BGC Collaboration Meeting at CERN

BGC Collaboration Meeting at CERN

In-person participants at CERN (Image: F. Velotti)

In-person participants at CERN (Image: F. Velotti)

The 8th Beam Gas Curtain (BGC) Collaboration Meeting was held at CERN and by Zoom in early April.

The two-day meeting, organized by WP13 in collaboration with Cockcroft Institute (CI) and the GSI, brought together senior scientists and the collaboration members from these institutions, including a number of young researchers.

It also coincided with the presence at CERN of the CI team to commission the newly delivered v3 (final) prototype of the BGC in preparation for the upcoming installation on the Electron Beam Test Stand.

This device has previously been commissioned at CI as part of the HL-UK in-kind contribution. It will be tested on the hollow electron beam test stand before installation in the LHC for tests with protons in an upcoming YETS.

By Raymond Veness, Deputy WP13 Leader

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Beam-Gas Curtain instrument with development team at CERN (Image: R. Veness)