LhARA Executive Board 06Aug25; 16:00 BST

Present: R. Amos, R.Bingham, A.Giacca, T.Greenshaw, K.Long, J.Parsons, P.Price, W.Shields,

Notes

1. Notes and actions: All
   
   • KL and RB meet to discuss publication opportunities forward.
     • Done. Covered in agenda.

2. PoPLaR: CW, JPar
   
   • Excellent progress in SCAPA last week. Culmination of a lot of effort from R.Wilson and the SCAPA team.
   • Evidence for protons with energies up to 13 MeV (see slides)

4. Peer-group meetings update: KL
   
   • Exploiting hiatus caused by postponement of 30Oct meeting of pre-clinical/clinical researcher peer group, seeking to pitch meeting series to IoP. KL will talk to C.Garland.

5. Articles: RB, KL
   
   • Frontiers in Physics
   • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
   • Ion-acoustic
   • (added) technical paper on SCAPA beam and follow up on biological exposure.

Plan agreed: finish CDR (now editing chapter 6, then appendices), then write paper for Frontiers. KL to write to proposed authors of Plasma Physics paper. Ion-acoustic paper coming forward. Papers on SCAPA beam time to be developed.

6. Possible collaboration with ICISE in Vietnam: KL
   
   • Long discussion of pros, cons and opportunities. Bottom line is that we see opportunity to develop collaboration in Asia and so we seek to pursue collaboration with ICISE and see where it goes.

7. Collaboration meeting dates: All
   • Sep25, Birmingham
     • 18/19 Sep;
       • Brm colleagues will update indico.
   • Spring 2026

Need to get agenda posted before the end of August.

8. DONM
   20Aug25 -- 16:00 BST

9. AoB
   None.

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