The EUROLABS project offers transnational access to more than 40
European research infrastructures and brings together the three
scientific communities of nuclear physics, detectors and accelerators
for particle physics.
The transnational access activity supports small teams to carry out
experiments and tests in facilities.
Among these there is the CARA facility at KIT in Germany.
Hello and welcome at KIT.
My name is Marcel Schub.
I am the leader of the accelerator group at IBBT.
Together with my team we enable R&D at our accelerator test
facilities.
It's my pleasure to be your contact person for experiments at CARA.
The Karlsruhe Research Accelerator CARA comprises an electron storage
ring in the energy range from 0.5 to 2.5 GeV and a 50 to 500 MeV
booster synchrotron.
At CARA we develop and test innovative accelerator technologies, from
ultrafast diagnostics to new operation schemes such as low alpha and
negative alpha operation and electron beam polarisation studies.
Novel methods for beam control implemented CARA include Bayesian
optimisation and reinforcement learning.
This holistic ensemble of opportunities enables fundamental research
on non-linear dynamics of electron beams down to the timescale of
micro -bunching instabilities.
New efficient magnet technologies and superconducting devices such as
undulators are tested.
Vacuum properties of beam pipes and beam screens are evaluated under
synchrotron X-ray radiation.
In short, in the Interdisciplinary Collaboration Accelerator
Technology Platform, KIT researchers develop the accelerator
technologies of tomorrow, from the components that make up the
building blocks for an accelerator to the complete system.
Together with our industrial partners, we bring our developments into
use at national and international high-performance accelerators.
Following a successful transnational access application for CARA, KIT
can provide European users from outside of Germany co-financing of an
on -site visit to a KIT facility as part of EuroLabs.
Welcome to Energy Lab 2.0.
I'm Giovanni De Carne, tenured track professor at the Institute for
Technical Physics.
I lead the Power Out of the Loop Lab, where we test, in realistic grid
conditions, novel energy technologies.
To efficiently and reliably enable the operation of future large-scale
research facilities, it is indispensable to conduct multi-area and
multi -disciplinary research, where the facility design considers both
scientific and energy-related challenges.
To face these challenges, Europe's largest research infrastructure for
renewable energy, the Energy Lab 2.0 at KIT and the Karlsruhe Research
Accelerator CARA, are joined in the KIT test field for energy
efficiency and grid stability in large-scale research infrastructure
KITIN.
The goal of KITIN is to study novel solutions for improving the energy
use in particle accelerators and, in general, in any energy-intensive
research infrastructure.
For example, an electrical model of the CARA accelerator has been
implemented in a digital real-time simulation environment to perform
comprehensive electrical analysis and control.
In the power hardware in the loop process at KITIN, the components to
be tested are not directly integrated into the real system, but in a
test facility with a virtual real-time system simulation.
In this way, both real operating conditions and fault cases can be
tested in a controlled environment.
This simulation platform supports researchers, manufacturing companies
and system operators in analysing, developing and testing hardware
future solutions for energy systems.
Following a successful transnational access application for CARA, KIT
can provide European users from outside of Germany co-financing of an
on -site visit to a KIT facility as part of EuroLabs.