Sam Tygier

Physics

I am a Post-doc Accelerator Physicist at University of Manchester.

I have worked on Accelerator Driven Reactors, Fixed-field Alternating-Gradient accelerators for medical and high energy physics, collimation for LHC and various other projects.

Publications

Performance of the Large Hadron Collider cleaning system during the squeeze: simulations and measurements

Racetrack FFAG muon decay ring for nuSTORM with triplet focusing

Medical therapy and imaging fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerator with realistic magnets

Normal-conducting scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator for proton therapy

The PyZgoubi framework and the simulation of dynamic aperture in fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerators

Outreach

Tactile Collider

International Nathiagali Summer College

Software

Inside and outside of work develop software. Mostly in C++ and Python.

Merlin++

Particle Accelerator simulation library. More info

PyZgoubi

Python interface to Zgoubi tracking code. More info

Lybniz

Graphic calculator More info

Other

I have made smaller contributions to many projects.

• Linux Kernel
• SciPy
• Matplotlib
• RPi-Distro/pi-gen
• LibreOffice
• mate-power-manager
• blueberry
• Doxygen
• Sympy
• RawTherapee
• texWordCount
• And more