The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science

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的先进加速器应用。JAI成立于2004年，最初是牛津大学(UOXF)和伦敦皇家霍洛威大学(RHUL)物理系的合资企业，2011年扩大规模，在伦敦帝国理工学院(ICL)建立了一个新的研究基地，加入了RHUL和UOXF的现有两个中心。我们行动的五项战略指导原则是：a)专注于培训计划及其改进，将加速器培训与激光和等离子物理学结合起来；b)专注于将合作伙伴大学聚集在一起的计划；c)专注于激光等离子加速及其应用于紧凑型光源的开发；d)继续支持和参与对英国具有战略重要性的计划；e)积极发展与英国和全球合作伙伴的合作项目。我们通过本次赠款的成功运作证实了这些指导原则的有效性，我们的目标也是在未来的赠款期间保持这些原则。我们2017-2021年的提交集中在国家优先事项上，并将针对以下主题：1-研究生培训，2-开发新的X射线光源，使其能够研究新材料、新药物、大的和复杂的蛋白质分子；3-开发基于强激光脉冲激发等离子体中的尾迹来加速带电粒子的新方法；4-开发未来的粒子对撞机，这将允许研究最近发现的希格斯玻色子以外的物理；5-开发加速非常强大的质子束的方法，使其能够用于质子癌症治疗，用于创造用于发现科学的中子源和用于基础粒子物理研究的中微子源。我们还将发展与工业界的联系，并参与外联活动。

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 promoting advanced accelerator applications in science and society.The JAI, established in 2004, initially as a joint venture between the Departments of Physics in the University of Oxford (UOXF) and Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), expanded in 2011 with a new research base at Imperial College London (ICL) joining the two existing centres at RHUL and the UOXF. The five strategic guiding principles of our operation are: a) focus on the training programme and its enhancement to encompass the accelerator training together with laser and plasma physics; b) focus on the programmes that bring the partner universities together; c) focus on laser-plasma acceleration and its application for development of compact light sources; d) maintaining support and engagement into the programmes of strategic importance for UK; e) proactively developing collaborative projects with UK and worldwide partners. Our successful operation through the present grant has confirmed the validity of these guiding principles and we are aiming to maintain these principles throughout the future grant period as well.Our submission for 2017-2021 is focused on the national priorities and will aim at the following themes: 1- graduate training, 2- development of novel X-ray light sources that allow to study novel materials, new medicines, large and complicated protein molecules; 3- development of novel methods of acceleration of charged particles based on excitation of wakes in plasma by intense laser pulse; 4- development of future colliders of particles, that will allow to study physics beyond of the recently discovered Higgs boson; 5- development of methods to accelerate very powerful beams of protons, enabling to use them for proton cancer therapy, for creation of neutron sources for discovery science and neutrino sources for fundamental particle physics study. We will also develop links with industry and participate in outreach.