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We report the design and test results of a beam monitor developed for online monitoring in hadron therapy. The beam monitor uses eight silicon pixel sensors, \textit{Topmetal-${II}^-$}, as the anode array. \textit{Topmetal-${II}^-$} is a…
Beam displacement measurements are widely used in optical sensing and communications; however, their performance is affected by numerous intrinsic and extrinsic factors including beam profile, propagation loss, and receiver architecture.…
A novel method capable of delivering relative optical path length metrology with nanometer precision is demonstrated. Unlike conventional dual-wavelength metrology which employs heterodyne detection, the method developed in this work…
LHC upgrades are being considered both towards higher luminosity (HL-LHC) and towards higher energy (HE-LHC). In this paper we report initial studies of the beam-beam effects in the HE-LHC [1]. The HE-LHC aims at beam energies of 16.5 TeV,…
Many advanced techniques have been developed, tested and implemented in the last decades in almost all circular accelerators across the world to measure the linear optics. However, the greater availability and accuracy of beam diagnostics…
The Terahertz (0.1-10 THz) band has been envisioned as one of the promising spectrum bands to support ultra-broadband sixth-generation (6G) and beyond communications. In this paper, a wideband channel measurement campaign in a 500-…
We demonstrate the application of a two stage machine learning algorithm that enables to correlate the electrical signals from a GaAs$_x$N$_{1-x}$ circular polarimeter with the intensity, degree of circular polarization and handedness of an…
The beam aperture of a particle accelerator defines the clearance available for the circulating beams and is a parameter of paramount importance for the accelerator performance. At the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the knowledge and…
In this paper, a data-driven position-aided approach is proposed to reduce the training overhead in MIMO systems, by leveraging side information and on-the-field measurements. A data tensor is constructed by collecting beam-training…
This work illustrates and compares some methods to measure the most relevant parameters of silicon photo-multipliers (\sipm{}s), such as photon detection efficiency as a function of over-voltage and wavelength, dark count rate, optical…
A new bunch length measurement method based on high order mode cavity was proposed. Operating the harmonic cavity at mode TM0n0 so that its radius could be chosen, in order to break the limitation of beam pipe radius. A two-cavity bunch…
Beam hopping (BH) is a satellite communications technique in which sets of beams are sequentially illuminated over a defined time interval. Geographically varying the duty cycle of satellite transmission allows for reduced resource wastage…
In this paper, we study low-complexity algorithms for beam and channel tracking for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. In particular, the least mean squares (LMS) and bidirectional LMS (BiLMS) algorithms are derived for a mobile…
We have developed image intensifier tubes with delay-anode read-out for time- and position-sensitive photon counting. The timing precision is better than 1 ns with 1000x1000 pixels position resolution and up to one megacounts/s processing…
LHCb is the dedicated heavy flavour experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The partially assembled silicon vertex locator (VELO) of the LHCb experiment has been tested in a beam test. The data from this beam test have been used to…
The logarithmic number system (LNS) is arguably not broadly used due to exponential circuit overheads for summation tables relative to arithmetic precision. Methods to reduce this overhead have been proposed, yet still yield designs with…
The hard X-ray instruments at the Linac Coherent Light Source are in the design phase for upgrades that will take full advantage of the high repetition rates that will become available with LCLS-II-HE. The current X-ray Correlation…
In radiation beam-profile measurements, an accurate positioning of the detector with high position resolution is essential. For this purpose, we built a scanning device capable of moving a detector in three dimensions using mainly parts…
We present a reference-free computational wavefront sensor based on binary amplitude modulation and phase retrieval. The method employs Digital Micro-mirror Device as a programmable amplitude modulator and reconstructs the complex optical…
We present the first science results from our Hubble Space Telescope Survey for Lyman limit absorption systems (LLS) using the low dispersion spectroscopic modes of the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3. Through an…