How Cosylab designed and delivered a complete control system for the Gamma Beam System of the Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) facility ELI-NP in Magurele, Romania, is planned to become the most advanced, highly intense laser and gamma beam machine in the world. In 2014, a European Consortium, EuroGammaS…

A fast, flexible and reliable machine interlock system (MIS) is a safety feature that every machine needs to prevent it from harming its users or damaging itself, primarily when it operates at high energies. …

At Cosylab, we try to stay on our toes all the time, maintaining and strengthening our ties with industry, our partners and our customers in the domain of Big Physics. …

Our ready-to-prototype generic high speed DAQ solution is based on experience with different diagnostic and low-level control devices that we have integrated throughout the years. — The digitizer part of these applications such as acquisition setup, clock routing, data transfer from the board to the computer, displaying signals on HMIs, etc. is not in the domain or of interest to beam diagnostics or RF physicists. From a physicist’s point of view, the most important part of…

I spent the time from August to October hopping from one accelerator conference to another. Here are the insights I gained on the road. — by Rok Hrovatin, Ph.D. The tour started with the 15th Annual Meeting of the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (PASJ) which took place in Nagaoka in early August, continued to the 29th Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC18) in Bejing (China) in September and ended in Moscow at the Russian Particle Accelerator…

SwissFEL is the Paul Scherrer Institut’s (PSI) new Free-Electron Laser facility. — By Babak Kalantari (PSI), Roger Biffiger (PSI), Sašo Skube (Cosylab), Tom Slejko (Cosylab), Tomaž Šuštar (Cosylab) Introduction The new Free-Electron Laser facility is a 740 m long accelerator with the goal of providing pulses of light between 6 and 30 fs long at a wavelength of 1 to 7 Å at…

At Cosylab we have worked on multiple Particle Therapy systems and projects. From this we have learnt 5 things that are crucial to shortening the time to integrate the Oncology Information System (OIS) and the Proton Therapy (PT) system. — Each year dramatic breakthroughs and improvements are being made in the field of medical technology, improving quality, efficacy, and safety of therapy and ultimately improving long-term patient outcome. Many of these technologies require good quality information for optimal operation. The information collection starts with the first presentation of patient, continues…

Some 40 talented kids from a nearby primary school “invaded” Cosylab one lovely day. You know how kids are, BIG dreams, BIG ideas, limitless minds. We tried to match their imagination with an inspiring talk about BIG science, BIG machines, BIG accelerators, and BIG-BADA-BOOM experiments that mark the future of humanity. — By Robert Modic We started with some particle physics basics Through a discussion about accelerators the kids were able to discover which particles can be accelerated and how they are accelerated close to the speed of light. …

“There is something Napoleonic in me, as I like to build ‘empires’. It inspires me to constantly search for opportunities for growth,” says scientist and entrepreneur Mark Pleško, CEO and co-owner of Cosylab. But he doesn’t stop there. In the same breath, he adds that ethics and honesty are equally important values to him. And despite the fact that he attributes his business success to luck, doubtless, the basis of his success story is the intertwinement of ethics and ambitiousness.