Status and results of experiments CMD-3 and SND at VEPP-2000 collider and KEDR at VEPP-4M collider at BINP will be presented. Status of the Super Charm-Tau Factory project will be discussed.
A new heavy ion accelerator, called RAON (Rare isotope Accelerator complex for ONline experiments) has been built in Korea. Two isotope production systems (ISOL and IF) are being assembled and a fully superconducting linear accelerator are under construction for the driver and the post accelerator. Recent progress of the project will be presented with future plan.
The Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) study group currently focuses on the Technical Design Report (TDR) of the accelerator, the R&D of the key components of the machine and the detector, the general software framework, and site investigation. Meanwhile the group is planning further R&D and validations. In this presentation the status and the progress of the CEPC will be reported.
To carry out experiments on X-ray flash radiography, a high power linear induction accelerator (LIA) was developed at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. This report describes the main systems of the accelerator and its main parameters. The results of modeling the beam dynamics in the injector and linear accelerator are presented. The simulation is compared to the experimental data. An...
In the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics an accelerator based epithermal neutron source was proposed and designed to the development of the perspective cancer treatment, which is the Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. The source consists of a vacuum-insulated tandem accelerator, which produces a 2MeV proton or deuterium beam, a lithium target in which neutrons are generated in the 7 Li(p, n)7...
Hyper-Kamiokande is an international collaboration as a leading worldwide experiment to address fundamental unresolved questions in particle physics and cosmology. The project includes the construction of Hyper-Kamiokande detector, J-PARC beam upgrade, and the near detector upgrade/construction. Many physics opportunities are available; CP violation and neutrino mass ordering, a search for...
The talk will report the current status and the plan in the near future of Computing and Networking in IHEP.
Recent progresses on the development of particle and photon sources from laser-wakefield accelerators at National Central University (NCU) will be presented in this talk. At NCU, a 100-TW multi-beam laser system and a joint experimental platform have been optimized for laser plasma acceleration. The current research focuses are compact high-quality laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) and its...
Superfluid helium is another phase of liquid helium when it is cooled below 2.17 K, under saturation condition. The superfluid helium bath cools the niobium superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities housed in the helium tanks of the cryomodules. The SRF cavities operate at temperatures of 2.0 K or below, due to its higher operating frequency like 1.3 GHz. At KEK, the superfluid helium...
We are developing 1.5 cell SRF (Superconducting RF) 1.3GHz electron gun to realize the generation of high intensity electron beam for compact water purification system. In the first stage, we manufactured Nb 1.5 cell RF gun and tested it at 2K1). Next planned step is to generate Nb3Sn layers with thickness of a few um on the surface of Nb superconducting cavities for 4K operation. Then, we...
Hard x-ray/gamma-ray emission from laser wakefield accelerator have a number of interesting applications, e.g. ultrafast dynamic probing of matter. Betatron radiation and Thomson scattering are highly collimated laser-driven hard x-ray/gamma-ray sources with fs duration which generated by electron transversely oscillation in wakefield or laser field. However, photon yield is always limited by...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory(JUNO) is a next-generation neutrino experiment located 700m underground in Southern China. The detector will use a 20 kton liquid scintillator equipped with 17612 20-inch PMTs and 25600 3-inch PMTs, with the photocathode coverage reaching ~78%. The detector is designed to reach a high energy resolution of 3% at 1 MeV for neutrino mass ordering(MO)...
Over 20 years more than 25 superconducting multipole insertion devices for generation of synchrotron radiation (wigglers and undulators) have been created at BINP for several synchrotron radiation centers. It was developed a cryogenic system based on cryocoolers which allows autonomous operation of superconducting insertion devices on the storage ring without maintenance and consumption of...
The report describes a series of industrial accelerators of the ILU type with energy of 1-10 MeV, with a power of up to 100 kW for irradiating products in the electronic mode and in the X-ray bremsstrahlung mode.
The new compact accelerator-based neutron facility AISTANS at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan was constructed. AISTANS is providing a pulsed neutron beam from a decoupled solid methane moderator from 2020. In this presentation, overview of AISTANS and a recent neutron flux measurement result at AISTANS will be presented.
There are far fewer beam-driven wakefield accelerator experiments than laser-driven ones worldwide. This is mainly because there are far fewer facilities that can provide the high-current, high-quality electron beams that are required for such experiments. This is the same situation in Korea. Only recently, a full-scale research program on beam-driven wakefield took off. In this talk, we will...
Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC) has been developing the new generation research infrastructure for broader disciplinary scientific big data applications by distributed cloud technologies in Taiwan. The status, case studies and plans will be updated in this presentation.
A new technique for ion identification in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) has been proposed by measuring the ion track ranges using a low-pressure TPC. As a proof of principle, a low-pressure TPC with charge readout using a THGEM multiplier was developed. The tracks of alpha particles from various radioactive sources were successfully recorded in the TPC. The track ranges were measured...
The Australian synchrotron has recently completed a conceptual design for upgrading the facility to a 4th generation light source.This talk will outline the design options that were explored and the proposed benefits for the facility.
Laser-plasma accelerators have been the most promising candidates for future compact accelerators which can be used for next-generation free-electron lasers (FELs). However, their poor stability and reproducibility limit the applications of the laser-plasma accelerator. PAL-ITF (injector test facility) has an S-band RF photocathode gun and final energy of 70 MeV, with a lower emittance, which...
China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) accelerator complex consists of a front end, an 80MeV DTL LINAC, and a 1.6GeV Rapid Cycling Synchrotron (RCS). It is designed with a beam power of 100kW in the first phase and reserves upgrade capability to 500kW in the second phase. CSNS has started user operation at 20kW after the initial beam commissioning in 2018, the beam power is quickly up to 50kW...
The SC dipole magnet for the CBM detector consists of 150 tons mass of iron yoke, SC magnet of 5 MJ of stored energy, cryogenics adopted to the FAIR local conditions. The magnetic field in the center of the detector is ~ 1 T, on the coils is ~ 3.7 T. The superconducting cable having unique parameters was manufactured and tested. The dipole coils will be indirectly cooled by 4.5 K helium in...
High power electron linear accelerator (linac) is particularly useful and powerful tool for the RI production via photonuclear reaction, which has large cross-section in energy range from 10 MeV to 30 MeV (Giant resonance). For a photonuclear reaction, bremsstrahlung γ-rays is produced by an electron beam irradiating the target materials. At ELPH, we employ an S-band electron linac of which...
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a key experiment to answer unresolved properties of neutrino. Experimental observation of 0νββ will provide a direct answer to the particle type of neutrino (i.e., the Dirac-or-Majorana question), validate lepton number violation in the field of particle physics, and confine the absolute mass scale of neutrino. A number of large scale...
Small-scale accelerator-based radiation sources have been used for developing advanced technologies and exploring new science with high convenience and low cost. We have developed a 3 MeV ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) probe technology that nominally reduces the electron bunch duration and the arrival time jitter to the sub-femtosecond level. This simple configuration uses a...
The acceleration gradient of a solid-state accelerator is limited by the damage field to the structure material. A dielectric is therefore the choice of material for an accelerator operating at the optical frequencies. A dielectric laser accelerator has the potential of stable high-gradient electron acceleration over a long distance. Owing to the much shorter drive wavelength, a dielectric...
Australian Physicists are participants in the Belle II and COMET experiments at KEK, the ATLAS and LHCb experiments at CERN and operate the Australian Synchroton in Melbourne. This presentation will summarise Australia's computing contributions to these activities.
The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is an accelerator-based science facility. CSNS is designed to accelerate proton beam pulses to 1.6 GeV kinetic energy, striking a solid metal target to produce spallation neutrons. CSNS has two major accelerator systems, a linear accelerator (80 MeV Linac) and a 1.6 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS). The RCS accumulates and accelerates the proton...
Single photon emission computed tomography is a medical diagnostic tool mainly used for cancer surveys. An image of the diseased part can be acquired using 141-keV gamma rays emitted from Tc-99m. Tc-99m has a half-life of 6 h and is the decay product of Mo-99. For long term sustainable production of Mo-99, the accelerator based system seems to be very promising.
The compact energy recovery...
The GEM detector is useful for various fields, not only high energy physics. But, one uncomfortable feature is to be broken due to a large discharge. One large charge deposit makes a trigger to lead the large discharge and to carbonize inside the GEM hole. In order to avoid such a bad situation, we are developing new GEM foil without carbon. One good solution is to apply ceramic as an...
BINP presents the design and production of the 2T cryogenic solenoid for the PANDA detector at FAIR.
Microbeams of the ionization radiation are widely used in the scientific and industrial fields. If the size of the microbeam system is as small as the several-tens keV class electron microscope, it will be possible to perform the radiobiology experiments in university-class laboratories. Since a laser dielectric acceleration system (DLA) has the potential to realize an on-chip accelerator, the...
An Infrared Free Electron Laser (IR-FEL) has been built at RRCAT, Indore to serve as a user facility for the optical spectroscopy of materials in low temperature and high magnetic field environment. The first commissioning experiments on the IR-FEL setup were performed in 2016 with an injector system built in-house. The first observation of lasing using this setup was made in November 2016,...
A 70 MeV commercial H- cyclotron system will be used to employ an Isotope Separation On-Line (ISOL) method for the Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) in Korea. We made a contract with IBA in 2019 for the cyclotron system, and its installation will begin in October 2021. The cyclotron is capable of providing a beam with a current of up to 0.75 mA and has two ports for beam extraction. The beam...
We proposed a new type of hybrid photo-detector involving photocathode, scintillator, and silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) in vacuum enclosure. Photons incident onto the photocathode are converted to photo-electrons. Then the photo-electrons are accelerated toward the scintillator by the electric field between the photocathode and electrode to produce scintillation lights. The scintillation...
An RF driven negative hydrogen source is under development for the upgrade of China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), which requires an H$^-$ beam current more than 50 mA, and a duty factor of 1.5%$\sim$2%. The ion source produces an H$^-$ beam of 20 mA without cesium injection. After it is cesiated, about 47 mA H$^-$ beam is extracted. The emittance of the ion beam is measured both with a...
High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) is the first high-energy ring-based synchrotron radiation light source in China. The HEPS is designed with a beam energy of 6GeV and an ultra-low emittance of better than 0.06nm.rad to provide high-energy, high brightness hard X-rays. In phase I for the HEPS 15 public beamlines and corresponding experimental stations will be constructed by Institute of High...
Plasma wakefield accelerators, driven by either short laser pulses or charged particle beams, have the acceleration gradient of the order of 1 to 100 GeV and are regarded as the accelerators of the next generation. In this talk, I will introduce the plasma wakefield accelerator studies at Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, including the CEPC plasma injector studies,...
The report presents data on superconducting wigglers, which were made in Budker INP for various synchrotron radiation (SR) centers, their main parameters are given. Main parameters of superconducting undulator manufactured for SR DLS source are discussed. Other types of superconducting undulators based on the same key element - a superconducting magnetic element with horizontal racetrack coils...
The Tokyo Tier-2 site, which is located in the International Center Elementary Particle Physics at the University of Tokyo, provides computing resources for the ATLAS experiment in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid. Status of the site and recent R&D activities, such as an integration of HPC resources to the site, will be reported.
Taiwan Instrumentation Detector Consortium (TIDC) has been officially initiated recently. The main goal is to establish common infrastructures and resources among the Taiwan HEP community. The TIDC, formally known as Taiwan Silicon Detector Facility (TSiDF), currently serves as an important silicon module assembly center for LHC & BNL upgrade projects. The research team of TIDC consists of...
The concept of Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) was presented in 2012
aiming to further study the Higgs bosons. It mainly consists of three parts including a linac, a booster and a collider. That CEPC booster needs to boost the beam energy from 10 GeV to 45.5 GeV brings many difficulties to fabricate and measure the dipole magnet. One of the practical way to avoid the low ?field...
Since the spectral quality from cryogenic permanent magnet undulators (CPMUs) can be superior to that of in-vacuum undulators (IVUs), a PrFeB-based CPMU with a period length of 15 mm has been constructed for the Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) to provide high brilliant X-rays. Two cryo-coolers, each with a cooling capacity of 200W at 80 K, provide high temperature stability in the presence of...
Permanent magnet multipoles can be used for efficient hadron beam transportation. In this presentation, combined quadrupole and octupole magnets for intense ion beam focusing and sextupole magnets for neutron beam focusing and will be presented.
D-BNCT is an accelerator-based BNCT facility in Dongguan, China. The neutrons are generated from a Lithium target bombarded by a proton beam from an intense beam RFQ linac of 3.5MeV. In its initial commission stage, it can provide beam power about 10kW on a solid lithium target. The D-BNCT neutron source now is in routine operation as a BNCT test platform open for national institutes,...
SHINE, the Shanghai HIgh repetitioN rate XFEL and Extreme light facility, a quasi-continuous wave hard X-ray free electron laser facility, is currently under construction. The SHINE cryogenic system is divided into three groups, the test facility cryogenic system, the accelerator cryogenic system and undulator cryogenic system. Among the three cryogenic system, the test facility cryogenic...
SOI is a CMOS LIS technology where the MOSFETs are produced on the SiO$_2$ layer (BOX) above silicon wafers. SOI pixel sensor utilize the silicon wafer as the radiation sensor and the signal induced in the wafer is processed by the CMOS circuit on BOX. The parasitic capacitance of the circuit is smaller than that in the normal bulk CMOS, the power consumption can be suppressed than the...
Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) of charge particles (for example: electron beam) has potential to drastically reduce the size of the future particle accelerators. Owing to its compact size, even for GeV class acceleration of particles, LWFA has ability to serve the broad user communities of the next generation of radiation sources based on free-electron-laser (FEL) [1]. *MIRAI project is...
Various types of experiments in the field of accelerator-based science are actively running at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) by using SuperKEKB and J-PARC accelerator in Japan. The computing demand from the recent experiments for the data processing, analysis, and MC simulation is monotonically increasing. According to the computing demand, KEK Central Computing...
A high-performance electron source is required for a stable operation of an electron accelerator and future colliders. For this purpose, the electron beam is generated in an RF photocathode-based electron gun by irradiating the photocathode with laser light. Typically, a few tens of femtosecond laser systems are routinely used to generate a pre-bunched electron beam of a few hundred...
The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) has been proposed as a Higgs Factory and aimed for high precision measurement of the Higgs boson. Collisions at lower center-of-mass energies will also allow precision measurement of electroweak observables. To fulfill the stringent requirement of precision tracking of charged particles, the tracking system must be constructed with the...
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) is a R&D unit of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. This Centre is dedicated to carry out frontier research and development in the fields of Accelerator Science & Technology, Nuclear Science (Theoretical and Experimental), Material Science, Computer Science & Technology and in other relevant areas.
VECC has been delivering proton,...
Electron acceleration driven by laser wakefield using a laser pulse with circular polarization is studied with the objective to generate high-quality electron bunches with narrow energy spread and small emittance. In order to inject electrons into the accelerating phase of the plasma wave, a density transition shaped as bump is employed. Using particle-in-cell simulations, we demonstrate the...
Platform of Advanced Photon Source Technology R&D (PAPS) was officially launched in Beijing Huairou Science City in Feb. 2017. The goal of the PAPS project is to provide a good foundation and condition for R&D, engineering testing and verification for the high energy phone source (HEPS), especially the R&D of different SRF cavities for the future scientific project. The cryogenic test facility...
SAMEER has proposed First Heavy Ion Therapy in India in collaboration with Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai and KEK, Japan. The hadron driver in the proposal is based on a fast cycling induction synchrotron. Its main features are injector free, multi species of ion acceleration capability, fast cycling at 10 Hz repetition rate, energy varying 1 turn fast extraction and energy sweep extraction....
NEA (Negative Electron Affinity) activated GaAs cathode is an unique device which can generate highly spin polarized electron beam. Because the NEA activation surface has a limited robustness, it is compatible only with a DC biased gun under an extremely good vacuum condition in order of 1e-10 Pa. We propose to improve the robustness by NEA activation with a stable semiconductor thin film. We...
Electron–photon scattering, or Thomson/Compton scattering, is one of the most fundamental mechanisms in electrodynamics, underlying laboratory and astrophysical sources of high-energy X-rays. After a century of studies, it is only recently that sufficiently high electromagnetic field strengths have been available to experimentally study the nonlinear regime of the scattering in the laboratory....
The presentation indicates the status of the Super-Charm-Tau factory detector project software development and describes the Budker INP computing facilities providing the required resources.
To meet the high precision physical goals in the future e$^+$e$^−$ circular collider (CEPC), the high resolution tracker detector for the particle track reconstruction ($\lt$100$\mu$m) and particle identification are demanded. Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is one of the main concept option of the central tracker detector. the status and update R&D results of TPC module and prototype for the...
Vertical Test Stand (VTS) and Horizontal Test Stand (HTS) Facilities are set-up at RRCAT for testing and qualification of Superconducting Radio Frequency (SCRF) Cavities. VTS facility is operational since 2013 and tested many single cell and multi-cell 1.3 GHz and 650 MHz cavities at 2 Kelvin. HTS is in its commissioning trials. HTS cryostat designed for cooling down two 650 MHz dressed SCRF...
Based on many years of experience in development of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) microdosimeter, the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, has successfully developed a microdosimetric probe which is based on a SOI microdosimeter with 3D micron sized sensitive volumes (SVs) array mimicking dimensions of cells, known as the “MicroPlus-Mushroom” microdosimeters, to address...
Direct laser acceleration (DLA) of electron with intense high order modes of Laguerre Gaussian (LG) laser beam is investigated theoretically. The electron laser interaction is found to be sensitive with the radial (p) and azimuthal (m) mode indices for a polarized LG laser beam. Depending upon the order of mode indices (p,m), it is possible to derive the electron dynamics and energy gain with...
An accelerator based neutron source is in operating at the BINP for the development of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy and other applications. Phase space of proton beam was measured using a cooled diaphragm and a wire scanner. The measured phase space and the calculated invariant normalized emittances make it possible to conclude that the proton beam can be transported to an adjacent...
The last few years has seen the largest underground dark matter searches rapidly approach their purported ultimate sensitivity limit, the so-called "neutrino floor". An experiment reaches the neutrino floor went it becomes so large and so sensitive that the background from coherent nuclear scattering of astrophysical neutrinos starts to drown out a potential dark matter signal. The...
The feasibility of beam injection process using a pulsed multipole kicker (PMK) magnet as a case study for the storage ring of high brilliance synchrotron radiation source (HBSRS) is investigated. For the HBSRS, the beam emittance of 150 pm rad at the beam energy of 6 GeV is considered assuming 7 bend achromatic (7MBA) type lattice configuration. The PMK magnet provides transparent top up...
A plasma source is a vital part in laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) and a gas cell is one of the main sources for that purpose. In our laboratory, we have developed diverse capillary plasma sources for LWFA in recent years. In this talk, development and characterization of a special gas cell with a longitudinal density tapering are presented, in which a higher electron acceleration energy...
The detector developments for fast and super-fast time-resolved studies at SR beams will be reviewed. Two detectors based on Si micro-strip technology are developed at present in Budker INP SB RAS. The detector for imaging of super-fast processes at a nanosecond scale, DIMEX-Si allows to improve by more than a factor of ten maximum detected photon flux, with respect to the gaseous version of...
In the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics an accelerator based epithermal neutron source was proposed and designed [1] to the development of the perspective cancer treatment, which is the Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. The principal unit of the facility is the neutron producing target. The target was irradiated by the proton beam with various energy values from dozens of keV to 2 MeV....
Geant4 is a simulation toolkit for radiophysics related to HEP experiments. International collaboration among KEK, CERN, and the other research institutes associated with HEP experiments have developed Geant4 for more than 20 years. Currently, Geant4 has widely been used in various research fields other than HEP experiments. Geant4-Japan group has been focusing on Geant4 application studies...
We are developing relatively large 2D 4-mirror optical cavity to reduce the crossing angle between electron bunch train and laser pulse train. Total length of first 2D 4-mirror optical cavity is 7.56m and it includes 9 laser pulse train to realize the crossing angle of 8 degrees between electron beam in Linear accelerator and the laser pulse train in the optical cavity [1]. Second 2D 4-mirror...
Both 3D quasi-static PIC code and the quasi-3D PIC code using azimuthal decomposition method can obtain 100-1000 times speedup than the normal PIC code when modeling the plasma wake field accelerator. However, when pursuing higher energy and finer physics in the PWFA problems, a code that can cost less computing resources is required. Therefore, we apply the azimuthal decomposition method in...
3W1 SC wiggler with the pole gap of 68 mm have been successfully tested and installed in the BEPC II storage ring in November 2019. The goal of zero liquid helium consumption is achieved, and the residual cooling capacity of cryogenic system is about 0.69 Watt @4.2 K, equivalent to 12% of total cooling capacity of cryogenic system. The 2.6 Tesla magnetic field has been achieved and 3W1-SCW...
KREONET (Korea Research Environment Open Network), National Science and Research Network, has provided high performance networking for data-intensive science and multi-disciplinary research in Korea. Practically, the infrastructure and service of KREONET/KREONet2 and several activities for the HEP community such as LHCOPN/LHCONE will be introduced in this talk.
We review the activity of four research groups:
- theoretical group that develops a quasi-static code LCODE for simulations of plasma wakefield acceleration and makes numerical and theoretical studies of plasma based accelerators;
- theoretical group that studies collective relaxation of electron beams and THz radiation from plasmas;
- group that develops novel W-band accelerating...
The compact THz-FEL facility, based on the RF photocathode electron gun, is under the commissioning stage at Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi. Once operational, it will be the first pre-bunched FEL facility in India and will be among the few in the world [1,2]. The complete accelerator facility will be ~ 5 meters long and will deliver intense THz radiation as well as an...
Studies of plasma-based acceleration techniques rely heavily on numerical simulations. The development of computationally simple models is an important part of researches. Quasistatic approximation is the fastest one but it does not take into account the self-trapping of plasma electrons in bubble regimes. The fraction of such particles is small compared to all plasma electrons. We calculate...
The electron-positron collider VEPP-2000 is operating now at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Two detectors CMD-3 and SND are installed in the interaction
regions of the collider. From 2010 until now the total collected luminosity integral is about 2 X 300 pb−1. CMD-3 is a general purpose detector designed to study e+e− annihilation into hadrons in the whole energy range of the collider -...
High-energy physics (HEP) has traditionally been studied with experimental, theoretical, and computational simulations combined with e-Science so that it can be studied anytime and anyplace. The recent production of big data needs high-speed data processing and artificial intelligence. As artificial intelligence evolves into machine learning and deep learning, high-energy physics requires a...
We will present the recent results which include: relativistic self-trapping regime of laser pulse propagation in the near critical density plasma, betatron wakefield radiation of record brightness and hardness, effective laser production of gammas, positrons, and photonuclear particles from optimized electron acceleration in low-density targets, shielded radiography with gamma rays from...
The High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) is a 34-pm, 1360-m storage ring light source being built in the suburb of Beijing, China. The construction of the HEPS started in mid-2019.In this report we will introduce the construction status of the HEPS, and especially discuss the progress of the physics design and studies on the accelerator.
A high-intensity proton accelerator facility requires a high current pulsed negative hydrogen ion source. A Cs-free, negative hydrogen ion source has been developed using inductively coupled discharge technique in pulsed mode by 2 MHz RF external antenna. The RF power coupling to the plasma is enhanced by introducing C-shaped ferrite core around the RF antenna. No external multi-cusp magnetic...
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Taiwan Applied Crystal Co., LTD develops a series process to produce high light yield and fast timing scintillator. Patented recipes from NSYSU and
unique crystal growth to meet those requirements.
Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS) is the leading Russian center on high power laser-plasma interaction. It includes 0.5 PW OPCPA laser facility PEARL. The report will provide an overview of the most significant areas of research carried out at the facility, which includes research in the field of laboratory astrophysics, particle acceleration, and photon...
A hard X-ray engineering application beamline (BL-02) was commissioned recently and started operation in March 2019 at Indian synchrotron storage ring Indus-2. This beamline is capable to operate in various beam modes viz; white beam, pink beam and monochromatic beam. The beamline utilizes X-ray diffraction technique in energy dispersive and angle dispersive modes to carry out experiments...
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is undergoing an extensive Phase II upgrade program to prepare for the challenging conditions of the high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). In particular, a new timing layer will measure minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) with a time resolution of ∼30–40 ps and hermetic coverage up to...
To achieve high intensity, high power or high luminosity, next-generation hadron accelerators like HIAF (High Intensity heavy ion Facility) and EicC (Electron ion collider in China) employ a lot of entirely new beam dynamics and new technology. The development of a simulation code CISP (Simulation Platform for Collective Instabilities) and a control system PACS (Physics-oriented Accelerator...
Based on the research experience of CLAPA [1,2] (Compact Laser Plasma Accelerator), a new laser accelerator used for proton therapy facility named CLAPA-II [3] is proposed and under design by PKU. This facility will for the first time adopt the near critical density target, consisted of the self-sustained foil material and the carbon nanotube, as the key technology in laser-driven ion...
Indus-1 and Indus-2 are electron storage ring based synchrotron radiation sources at RRCAT. Lately few upgrades and additions have been carried out for some of the pulse sources in Indus-2. In this talk, these upgrades / additions to pulse sources in Indus-2 will be discussed. Pulse sources to energise Indus-2 Injection kicker magnets are working in the machine for last 15 years. These pulse...
The dual-readout method is a state of the art calorimetry technique enables high-quality energy measurement for both electromagnetic and hadronic particles, which has been developed during last two decades. The dual-readout calorimeter detector mainly designed by Korean team has been included in the conceptual design reports of both FCC-ee and CEPC projects published in 2018. As a next step,...
High energy ion acceleration beyond 10 MeV is driven by high intensity lasers in the Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA) regime.
However, contaminants on a solid target surface degrade the performance of heavy ion acceleration.
We proposed the tape target with heating to supply contamination-free targets with long term operation.
In this presentation, laser-driven ion acceleration...
After the construction, PAL-XFEL was open to the public in 2017 as the third Hard X-ray FEL machine on the globe and it has been operated successfully for the user service up to now. In this talk, the operation status of PAL-XFEL will be presented including the recent progress for better performance.
