NOTE: PLENARY SESSIONS ON MAY 23 AND 26 WILL BE IN THE BUILDING 50 AUDITORIUM Dear colleague, You are invited to participate in the Workshop on Accelerators for Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion to be held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory May 23-26, 2011. The purpose of the Workshop is to review the status of heavy ion fusion (HIF) research, and to identify the most promising areas of research. The workshop will bring together experts in these areas: · Fusion target physics · Ion sources and injectors · RF accelerators (including linacs, synchrotrons, storage rings, cyclotrons) · Induction accelerators · Superconducting magnets · Chamber and chamber - driver interface · Technology development (e.g.: insulators, high-voltage pulsed power, RF systems, vacuum systems, accelerator alignment and non-intercepting beam diagnostics) The workshop will begin with plenary sessions to review the state of the art in HIF, followed by parallel working groups, and conclude with a plenary session to review the results. This workshop would be in the spirit of the early Heavy Ion Fusion Workshops which included participants from many accelerator labs. We plan to produce a scientific report to document the results of the workshop. The content and timing of this workshop is significant for several reasons: There is renewed interest in the development of energy solutions that can provide carbon-free, base-load electricity. The U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Engineering are sponsoring a review of the prospects for inertial confinement fusion energy systems. This will include various driver systems, including heavy-ion accelerators. Presentations commenced early in 2011. http://sites.nationalacademies.org/BPA/BPA_058425 The National Ignition Facility has commenced its campaign of ignition experiments. These are likely to stimulate interest in inertial fusion energy systems. https://lasers.llnl.gov/ We are pleased with the timing of the release of the report from the symposium “Accelerators for America’s Future.” It convincingly shows the potential of particle accelerators in many fields. The section on Accelerators and the Environment includes heavy ion inertial fusion. The report is available at http://www.acceleratorsamerica.org/ . |