Hackathonino Challenges List

Links describing the process:

Hackathonino (IUPAP-WG14)

Indico page (incl. agenda)

Preferred Zoom link (e.g. Sunday 17 , at 11 am CEST): https://ess-eu.zoom.us/j/6420621364

List of Challenges:

The summary of the 9 challenges is now available. Please choose your preferred challenge before Sunday, 17 May at 12:00 CEST, when Group will be defined.

The contact persons listed in each Challenge description will be available to guide you throughout this exercice, either in-person or on-line. For online access (US and SA team), we will prefer the 3-6 pm CEST slot, as indicating in the Indico page (US and SA team).

On Wednesday May 20, at 12:00 CEST we will ask each group to email your short slide presentation and present their work to our expert panel.

Prizes will be awarded on Wednesday May 20 afternoon.

Thursday May 21, at noon, we will brainstorm together on your findings, listen to an introduciton to Hopsworks and discuss possible next steps.

The full descriptions of the nine Challenges :

A – Accelerator Beam Performance and First-fault Analysis (RF Power Supply) by SE_ESS
- DataSet_Challenge_A.zip

B – RF window failure detection by US_SNS
- B1 – CCL1B_WindowTraining
  - DataSet – B1 – CCL1B
- B2 – DTL6 – CirculatorSensor
  - DataSet B2 – DTL6
- B3 – DTL5_WindowsAnomaly
  - DataSet B3 – DTL5

C – Introduction to LLM for Topic Modelling by SA_UJ
- See Tools below
- Recording and explanation (.mp4)

D – Radiation Therapy Treatment Plan for cancer by SA_UJ
- See Tools below
- Recording and explanation (.mp4)

E – Develop an educational idea to introduce students to accelerator simulations by SE_MAXIV
- Publication – CDR of the African Light Source
- Website – SESAME light Source and ICTP School (2026)

F – Decision-Making for a Compact Neutron Source (CANS) Upgrade Strategy by DE_FZJ
- DataSet_Challenge_F

G – Quantum Computing for Particle detection simulation by US_MIT
- Challenge G – Jupyter Note Book
- Thibault – Zoom Link : https://iupap-wg14.web.cern.ch/hackatonino-challenges-list/

H – Integrated Design Study for the ESS Accelerator Maintenance and Repair Facility (AMRF) by SE_ESS
- Publication – AMRF proposal
- Publication – Earlier Test stand proposal

I- AI-Driven Beam Dynamics Optimisation for High-Intensity Proton Linac by SE_ESS

Tools

Group Wiki – Particle and Nuclear Innovation Physics and Particle Solid Interactions in Johannesburg University

Google Colab and Jupyter

GitHub: The Colab version together with a version more suitable for a standard Jupyter Notebook environment and a basic manual is available on:

https://github.com/werin99/pyAT_interface