Tag: BE
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From needs to solutions
From needs to solutions By S. Petit (EN/ACE) Have you heard about or even followed the training called “From needs to solutions” ? Created and hosted by the ATS Quality Service, it is a two hours course providing participants with tips & tricks as well as awareness about typical pitfalls with regard to expressing needs…
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Active EMI Compensation for Pulsed Kicker Systems in Particle Accelerators
Active EMI Compensation for Pulsed Kicker Systems in Particle Accelerators Tobias Stadlbauer (SY-ABT), Fritz Caspers (EP-UGC) 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,…
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2024: a record year for the CHARM radiation test facility
2024: a record year for the CHARM radiation test facility After 9 months of intense activity, the 2024 T8 proton beam run came to an end on November 13, passing the relay for the last two weeks of operations to lead ions and related test activities. Consequently, the CHARM and IRRAD facilities also concluded their…
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White Rabbit Collaboration meeting held at CERN
White Rabbit Collaboration meeting held at CERN Participants in the WRC Board meeting on 3 December 2024. White Rabbit (WR) is an open-source technology born at CERN. It is based on standards (Ethernet and the Precision Time Protocol, PTP) and allows the synchronisation of nodes in fibre networks with an accuracy better than 1 nanosecond.…
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A new home for the generators of the Multi-Turn Extraction (MTE) kickers
A new home for the generators of the Multi-Turn Extraction (MTE) kickers By M. Fraser (SY-ABT), L. Ducimetiere (SY-ABT), Vasco Namora (SY-ABT) 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…
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Accelerator Report: Preparing for 2025 LHC operation and setting goals
Accelerator Report: Preparing for 2025 LHC operation and setting goals The Chamonix Workshop is in full swing, and the initial outlines of the 2025 LHC configuration and operational scenarios are beginning to take shape. By Rende Steerenberg The year-end technical stop (YETS) activities in the accelerator complex’s first machines are nearing completion, but in the…
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Accelerator Report: Another exciting year ahead
Accelerator Report: Another exciting year ahead Although the much-appreciated winter break is well behind us and most of us are back at work, the accelerator complex is still in hibernation – but not for much longer By Rende Steerenberg Just as the end of a run gives us the chance to look back and reflect on…