HB2025 - the 71st ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams

AI techniques and strategies for Linac tuning at LNL

WECDC01

Oct 22, 2025, 5:00 PM

20m

room C (conference center)

Contributed Oral Presentation WGB:Beam Dynamics in Linacs WECDC WGB contribute oral

Speaker

Michele Comunian (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

Based on the operational experience on the superconducting heavy ion linac ALPI, we introduced Machine Learning techniques to improve the performances and speed up the tuning of the ion linac at LNL.
The technique proved to be particularly effective to overcome issues on the longitudinal matching.
The algorithm has been adapted to be compatible with high intensity linacs, in terms of transverse and longitudinal acceptance, available diagnostics and machine protection prescriptions.
After a detailed preparatory simulation work, the algorithm has been tested during the 2025 commissioning shift of the ESS linac.
In this paper the results obtained in the ALPI and ESS campaigns.