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@PHDTHESIS{Kaiser:646123,
author = {Kaiser, Jan},
othercontributors = {Eichler, Annika and Fey, Görschwin},
title = {{R}einforcement {L}earning and {D}ifferentiable
{S}imulations for {A}utonomous {T}uning and {C}ontrol of
{L}inear {P}article {A}ccelerators},
school = {Technische Universität Hamburg},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {München},
publisher = {Dr. Hut Verlag},
reportid = {PUBDB-2026-00725},
isbn = {978-3-8439-5683-3},
series = {Regelungstechnik},
pages = {231},
year = {2025},
note = {Sonstige Körperschaft: Technische Universität Hamburg,
Institute of Control Systems;; Dissertation, Technische
Universität Hamburg, 2025},
abstract = {Particle accelerators are sophisticated scientific
facilities that require precise but time-consuming
optimisation to achieve optimal performance. Considering
benchmark tasks at the ARES and LCLS facilities, this
dissertation proposes methods to deploy simulation-trained
reinforcement learning (RL) policies for accelerator tuning
zero-shot to the real world and novel tuning tasks, while
comparing their performance to traditional methods. A
high-speed differentiable beam dynamics simulator is
developed to make collecting large datasets for RL feasible,
and to enable a multitude of novel gradient-based
accelerator applications. These contributions lay the
groundwork for faster accelerator tuning to better working
points, and enable new scientific discoveries.},
keywords = {reinforcement learning (Other) / differentiable simulation
(Other) / particle accelerators (Other) / Natural Sciences
and Mathematics::539: Matter; Molecular Physics; Atomic and
Nuclear physics; Radiation; Quantum Physics (Other) /
Computer Science, Information and General Works::006:
Special computer methods::006.3: Artificial
Intelligence::006.31: Machine Learning (Other) /
Technology::681: Precision Instruments and Other
Devices::681.2: Testing, Measuring, Sensing Instruments
(Other)},
cin = {MSK},
ddc = {539},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)MSK-20120731},
pnm = {621 - Accelerator Research and Development (POF4-621) /
InternLabs-0011 - HIR3X - Helmholtz International Laboratory
on Reliability, Repetition, Results at the most advanced
X-ray Sources $(2020_InternLabs-0011)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-621 / $G:(DE-HGF)2020_InternLabs-0011$},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)ARES-20200101 /
EXP:(DE-H253)XFEL(machine)-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.15480/882.16060},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/646123},
}