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MOPCO

MOPCO
8 Sept 2025, 16:00
Courtyard, Liverpool Guild of Students

Courtyard, Liverpool Guild of Students

Liverpool Guild of Students, University of Liverpool

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Frank Stulle (Bergoz Instrumentation (France))
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC01: Beam Charge and Current Monitors
Poster Presentation

Non-destructive beam current measurements are a crucial aspect of beam instrumentation in any particle accelerator. Often, these measurements must be capable of distinguishing individual beam pulses. In an increasing number of accelerators, pulse repetition rates reach the GHz range. Consequently, beam current measurement bandwidth must exceed a few GHz. To meet this requirement, a wall...

Nathan Rider (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC09: Overview and Commissioning
Poster Presentation

The Continuous Electron Beam Facility (CEBAF) has been in operation since 1994. The accelerator has seen several upgrades to RF and cryogenic systems and capabilities. However, the diagnostics used for beam delivery have remained largely unchanged. With several challenging experiments on the way and obsolescence issues with existing hardware, the time has come to explore a significant...

Renjun Yang (Institute of High Energy Physics)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC09: Overview and Commissioning
Poster Presentation

The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is a major facility for neutron science in China, and is currently operating at an averaged beam power of 170 kW with a beam energy of 1.6 GeV and repetation rate of 25 Hz. In 2024, the CSNS Upgrade project (CSNS-II) was launched with a goal beam power of 500 kW. We will present an overview of the new diagnostics and the corresponding challenges. We...

Tobias Habermann (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC08: Machine Parameter Measurements
Poster Presentation

An exploration into the application of machine learning (ML) approaches to identify pile-ups and correct them in single particle counters at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in presented.
About 100000 particle pulse data from various spills were manually labelled and a convolutional neural network (CNN) was developed to accurately count the number of particles without...

Christophe Jamet (Grand Accélérateur Nat. d'Ions Lourds, GANIL)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC09: Overview and Commissioning
Poster Presentation

The aim of the NEWGAIN Project (NEW GAnil INjector), is to build a second injector on the SPIRAL2 accelerator to produce and accelerate heavier beams with A/q up to 7. The NEWGAIN injector is based on 2 ECR ion sources, two LEBT, one RFQ and a MEBT lines to send new ion beams in the linac and the S3 experimental room.
Diagnostic monitors are planned to measure and control beam intensities,...

Paolo Nenzi (Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energie e l'Ambiente)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC09: Overview and Commissioning
Poster Presentation

TOP-IMPLART is a pulsed RF proton linear accelerator in operation at the ENEA Frascati Research Center originally built as a technological demonstrator for a full-linear solution to protontherapy, it is currently evolving towards a facility available for research and industrial users in different fields, ranging from biomedical to aerospace applications. It consists of a commercial AccSys PL7...

Thomas Pacey (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC09: Overview and Commissioning
Poster Presentation

The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) is STFC Daresbury Laboratory’s flagship accelerator facility. We present the latest data from the commissioning of the CLARA facility at Daresbury Laboratory. This will include initial beam measurements and diagnostic performance for the 250 MeV high brightness, highly compressed electron bunches. An overview of the...

Weiling Huang (Institute of High Energy Physics)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine Protection
Poster Presentation

The CSNS-II linear accelerator upgrade will adopt superconducting accelerator structures, with the beamline enclosed in low-temperature modules. Detection of beam loss can only be done on the outer surface of the low-temperature modules. The CSNS-II accelerator plans to use a parallel plate multi-electrode ionization chamber as the beam loss monitor (BLM) probe for the superconducting section....

ZhiXue Li (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

Real-time precision monitoring of beam profiles and emittance parameters in the High-Intensity Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) presents critical challenges for analyzing collective beam effects and optimizing operations. During acceleration phases requiring sub-microsecond temporal resolution (0.1-2.048 MHz cyclotron frequency), we developed a heterogeneous computing-based diagnostic...

Ruixia Tian (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

The beam diagnostic system of HIAF includes many subsystems, and the self-developed and researched electronic hardware adopts a highly integrated software and hardware architecture.To meet the requirements of beam debugging and measurement as well as user testing and experiments, the author of this paper developed a beam diagnostic embedded system based on EPICS and LACCS.This system fully...

Daliya Aflyatunova (University of Liverpool, Cockcroft Institute)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC08: Machine Parameter Measurements
Poster Presentation

This paper presents the design and simulation of miniaturized permanent magnet configurations for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) applications where compactness and field quality are critical. Traditional NMR systems require large and costly equipment to achieve high magnetic field uniformity, which limits portability and broader diagnostic use. We investigate compact magnet geometries,...

R. Turner White (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

As a part of the Proton Improvement Plan – II (PIP-II) at Fermilab, instrumentation systems are being modernized to take advantage of the higher speeds and ease of use offered by standardized embedded systems like MicroTCA. A rear-transition module (RTM) is being designed to interface with said embedded systems. In each of the four identical channels on the RTM, the differential signal from an...

David Gassner (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC09: Overview and Commissioning
Poster Presentation

The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is being built at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The early system design phase efforts are underway. In addition to upgrading the existing RHIC instrumentation for the EIC hadron storage ring, new electron accelerator subsystems will include a 750 MeV Linac, accumulator ring, rapid-cycling synchrotron, electron storage ring, and a hadron cooling facility....

Si-Won Jang (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

New BPM electronics have been developed for installation in the storage ring of the 4th Generation Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Ochang, South Korea. Based on the first prototype, two different platforms were utilized for the development of the second prototype. The first version employs an RFSoC-based design, which acquires broadband signals up to 2 GHz using a high-performance 2.5 GS/s...

Shengli Liu (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

PIP-II (Proton Improvement Plan-II) is a critical upgrade to the Fermilab accelerator complex. The 800 MeV superconducting linear accelerator will utilize 126 beam position monitors (BPMs) across the Warm Front End (WFE), superconducting linac (SC LINAC), and Beam Transfer Line (BTL). These BPMs provide beam position, phase, timing, and intensity data, meeting stringent physics requirements:...

Eunhun Im (Institute for Basic Science)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

The Rare-isotope Accelerator complex for ON-line experiment (RAON) is a heavy ion accelerator with maximum beam power of 400 kW. To facilitate efficient information sharing among multiple users, we have developed an integrated system to monitor and analyze beam operations at the RAON accelerator. This system enables real-time tracking of beam transmission paths by analyzing the status of beam...

Angus Jones (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine Protection
Poster Presentation

Energy recovery LINACs (ERLs) are a type of novel accelerator, which recycle energy from old beams to new beams to increase machine energy efficiency. However, this can heighten beam instabilities, which limits the maximum beam current and increases beam losses. An optical fibre beam loss monitor (OBLM) can provide rapid and reliable beam loss monitoring, which is important for mitigating...

KIRILL FEDOROV (Central Laser Facility)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC09: Overview and Commissioning
Poster Presentation

The Extreme Photonics Applications Centre (EPAC) is a next-generation high-power laser facility designed to deliver stable, high-repetition-rate (10 Hz) LWFA electron beamline with high quality parameters (∼1nC, ∼1 GeV, <5% energy spread). As a crucial preparatory step, one of the 10 TW laser system (Gemini) at the Central Laser Facility is being repurposed as a prototype beamline to de-risk...

Dima El Khechen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC09: Overview and Commissioning
Poster Presentation

cSTART is a future storage ring currently under development at KIT with the purpose to investigate various non-equilibrium beam conditions and the injection and storage of LPA (Laser Plasma Accelerator) like beams. To understand and control the non-equilibrium beam dynamics at cSTART, various beam diagnostics with demanding specifications are required. The KARA booster has been used as an...

Pedro Baeta Neves Diniz Santos (Paul Scherrer Institute)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

After a dark time of 15 months, the new diffraction limited storage ring SLS 2.0 had first beam in January 2025. In April 2025, the nominal beam current of 400 mA was reached. In this contribution, we present the status and first beam commissioning experience with the RF System-on-Chip (RFSoC) based signal processing systems of the new SLS 2.0 ring. RFSoCs integrate several fast...

Ying Zhao (Institute of High Energy Physics)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC01: Beam Charge and Current Monitors
Poster Presentation

HEPS beam charge measurement includes bunch charge measurement system and average current meas-urement system. The injection scheme of HEPS requires charge monitor with high precision, stability, and a large dynamic range at each phase. This paper introduces the design and commissioning status of HEPS charge meas-urement system Signal reconstruction method applied in bunch charge measurement...

Enrico Nichelatti (ENEA Casaccia Research Centre)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC08: Machine Parameter Measurements
Poster Presentation

Optically active point defects, known as color centers (CCs), are created in the crystal lattice of lithium fluoride (LiF) by irradiation with various types of ionizing radiation. Some of these CCs emit light in the red and green regions of the visible spectrum when optically excited with blue light. When a proton beam irradiates a LiF crystal, a volume distribution of CCs is formed, with...

Tong Liu (Institute of Modern Physics)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC01: Beam Charge and Current Monitors
Poster Presentation

The slow extraction experimental users are urgent and imperative for the quasi-consecutive and uniform beam during the spill, generally several seconds. The online monitoring of the beam spot and intensity are also demanded. Recently, a set of slow extraction instruments were upgraded at the HIRFL-CSRm not only for the online monitoring, but also the improvement of the spill quality and the...

Weiling Huang (Institute of High Energy Physics)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC01: Beam Charge and Current Monitors
Poster Presentation

China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) upgrade project (CSNS-II) started in 2024. As the first important task, the injection section will be redesigned and a lot of beam instruments will be installed along the injection to I-Dump beam line. The H0 beam intensity at the downstream of the stripping foil is several microampere during the normal operation, while the proton beam intensity at the...

Dion Tzamarias (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine Protection
Poster Presentation

One of the principal roles of CERN’s Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system pertains to the protection of LHC’s superconducting magnets against quench-inducing beam losses. Thus, the continuous surveillance of the BLM system’s performance is essential for the high reliability and availability of the LHC. This paper focuses on the architecture of a novel data pipeline with implementations on...

Corey Lehmann (Diamond Light Source, John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine Protection
Poster Presentation

The slow losses measured by Beam Loss Monitors (BLMs) at synchrotron light source facilities offer useful but indirect insight into the state of the beam. Patterns arise across the set of BLMs depending on the movement of insertion devices, beam current, temperature, humidity, and other contributors. A variety of neural network models were designed and evaluated to model this behaviour under...

Montague King (European Organization for Nuclear Research, University of Liverpool)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine Protection
Poster Presentation

An optical beam loss monitor (oBLM) has recently been installed at the slow extraction region of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN. The oBLM offers a new method for detecting beam losses at the SPS by utilizing the Cherenkov radiation emitted during beam loss interactions with an optical fibre. This setup should allow to measure losses continuously over a large section of the...

Saransh Malhotra (University of Liverpool, Cockcroft Institute)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

Precise characterisation of photocathode mean transverse energy is critical for optimising electron beam quality. This paper presents a physics-informed image processing pipeline using Transverse Energy Spread Spectrometer data (231–291 nm), incorporating Gaussian PSF fitting, Wiener deconvolution, resolution equalisation, and noise-aware augmentation. A high-fidelity dataset of 6500 synthetic...

can Liu (University of Science and Technology of China)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC08: Machine Parameter Measurements
Poster Presentation

This study developed and validated a machine learning approach to analyze the correlation between beam position monitor (BPM) measurement data and output laser power in the Hefei Infrared Free-Electron Laser (FEL) facility. Using transverse position, charge, and longitudinal phase information from 280 individual bunches collected by BPM probes upstream of the undulator, we successfully...

Sruthy Chandran (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC01: Beam Charge and Current Monitors
Poster Presentation

For high-precision experiments involving low-energy antiprotons, non-invasive beam charge measurements with high accuracy are crucial. This paper presents a simulation study investigating the feasibility of a cavity-based beam current monitor (BCM) for low-energy antiprotons. Conventional invasive methods, such as Faraday Cups and MCPs, suffer from charge loss, limiting measurement accuracy. ...

Weiling Huang (Institute of High Energy Physics)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

In the beam diagnostics system of the CSNS accelerator, multiple National Instruments (NI) PXIe multifunction DAQ modules were utilized for readout system development. The original software architecture, implemented with LabVIEW+DSC modules on Windows system, introduced substantial challenges in EPICS integration. This paper details a software upgrade methodology that preserves the existing NI...

Lauryn Eley (Cockcroft Institute, University of Liverpool)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

X-ray imaging of both material and biological samples is a key application of synchrotrons and laser wakefield accelerators. However, it is possible that undiagnosed beam location offsets can impact the quality of the image created. This is particularly the case in 3D imaging, for which the 3D reconstructions require precise knowledge of the location at which each x-ray projection was taken....

Eva Calvo Giraldo (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC02: Beam Loss Monitors and Machine Protection
Poster Presentation

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) beam loss monitoring (BLM) system at CERN, operational for several decades, currently comprises 286 Ionisation Chambers (ICs) around the SPS ring and approximately 144 additional detectors along various extraction lines (TT20, TT40, TT60, etc.). A complete renovation of the system is planned during Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), encompassing detectors, cabling, and...

Lin-Pin Hsu (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

The beam size monitor broadcast system at the Taiwan Light Source (TLS) has traditionally used analog coaxial cables and modulators to transmit measurement images and data to control rooms and beamline stations via televisions and tuners. While simple and network-independent, this setup suffers from low resolution, frequent interference, and aging hardware with no ongoing maintenance. This...

Lin-Pin Hsu (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center)
08/09/2025, 16:00
MC07: Data Acquisition and Processing Platforms
Poster Presentation

The beam size monitor broadcast system at the Taiwan Light Source (TLS) has traditionally used analog coaxial cables and modulators to transmit measurement images and data to control rooms and beamline stations via televisions and tuners. While simple and network-independent, this setup suffers from low resolution, frequent interference, and aging hardware with no ongoing maintenance. This...