IPAC'26 - the 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference

Scientific Programme

MC1: Colliders and Related accelerators

MC1 covers accelerators (e.g., synchrotrons, linacs, ERLs) and storage rings providing colliding beams of hadrons or leptons for particle and nuclear physics, including the associated Machine Detector Interface (MDI) region. This comprises operating experience and performance limitations, upgrade plans, accelerator physics and technology issues specific to accelerators and the design and R&D for future projects.

Coordinators: Adriana Rossi (CERN) and Sasha Valishev (FNAL)

• MC1.A01: Hadron Colliders

  MC1.A01

• MC1.A02: Lepton Circular Colliders

  MC1.A02

• MC1.A03: Linear Lepton Colliders

  MC1.A03

• MC1.A04: Colliders: Circular Accelerators and Storage Rings

  MC1.A04

• MC1.A07: Colliders: Electrostatic Accelerators

  MC1.A07

• MC1.A08: Colliders: Linear Accelerators

  MC1.A08

• MC1.A09: Muon Accelerators, Neutrino Factories, Muon Colliders

  MC1.A09

• MC1.A10: Colliders: Damping Rings

  MC1.A10

• MC1.A11: Colliders: Beam Cooling

  MC1.A11

• MC1.A12: Colliders: Fixed Field Accelerators (FFAs)

  MC1.A12

• MC1.A16: Colliders: Advanced Concepts

  MC1.A16

• MC1.A17: Colliders: High Intensity Accelerators

  MC1.A17

• MC1.A18: Colliders: Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs)

  MC1.A18

• MC1.A19: Electron-Hadron Colliders

  MC1.A19

• MC1.A20: Colliders: Radioactive Ions

  MC1.A20

• MC1.A25: Beyond Colliders

  MC1.A25

• MC1.A26: Colliders: Machine Detector Interface

  MC1.A26

• MC1.A30: Colliders: Polarized beams

  MC1.A30

• MC1.T12: Colliders: Beam Injection/Extraction and Transport

  MC1.T12

• MC1.T19: Colliders: Collimation

  MC1.T19

MC2: Photon sources and electron accelerators

MC2 covers photon sources (synchrotron light sources, ERLs, FELs, laser systems, THz sources, Compton sources etc.) and electron accelerators (linear, circular, recirculating, UED/UEM, etc.). It includes beam interactions with insertion devices such as planar and helical field undulators or other novel undulators. Associated accelerator systems, such as injectors, booster synchrotrons, photon beam lines and photon beam line components can also be proposed for this classification.

Coordinators: Jordi Marcos (CELLS) and Yine Sun (ANL)

• MC2.A04: Photon sources: Circular Accelerators

  MC2.A04

• MC2.A05: Synchrotron Radiation Facilities

  MC2.A05

• MC2.A06: Free Electron Lasers (FELs)

  MC2.A06

• MC2.A07: Photon sources: Electrostatic Accelerators

  MC2.A07

• MC2.A08: Photon sources: Linear Accelerators

  MC2.A08

• MC2.A18: Photon sources: Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs)

  MC2.A18

• MC2.A23: Other Linac Based Photon Sources

  MC2.A23

• MC2.A24: Photon sources: Accelerators and Storage Rings, Other

  MC2.A24

• MC2.A25: THz sources

  MC2.A25

• MC2.A26: Photon sources: Compton sources

  MC2.A26

• MC2.A29: Ultrafast electron diffraction and ultrafast electron microscopy

  MC2.A29

• MC2.A30: Photon sources: Polarized beams

  MC2.A30

• MC2.T02: Photon sources: Electron Sources

  MC2.T02

• MC2.T12: Photon sources: Beam Injection/Extraction and Transport

  MC2.T12

• MC2.T15: Photon sources: Undulators and Wigglers

  MC2.T15

• MC2.T25: Photon sources: Lasers

  MC2.T25

• MC2.T26: Photon sources: Photon Beam Lines and Components

  MC2.T26

MC3: Advanced acceleration techniques and novel particle sources

• MC3.A09: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Muon Accelerators, Neutrino Factories, Muon Colliders

  MC3.A09

• MC3.A12: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Fixed Field Accelerators (FFAs)

  MC3.A12

• MC3.A15: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: New Acceleration Concepts and Techniques

  MC3.A15

• MC3.A16: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Advanced Concepts

  MC3.A16

• MC3.A17: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: High Intensity Accelerators

  MC3.A17

• MC3.A20: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Radioactive Ions

  MC3.A20

• MC3.A21: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Secondary Beams

  MC3.A21

• MC3.A22: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

  MC3.A22

• MC3.A26: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Compton sources

  MC3.A26

• MC3.A30: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Polarized beams

  MC3.A30

• MC3.T01: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Proton and Ion Sources

  MC3.T01

• MC3.T02: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Electron Sources

  MC3.T02

• MC3.T25: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Lasers

  MC3.T25

• MC3.T28: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Neutron Sources

  MC3.T28

• MC3.T39: Advanced techniques/Novel sources: Positron sources

  MC3.T39

MC4: Hadron accelerators

MC4 covers design, development, construction, commissioning, operation and upgrades of low, medium and high energy hadron accelerators, excluding hadron colliders. This includes ion sources, electrostatic accelerators, proton and ion linear accelerators, proton and ion synchrotrons, radioactive beams, non-collider nuclear physics facilities, antiproton accumulators and collectors, ion accumulators and storage rings, cyclotrons, synchrocyclotrons, FFAs and any other similar machines. Both low and high intensity machines are covered, as are all relevant aspects of high intensity fixed target accelerators such as proton or light ions drivers for neutron sources, neutrino factories, etc.

Coordinators: Ralf Gebel (GSI) and Liangting Sun (IMP)

• MC4.A04: Hadron accelerators: Circular Accelerators

  MC4.A04

• MC4.A07: Hadron accelerators: Electrostatic Accelerators

  MC4.A07

• MC4.A08: Hadron accelerators: Linear Accelerators

  MC4.A08

• MC4.A09: Hadron accelerators: Muon Accelerators, Neutrino Factories, Muon Colliders

  MC4.A09

• MC4.A11: Hadron accelerators: Beam Cooling

  MC4.A11

• MC4.A12: Hadron accelerators: Fixed Field Accelerators (FFAs)

  MC4.A12

• MC4.A13: Hadron accelerators: Cyclotrons

  MC4.A13

• MC4.A14: Neutron Spallation Facilities

  MC4.A14

• MC4.A16: Hadron accelerators: Advanced Concepts

  MC4.A16

• MC4.A17: Hadron accelerators: High Intensity Accelerators

  MC4.A17

• MC4.A20: Hadron accelerators: Radioactive Ions

  MC4.A20

• MC4.A21: Hadron accelerators: Secondary Beams

  MC4.A21

• MC4.A24: Hadron accelerators: Accelerators and Storage Rings, Other

  MC4.A24

• MC4.A30: Hadron accelerators: Polarized beams

  MC4.A30

• MC4.T01: Hadron accelerators: Proton and Ion Sources

  MC4.T01

• MC4.T12: Hadron accelerators: Beam Injection/Extraction and Transport

  MC4.T12

• MC4.T19: Hadron accelerators: Collimation

  MC4.T19

• MC4.T20: Hadron accelerators: Targetry and Dumps

  MC4.T20

• MC4.T28: Hadron accelerators: Neutron Sources

  MC4.T28

• MC4.T32: Ion Beam Stripping

  MC4.T32

MC5: Beam Dynamics and EM Fields

MC5 covers general aspects of electromagnetic interactions of charged particle beams in accelerators and storage rings. This includes linear and nonlinear beam optics, the development of codes for modeling externally applied or beam-generated electromagnetic fields, plus theory, observations and simulations of single/multi-particle dynamics and collective effects, both coherent and incoherent. The emphasis is on deepening the understanding of fundamental processes or limitations governing beam dynamics and uncovering possible new mechanisms relevant to accelerator design and performance, independent of technological or project specific aspects.

Coordinators: Mamad Eshraqui (ESS) and Seughwan Shin (PAL)

• MC5.D01: Beam Optics Lattices, Correction Schemes, Transport

  MC5.D01

• MC5.D02: Nonlinear Single Particle Dynamics Resonances, Tracking, Higher Order, Dynamic Aperture, Code Developments

  MC5.D02

• MC5.D03: Calculations of EM fields Theory and Code Developments

  MC5.D03

• MC5.D04: Beam Coupling Impedance Theory, Simulations, Measurements, Code Development

  MC5.D04

• MC5.D05: Coherent and Incoherent Instabilities Theory, Simulations, Code Development

  MC5.D05

• MC5.D06: Coherent and Incoherent Instabilities Measurements and Countermeasures

  MC5.D06

• MC5.D07: High Intensity Circular Machines Space Charge, Halos

  MC5.D07

• MC5.D08: High Intensity in Linear Accelerators Space Charge, Halos

  MC5.D08

• MC5.D09: Emittance manipulation, Bunch Compression and Cooling

  MC5.D09

• MC5.D10: Beam-Beam Effects Theory, Simulations, Measurements, Code Developments

  MC5.D10

• MC5.D11: Code Developments and Simulation Techniques

  MC5.D11

• MC5.D12: Electron Cloud and Trapped Ion Effects

  MC5.D12

• MC5.A30: Beam Dynamics: Polarized beams

  MC5.A30

MC6: Beam Instrumentation, operation Controls, Feedback and Operational Aspects

MC6 covers measurement and control of the beam properties in particle accelerators including beam diagnostics and instrumentation, beam feedback systems, low level rf controls, timing and synchronization schemes and laser-based instrumentation for all types of accelerators. Included also are contributions to accelerator control systems, online modeling, and applications control software, as well as operational aspects of modern accelerators such as alignment and surveying methods, machine protection systems, radiation protection and monitoring, issues pertaining to reliability, and operability and applicable Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Technology solutions.

Coordinators: Marie-Helene Moscatello (GANIL) and Toru Hara (RIKEN)

• MC6.D13: Instrumentation: Artificial Intelligence

  MC6.D13

• MC6.A28: Instrumentation: Medical Applications

  MC6.A28

• MC6.T03: Beam Diagnostics and Instrumentation

  MC6.T03

• MC6.T04: Accelerator/Storage Ring Control Systems

  MC6.T04

• MC6.T05: Beam Feedback Systems

  MC6.T05

• MC6.T17: Instrumentation: Alignment and Survey

  MC6.T17

• MC6.T18: Instrumentation: Radiation Monitoring and Safety

  MC6.T18

• MC6.T22: Reliability, Operability

  MC6.T22

• MC6.T23: Machine Protection

  MC6.T23

• MC6.T24: Instrumentation: Timing and Synchronization

  MC6.T24

• MC6.T25: Instrumentation: Lasers

  MC6.T25

• MC6.T26: Instrumentation: Photon Beam Lines and Components

  MC6.T26

• MC6.T27: Instrumentation: Low Level RF

  MC6.T27

• MC6.T33: Online Modelling and Software Tools

  MC6.T33

MC7: Accelerator technology and sustainability

MC7 covers design, construction, testing and performance of accelerator components and/or subsystems, with emphasis on both foundational technologies and emerging methods that drive advancements in the field. Contributions should reflect technological innovation in accelerator components and processes, including radio frequency cavities, power sources and systems, magnets, vacuum, cryogenics, power supplies, superconducting technologies, collimators, targets, dumps, timing systems, lasers, and other accelerator components and subsystems. Included are advanced state-of-the-art technologies and approaches for accelerator component manufacturing, enhancing energy efficiency, sustainable production, operation and recycling methods. Contributions with emphasis on achieving beam performance specific to an accelerator type or design should generally be classified accordingly/under alternative sections.

Coordinators: Adriana Wawrzyniak (SOLARIS) and Soeren Prestemon (LBNL)

• MC7.T06: Normal Conducting RF

  MC7.T06

• MC7.T07: Superconducting RF

  MC7.T07

• MC7.T08: RF Power Sources

  MC7.T08

• MC7.T09: Normal Conducting Magnets

  MC7.T09

• MC7.T10: Superconducting Magnets

  MC7.T10

• MC7.T11: Power Supplies

  MC7.T11

• MC7.T13: Cryogenics

  MC7.T13

• MC7.T14: Vacuum Technology

  MC7.T14

• MC7.T15: Technology: Undulators and Wigglers

  MC7.T15

• MC7.T16: Pulsed Technology (magnet and power supplies)

  MC7.T16

• MC7.T17: Technology: Alignment and Survey

  MC7.T17

• MC7.T19: Technology: Collimation

  MC7.T19

• MC7.T20: Technology: Targetry and Dumps

  MC7.T20

• MC7.T21: Infrastructures

  MC7.T21

• MC7.T24: Technology: Timing and Synchronization

  MC7.T24

• MC7.T25: Technology: Lasers

  MC7.T25

• MC7.T31: Subsystems, Technology and Components

  MC7.T31

• MC7.T34: Permanent Magnets

  MC7.T34

• MC7.T35: Advanced Manufacturing Technologies for Accelerator Components

  MC7.T35

• MC7.T36: Sustainability

  MC7.T36

• MC7.T37: Innovation Processes

  MC7.T37

• MC7.T38: Mechanical design

  MC7.T38

MC8: Applications of Accelerators, Engagement with Industry, Technology Transfer and Outreach

MC8 emphasizes the broad applications of accelerators across scientific, industrial and societal sectors, e.g. for detection, characterisation, testing, treatment, processing and modification. This MC also covers success stories and lessons learnt from engagement with industry, technology transfer, outreach and scientific communication activities.

Coordinators: John Thomason (STFC) and Prapong Klysubun (SLRI)

• MC8.A28: Applications: Industrial Accelerators

  MC8.A28

• MC8.U01: Health & Biology

  MC8.U01

• MC8.U02: Materials Analysis and Modification

  MC8.U02

• MC8.U03: Transmutation and Energy Production

  MC8.U03

• MC8.U04: Isotope Production

  MC8.U04

• MC8.U05: Security

  MC8.U05

• MC8.U06: Environment

  MC8.U06

• MC8.U07: Sustainability

  MC8.U07

• MC8.U08: Radiation Effects

  MC8.U08

• MC8.U09: Other Applications

  MC8.U09

• MC8.U10: Technology Transfer and Lab Industry

  MC8.U10

• MC8.U11: Outreach and Communications

  MC8.U11