Dr. Lawrence Charles Deacon (John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science)

Position: Post-doctoral research assistant Room: W256 Tel: +44(0)1784414304 Email:

Research Interests

Beam diagnostics systems (laser-wire) and beam-line simulation tools (BDSIM) for for high energy colliders, beam profile and emittance measurement, collimation systems and detector backgrounds.

Publications

Ph.D. Thesis

A Micron-Scale Laser-Based Beam Profile Monitor for the International Linear Collider, submitted March 2009

Publications

BDSIM: A particle tracking code for accelerator beam-line simulations including particle-matter interactions. I. Agapov, G. A. Blair, L. Deacon and S. Malton. Nucl. Instum. Meth., A606, 708-712, DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.04.040

Micron Size Laser-wire System at the ATF Extraction Line. A. Aryshev et al. EPAC08-TUPC011, Jun 24, 2008. 3pp. In the Proceedings of 11th European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 08), Magazzini del Cotone, Genoa, Italy, 23-27 Jun 2008, pp TUPC011.

Simulation Study of Laser-wires as a Post-linac Diagnostic for CLIC and PP.ILC. Grahame A. Blair, L. Deacon, S. Malton, (Royal Holloway, U. of London) , I.V. Agapov, A. Latina, D. Schulte, (CERN) . EPAC08-TUPC005, Jun 24, 2008. 3pp. In the Proceedings of 11th European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 08), Magazzini del Cotone, Genoa, Italy, 23-27 Jun 2008, pp TUPC005.

Executive Summary of the Workshop on Polarization and Beam Energy Measurements at the PP.ILC. B. Aurand et al. DESY-08-099, ILC-NOTE-2008-047, SLAC-PUB-13296, Jul 25, 2008. 14pp. ILC Note. e-Print: arXiv:0808.1638 [physics.acc-ph]

A laser-wire system for the international linear collider. N. Delerue et al. SLAC-REPRINT-2009-030, Dec 2007. Published in Pramana 69:1147-1150,2007.

ATF extraction line laser-wire system. Lawrence Deacon et al. PAC07-THOAC01, JAI-2007-002, Jun 2007. 3pp. In the Proceedings of Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC 07), Albuquerque, New Mexico, 25-29 Jun 2007, pp 2636.

A study of emittance measurement at the PP.ILC. G.A. Blair, I.V. Agapov, J. Carter, L. Deacon, (Royal Holloway, U. of London) , D.A.K. Angal-Kalinin, (Daresbury) , L.J. Jenner, (Cockcroft Inst. Accel. Sci. Tech.) , M.C. Ross, Andrei Seryi, M. Woodley, (SLAC) . SLAC-PUB-12473, EUROTEV-REPORT-2006-089, Jun 2006. 3pp. Prepared for European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 06), Edinburgh, Scotland, 26-30 Jun 2006. Published in Edinburgh 2006, EPAC 1115-1117

Proposal for a fast scanning system based on electro-optics for use at the ILC laser-wire. A. Bosco, G.A. Blair, S. Boogert, G. Boorman, L. Deacon, C. Driouichi, M.T. Price, (Royal Holloway, U. of London) . EUROTEV-REPORT-2006-093, JAI-2006-006, 2006. 3pp. Prepared for European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 06), Edinburgh, Scotland, 26-30 Jun 2006. Published in Edinburgh 2006, EPAC 1118-1120

A laser-wire system at the ATF extraction line. S.T. Boogert et al. SLAC-PUB-12328, EUROTEV-REPORT-2006-054, JAI-2006-004, 2006. 3pp. Prepared for European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 06), Edinburgh, Scotland, 26-30 Jun 2006. Published in Edinburgh 2006, EPAC 738-740

Simulation of the ILC Collimation System using BDSIM, MARS15 and STRUCT. J. Carter, I. Agapov, G.A. Blair, L. Deacon, (Royal Holloway, U. of London) , A.I. Drozhdin, N.V. Mokhov, (Fermilab) , Y.M. Nosochkov, Andrei Seryi, (SLAC) . FERMILAB-CONF-06-219-AD, SLAC-PUB-11951, EUROTEV-REPORT-2006-048, FERMILAB-APC, Jul 12, 2006. 4pp. Presented at European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC 06), Edinburgh, Scotland, 26-30 Jun 2006. Published in Edinburgh 2006, EPAC 744-746