First DITANET School: Beam Diagnostics (1)
From March, 30th - April, 3rd 2009 the first DITANET School on Beam Diagnostics took place at Royal Holloway, University of London. The School was combined with the first DITANET annual meeting and brought together more than 70 researchers from major research centres, Universities and private industry from all over the world.
Beam diagnostics systems are essential constituents of any particle accelerator; they reveal the properties of a beam and how it behaves in a machine. Without an appropriate set of diagnostic elements, it would simply be impossible to operate any accelerator complex let alone optimize its performance. In addition, beam diagnostics is a rich field in which a great variety of physical effects are made use of and consequently provides a wide and solid base for the training of researchers.
The School started with an introduction to accelerator physics and the definition of particle beams, before basic beam instrumentation like beam energy, beam current or transverse beam profile measurement were covered. Later the week more advanced topics, like e.g. the monitoring of the machine tune or electron cloud diagnostics were presented. An excursion to Rutherford Appleton Laboratory including visits to ISIS and DIAMOND on Wednesday, April 1st as well as two tutorials and one poster session complemented the broad program.
A particular highlight was a dedicated industry session on the last day where lecturers from Thermo Fisher Scientific, TMD, Thales, ViALUX, and Instrumentation Technologies gave an insight into cutting edge R&D activities in the industry sector with a focus on differences as compared to research in academia.
Further information:
School Poster - pdf
All talks can be downloaded from our INDICO page.
The next (advanced) school will be held at the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory in Stockholm (Sweden). In case you would like to receive early information about this school, please send us an email.