Luke Thompson
Accelerator Physics PhD Student
University of Manchester Supervised by: Dr Rob Appleby luke.thompson@hep.manchester.ac.uk
Research interests
My current work involves lepton-hadron colliders, specifically designing the interaction region (IR) of the proposed LHeC e-p collider at CERN.
I am also working on the High Luminosity LHC upgrade project, working with the new ATS optics scheme in the interaction regions.
Previously I have worked on top quark coupling at DZero.
LHeC
The Large Hadron electron Collider is a new project to utilise the LHC in a novel way. Given the huge energies and luminosities available, it is proposed to collide one LHC beam with a relatively low-energy electron beam, to yield TeV-scale e-p and e-A collisions.
Decay
In my spare time, I've written, directed and generally post-produced a feature length zombie film set at the LHC, called Decay. It's set to be released soon online for free, under a Creative Commons license.
Papers and Talks
A Large Hadron Electron Collider at CERN Report on the Physics and Design Concepts for Machine and Detector, LHeC Study Group, J L Abelleira Fernandez et al 2012 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 39 075001 doi:10.1088/0954-3899/39/7/075001
Integration with the LHC of Electron Interaction Region Optics for a Ring-ring LHeC, L. Thompson et al, IPAC 2012 Proceedings
Interaction Region Optics for the Non-Interacting LHC Proton Beam at the LHeC, L. Thompson et al, IPAC 2012 Proceedings
Synchrotron Radiation Studies for a Ring-Ring LHeC Interaction Region and Long Straight Section, L. Thompson et al, IPAC 2012 Proceedings
Synchrotron Radiation in the Interaction Region for a Ring-Ring and Linac-Ring LHeC, N.R. Bernard et al, IPAC 2011 Proceedings
Interaction Region Design for a Ring-Ring LHeC, L. Thompson et al, IPAC 2011 Proceedings
Interaction Region Design for a Ring Ring Version of the LHeC Study, R.B. Appleby at al, IPAC 2010 Proceedings
LHeC Ring-Ring Interaction Regions, L. Thompson and R.B. Appleby, 3rd CERN-ECFA-NuPECC Workshop on the LHeC 2010 Proceedings
DZero Internal Note 6028, Measurement of the ttbar Cross Section in the lepton+jets Channel with 5.3 fb-1, Oleg Brandt, DooKee Cho, Frederic Deliot, Aran Garcia-Bellido, Alexander Grohsjean, Andreas Jung, Jeong Ku Lim, Sehwook Lee, Clara Nellist, Sungkeun Park, Yvonne Peters, Thorsten Schliephake, Christian Schwanenberger, Elizaveta Shabalina, Luke Thompson, Daniel Wicke, July 2010
Programs
tfs2csv2
A small command-line application for MADX users. Converts MADX TFS files to spreadsheet-readable CSV.