Thibaut Lefevre

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research

Thibaut Lefevre studied physics at the University of Bordeaux in France. He obtained his PhD in 2000 working on high power microwave free electron laser at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Joining the CERN beam instrumentation group as a Fellow in 2001 he became a CERN staff member in 2004.  Since 2001 Thibaut has been working on transverse and longitudinal beam diagnostics for the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) test facilities. He was more precisely involved the development of non intercepting devices for emittance measurement, e.g. laser wire scanner, high dynamic range imaging system for halo monitoring and sub-picosecond resolution longitudinal profile measurements. Thibaut is now actively participating to the completion of the CLIC conceptual design report.  Since 2004, he has been working on instrumentation for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its injector chain. He is currently the project leader for the LHC synchrotron light monitors. This consists of a set of detectors to measure both transverse and longitudinal profiles, using for example fast framing cameras for turn by turn beam size measurements or photon counting avalanche diode to provide longitudinal beam profiles with 10⁴ dynamic range and 50ps time resolution.