The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) Hadron Storage Ring (HSR) will reuse most of the existing hardware from the RHIC rings. However, extensive modifications will have to be performed in preparation for the new accelerator parameters and performance required by EIC. The beam vacuum chamber will have to be upgraded and new beam position monitors (BPM) implemented to account for the higher beam intensity and shorter EIC hadron bunches. The RF system will also need to be upgraded and include new cavities to drive the new bunch parameters. In some straight sections, existing superconducting magnets will have to be reshuffled and their cold powering scheme modified to accommodate the new accelerator lattice. The hadron injection scheme will also be modified to accommodate three time more bunches and the machine protection system will need to include new collimators. This paper aims to give an overview of the engineering modifications required to turn RHIC into the EIC HSR.

In 2023, the Pb-Pb run in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took place during the last five weeks of operation at a record beam energy of 6.8 Z TeV. It marked the first heavy-ion run of Run 3, following a two-day test that took place in 2022 to verify some key machine and beam upgrades. The 2023 run profited for the first time of higher beam intensities than the previous runs and of machine upgrades that enable higher peak luminosities in the ion-dedicated ALICE experiment. This paper addresses two important performance aspects: firstly, it compares the achieved operational efficiency for the different filling schemes employed during the run, and secondly, it quantifies the main factors contributing to performance loss.

In the SuperKEKB/Belle-II experiment, a multitude of elementary particle reactions is initiated through the collision of 4 GeV positrons with 7 GeV electrons, paving the way for the exploration of new physics. The experiment includes plans for the substantial enhancement of luminosity in the future, aiming to achieve an integrated luminosity approximately 100 times the current level. However, the realization of this goal is impeded by a recurrent occurrence of a phenomenon known as "Sudden Beam Loss," which entails the abrupt disappearance of the beam within tens of microseconds. The cause and location of these occurrences have not yet been identified. To provide the tools to diagnose and debug these sudden beam loss events, a new Bunch Oscillation Recorder (BOR) has been developed to analyze this phenomenon, utilizing the Radio Frequency System on Chip (RFSoC) from AMD/Xilinx. The beam position of each individual bunch is measured and recorded by the BOR just prior to the onset of sudden beam loss. We will present how the signal from the button beam position monitor of the beam pipe is processed by RFSoC, along with the results obtained from observing the actual SuperKEKB beam using RFSoC.