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School of Physics and Astronomy Homepage within the Accelerator Group

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Journals:
NIMS, PRST-AB, Reviews of Scientific Instruments, Meas. Sci. Tech. (IOP), NJP (IOP), IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, Journal of Instrumentation (JINST)
Here are my Publications, and some past Talks/Lectures (the latter needs updating)
Current Ph.D. Students:
Hugo Day, Pei Zhang, Nick Shipman, Lee Carver
Current PDRAs:
Ian Shinton, Alessandro D'Elia, Inna Nesmiyan
Former Ph.D. Students:
  • Vasim F. Khan (CERN Fellow, April 2011)
  • Nawin Juntong (Staff, Thai Synchrotron Light Research Inst., February 2012)
  • Narong Chanlek (Staff, Thai Synchrotron Light Research Inst., February 2012)
  • Matthew Fraser (CERN Fellow, February 2012)
  • Chris Glasman (Credit Suisse, March 2012)
    Former PDRAs:
    Federico Roncarolo (CERN staff member, Sept. 2009)
    Lectureships and Research Opportunities:
  • University of Manchester Lectureships (2) in Accelerator Science. Contact me if you would like to informally discuss these posts.
  • PostDoc positions,
  • Ph.D. studentships,Contact immediately for ESS Ph.D. Project, CERN Doctoral Programme

  • Undergraduate DESY, FNAL, CERN summer research programme (~2 months). CERN Technical Student programme (4-12 months), Cockcroft Institute

    • If you are interested in any of these post-doctoral, doctoral or undergraduate programmes, either here in the UK or in Europe, contact me to discuss current accelerator physics opportunities.

    Current Research Projects:
  • Research profile
  • EuCARD Governing Board Member, JACoW Steering Committee Member
  • Task leader on Accelerator and Beam studies: EU FP 11.3
  • HOMBPM Studies for FLASH/ILC (FP7) -meetings
  • CLIC Main Linac Structure Wake-field and Beam Dynamics Studies (FP7)
  • CLIC Crab Cavity Design, Development and Testing at CTF3 (FP7)
  • HIE-ISOLDE RF and Beam Dynamics (Chief Scientist, Deputy Chair of Management Board and WP3 PI)
    Meetings
  • Manchester-Cockcroft Accelerator Physics Meetings(old)
  • Manchester-Cockcroft Wake-field Meetings
    • Teaching:
  • Head of Cockcroft Institute, Education, Training and Outreach (CIETO) -lectures
  • University of Manchester Electrodynamics: PHYS 30441, Electrodynamics: PHYS 30642
  • University of Manchester FPP II, Physics of Accelerators: PHYS 4722
  • CERN Accelerator School RF CAS 2010
  • University of Manchester PHYS 10121 (2 Lectures)
  • University of Manchester Third Year Lab
  • University of Manchester and Cockcroft Institute Wake-fields and Collective Effects: PHYS 60801
  • Cockcroft Institute Linear Accelerators: Theory and Practical Applications
  • USPAS, Texas A & M University, Texas Collective Effects and Wake-fields
  • Manchester Univ. Teaching Assignments and Solutions, EProg, Portal, Oracle, Pdrive, Personal Pages
    • Conferences, Courses & Workshops:
  • General Accelerator Physics conferences and schools
  • Higher Order Mode Diagnostics and Suppression in SC Cavities (HOMSC12), Cockcroft Institute (June 25-27, 2012)
  • X-Band Structures, Beam Dynamics and Sources (XB10), Cockcroft Institute (Nov 30-Dec 3, 2010)
  • X-Band Structures and Beam Dynamics (XB08), Cockcroft Institute (Dec 1-4, 2008)
  • Electronic resources on Accelerator Physics Research (compiled by Z. Huang based on Yujong Kim's original list)
    • Recent Journal Publications:
    1. M. A. Fraser, R. M. Jones, and M. Pasini, Beam dynamics design studies of a superconducting radioactive ion beam postaccelerator, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 14, 020102, 2011, 17pp.

    2. R. M. Jones, Wake field Suppression in High Gradient Linacs for Lepton Linear Colliders, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 104801, 2009, 14pp.

    3. R. M. Jones, V. A. Dolgashev, and J. W. Wang, Dispersion and energy compensation in high-gradient linacs for lepton colliders, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 051001 2009, 11pp.

    4. R.M. Jones, C.E. Adolphsen, R.H. Miller, J.W. Wang , T. Higo, Influence of fabrication errors on wake function suppression in NC X-band accelerating structures for linear colliders, New J.Phys.11:033013,2009, 13pp.

    5. W. Salah, R.M. Jones, J.L. Coacolo, Analysis of space charge fields using lienard-wiechert potentials and the method of images in the RF-free electron laser photoinjectors, doi:10.1016/j.nima.2009.05.188 .

    6. W. Salah, R.M. Jones, J.L. Coacolo, Analysis of the transverse kick to beams in low-frequency photoinjectors due to wakefield effects, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 601, Issue 3, 1 April 2009, Pages 264-269.

    7. R.M. Jones, C. Adolphsen, Z. Li, J. Wang, Wakefield damping in a pair of X-band accelerators for linear colliders. Phys.Rev.ST Accel. Beams 9:102001, 2006, 11pp.

    8. G. Burt, R.M. Jones, A. Dexter, Analysis of damping requirements for dipole wake-fields in RF crab cavities, IEEE Trans. of Nuclear Sciences, 5-2007.

    In the Press:
  • Science Daily, Scientific Computing, Smashing News
    • Last edited November-2009
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