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Longwei Lai (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute)08/09/2025, 16:00MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing PlatformsPoster Presentation
SHINE has developed different signal processors for beam diagnostics, including processors for cold button beam position monitor (BPM), stripline BPM, chicane BPM, cavity BPM, cavity bunch arrival-time monitor (BAM), electro-optic BAM, CSR bunch length monitor (BLM), beam charge loss monitoring, and fast orbit feed-back system (FOFB). The processors employ a common SoC-FPGA-based digital...
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Tonia Batten (Canadian Light Source (Canada))08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
The Canadian Light Source (CLS) linear accelerator (linac) serves as the injector for the 2.9 GeV synchrotron. The original linac, which was installed in the 1960's, was replaced in 2024. The new 3000.24 MHz linac was designed and built by RI Research Instruments GmbH. The linac makes use of a 90 kV thermionic source, three 5m long accelerating S-band structures and a SLED pulse compressor...
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Weixing Cheng (Argonne National Laboratory)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
A fiber-optic (FO) beam loss montior (BLM) system, installed along the booster to storage ring (BTS) trasnport line has been useful in identifying loss locations employing time-of-flight (TOF) analysis. The BTS BLM TOF system is comprised of a pair of rad-hard, fused-silica FO cables running along either side of the BTS line at beam elevation. In the initial configuration, we measured losses...
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Klaudiusz Dudek (SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
SOLARIS storage ring has been equipped with a set of twelve Beam Loss Detectors, controlled by Libera Beam Loss Monitors. This system enhances the ability to monitor and analyze beam losses and operational efficiency. Detectors were strategically placed around storage ring and transfer line, providing ability to optimize injection losses and enable precise localization of beam loss events....
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208. Bunch-by-bunch beam current and lifetime measurement with interleaved sampling at HLS (MOPMO01)08/09/2025, 16:00MC01: Beam Charge and Current MonitorsPoster Presentation
To achieve high-precision, bunch-by-bunch beam cur-rent and lifetime measurements at the Hefei Light Source (HLS), we developed a beam diagnostics system based on interleaved sampling technology, achieving an equivalent sampling rate of 6.5 GHz. In single-bunch mode, amplitude extraction via cross-correlation with a single response function yieds a turn-by-turn current relative resolution of...
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Elena Donegani (European Spallation Source)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
For the ESS linac commissioning, twelve extremely compact beam destinations were designed in place of bulky and expensive beam dumps, in order to dump [0.075, 250] MeV protons. The beam destinations were either Faraday Cups (FC) for the NCL commissioning or Insertable Beam Stops (IBS) for the SCL commissioning. Both FC and IBS are beam-intercepting devices, operated under vacuum, water cooled...
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Alessandro Frasca (European Organization for Nuclear Research, University of Liverpool)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
The Future Circular $ \mathrm{e}^+ \mathrm{e}^- $ Collider (FCC-ee) at CERN will provide collisions at four interaction points along a 91 km long ring, with beam energies ranging from 45.6 GeV (Z pole) to 182.5 GeV ($\text{t}\bar{\text{t}}$ threshold). The radiation environment along the accelerator varies significantly, with different dominant sources depending on location and operational...
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Longwei Lai (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute)08/09/2025, 16:00MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing PlatformsPoster Presentation
Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) and Shanghai Soft X-ray FEL(SXFEL) are open to user, and the Shanghai High Repetition Rate X-ray FEL and Extreme Light Facility (SHINE) is under construction. These accelerator facilities require diverse beam diagnostics electronics to ensure their high-performance and stable operation. After more than a decade of development, the SSRF has...
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Bharat Rawat (University of Liverpool, Cockcroft Institute)08/09/2025, 16:00MC01: Beam Charge and Current MonitorsPoster Presentation
Retarding Potential Energy Analysers (RPEAs) are widely used diagnostic instruments for measuring energy distribution of charged particle beams. In this work we will discuss the conceptual design studies of a novel RPEA for low-energy antimatter beams (antiprotons/positrons). Simulation tools such as CST studio and G4Beamline were used for studying the prototype RPEA and to optimize its...
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Ewald Effinger (European Organization for Nuclear Research)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
CERN’s Beam Instrumentation Group is developing a mini-crate to host the future Beam Loss Monitor (BLM) and Beam Positioning Monitor (BPM) systems acquisition electronics at HL-LHC and SPS accelerators. For this purpose, a new power supply has been designed to meet the low noise requirements, high reliability, and availability standards for these harsh radioactive environments. This design...
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Sushanta Sapkota (University of Portsmouth)08/09/2025, 16:00MC01: Beam Charge and Current MonitorsPoster Presentation
The proposed FETS-FFA would exhibit high-intensity operation of a Fixed-Field Alternating Gradient (FFA) accelerator, as a demonstrator for a spallation neutron source driver. Faraday cups are planned to be installed in the injection straight to investigate injection efficiency and infer beam-position during early commissioning stages; and in the extraction line to inspect extraction...
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Carmelo Manna (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)08/09/2025, 16:00MC01: Beam Charge and Current MonitorsPoster Presentation
In this work, the development of a non-invasive DC Current Monitor device (DCCM), based on Tunnelling MagnetoResistive (TMR) sensors, is presented. The device is primarily intended for measuring the current intensity of an ion beam without the need of intercepting it (therefore not altering its characteristics), making it suitable for online current monitoring. Details are given about the...
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Patricia Nallin (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory)08/09/2025, 16:00MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing PlatformsPoster Presentation
Sirius beamlines require specialized electronic devices to monitor key parameters of the photon beam, such as position and flux, through the detection of extremely low-level electrical currents. Furthermore, experiments conducted in fly-scan mode usually demand fast, high-precision low-level current measurements. To address these requirements, the development of a wide dynamic range ammeter...
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Evan Kiely (University of Warwick, Central Laser Facility)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
The Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC) being built at the Central Laser Facility in the UK will utilise a 10Hz Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA) to produce a tuneable x-ray source, with energies ranging from 3keV up to 10’s of MeV while maintaining a micron-scale source size and ultra-short pulse duration. Combination of such characteristics opens an opportunity for cutting-edge...
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Jangwon Kwon (Institute for Basic Science)08/09/2025, 16:00MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing PlatformsPoster Presentation
RAON is a heavy-ion accelerator supporting a wide range of beam energies and charge states. An integrated operational environment has been developed to enable centralized control and monitoring of accelerator systems. Machine states are defined through a structured framework combining source, machine, and beam modes, providing clear visibility of system readiness via an EPICS-based...
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Bokkyun Shin (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
The beam loss monitor (BLM) is a diagnostic system designed to protect accelerator components from unexpected high-energy radiation. We have developed a cost-effective BLM system for the next-generation synchrotron light source, Korea-4GSR.
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The system uses plastic scintillators, optical fibers, and a CMOS camera to localize beam losses with 10 ms time resolution. Scintillators placed along... -
Emi Yamakawa (Science and Technology Facilities Council)08/09/2025, 16:00MC01: Beam Charge and Current MonitorsPoster Presentation
DDesign studies of the FETS-FFA demonstration ring have been conducted as part of the ISIS-II proposal for a new high-power spallation neutron source. Beam stacking has been proposed to overcome space-charge limits in an FFA, and the feasibility of this will be evaluated in the FETS-FFA test ring by stacking up to four pulses at 50 Hz. To monitor the long-pulsed current of the coasting stacked...
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Emi Yamakawa (Science and Technology Facilities Council)08/09/2025, 16:00MC01: Beam Charge and Current MonitorsPoster Presentation
Conceptual design studies of the FETS-FFA demonstration ring have been actively performed to confirm the reliability of a Fixed Field Alternating gradient (FFA) accelerator for a future high-power spallation neutron source, called ISIS-II. A wall Current Monitor (WCM) is a choice of non-destructive intensity monitor to evaluate the circulating proton beams from 3 MeV (about 1MHz in revolution...
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Cigdem Ozkan Loch (Paul Scherrer Institute)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
In January 2025, beam was first stored in the SLS 2.0, and by April 2025, the milestone of a 400 mA beam was reached. A variety of diagnostics were utilized to reach these milestones; for example, charge, current and loss monitors for minimizing losses and optimizing transmission and injection efficiency, polarized visible light for vertical beam size measurement, and more. This paper will...
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Alex Fomin (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
The PERLE (Powerful Energy Recovery Linac for Experiments) project is a high current and high charge testbed for the technologies required to realise future ERLs. A 20 mA electron beam with a bunch charge of 500 pC will be accelerated to 7 MeV by the booster and injected into the ERL. To deliver the beam to the ERL loop, a three-dipole merger with variable momentum compaction has been...
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Nikolai Yampolsky (Los Alamos National Laboratory)08/09/2025, 16:00MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing PlatformsPoster Presentation
Accelerators are complex systems composed of tens of thousands of individual components requiring continuous maintenance. Aging facilities such as LANSCE face an increased rate of equipment failures, resulting in costly unscheduled shutdowns for maintenance. Early identification and localization of problems along the accelerator can mitigate future failures during scheduled maintenance periods...
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Jinyuan Wu (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
In Fermilab's PIP-II machine protection system, beam loss signals from various detectors are digitized at 125 MS/s. Noise from both high-frequency sources and low-frequency 60 Hz AC power equipment can contaminate the data. To suppress noise across these ranges—especially 60 Hz and its harmonics, which overlap with beam loss signal frequencies—advanced digital processing beyond standard...
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Elena Donegani (European Spallation Source)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
Radiation transport simulations allow the design and operation of entire facilities such as the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden.
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This paper summarizes three of the first applications of Attila4MC simulations to the high-power proton accelerator of ESS and its beam instrumentation. Entire linac sections and beam-interceptive instrumentation were modelled by implementing... -
Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institute)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
Accelerator facilities generate diverse documentation, from technical reports to structured wikis and semi-structured logbooks, which complicates efficient knowledge access. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) offers a path toward intelligent operator assistants, no single method is universally optimal. We present three use cases from PSI: for technical documentation, naive dense...
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Yunzhi Xiao (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
The Hefei Light Source is a synchrotron radiation facility operating in the vacuum ultraviolet and soft X-ray regions. If the evolution of beam parameters and beam loss during the injection transient process can be observed synchronously, analyzing their correlation can provide more quantitative guidance for further optimizing the injection process. To achieve this goal, a monitoring system...
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Michael Bree (Canadian Light Source (Canada))08/09/2025, 16:00MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing PlatformsPoster Presentation
The Canadian Light Source is a third generation synchrotron which supports 22 operational beamlines. A project to replace all beam diagnostic analog cameras with CCD cameras was initiated in 2020. Over time this project has been expanded to include beam analysis capabilities. We present an EPICS-based imaging system that uses inexpensive CCD cameras. The system computes beam parameters...
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Matteo Volpi (The University of Melbourne)08/09/2025, 16:00MC01: Beam Charge and Current MonitorsPoster Presentation
Two CLIC TD24 accelerating structures, manufactured by CERN, are undergoing high-power testing on the 12 GHz RF test stand, MelBOX, at the x-Band Laboratory for Accelerators and Beams (XLAB). Installed in late 2024, these are the first devices tested at the facility. The goal is to condition the structures for stable operation at gradients of 100 MV/m.
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Weixing Cheng (Argonne National Laboratory)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) storage-ring (SR) is equipped with five horizontal collimators used to intercept 6-GeV electrons during fast whole-beam aborts and protect the rest of the SR. The collimators are located in sectors 37, 38, 39, 40, and 1. A fan-out kicker (FOK) system has been installed to reduce damage to the collimators during whole-beam loss events. Since APS-U...
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Sergei Seletskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratory)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
The Low Energy RHIC Electron Cooler (LEReC), the world’s first electron cooler utilizing an RF electron accelerator, was designed to operate with 1.6-2.6 MeV electron beams of up to 140 kW beam power. The LEReC successfully worked through RHIC Runs 2019-2021, substantially increasing RHIC luminosity, and has been routinely used for various studies since then. A dedicated, highly configurable...
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Pascal Huber (Paul Scherrer Institute)08/09/2025, 16:00MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing PlatformsPoster Presentation
Beam intensity measurement of high intensity proton accelerator at PSI mainly consists of several passive cavity type monitors and corresponding electronics. New VME based electronics are running in parallel for final online testing with the old CAMAC ones, which will be replaced soon.
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The new pre-amplifier of the VME system is suffering significant temperature-dependent drift, leading to an... -
Porntip Sudmuang (Synchrotron Light Research Institute)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
Siam Photon Source II (SPS-II) is a 4th-generation synchrotron light source to be constructed in Thailand, envisioned as a major synchrotron facility for Southeast Asia. It is designed with a 3 GeV low-emittance electron storage ring based on a Double Triple Bend Achromat (DTBA) lattice, with a circumference of 327.6 meters and a natural emittance of 0.97 nm·rad. The design and machine...
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Andrew Jones (University of Liverpool)08/09/2025, 16:00MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing PlatformsPoster Presentation
With nuclear reactor technology rapidly advancing and the plan to raise the nuclear energy production by a factor of 4, the need for advanced detectors, geometries and shields has become apparent. The precise and reliable measurement of the neutron flux is not only relevant for the safe operation of nuclear reactors, but also for future reactor experiments essential for progressing the...
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Ewald Effinger (European Organization for Nuclear Research)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
Several systems protect the superconducting magnets of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which operate at -271.3C. The Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system is critical for detecting lost particles around the machine and reacting on their quantity and associated energy. It protects the machine from quenching and irreversible damage. To measure these losses, various detectors are used, primarily...
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Matteo Volpi (The University of Melbourne)08/09/2025, 16:00MC08: Machine Parameter MeasurementsPoster Presentation
The X-band Laboratory for Accelerators and Beams (X-LAB) at the University of Melbourne enables high-power testing of X-band accelerator technologies, including components for CERN’s Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). At its core is Mel-BOX, a high-gradient test stand rebuilt from CERN’s XBOX3. Two TD24 structures, previously conditioned at CERN, have been successfully re-tested, along with RF...
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Samuel Kronenberg (University of Bonn)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
To support both routine operation and accelerator research at ELSA, a dual-mode dispenser-cathode based electron gun capable of thermionic emission and thermally assisted photoemission (TAPE) is being developed. A dedicated gun test stand is being designed to measure beam properties and quality, as well as quantum efficiency in the TAPE mode under operational conditions. Instrumentation will...
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Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdillah (Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie)08/09/2025, 16:00MC01: Beam Charge and Current MonitorsPoster Presentation
Faraday Cups have been used as diagnostic tools to measure the charged particle beam current directly. Up to now, different designs have been introduced for this purpose. In this work, a new design of Faraday Cup has been performed for the gun of PERLE, a Powerful Energy Recovery Linac to be installed at IJClab Orsay. FC's dimensions and desirable material have been considered based on PERLE...
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Ewald Effinger (European Organization for Nuclear Research)08/09/2025, 16:00MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine ProtectionPoster Presentation
CERN’s Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system is essential for the protection of machine elements against energy deposition due to beam losses. The protection function relies on approximately 5000 ionisation chamber type detectors installed along all of CERN's accelerators. Some of the areas where the detectors are installed have a high background dose (above 2mSv/h). Installation and maintenance...
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Eleonora Diociaiuti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
The Beam Test Facility (BTF) at the National Laboratories of Frascati provides highly configurable positron/electron beams for different type of experiments. Extracted from the DAΦNE LINAC, the beam delivers up to 49 bunches/s, with 1 to $10^{10}$ particles/bunch. Secondary beams span 25-780 MeV (electrons) and up to 550 MeV (positrons). BTF includes two experimental halls: BTFEH1, suited for...
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Volker Schlott (Paul Scherrer Institute)08/09/2025, 16:00MC09: Overview and CommissioningPoster Presentation
Due to the limited transverse acceptance of 4th generation light sources, the characterization and control of the incoming beam from the booster to the storage ring is an important asset to achieve highly efficient and reproducible injection. For the upgraded SLS 2.0 storage ring, a new booster-to-ring transfer line (BRTL) has been designed, which includes a non-dispersive section for beam...
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Longwei Lai (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute)08/09/2025, 16:00MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing PlatformsPoster Presentation
The Shanghai Soft X-ray Free Electron Laser (SXFEL) is scheduled for a digital and intelligent upgrade over the next two years, aiming to achieve fully autonomous operation. This upgrade requires timestamping the BPM measurement results in the beam diagnostics system to enable synchronous acquisition of all measurement data at SXFEL. A new prototype of the digital BPM signal processor (DBPM)...
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Rupeshkumar Ghagi (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, University of Liverpool)08/09/2025, 16:00MC01: Beam Charge and Current MonitorsPoster Presentation
We investigate two well known ultraviolet–visible (UV–VIS) photon emission processes from highly charged uranium ions with energies of 300- 700 MeV/u. By combining theoretical models with estimates from the literature, we evaluate fluorescence yields from air and transition radiation from surfaces. Experimental studies with slow-extracted (U^{73+}) beam at the high-energy beam transport line...
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Rudolf ROSCH (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives)08/09/2025, 16:00MC08: Machine Parameter MeasurementsPoster Presentation
The ELSA facility located at CEA DAM DIF consists of a 30 MeV, 15 ps rms, 1 nC compact linac. X-rays are produced either in the MeV energy range through interaction between the electron beam and a solid Ta conversion target (Bremsstrahlung radiation) or in the 10-80 keV energy domain through interactions between electrons with a Nd:YAG laser (inverse Compton Scattering radiation). ELSA is...
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