Contributions to a conference proceedings

The first run of the Belle II experiment collected a 365 fb−1 sample of collisions at a centre-of-mass energy corresponding to the Υ(4S) resonance. These data, characterised by low particle multiplicity, well-constrained initial-state kinematics, and excellent lepton identification, provide an ideal environment to study lepton-flavour universality in semileptonic B decays. [...]

Preserving the quality of positron beams in plasma-based accelerators, where wakefields are generated in electron filaments, is challenging. These wakefields are characterized by transversely non-linear focusing fields and non-uniform accelerating fields. [...]

Plasma wakefield acceleration using an electron filament offers stable, high-gradient, high-quality acceleration of positron beams analogous to the acceleration of electrons in the blowout regime. However, low energy-transfer efficiency is currently a limiting factor for future collider applications. [...]

Optical Cherenkov Radiation (ChR) is a well-known type of radiation, which is utilized in different fields of physics such as charged particle detection or generation of intense THz radiation. It is also widely used in beam diagnostics, for instance, in beam loss monitors or for bunch length measurements. [...]

FLASH, the XUV and soft X-ray free-electron laser at DESY, is currently undergoing the 2nd of two long upgrade shutdowns within the FLASH2020+ project. The 1st half of 2024 was dedicated to user operation. [...]

Various methods to measure the dynamic behavior of particles require the calculation of autocorrelation functions. For this purpose, fast multi-tau correlators have been developed in dedicated hardware, in software, and on FPGAs. [...]

This paper addresses the mode switching problem in piecewise smooth implicit multilinear initial value problems (IVPs), which are relevant for modeling hybrid dynamical systems like HVAC and power systems. Unlike traditional switched systems with explicit mode descriptions, this work focuses on systems where mode information is implicitly encoded in binary-valued variables and switching conditions are defined by inequality constraints. [...]

The physics program of the HL-LHC requires high-precision (≲1%) luminosity determination. Two new luminosity detectors are being developed by the CMS BRIL (Beam Radiation, Instrumentation, and Luminosity) project: the Fast Beam Condition Monitor (FBCM), a standalone detector with unique timing capabilities, and the Tracker Endcap Pixel (TEPX) detector augmented with real-time cluster reconstruction in the FPGA of a dedicated back-end board at 10% of the full level-1 trigger rate. [...]