oPAC training bears fruit
One of the oPAC fellows at CERN, Meghan McAteer, has recently been offered a position at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) to work on the commissioning of the high-current 50-MeV Energy Recovery Linac bERLinPro. bERLinPro is a test facility aimed at demonstrating the ERL principle at ultimate beam properties – highest average current and most dense electron bunches. This facility will put all subsystems relevant to large-scale ERLs to the test and enable the rigorous comparison of theory with the real world. Meghan says “This will be a very exciting opportunity for me to gain familiarity with a wider variety of accelerator physics challenges”.
This is not only excellent news for Meghan but also for the oPAC project, as it shows that it is succeeding in its aim of providing human resources for the increasingly demanding accelerator community.