Training in the land of the rising sun
Xiangcheng Chen, oPAC Fellow at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, has recently undertaken his secondment within the training framework of the oPAC project at RIKEN, in Japan. RIKEN is Japan's largest comprehensive institution recognized for high-quality research in a diverse range of scientific disciplines, including accelerator physics.
During Xiangcheng’s one-month-long stay, he was mainly collaborating with experts at the RIKEN Nishina Center on the RF cavity characterization. The newly constructed cavity will soon be mounted in the Rare-RI Ring of the RIKEN Nishina accelerator complex, and be used as a Schottky noise detector for very low beam intensity. Prior to the installation, several off-line tests should be accomplished.
Through that month Xiangcheng has communicated intensely with his Japanese colleagues regarding existent expertise and future challenges of the Schottky resonator. He has certainly gained a lot from that memorable experience. Xiangcheng acknowledges the warm hospitality of the Japanese friends!