Staff case study: Chris Rogers
08 Sep 2024 - Rosie de Laune
Instrument scientist on the muon beamlines, part of the team developing Super-MuSR. Rhea did her PhD in St Andrews focussing on magnetism and superconductivity. This is where she got her first taste of doing muon experiments, at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) investigating thin films using low energy muons.
Dr Chris Rogers gained his individual merit promotion in April 2024 for contributions to particle accelerator design, particularly in neutron and muon production.
Chris has an outstanding international reputation as an expert in design and development of particle accelerators. He has developed novel techniques for manipulating muon beams, and leads an international team aiming to deliver a muon collider, as well as develop techniques suitable for lower energy applications, such as the muSR instrument. His expertise has also been invaluable to ISIS in the development of proton beams for neutron and muon production. In particular, he has made a significant contribution to the exploration of fixed-field alternating gradient (FFA) accelerators as a candidate technology for the ISIS-II project.
His work has been critical to demonstrating the importance of muon beams for the future of High Energy Physics and establishing the UK in a leadership position for high-brightness muon beams.
Chris’s future work will provide a clear path through to the development of a high-brightness muon beam which has the potential to deliver dramatic advances in high energy physics, providing a possible upgrade path for colliders beyond the Large Hadron Collider that is complementary to the proposed e+e- colliders. Chris will also continue to support of the development of the ISIS-II accelerator complex.
