Ian Bailey
irbailey.bsky.social
Ian Bailey
@irbailey.bsky.social
Accelerator physicist at Lancaster University and the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology working on Free Electron Lasers, axion dark matter searches and precision measurements of the muon.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8020-3662
Unexpected evidence that dark matter is light, but also pink and tastes of rhubarb.
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Venus guiding me home last night.
February 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Spring has suddenly arrived in Lancaster.
February 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Not a simulation of large scale structure in the early Universe, but the moon from the Fairfield orchard in Lancaster.
December 12, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Physicists at dawn... Walking to DESY to talk about x-ray free electron lasers.
December 5, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Travelling from to a UK XFEL / EU XFEL meeting at DESY, Hamburg. Waking up to windmills as the ferry from Newcastle approaches Amsterdam.
December 4, 2024 at 7:51 AM
End of the week whiteboard palimpsest.
November 29, 2024 at 6:19 PM
The Lancaster canal on the ride to Lancaster University this morning.
November 28, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Thinking of my QSHS QSHS.org colleagues at Sheffield who are commissioning the collaboration's axion haloscope. #physics
November 26, 2024 at 10:06 AM
At Daresbury Lab today to give some lectures on particle beam dynamics to the Cockcroft graduate students. After years of doing this I'm finally starting to feel qualified, which probably means I'll get asked a lot of questions that I can't answer...
November 25, 2024 at 8:11 AM
At Daresbury Laboratory today to hear the status of the Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications  (CLARA) facility under construction here - www.fels-of-europe.eu/fel_faciliti...
November 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM