2009 Manchester-Cockcroft ELECTRODYNAMICS AND WAKEFIELD MEETINGS

These meetings are organised on a weekly basis and are chaired by Roger Jones


  • Week 17-12-09 (Final meeting before year's end. All -10 min talk on achievements over year and future plans, Christmas lunch?)
  • Week 10-12-09 (Penultimate meeting, Matt -preview of Bohr talk, Nawin -short range wake validation simulations, Vasim -3 cell similations of wakefield, Ian -preview of EuCARD WP10.5.2 talk)
  • Week 28-8-09 (Narong - preview of Bohr talk, Bartosz -Influence of errors on fields in 3.9 GHz FLASH cavities, Nawin -Q calc for NLSF, Matthew -Initial MS surface field simulations for quarter wave cavities, Vasim -CLIC Crab DDS initial HFSS simulations, Roger -Tuning (.nb) errors in cavities)
  • Week 21-8-09 (Roger - N-parameter optimised generalised SW tuning code, Bartosz -3.9 GHz dispersion curves via HFSS HH/EE and Superfish, Ian -verification of R/Q for 3 cell sliced irises, Matthew -MWS and tracking simulations for various DTs, Vasim -initial manifold damped CLIC crab cavity)
  • Week 13-8-09 (Matthew -missalignment study and emittance dilution + twiss alpha from BPMS, All -discussion of synchrotron radiation)
  • Week 6-8-09 (Matthew - parametric resonance beam dynamics simulations + MWS and Superfish simulations of quarter wave cavities with and without nose cones, Nawin -coupler simulations for NLSF cavity, Narong -Overview of new exp setup at CI, Ian -Monopole smart2D R/Q simulations for third harmonic cavities)
  • Week 31-7-09 (Narong -Overview of NEG exp at MMU, Bartosz -Third harmonic cavity improved cct model cf HFSS simulations, Alessandro - HIE-ISOLDE heat loss calc + CLIC R and D programme, Vassim -Improved CLIC_DDS3/4)
  • Week 24-7-09 (Vasim - 8-fold interleaved with increased vg, Bartosz -Third harmonic cavity initial band structure results, Ian -smart2D sliced iris results, Matthew HIE-ISOLDE racetrack vs circular coupler implications on emittance dilution)
  • Week 17-7-09 (Vasim - 8-fold interleaved improved mesh design with corrected manifold couplings, Nawin -optimised ILC design incl first coupler simulations, Nawin -discussion on SC vs NC efficiency, Ian -smart2D sliced iris first results, Roger/all -fundamental LC frequency scalings)
  • Week 25-6-09 (Roger -overview of 3.9GHz 3rd harmonic photo-injector DESY cavity, Vasim -Initial wake with preliminary manifold couplings, Nawin -optimised structure NLFS, Matthew - emittance dilution studies in HIE-ISOLDE cavities + initial error analysis)
  • Week 18-6-09 (Matthew and Alessandro - provided an overview of their talks presented earlier at the HIE-ISOLDE review, Vasim - update on wake function suppression for CLIC with 2.5 GHz bw, Nawin -optimised reentrant SC design, Roger -multibunch BBU analysis)
  • Week 11-6-09 (Nawin -optimised high gradient SC cavity design, Vasim -wake function suppression for CLIC with 2.5 GHz bw, Matthew -presented a preview of his HIE-ISOLDE talk)
  • Week 14-5-09 (Narong -Overview of photocathode material science exp., All -shorterm and longterm research plans)
  • Week 5-2-09 (Alessandro - RF Fields in 1/4 wave HIE-ISOLDE cavity, Matthew -Beam dynamics and higher order transit factors effects, Nawin -Reduced E and B surface field SC cavities, Vasim - pulse temperature heating and surface field in manifold CLIC cavity, Ian -GSM discussion of energy conservation)
  • Week 22-1-09 (Nawin -attends ALICE energy recover beam commissioning, Narong NEG results, Vasim -Discussion on manifold wakefield suppression, Ian - Discussion on Telegraphists eqns)
  • Week 15-1-09 (Nawin -Excellent survey and detailed simulations of reduced E and B surface field SC cavities, Ian - Modes in tapers)


  • All the above meetings are archived in Adobe "PDF" format unless otherwise indicated. The suffix "PPT" refers to Microsoft powerpoint. Mathematica notebooks may be read with the Mathreader or with a complete version of the software.
    Manchester-Cockcroft WAKEFIELD Meeting Index

    Roger Jones

    Last updated June-2009.

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