I am currently (2012) 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.
| Type | Title | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conference Poster |  Poster Presented at IPAC'13 (.pdf, 3.65 MB) / View as image | May 2013 | |
| Conference Paper | Configurable Field Magnets for a Proton Beam Dynamics R&D Ring (.pdf, 1.07 MB) | May 2013 | Paper presented at IPAC'13 |
| Talk | Vertical Orbit-Excursion FFAGs (VFFAGs) (.pdf, 7.91 MB) | April 2013 | Talk given at PASI'13 and as a seminar at Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Research Note | Exact Tracking in s in a Magnetic Field (.pdf, 53 KB) | April 2013 | Exact (not paraxially approximated) particle dynamics including horizontal beamline curvature. IMPORTANT UPDATE: expressions for dx/ds, dy/ds added; old ones not correct |
| Talk | Status of MARS Simulations of ISIS Targets (.pdf, 1.80 MB) | February 2013 | |
| Talk | Blue Skies Magnets (.pdf, 1.03 MB) | February 2013 | Magnets required by VFFAGs and the proton omni-ring |
| Research Note | (Draft) Isochronous, Scaling VFFAGs Dominated by Strong Focussing (.pdf, 151 KB) | January 2013 | Lower bound on energies in isochronous VFFAGs under certain simplifying assumptions |
| Conference Poster | Poster Presented at HB2012 (.pdf, 2.56 MB) / View as image | September 2012 | |
| Research Note | Arbitrary Beams in Uniform Pipes (.pdf, 263 KB) | September 2012 | Exact Coulomb potentials for beam slices; derivation of space charge g factor using normal modes; longitudinal space charge formulae |
| Conference Paper | Acceleration in Vertical Orbit Excursion FFAGs with Edge Focussing (.pdf, 817 KB) | September 2012 | Paper presented at HB2012 |
| Conference Poster | Poster Presented at IPAC'12 (.pdf, 2.04 MB) / View as image | May 2012 | |
| Talk |  ISIS Target Design Process Flowcharts (.ppt, 879 KB) | May 2012 | From PASI targets meeting; flowcharts in collaboration with David Jenkins |
| Conference Paper | Vertical Orbit Excursion FFAG Accelerators with Edge Focussing (.pdf, 577 KB) | May 2012 | Paper presented at IPAC'12 |
| Research Note | Exact Tracking in z in a Magnetic Field (.pdf, 136 KB) | April 2012 | Exact version of a formula that is commonly approximated paraxially |
| Research Note | Fringe Fields for VFFAG Magnets with Edge Angles (.pdf, 168 KB) | November 2011 | Corrected 2011-Nov-08 |
| Talk | Talk Given at FFAG'11: Vertical Orbit Excursion FFAGs and Other Things (.pdf, 2.55 MB) | September 2011 | Compilation of previous work |
| Conference Poster | Poster Presented at IPAC'11 (.pdf, 1.39 MB) / View as image | September 2011 | |
| Conference Paper | Three-Lens Lattices for Extending the Energy Range of Non-scaling FFAGs (.pdf, 690 KB) | September 2011 | Paper presented at IPAC'11 |
| Research Note | Calculating Coupled Tunes from a 4D Transfer Matrix (.pdf, 147 KB) | August 2011 | |
| Outreach |  Article on VFFAGs for ASTeC Annual Report 2010/11 (.doc, 860 KB) | June 2011 | |
| Talk | Talk on Tapered Pion Targets for the Neutrino Factory (.pdf, 452 KB) | November 2010 | Talk version of IPAC'10 paper and poster, given for UKNF meeting |
| Research Note |  Test of a Vertical Orbit Excursion FFAG (VFFAG) using the EMMA Test Area (.zip, 885 KB) | October 2010 | Version 1.1 of the proposal |
| Thesis | Muon Capture Schemes for the Neutrino Factory (.pdf, 8.63 MB) | September 2010 | DPhil thesis submitted to Oxford particle physics sub-department |
| Conference Poster | Poster Presented at HB2010 (.pdf, 1.43 MB) / View as image | September 2010 | |
| Conference Paper | Vertical Orbit Excursion FFAGs (.pdf, 1.06 MB) | September 2010 | Paper presented at HB2010 |
| Research Note | (Draft) Fixing the Tune of Nonscaling FFAGs in the Thin Lens Paraxial Approximation (.pdf, 191 KB) | August 2010 | Maths dump showing the methodology I have developed for tune fixing |
| Conference Poster | Poster Presented at IPAC'10 (.pdf, 774 KB) / View as image | May 2010 | |
| Conference Paper | Optimising Pion Production Target Shapes for the Neutrino Factory (.pdf, 257 KB) | May 2010 | Paper presented at IPAC'10 |
| Talk | Talk on Alternative Upgrade Options involving VOX-FFAGs at the ISIS MW Upgrades Meeting (.pdf, 273 KB) | May 2009 | |
| Conference Poster | Poster Presented at PAC'09 (.pdf, 635 KB) / View as image | May 2009 | |
| Conference Paper | Extending the Energy Range of 50Hz Proton FFAGs (.pdf, 153 KB) | May 2009 | Paper presented at PAC'09 |
| Outreach | Poster presented at the John Adams Institute Review on the Neutrino Factory (.ppt, 1.02 MB) | February 2009 | |
| Talk | Talk on the Neutrino Factory given at RAL/DL Joint Accelerator Workshop (.pdf, 1.44 MB) | January 2009 | |
| Talk | Pion production data presented at the 2nd Oxford–Princeton High-Power Target Workshop (.zip, 396 KB) | November 2008 | Presented as three Excel files |
| Conference Paper | Simulations of pion production from water-cooled solid targets using MARS15 (.pdf, 277 KB) | September 2008 | NuFact'08 Conference Paper |
| Talk | Talk Given at UKNF Meeting on Combining HARP Experimental Data with Muon Transmission Estimates for the ISS Baseline (.ppt, 388 KB) | September 2008 | |
| Conference Talk | Talk Given at UKNF Meeting on Water-Cooled Targets (.ppt, 579 KB) | April 2008 | Also presented at NuFact'08 |
| Research Note |  Comparison of HARP tantalum 5% interaction length data against simulations using MARS 15.07 | August 2007 | |
| Outreach | 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 |
| Talk | Talk Given at Frascati BENE meeting: Lower-Frequency RF Phase Rotation (.ppt, 318 KB) | November 2006 | Includes Matthew McCullough's summer work |
| Outreach | Chapter written for Distributed Computing Projects book (.doc, 1.02 MB) | November 2006 | (Draft) |
| Conference Talk | Talk Given at NuFact'06: Lower-Frequency RF Phase Rotation Techniques for Both Muon Signs (.ppt, 467 KB) | August 2006 | You can also download the files for animation (under Windows) from the 'player' subdirectory |
| Conference Poster | Poster Presented at EPAC'06 (.ppt, 574 KB) / View as image | June 2006 | |
| Conference Paper | Secondary Particle Production and Capture for Muon Accelerator Applications (.pdf, 383 KB) | June 2006 | Paper presented at EPAC'06 |
| Talk | Target Yield Considerations Talk Given at RAL Scoping Study Meeting (.ppt, 4.24 MB) | April 2006 | |
| Talk | Talk Given at the John Adams Institute Advisory Board Meeting (.ppt, 766 KB) | February 2006 | A short summary talk, only 10-15 minutes long |
| Research Note | Monte Carlo Modelling of Many-Body Decays (.pdf, 145 KB) | January 2006 | Note describing the multi-particle decay algorithm in Muon1 version 4.43 and above |
| Outreach | Poster Presented at the 'SET for Britain' event at the House of Commons (.ppt, 4.70 MB) / View as image | November 2005 | Much expanded and updated form of the CERN50 poster section I did in September 2004 |
| Talk | Talk Given at CERN International Scoping Study meeting, Comparing Pion Production in MARS15 and GEANT4 (.ppt, 680 KB) | September 2005 | Similar talk again, some initial slides on pulse structure added for context |
| Conference Paper | Computed Pion Yields from a Tantalum Rod Target: Comparing MARS15 and GEANT4 Across Proton Energies (.pdf, 305 KB) | September 2005 | NuFact'05 Conference Paper |
| Talk | Talk Given at European Neutrino Group (ENG) meeting, Comparing Pion Production in MARS15 and GEANT4 (.ppt, 722 KB) | August 2005 | This is almost exactly the same as the NuFact'05 talk I gave; GEANT4 results thanks to Kenny Walaron |
| Conference Talk | Talk Presented at NuFact'05, Comparing Pion Production in MARS15 and GEANT4 (.ppt, 693 KB) | June 2005 | GEANT4 results thanks to Kenny Walaron |
| Talk | Talk on Target Pion Production Studies at Muon Week, CERN (.ppt, 436 KB) | March 2005 | |
| Research Note | Simulations of Pion Production in a Tantalum Rod Target using MARS15 | January 2005 | |
| Talk | Research Status Talk at Muon Week in DESY (.ppt, 397 KB) / Web version | November 2004 | |
| Outreach | Poster for the CERN50 UK technology transfer event (.ppt, 1.48 MB) / View as image | September 2004 | Collaborative poster: top section by Ken Long; middle section by myself; front-end test stand by David Findlay; target studies by Roger Bennett. |
| Conference Poster | Poster Presented at EPAC'04 (.ppt, 2.10 MB) / View as image | July 2004 | |
| Outreach |  Article in PPARC's Frontiers magazine, about the Muon1 project | June 2004 | |
| Conference Paper | Quantitative Optimisation Studies of the Muon Front-End for a Neutrino Factory | June 2004 | Paper presented at EPAC'04 |
| Talk | Research Status Talk at UK Neutrino Factory Meeting (.ppt, 2.08 MB) / Web version | May 2004 | |
| Talk | General Research Talk at RAL/DL Joint Accelerator Workshop (.ppt, 1.41 MB) / Web version | April 2004 | |
| Research Note | Simulations of Neutrino Factory Muon Capture with Chicane (58 KB) | December 2003 | |
| Talk | Research Status Talk at ISIS Accelerator Division Meeting (.ppt, 1.18 MB) / Web version | November 2003 | |
| Research Note | Simulations of Neutrino Factory Muon Capture with Chicane | June 2002 |
