oPAC in IBIC 2016
Sun-drenched palm trees and luxury cruise liners dawdling in the balmy waters of the port of Barcelona presented a splendid backdrop to this year’s edition of the International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC), brilliantly organised by Francis Perez and colleagues from the oPAC partner ALBA from 11th to 15th September.
The industrial exhibition, held in conjunction with the Conference, featured once more the University of Liverpool. The booth, manned by oPAC project manager Dr Ricardo Torres, showcased the plethora of projects initiated by Prof Carsten P. Welsch.
Information about oPAC and its sister network LA3NET was complemented with the new Initial Training Networks OMA – Optimization of Medical Accelerators, and the recently awarded AVA dedicated to accelerators for antimatter physics.
The achievements of the oPAC and LA3NET training networks were further highlighted by contributions to the scientific program by former oPAC fellows Laura Torino, Michele Carla, Miguel Fernandes, Manuel Cargnelutti, and by Prof Carsten P. Welsch himself.
The stand also promoted the European design studies Eupraxia – for a compact European plasma accelerator with industrial beam quality – and EuroCirCol, for a future 100 TeV hadron-hadron circular collider.
IBIC is the world’s largest conference on particle beam instrumentation and this year it was attended by some 400 scientific experts and industrial delegates, therefore it was a unique opportunity to showcase oPAC’s achievements and boost the visibility of the project in the world of particle accelerators.
Representatives of two oPAC partners, ALBA and Instrumentation Technologies, opening the Conference IBIC 2016 in front of the University of Liverpool stand