LhARA fortnightly Meeting 3^rd August 2021; 14:00 BST

Notes

1. Notes of previous meetings and actions
   
   • Status of actions:
     • None recorded.

2. Preparation of LhARA proposal and work package reports:
   • Update on preparation: K. Long
   • Work package reports:
     1. Project Management: J. Parsons, C. Whyte
     2. Laser-driven source: E. Boella, N. Dover, R. Gray
        • Slides
     3. Ion capture: M. Charlton, W. Bertsche
     4. Dose-deposition profiling: J. Bamber, J. Mattheson
     5. Vertical beam line and biological end station development: R. McLauchlan, T. Price,
     6. Accelerator design and integration: J. Pasternak

3. Vertical beam line design: R Mamutov
   • Slides

4. Outreach:
   
   1. Publications:
      • White paper: P. Price, A. Giacca, KL
      • LhARA design update: All
   2. Conferences:
      • FLASH
      • Vienna Conference on Instrumentation
      • TP explained that Birmingham will host the Position Sensitive Detectors Conference in September. TP will send details to all. WWW site is here: ​https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/mds-cpd/conferences/psd12/index.aspx
   3. Wider outreach discussion
      • We discussed the need explicitly to include PPI in the discussion of this item.
      • GJ reminded us of the document that HH and he had drafted on a PPI strategy. He commented that the strategy needs to be updated to adapt to the current situation.
      • HH emphasised the need to take a broad approach and asked for input on the benefits of the LhARA programme to medical and other science and societal areas. We decided to use a SLACK channel to share information and especially in the first instance to share ideas about the benefits of the LhARA programme in the broadest sense.
      • TP set up a slack channel for LhARA at:
        • ​https://join.slack.com/t/slack-kuo1955/shared_invite/zt-tydevjxw-mcxGGu5XaFfHEhareBhDlQ

5. DoNM :
   • 17Aug21

6. AOB
   • AoBs noted above.

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