Marion Ripert

Marion’s first two years of studying in France with an emphasis on Astronomy lead her to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Euro American Institute of Technology and at the Florida Institute of Technology, respectively.

During summer of 2002, she was a summer student at CERN working on aging studies for the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker, which brought her to complete her master’s in Particle Physics on the CMS experiment at the Florida Institute of Technology. A USPAS course and a summer job at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 2005 brought her to finally discover the field of accelerator physics. However, she has pursued particle physics for her PhD studying QCD phenomenology on the CMS experiment, until she heard about DITANET.

Currently Marion is working with the Beam Diagnostics group at the Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center (HIT), where her current research topic is to measure precisely the transversal emittance in the LEBT in front of the RFQ. The proposed device here is a pepper-pot system. Current research interest is the design of the instrument including the study on useable screen materials, the simulation on interdependency between ion beam and screen material, and the final design of the pepper-pot screen optics. Furthermore, the image acquisition and data evaluation software has to be elaborated. She’s presently preparing a beam test at MPI with beams as similar as possible to the HIT parameters to make measurements concerning the light output, straggling within the screen material and surface modifications.