First DITANET Topical Workshop: Low Energy, Low Intensity Beam Diagnostics
The first DITANET topical workshop took place on November, 24th and 25th in Hirschberg-Großsachsen near Heidelberg in Germany. It focused on the diagnostics of low energy and low intensity ion beams and brought together around 40 scientists and engineers from all over the world. Its particular aim was to join early stage researchers both from within the network and from the wider community with renowned experts to allow for establishing important contacts for their careers and for reviewing the status of the different R&D activities.
The first day started with an introduction to the future Facility of Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), where many of the monitors presently under development in different groups will be used to monitor all beam characteristics with a high precession. It then stretched to the beam instrumentation used at different storage ring and cyclotron facilities around the world.
The second day concentrated on electrostatic storage rings which are the ideal tool for lowest beam energies down to a few tens of keV and intensities as low as 104 pps. Presentations were given on the ELISA (ISA, Arhus), DESIREE (MSL, Stockholm), CSR (MPI-K, Heidelberg), and USR (FAIR, Darmstadt) facilities and triggered interesting discussions on these challenging developments.
This workshop was organized by Peter Forck, Rainer Haseitl (GSI) and Andreas Peters (HIT) and made possible though the support by the DITANET project, initiated and coordinated by Carsten P. Welsch (Cockcroft Institute and University of Liverpool). It marked the beginning of a workshop series that will be organized by the network – information on future events will be posted on the network’s homepage.
Workshop Documents available from CERN's Indico site
Proceedings (pdf 20MB)