 IBPT at “KIT in the Town Hall” – Mathematics Meets Accelerator PhysicsAs part of the “KIT in the Town Hall” event series, the KIT Center MathSEE presented current interdisciplinary research in mathematics on July 14, 2025, in the Citizens’ Hall of Karlsruhe’s town hall. The aim of the event is to foster dialogue between science and society – through talks, posters, and exhibits for a broad audience. The IBPT contributed to the event with a LEGO model and a scientific poster illustrating current work on so-called phase space tomography – a technique that provides insights into the dynamic structure of electron bunches in storage rings. Similar to computed tomography in medicine, this method is based on the mathematical theory of inverse problems. It utilizes experimental data and the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation as a physical model to compute the dynamic states of electron bunches in a storage ring. This research is part of an interdisciplinary collaboration between IBPT and the MathSEE center at KIT, linking modern mathematics with the challenges of experimental physics. After the presentations, an exhibition featuring posters and demonstrations offered an opportunity for exchange with the researchers. more |
 IBPT 7 at the DPG Spring Meeting Göttingen25The IBPT team gave several presentations on fs-THz and optical beam diagnostics, cSTART and beam dynamics, laser plasma accelerators and a group report as well as a poster on mathematical modelling. The photo was taken in front of the G7 sculpture, which commemorates the Göttingen Seven, on the university campus in Göttingen. more |
 Julian Gethmann of KIT at yHEPJulian Gethmann has been elected to the Management Board of the Young High Energy Physicists Association (yHEP). The yHEP coordinates young scientist’s interests in particle, astroparticle, hadron, nuclear and accelerator physics. more |
 Prominent Visitors for KITTEN at the Hannover Messe 2025At Hannover Messe’s Future Hub, the KITTEN test field at KIT attracted high-profile guests, including KIT President Professor Dr. Jan S. Hesthaven and Federal Minister for Education and Research Cem Özdemir. They explored how KITTEN enables real-world testing of scalable, energy-efficient solutions for large-scale research infrastructures, advancing the transition to sustainable energy. |
 IBPT brought once again together I.FAST participants from all over the worldThe I.FAST workshop on the Stability of Storage Ring Based Light Sources was hosted by IBPT in March 17-21, 2025 at KIT Campus North. The 2-days workshop was followed by a joint experimental campaign. The goal of the workshop was to share the latest information and knowledge on beam dynamics in order to understand and improve beam stability and the relevant hardware to ensure stable beam operation. more |
 KITTEN at the Hannover MesseTest center KITTEN for sustainable technologies on all scales will be one of the main KIT topics at Hannover Messe 2025, March 31st-April 4th. KITTEN combines two of KIT’s major research infrastructures - the Energy Lab and the KARA accelerator test facility. more |
 New Measuring Method using KARAInternational researchers have used synchrotron radiation at KARA and KIT Light Source to decipher how electrons of actinides behave in compounds with other atoms. more |
 In the Top-10 hand-picked editor’s papers listThe article describes a very fast code to speed-up machine learning simulations and applications in particle accelerator physics. The code was developed by two PhD students, Jan Kaiser and Chenran Xu from IBPT, who both contributed equally. Now also other international accelerator centers contribute to the code. The article was hand-picked as one out of ten in 2024 in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (PRAB). more |
 Radiotherapy inside the bodyNew approach to tumor therapies to reduce side effects and costs and increase availability in the future – IBPT at KIT and DKFZ Heidelberg project funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. more |
