The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science - Bridging Grant

约翰亚当斯加速器科学研究所（JAI）是英国一个先进和新颖的加速器技术卓越中心，提供加速器技术的专业知识，研究，开发和培训，并促进先进的加速器在科学和社会中的应用。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高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的学者，研究人员和学生共同开发了一个强大的研究计划，在加速器科学的前沿，跨越国家和国际设施和项目。联合调查委员会已经发展并正在积极加强与工业界的联系及其外联方案。我们与工业企业密切合作，使科学理念更接近实际应用。我们鼓舞人心的创新推广活动正在增加年轻一代渴望从事技术和科学职业的愿望。JAI计划的这三个关键要素，培训，加速器研究以及工业连接和推广，构成了我们未来计划的核心。随着帝国理工学院的加入，JAI的研究和培训能力将得到显著加强。在其成立的几年里，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，同时也提出了（从欧洲核子研究中心的国际直线对撞机（ILC）和紧凑型直线对撞机（CLIC）到医学应用粒子加速器（PAMELA），和目前正在实施的项目（欧洲Spectron Source、大型Hardron对撞机升级、意大利SuperB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、用于医学和粒子物理学应用的质子和μ子束的处理以及先进束诊断、仪器和模拟方面积累了专业知识。在许多情况下，这种专门知识在世界上是独一无二的。未来的JAI计划将建立在我们的专业知识和核心竞争力的基础上，并将包括与国家加速器科学战略，国家设施（如Diamond和Harwell的ISIS）以及粒子物理学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，我们正在努力创建一套紧凑的光源，基于我们的激光加速器专业知识，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，但也是最有前途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合作，并通过与该领域的全球专业中心合作来应对这一挑战。JAI在该项目中的资金将支持上述核心要素。这批核心人员可让我们在新方向和协同项目之间探索新机会，并及早发展新构思，以便获得专项拨款。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，并将通过其在医疗保健，能源，材料和生物科学。

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.