Dr Adriana Bungaua.bungau@hud.ac.uk | 01484 471826
Adriana joined the University of Huddersfield in 2008 as a Research Fellow working on target design and optimisation for two accelerator facilities, ISIS and ESS. She is currently working on Daedalus experiment and Isodar neutrino source in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Between 2005 and 2008 Adriana worked as a research associate at the University of Manchester in the field of Particle Accelerators, specifically on development of large software and hardware systems for various linear collider designs.
As a Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield Adriana worked on target design and optimisation for the ISIS Muon Facility in order to improve the surface muon production by optimising the target geometry and material and by finding the optimum energy of the proton driver. She has also been involved in the neutron target optimisation for the European Spallation Source and background and activation studies of the HEBT at the same facility.
Currently she is working on the design of a novel, high intensity source of electron neutrinos(Isodar) and on Daedalus project in collaboration with MIT.
Previous work at Manchester includes ollimator wakefields in the Beam Delivery System for the International Linear Collider. She also worked on the MERLIN code development by adding several classes for higher order modes wakefields which are now part of the MERLIN core. Adriana took part in an experiment at SLAC at End Station A, where they measured the wakefield kick for various types of collimators.
Bungau, A., Cywinski, R., Lord, J., King, P. and Bungau, C. (2013) ‘Simulations of Surface Muon Production in Graphite Targets’ Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams , 16 (1), p. 014701. ISSN 1098-4402
Bungau, A., Adelmann, A., Djurcic, Z., Kamyshkov, Y., Shaevitz, M., Shimizu, I., Smidt, T., Spitz, J., Wascko, M., Winslow, L., Yang, J., Alonso, J., Barletta, W., Barlow, R., Bartoszek, L., Calabretta, L., Calanna, A., Campo, D. and Conrad, J. (2012) ‘Proposal for an Electron Antineutrino Disappearance Search Using High-Rate 8Li Production and Decay’ Physical Review Letters , 109 (14), p. 141802. ISSN 0031-9007
Adelmann, A., Alonso, J., Djurcic, Z., Kamyshkov, Y., Owen, H., Shaevitz, M., Shimizu, I., Smidt, T., Spitz, J., Toups, M., Wascko, M., Winslow, L., Barletta, W., Yang, J., Barlow, R., Bartoszek, L., Bungau, A., Calabretta, L., Calanna, A., Campo, D. and Conrad, J. (2012) Cost-effective Design Options for IsoDAR No publisher (Unpublished)
Bungau, A., Cywinski, R., Lord, J., King, P. and Bungau, C. (2012) ‘GEANT4 Target Simulations for the ISIS Muon Facility’ Physics Procedia , 30, pp. 12-15. ISSN 1875-3892
Bungau, A., Barlow, R., Shaevitz, M., Conrad, J. and Spitz, J. (2012) ‘Target studies for the production of lithium8 for neutrino physics using a low energy cyclotron’. In: IPAC 12, 20-25 May 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Bungau, A., Barlow, R., Shaevitz, M., Conrad, J., Spitz, J. and Smidt, T. (2012) ‘Simulations of pion production in the Daedalus targets’. In: IPAC 12, 20th-25th May 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Barlow, R. and Bungau, A. (2011) ‘Simulation of high order short range wakefields for particle tracking codes’ Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment , 657 (1), pp. 38-44. ISSN 0168-9002
Bungau, A., Bungau, C., Cywinski, R., King, P. and Lord, J. (2011) ‘Target Optimisation Studies for MuSR Applications’. In: IPAC2011 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Particle Accelerator Conference. San Sebastian, Spain: IPAC'11/EPS-AG. pp. 1641-1643. ISBN 978-92-9083-366-6
Bungau, A., Cywinski, R., Barlow, R., Bungau, C., King, P. and Lord, J. (2011) ‘GEANT4 Modelling of Heat Deposition into the ISIS Muon Target’. In: PAC 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference Proceedings. New York, USA: PAC'11 OC / IEEE. pp. 814-816.
Bungau, C., Barlow, R., Bungau, A. and Cywinski, R. (2011) ‘GEANT4 Studies of the Thorium Fuel Cycle’. In: PAC 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference Proceedings. New York, USA: PAC'11 OC / IEEE. pp. 2178-2180.
Bungau, A., Cywinski, R., Bungau, C., King, P. and Lord, J. (2010) ‘GEANT4 Validation Studies at the ISIS Muon Facility’. In: IPAC'10 - Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference. Kyoto, Japan: IPAC 10 OC/ACFA. pp. 247-249. ISBN 9789290833529
Bungau, A., Cywinski, R., Bungau, C., King, P. and Lord, J. (2010) ‘Material Studies for the ISIS Muon Target ’. In: IPAC'10 - Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference. Kyoto, Japan: IPAC 10 OC/ACFA. pp. 253-255. ISBN 9789290833529
Bungau, A., Cywinski, R. and Bungau, C. (2010) ‘Target Optimisation Studies for the European Spallation Source ’. In: IPAC'10 - Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference. Kyoto, Japan: IPAC 10 OC/ACFA. pp. 256-258. ISBN 9789290833529
Bungau, A., Cywinski, R., Bungau, C., King, P. and Lord, J. (2010) ‘Impact of the Energy of the Proton Driver on Muon Production ’. In: IPAC'10 - Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference. Kyoto, Japan: IPAC 10 OC/ACFA. pp. 259-261. ISBN 9789290833529
Bungau, A., Cywinski, R., Bungau, C., King, P. and Lord, J. (2010) ‘Geometry Optimization of the ISIS Muon Target ’. In: IPAC'10 - Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference. Kyoto, Japan: IPAC 10 OC/ACFA. pp. 250-252. ISBN 9789290833529
Bungau, A., Barlow, R., Smith, S., Clausen, K., Shiroka, T., Dalmas de Reotier, P., Edgecock, R., King, P., Ford, J., Pratt, F. and Poole, M. (2009) ‘Exploring the feasibility of a stand alone muon facility for muSR research’. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Particle Accelerator Conference 4 – 8 May 2009 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada . Vancouver, Canada: PAC 09. pp. 1394-1396.
Bungau, A., Cywinski, R. and Lord, J. (2009) ‘Development and Optimisation of the Muon Target at the ISIS-RAL Muon Facility ’. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Particle Accelerator Conference 4 – 8 May 2009 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada . Vancouver, Canada: PAC 09. pp. 1397-1399.
Bungau, A. and Lord, J. (2009) ‘GEANT4 Simulations of the ISIS Muon Target at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ’. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Particle Accelerator Conference 4 – 8 May 2009 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada . Vancouver, Canada: PAC 09. pp. 1400-1402.
Bungau, C., Barlow, R., Bungau, A. and Cywinski, R. (2009) ‘Neutron Spallation Studies for an Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactor ’. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Particle Accelerator Conference. Vancouver, Canada: JACOW. pp. 1351-1353.
Cywinski, R., Bungau, A., Clausen, K., Shiroka, T., Poole, M., Smith, S., Dalmas de Reotier, P., Barlow, R., Edgecock, R., King, P., Lord, J. and Pratt, F. (2009) ‘Towards a dedicated high-intensity muon facility’ Physica B: Condensed Matter , 404 (5-7), pp. 1024-1027. ISSN 0921-4526
I am currently helping Prof Cywinski's PhD student Noemi Radcliffe with the Geant4 simulation code and target modelling for the BNCT experiment and I also provide help with the C++ programing language and the physics of charged particles interactions with matter.
Adriana works as a Physics Tutor at the University of Huddersfield. Between 2001 and 2003 she worked as a Maths Tutor and a Laboratory Demonstrator at the University of Manchester.
