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TY - CONF AU - Schneider, D. AU - Arnold, M. AU - Bonnes, U. AU - Brauch, A. AU - Dutine, M. AU - Grewe, R. AU - Jürgensen, L.E. AU - Pietralla, N. AU - Schließmann, F. AU - Steinhilber, G. ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Batten, Tonia ED - Bree, Michael ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Hunter, Darren TI - Development of an Active Beam-Stabilization System for Electrofission Experiments at the S-Dalinac J2 - Proc. of IBIC2023, Saskatoon, Canada, 10-14 September 2023 CY - Saskatoon, Canada T2 - International Beam Instrumentation Conference T3 - 12 LA - english AB - The r-process fission cycle terminates the natural synthesis of heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers. Fission processes of transuranium nuclides will be studied in electrofission reactions at the S-DALINAC*. Due to the minuscule fissile target, the experimental setup requires an active electron-beam-stabilization system with high accuracy and a beam position resolution in the submillimeter range. In this contribution, requirements and concepts of this system regarding beam-diagnostic elements, feedback control and readout electronics are presented. The usage of a beam position monitor cavity and optical transition radiation targets to monitor the required beam parameters will be discussed in detail. Additionally, various measurements performed at the S-DALINAC to assess requirements and limits for the beam-stabilization system will be presented. Finally, the option of using advanced machine learning methods such as neural networks and agent-based reinforcement learning will be discussed. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 111 EP - 114 KW - electron KW - controls KW - linac KW - target KW - experiment DA - 2023/12 PY - 2023 SN - 2673-5350 SN - 978-3-95450-236-3 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2023-MOP038 UR - https://jacow.org/ibic2023/papers/mop038.pdf ER -