LhARA Executive Board 04Mar26; 16:00 GMT

Present: AG, KL, PJ (invited), RA, WS, PP, HO, CW, RB

Notes

1. Notes and actions: All
   
   • CW: Need to pursue STFC year-end money.
     • Superceded: No year-end exercise this year.

2. Update on refresh: KL
   Copies being printed. Coming to RAL. Will send letters to decision makers when hard copies arrive.

Started. Each institute has been contacted to ask for IB rep, comms rep, and high resolution log. Matt Pereira (RHUL) has agreed to help collate data and update institute slide.

3. Peer-group meetings update:
   
   • “Particle therapy international meeting”
     
     • Debrief:
       • Unanimous on success and congratulations to RA. Multidisciplinarity of application needs to be thought through.
     • Section headings for white paper:
       • A start: here
       • ​Indico meeting page
     • K. Parodi suggestions:
       • ... touch base to see if you would agree that such a [white] Paper should try to get input from all the active communities at least across Europe ... if so we would be happy to leverage the workshop we just held in Munich to help bring in the German/ELI views on this.
       • I agreed; what do others think. Should we just wrap Katia et al into the drafting?
     • Advisor role/Advisory group?
     • IoP for rest of series.
   • “Cylindrically-symmetric strong focusing of ion beams”
     
     • Next planning meeting, Friday, 10:00
   • “Novel time-resolved and high-resolution imaging”
     
     • To be returned to later.
       
   • “Biology, measurement, simulation and interpretation of radiation biology”
     
     • To be returned to later.
       

3. Meet with Manchester Christie and MCRC: KL/All
   • Agreed. Include Neil too.

4. Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2026 PJ/All
   
   • Short para from Paul J

5. ​Glasgow Science Festival 2026 CW

6. EUMateria WWW site: ​https://eumateria.eu
   Our colleagues made a presentation to ESFRI which, I believe, they felt went well. Now we and they wait and see.

7. ELIMED proposal

8. Articles: RB, KL
   
   • Frontiers in Physics
     • Outline proposal; to be circulated
   • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
   • Ion-acoustic
   • Accelerator papers (WS)
     

9. Collaboration meeting dates: All
   • Spring 2026
     • 29/30 April; RAL: Wednesday 29Apr and Thursday 30Apr morning LhARA CM. Rutherford Lecture postponed.
       • ​Block diagram agenda

10. DONM
    
    • Date of next meeting: 18Mar26 -- 16:00 GMT -- may need to postpone as have to attend an IN2P3 meeting

11. AoB
    

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