Intelligent Beam Control in Accelerators

Zheqiao Geng is a senior electronic engineer at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2002. In 2007 he received his Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences. For more than ten years, he worked on accelerator RF and beam control systems in different labs, including IHEP (China), DESY (Germany), SLAC (USA) and PSI (Switzerland). He was the key developer of critical aspects of the LLRF systems for various accelerator projects such as the European XFEL, LCLS and SwissFEL. At SLAC, he led the system-level design of the LCLS-II LLRF system. At PSI, he developed the control strategy for setting up and stabilizing the two-bunch operation of SwissFEL. As an internationally acclaimed RF and beam control expert, he was appointed as a PSI Senior Expert in 2021.Stefan Simrock is a control system coordinator atthe ITER Organization located in southern France. He studied physics and microwave engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt where he received his Ph.D. in engineering physics in 1988. From 1988 to 1996, he worked at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility as a RF controls group leader and the deputy for the technical performance of the accelerator. He joined DESY in 1996 as the leader of a multidisciplinary team responsible for the design, construction, and commissioning of the control system for the superconducting linac at the TESLA Test Facility. In 2004, he was an appointed group leader of beam controls group responsible for the timing, synchronization, and beam feedback systems of all 10 accelerators at DESY. At the same time, he was the project leader for the RF Control System for FLASH and the European XFEL. Since 2010, he is responsible for the integration of ITER diagnostics with the central control system, machine protection system, safety system, andplasma control system.  Together with Dr. Zheqiao Geng, he published a book “Low-Level Radio Frequency Systems (978-3-030-94418-6)” in the series of Particle Acceleration and Detection in 2022.

• Introduction.- Beam feedback control.- Beam optimizations.- Machine learning for beam control.