Category: SY News
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‘Good vibes’ from the Gamma Factory
A bold initiative within CERN’s Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) programme, the Gamma Factory (GF) seeks to unlock a novel research frontier by producing high-energy, high-intensity gamma-ray beams using partially stripped ions (PSIs) and state-of-the-art laser systems.
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All Systems Go – Slawosz in Space
Opinion Piece: benjamin.todd@cern.ch On Wednesday June 25th 2025 at 06:31 UTC, Axiom Space launched their 4th crewed mission, AX-4, to theInternational Space Station (ISS), from Cape Canaveral, Florida,. Aboard were four astronauts: missioncommander Peggy Whitson, pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, mission specialist Tibor Kapu, and from CERN –mission specialist Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski. Just three years ago Slawosz was engineering converter controls in…
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Active EMI Compensation for Pulsed Kicker Systems in Particle Accelerators
Kicker systems in particle accelerators operate at high voltages, reaching up to 80 kV, and currents up to 30 kA, with risetimes as fast as 10 ns, producing pulses comparable to lightning strikes in terms of current amplitude, length, and spectrum. The kicker generator connects
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A new home for the generators of the Multi-Turn Extraction (MTE) kickers
The Multi-Turn Extraction kicker system has been in development since 2008 for the proton beam extraction from PS towards the SPS, via TT2, entering operation in 2015 to produce fixed target beams for the North Area. The circulating beam is first prepared
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KFA71/79 Consolidation to avoid LS3 manpower overload and early learning
The KFA71 kicker system, installed in CERN’s Proton Synchrotron (PS) for beam extraction, has been a fundamental component for over five decades. A step-by-step consolidation plan was initiated in 2020 to