Desmond Barber's Home Page


Dr. Desmond P. Barber, CPhys., FInstP.

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Accelerator Physics Division

Hamburg, Germany

Department of Physics, University of Liverpool

Liverpool, U.K.

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Mexico

Albuqueque, New Mexico, USA


(To contact me...)





The whole purpose of physics is to find numbers, with decimal points etc.! Otherwise you haven't done anything.

                                                                                                        Richard Feynman, physicist and Nobel Laureate.



UNM Newsroom




Announcement from the American Physical Society



HERA has been closed down




Doctor and Diploma Projects in Ultra-relativistic Spin Dynamics





The workshop: Polarised Antiproton Beams -- How?,
at the Cockcroft Institute, August 2007

The Proceedings

My talk, with tributes to Lewis Carrol and Bram Stoker:  Stern-Gerlach Forces and Spin Splitters



The workshop ''Polarized Antiprotons'' at Bad Honnef, June 2008




Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering,  3rd Edition,  2023

D.P.Barber and G.Ripken: Sections 2.6.6,  2.6.7  and  2.6.8
- - - - -on radiative electron spin polarization, computer algorithms and spin matching.

``Radiative Polarization, Computer Algorithms and Spin Matching in Electron Storage Rings''
       D. P. Barber and G. Ripken,  following the 1st Edition,  3rd Printing.



The Future Circular Collider (FCC) project of CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The FCC Week 2023

Workshop:   Optics Tuning and Corrections for Future Colliders.

Polarization and Centre-of-mass Energy Calibration at FCC-ee.

The FCC-ee EPOL Working Group.

The 2nd FCC Polarization Workshop, September 2022.




The Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) project of the IHEP, Beijing, China

CEPC Technical Design Report---Accelerator

A Monte-Carlo simulation of the equilibrium beam polarization in ultra-high energy electron (positron) storage rings.

Evaluation of radiative depolarization in the future Circular Electron-Positron Collider
(Phys.Rev.Accel.Beams September 2023).



The Electron-Ion-Collider (EIC) project of Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA


The Machine Advisory Committee September 2024




The Large Hadron-Electron Collider project (LHeC) of CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

First Report on the Physics and Design Concepts for Machine and Detector (2012).




eRHIC (the old Electron-Ion-Collider project)

The full Zeroth Order Design Report (2004).

and....

Section 2.4.6 on electron-positron polarization in the ring-ring option.






Lectures and talks.

My professional activities and interests

The HERA Luminosity Upgrade

The history of polarisation at DESY.

Future HERA options.

Papers on polarisation

ResearchGate.

INSPIRE.

The polarised proton study group at DESY

The polarised proton workshop 1999: talks and  proceedings

Radiative polarisation & spin rotators at HERA

Theses on our polarisation studies

Other polarisation projects, groups or teams

HERA status: currents, luminosity, polarisation

Utilities








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Last Update: February 2023.