Proton Energies (.pdf, 305 KB)September 2005NuFact'05 Conference Paper
Poster Presented at the 'SET for Britain' event at the House of Commons (.ppt, 4.70 MB)November 2005Much expanded and updated form of the CERN50 poster section I did in September 2004
Monte Carlo Modelling of Many-Body Decays (.pdf, 145 KB)January 2006Note describing the multi-particle decay algorithm in Muon1 version 4.43 and above
Talk Given at the John Adams Institute Advisory Board Meeting (.ppt, 766 KB)February 2006A short summary talk, only 10-15 minutes long
Target Yield Considerations Talk Given at RAL Scoping Study Meeting (.ppt, 4.24 MB)April 2006
Poster Presented at EPAC'06 (.ppt, 574 KB) / View as imageJune 2006
Paper presented at EPAC'06: "Secondary Particle Production and Capture for Muon Accelerator Applications" (.pdf, 383 KB)June 2006
Talk Given at NuFact'06: Lower-Frequency RF Phase Rotation Techniques for Both Muon Signs (.ppt, 467 KB)August 2006You can also download the files for animation (under Windows) from the 'player' subdirectory
Talk Given at Frascati BENE meeting: Lower-Frequency RF Phase Rotation (.ppt, 318 KB)November 2006Includes Matthew McCullough's summer work
UKNF Conceptual Design Poster presented at the ASTeC Advisory Board Poster Session (.ppt, 6.03 MB)February 2007"Links" were to other posters presented in the same session
Comparison of HARP tantalum 5% interaction length data against simulations using MARS 15.07August 2007
Talk Given at UKNF Meeting on Water-Cooled Targets (.ppt, 579 KB)April 2008Also presented at NuFact'08
Talk Given at UKNF Meeting on Combining HARP Experimental Data with Muon Transmission Estimates for the ISS Baseline (.ppt, 388 KB)September 2008
Simulations of pion production from water-cooled solid targets using MARS15 (.pdf, 277 KB)September 2008NuFact'08 Conference Paper
Pion production data presented at the 2nd Oxford–Princeton High-Power Target Workshop (.zip, 396 KB)November 2008Presented as three Excel files
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