Breaking the ice with DESIREE
Pavel Maslov, from Cosylab, has spent two weeks at The Double ElectroStatic Ion-Ring ExpEriment (or DESIREE), which is based at the Albanova research center for Physics, Astronomy and Biotechnology in Stockholm, Sweden. There he has studied the physics of cold ion-ion collisions and inspected ConSys – a control system that is running the facility.
Pavel helped with implementing two devices into LabView for diagnostics, namely Agilent 33250a (arbitrary waveform generator) and BNC555 (delay pulse generator). In the second week he gave a 30 minute technical presentation to physicists and instrumentation engineers on "Adaptation of existing open-source control systems from compact accelerators to large scale facilities". He enjoyed working in a truly international scientific team from Sweden, Denmark, USA, Poland, Ireland, Brazil, Australia, Hungary… and had a unique chance to play curling for the first time in his life.
