oPAC puts a ring on IPAC
IPAC'15, the sixth International Particle Accelerator Conference, was held in historic Richmond, Virginia, USA from May 3-8, 2015 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. The oPAC fellows made a total of twelve contributions to the scientific program, including posters from Emilia Cruz (U. of Liverpool), Michele Carla (ALBA), Meghan McAteer (CERN), Michal Jarosz (ESS), Manuel Cargnelutti (Inst. Tech.), Héctor García Morales (RHUL), and Konstantin Kruchinin (RHUL). A special highlight was a talk about the commissioning of the new Beam Positioning Monitor electronics of the ESRF Booster Synchrotron by the oPAC fellow at Instrumentation Technologies, Manuel Cargnelutti. He presented results of the system commissioning, demonstrating its high sensitivity and excellent performance at very low beam currents.
The fellows were joined at IPAC by oPAC Coordinator and QUASAR Group leader Prof. Carsten P. Welsch, who also presented a poster about the network, as well as Dr. Ricardo Torres and Ms. Magda Klimontowska from the EU Project TEAM.
The latter presented the oPAC and LA³NET projects to the international accelerator community via a dedicated stand, thus promoting the networks’ Fellows and helping them attract future job opportunities. The stand displayed the projects’ brochures, selected videos produced by the Fellows and gave ample of opportunities for discussion with network partners and researchers from outside of the projects.
The conference featured many interesting presentations, including talks about the LHC upgrade, in which oPAC is already heavily involved in. The conference was found to be an ideal meeting point allowing for fruitful discussion with collaboration partners from all over the world.
All proceedings are expected to be published shortly.