OMA Fellow Sudharsan Srinivasan visits IBA, LLN for his first Secondment
Sudharsan Srinivasan, an OMA fellow based at PSI (Paul Scherrer Institut), carried out his first secondment at IBA, Louvain La Neuve, a partner institute of the OMA network. This week long visit exposed the Fellow to an industrial setting and allowed him to gain knowledge about IBA’s contribution to the field of proton therapy.
A guided tour of IBA’s assembly hall for the S2C2 cyclotron presented a picture of the bottlenecks associated in building such a machine. Information about the working principle and factory quality testing procedure was presented to Sudharsan by the IBA employees and he also was given the chance to visit the Gantry assembly hall. Discussions with IBA’s physicists and engineers helped him to gain information about beam optics and beam line modelling, dosimetry and also the opportunity to participate in troubleshooting factory testing procedures.
Sudharsan presented a summary of his work on the beam monitor prototype at PSI which was well received and could result in a potential chance to test his detector in one of the dedicated beam lines at IBA in the future. The fellow particularly enjoyed the friendly working environment at IBA. Special thanks to Johannes Petzoldt, an OMA fellow based at IBA for making the experience and transition smooth.