Meanwhile we are contributing to accelerator beam physics (linear and nonlinear beam dynamics in particle accelerators, e.g. the damping rings for the International Linear Collider, the storage ring based light sources and free electron lasers), ultra-cold atoms, ultra-cold plasma based research and advanced materials (nano-materials such as graphene) and their applications to next generation particle accelerators, e.g. the low secondary electron yield (SEY) coating based on graphene coatings, etc.
guoxing.xia@manchester.ac.uk
+44 161 306 6569
Office: Schuster 7.11
Accelerators Group
Particle Physics Group
School of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
UK
http://www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/u/xiaguo
We welcome the students who have strong interests in plasma physics such as plasma wakefield accelerators, either driven by powerful lasers or relativistic electron and proton bunches. In addition, we welcome students who are interests in laser or beam driven dielectric accelerators and beam dynamics in particle accelerators. Some scholarships (such as President Doctoral Scholarships-PDS, Dean's Scholarships and CSC Scholarships) and fundings (from STFC) are available in our group. Below shows the possible research topics/opportunities in our group.
Beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration experiments (CLARA PARS and AWAKE at CERN)
Ultrashort and relativistic beam driven dielectric structures for advanced beam manipulation, acceleration and THz radiation sources
Compact radiation sources (such as x-rays, gamma-rays), electron-positron pair generation based on high intensity laser and plasma interactions
Dielectric laser acceleration, simulation and experiment (DLA)
Experimental study on novel coating materials for low secondary electron yield (SEY)
Beam dynamics (beam collective instability such as electron cloud, ion instability, intra-beam scattering, etc.) in the future lepton and hadron colliders
Low/medium energy heavy-ion beam and plasma interactions
Kieran Hanahoe (PhD student, CLARA PWFA)
Thomas Pacey (PhD student, DWA at VELA/CLARA)
Taaj-Sian (PhD student, Low secondary electron yield coatings and their application in particle accelerators)
Yangmei Li (PhD student-President Doctoral Scholarship Recipient, Proton driven PWFA, Best of the best PhD Thesis published by Springer in 2020)
Barney Williamson (PhD student, DWA at VELA/CLARA)
Yuan Zhao (PhD student-President Doctoral Scholarship Recipient, Compact radiation sources based on laser-plasma interaction)
Can Davut (PhD student, ultrashort electron bunch length diagnostic for AWAKE experiment)
Toby Overton (PhD student, Dielectric wakefield acceleration experiment at VELA/CLARA)
Linbo Liang (PhD student-President Doctoral Scholarship Recipient, Advanced modelling of beam plasma interactions for AWAKE Run 2)