Dr. Lawrence Charles Deacon (John Adams Institute)

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

Research Interests

My research interests include diagnostics of low emittance beams, in particular the development of a micron-scale laser-wire system. I also develop and use BDSIM, a beam line simulation tool kit, to investigate various processes in future high energy electron positron colliders such as the International Linear Collider (ILC) and the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) with emphasis on beam profile and emittance diagnostics systems and collimators. I am also working on particle tracking simulations for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), focusing on the collimators and the machine-detector interface.

Publications

Ph.D. Thesis

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

Conference Proceedings

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 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 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 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