The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science - Bridging Grant

约翰·亚当斯加速器科学研究所(JAI)是英国先进和新型加速器技术的卓越中心，提供加速器技术方面的专业知识、研究、开发和培训，并促进科学和社会中先进加速器的应用。JAI成立于2004年，已成为国际公认的加速器科学中心。它在培养下一代科学家方面的重要作用显然提升了英国在这一领域的影响力，有助于解决全球加速器科学家短缺的问题。JAI学者、研究人员和学生共同制定了一个强大的加速器科学前沿研究计划，涵盖国内和国际设施和项目。日本工业联合会已经发展并正在积极加强与工业界及其外联方案的联系。我们正在与工业公司密切合作，使科学思想更接近实际应用。我们富有启发性和创新性的外展活动增加了年轻一代渴望从事技术和科学事业的愿望。JAI计划的这三个关键要素，即培训、加速器研究以及产业联系和拓展，构成了我们未来计划的核心。随着帝国理工学院加入这一提议，JAI的研究和培训能力将得到显著加强。在其历史的几年里，JAI人员不仅为英国和国外的许多现有设施和实验做出了重大贡献，而且还提出了一些项目(从CERN的国际直线对撞机(ILC)和紧凑型直线对撞机(CLIC)到医疗应用的粒子加速器(Pamela)，以及目前正在实施的项目(欧洲散裂源、大型Hardron对撞机升级、意大利的超级对撞机)。JAI在激光-加速器相互作用、最亮电子环和光源的设计和操作、机器-探测器接口和最终聚焦系统、医疗和粒子物理应用中的质子和µ子束处理以及先进的束流诊断、仪器和模拟方面的卓越表现方面积累了专业知识。在许多情况下，这种专业知识在世界上是独一无二的。未来的JAI计划建立在我们的专业知识和核心能力的基础上，将包括与国家加速器科学战略、与国家设施(如钻石和哈威尔的ISIS)以及粒子物理的未来直接相关的项目。JAI现在已经开始朝着新的研究方向努力--特别是，我们正在努力创造一套紧凑型光源，以我们的激光加速器专业知识为基础，使我们更接近工业应用，目标是在不久的将来实现商业设备。最具挑战性，但也是最有希望的领域是激光等离子体加速，我们将通过与牛津大学和帝国理工学院的等离子体物理小组联合起来，并通过与世界各地的专业中心在这一领域发展合作来应对这一挑战。该项目中为JAI提供的资金将支持上述核心要素。这一核心工作人员的规定将使我们能够探索新的机会--无论是在新的方向上，还是在协同项目之间的边界上--并及早开发新的想法，以便能够获得专门的资金。正如已经证明的那样，这笔资金还将利用未来对新项目和已建立项目的投资，并确保英国仍然是全球加速器科学和技术领域的关键参与者。该研究计划将继续提高加速器科学对英国科学和工业能力的影响，并将通过将其应用于医疗保健、能源、材料和生物科学，帮助解决21世纪的挑战。

The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (JAI) is a Centre of Excellence in the UK for advanced and novel accelerator technology, providing expertise, research, development and training in accelerator techniques, and promotingadvanced accelerator applications in science and society.The JAI, established in 2004, has become an internationally recognised centre for accelerator science. Its vital role in training the next generation of scientists has clearly boosted the UK's impact in this area, helping to address the problem of the worldwide shortage of accelerator scientists. JAI academics, researchers and students have together developed a strong research programme at the forefront of accelerator science, spanning national and international facilities and projects. The JAI has developed, and is actively enhancing, connections with industry and its outreach programme. We are working closely with industrial companies to bring scientific ideas closer to practical applications. Our inspiring and innovative outreach is increasing the desire of younger generations to aspire to technical and scientific careers. These three key elements of the JAI programme, training, accelerator research, and industrial connection and outreach, form the core of our future plans. With Imperial College joining this proposal, the research and training capabilities of the JAI will be significantly strengthened.In the few years of its history, JAI personnel have already made significant contributions to not only many existing, facilities and experiments both in the UK and abroad, but also proposed projects (from the International Linear Collider (ILC) and Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) for CERN to a Particle Accelerator for Medical Applications (PAMELA), and projects currently being implemented (European Spallation Source, Large Hardron Collider upgrade, SuperB collider in Italy). The JAI has built up expertise in laser-accelerator interactions, design and operation of the brightest electron rings and light sources, machine-detector interface and final-focus systems, handling of proton and muon beams for medical and particlephysics applications, and excellence in advanced beam diagnostics, instrumentation and simulation. In many cases this expertise is unique in the world. The future JAI programme is built upon our expertise and core competences and will include projects of direct relevance to the national accelerator-science strategy, to national facilities such as Diamond and ISIS at Harwell and to the future of particle physics.The JAI has now initiated work towards new research directions - in particular, we are working towards the creation of a suite of compact light sources, building on our laser-accelerator expertise and bringing us closer to industrial applications, with an aim of achieving commercial devices in the near future. The most challenging, but also the most promising, area is laser-plasma acceleration, and we will address this challenge by combining forces with the plasma physics groups at Oxford and Imperial College, and via developing collaborations with worldwide centres of expertise in this area.The funding for the JAI in this project will underpin the core elements outlined above. This core staff provision will allow us to explore new opportunities - both in new directions and at the boundaries between synergistic projects - and the early development of new ideas so that dedicated funding can then be secured. This funding will also leverage future investment for both new and established projects, as has been already demonstrated, and ensure that the UK remains a key player in accelerator science and technology worldwide.This research programme will continue raising the impact of accelerator science on UK's scientific and industrial capabilities and will help to solve the challenges of the 21st century through its applications to healthcare, energy, materialsand biological science.