At the time this thesis is written, the world nds itself amidst and partly in the process of
recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus. One major …

At the visible light diagnostic (VLD) port at the Karlsruhe Research Accelerator (KARA), it is
possible to study the energy spread of electron bunches by measuring the horizontal bunch …

Radio-frequency (RF) modulations can influence the microbunching instability (MBI)
dynamics and serve to eventually control them with reinforcement learning (RL) methods …

The concept of negative momentum compaction operation of synchrotron light sources is a
scarcely explored area in accelerator physics. The research in this thesis investigates the …

In the case of single-digit picosecond bunch length, synchrotron light sources produce
intense coherent radiation up to the THz range. The reduction of the bunch length by …

In the KIT storage ring KARA (KArlsruhe Research Accelerator), two parallel plates with
periodic rectangular corrugations are planned to be installed in a dedicated part of the …

Reinforcement learning (RL) is applied to control the microbunching instability (MBI) in
synchrotron light sources. Here the interaction of an electron bunch with its emitted coherent …

The self-interaction of short electron bunches with their own radiation field can have a
significant impact on the longitudinal beam dynamics in a storage ring. While higher bunch …

Two parallel, corrugated plates will be installed at the KIT storage ring KARA (KArlsruhe
Research Accelerator). This impedance manipulation structure can be used to study and …

This thesis delves into real time beam control, at the KARA accelerator. A key focus is the
use of reinforcement learning at the edge with the Versal VCK190 evaluation board …