• Question: What's been your most exciting/challenging project so far?

    Asked by ranigandesha to Amanda, Ben, Dan, Gary, Samer on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Ben Drumm

      Ben Drumm answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      Best project I’ve done so far was designing a beam profile monitor – a gizmo which tells us the shape of our proton beam.

      The scientist gave me the actual monitor (which looks kinda like a circuit board) and told me that it had to sit in a vacuum vessel and rotate between 0 and 90 degrees with a set of electric field plates beneath it.

      I did the rest i.e. designed the vessel and worked out how to stop the monitor at 0 and 90 degrees etc. and got it made. It’s now installed in our synchrotron and runs like a dream! (In fact, the scientist is planning to buy some more!)

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