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Insertion of STC into TRT at the Department of Physics, Oxford
Credit: CERN

Richard D'Arcy

Associate Professor of Particle Accelerator Physics

Research theme

  • Accelerator physics

Sub department

  • Particle Physics

Research groups

  • Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator Group
richard.darcy@physics.ox.ac.uk
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 618A
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Richard is an Associate Professor in Particle Accelerator Physics at the John Adams Institute. His research specialism is the development of novel particle-acceleration techniques, with a particular focus on plasma-wakefield accelerators. He is also a tutorial fellow of Worcester College.

Following undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Durham and University College London, respectively, he moved to Fermilab (USA) as a Research Associate and then DESY (Germany) as a Research Fellow. At DESY he subsequently became Group Leader for Beam-Driven Plasma Accelerators as well as Project Coordinator of the FLASHForward experiment, holding both positions for several years.

His current research focus is on answering the 'luminosity question' of how best to apply plasma accelerators to particle physics and photon science as well as applications in medicine and industry.

Richard welcomes applications from prospective doctoral students with interests in both novel and conventional accelerator research.

Research interests

Plasma accelerators
Novel accelerators
Conventional accelerators

Selected publications

Recovery time of a plasma-wakefield accelerator

Nature Springer Nature 603:7899 (2022) 58-62
R D’Arcy, James Chappell, J Beinortaite, S Diederichs, G Boyle, B Foster, Mj Garland, P Gonzalez Caminal, Ca Lindstrøm, G Loisch, S Schreiber, S Schröder, Rj Shalloo, M Thévenet, S Wesch, M Wing, J Osterhoff

A hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory based on plasma-wakefield and radio-frequency acceleration

New Journal of Physics IOP Publishing 25:9 (2023) 093037
B Foster, R D’Arcy, CA Lindstrøm

Tunable Plasma-Based Energy Dechirper.

Physical review letters 122:3 (2019) 034801
R D'Arcy, S Wesch, A Aschikhin, S Bohlen, C Behrens, MJ Garland, L Goldberg, P Gonzalez, A Knetsch, V Libov, A Martinez de la Ossa, M Meisel, TJ Mehrling, P Niknejadi, K Poder, J-H Röckemann, L Schaper, B Schmidt, S Schröder, C Palmer, J-P Schwinkendorf, B Sheeran, MJV Streeter, G Tauscher, V Wacker, J Osterhoff

FLASHForward: plasma wakefield accelerator science for high-average-power applications.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Royal Society 377:2151 (2019) Article:20180392
R D'Arcy, A Aschikhin, S Bohlen, G Boyle, T Brümmer, J Chappell, S Diederichs, Brian Foster, MJ Garland, L Goldberg, P Gonzalez, S Karstensen, A Knetsch, P Kuang, V Libov, K Ludwig, A Martinez De La Ossa, F Marutzky, M Meisel, TJ Mehrling, P Niknejadi, K Põder, P Pourmoussavi, M Quast, J-H Röckemann, L Schaper, B Schmidt, S Schröder, J-P Schwinkendorf, B Sheeran, G Tauscher, S Wesch, M Wing, P Winkler, M Zeng, J Osterhoff
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