LhARA pre-CDR Meeting 3rd March 2020

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14:00 Room 532, Blackett Lab.

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Agenda

• Action items from last meeting.
  • KL to circulate terms of reference for the review.

• System updates.
  • Laser driven proton and ion source.
  • Proton and ion capture.
  • Stage 1 beam transport: Beam transport and delivery to the in vitro end station.
  • Stage 2 beam transport: Post-acceleration and beam delivery to the in vivo end station.
  • Biological end stations.
  • Infrastructure and Integration.
  • Project plan for the delivery of LhARA.
  • Safety.
  • End-to-end simulation.
  • Instrumentation.
• R&D plan and schedule.
  • Version 1 xml or pdf
• Writing the pre-CDR.
• A.O.B.

Notes

Participants: JPar, CW, AK, HTL, WS, TD,KL, JMat Apologies: JPas

• Action items
  • Done
• Laser
  • AK met OE
    • OE believes the target R&D would take 6 months.
    • KL: doesn't believe this is realistic.
    • Other areas should be included in the R&D programme such as simulation.
• Capture - CW
  • Discussions with Bob Bingham.
  • 5 years R&D probably not enough.
  • AK: plan has 2 years to give an answer whether the lens will work or not.
    • CW: Probably won't be able to find solution to correct for instabilities in this time frame.
  • AK: Can move decision point to before the Stage 1 TDR.
  • CW circulated first draft of pre-CDR section.
• Beam transport - WS
  • Meeting on Friday to discuss two options. See slides on simulation page.
• Beam transport - HTL
  • Updated overleaf will post-accel section and transfer line.
  • Simulations of the end station and text to go in the pre-CDR
  • For the end station look at mono-energetic beam, 15 MeV +/- 2% and the 12MeV +/- 2%.
  • For high energy in vitro look at 127MeV look at range in a water phantom.
  • Details on the transfer line to go in the pre-CDR.
• End stations
  • Just updated the draft of the pre-CDR.
  • Will speak with Karen on Thursday.
  • Pushing on with work at Birmingham on their FLASH capabilities. Beam time allocated in April for FLASH experiments.
  • Oxford have FLASH electrons and would be good to collaborate with them.
  • Visited Rutherford Cancer Centre (sites in Reading and Newport). Plan to do experiments in the next month (not FLASH). Machines not rated to do FLASH dose rates.
• Instrumentation. - JM
  • First draft added to Overleaf.
  • AK and JMat to meet on Thursday.
• AOB
  • KL: Letter to STFC sent re our plans for LhARA.