LhARA Executive Board 04Mar26; 16:00 GMT

ZOOM: ​https://cern.zoom.us/j/69273575605?pwd=K1cwVVo3UmJwL0pkVDZFSXRJcitvQT09

Agenda

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     • Superceded: No year-end exercise this year.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
   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
     • 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?
   • “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

4. Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2026 PJ/All
   

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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