Professor Richard D’Arcy
Fellow & Tutor in Physics
Associate Professor of Particle Accelerator Physics
Education
MA (Durham), MSci PhD (University College London)
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.
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 was Group Leader for Beam-Driven Plasma Accelerators as well as Project Coordinator of the FLASHForward experiment for many 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.
Richard teaches Mathematical Methods for Physicists (CP3 and CP4) in the first year and Electromagnetism and Optics (A2) in the second year.
His research specialism is in Particle Accelerator Physics, specifically in the development of Novel Accelerator Technology for the miniaturisation and increased proliferation of particle accelerators. In recent years he has taken a leading role in the research of Plasma-Wakefield Accelerators, with a particular interest in answering the ‘luminosity question’ of plasma accelerators through high-repetition-rate and high-average-power operation.