Jean-Claude Denard

Contact:

• Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators
  Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
  12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606
• 757-269-7555 (phone)
  757-269-7658 (fax)
• denard@jlab.org

Education:

• Engineer diploma from CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France) 1970.
• CERN accelerator school; Oct. 1976 (Erice, Italy).
• US accelerator school; Aug. 82 (Stanford, CA).

• Beam Instrumentation Engineer, Jefferson Lab (VA) 1997-present
• Head of Beam Instrumentation group, Jefferson lab/CEBAF (USA) 1993-1997
• Head of Beam Instrumentation group, Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy) 1987-1993
• Electronics engineer, SLAC (CA) 1984-1987
• Head of Beam Instrumentation group, LURE (labotratoire d'Utlisation du Rayonnement Synchrotron), Orsay (France) 1982-1984
• Visiting electronics engineer at SLAC (1981-82)
• Electronics Engineer, LURE/LAL, Orsay (France) 1972-1982
• Electronics engineer in RADAR prototype design, Thomson-CSF 1970-1972.

Research Highlights:

• Contribution to Jefferson Lab. accelererators and experimental halls beam instrumentation (1993-present)
• Demonstrated with CEBAF beam that the intrinsic resolution of transition radiation is not limited to λ/γ at high energies (Jefferson Lab. 1995)
• Designed the beam instrumentation for the "Sincrotrone Trieste", a 3rd generation light source (Trieste, 1993)
• Designed and built SLC beam position monitor electronics to bring the two beams in interaction (SLAC, 1987)
• Designed the beam instrumentation for the Super-ACO light source (Orsay, 1982)
• Invented and applied the concept of switched electrodes electronics for beam position monitors (Orsay 1976)
• Invented two types of coherent oscillators for radar applications (Thomson-CSF, 1972)

Selected Publications

• J.-C. Denard, "High Accuracy Beam Current Monitor System for CEBAF’s Experimental Hall A", PAC2001, Chicago, Il.
• A. Freyberger, J.-C. Denard, Y. Sharabian, "Beam Charge Asymmetry Monitors for Low Intensity Continuous Elecrton Beam", 5th European Workshop on Beam diagnostics and Instrumentation for Particle Accelerators (DIPAC), Grenoble, France (2001).
• G. A. Krafft, J.-C. Denard, R. W. Dickson, R. Kazimi, V. A. Lebedev, and M. G. Tiefenback, "Measuring and Controlling Energy Spread in CEBAF", Proceedings of the 20th International Linac Conference, 721 (2000)
• D. Hardy, P. Chevtsov, J-C. Denard, R. Dickson "Multivideo Source Image Processing System for Beam Diagnostics Applications" Proceedings of the Beam Instrumentation Workshop 2000, Boston (MA)
• J.-C. Denard et al. "High Power Beam Profile Monitor with Optical Transition Radiation" ; PAC 1997 ; Vancouver (Canada)
• P. Piot, J-C. Denard, P. Adderley, K. Capek, E. Feldl, "High-Current CW Beam Profile Monitors Using Transition Radiation at CEBAF" BIW 1996, Argonne (IL).
• J.-C. Denard et al. "Experimental Diagnostics Using Optical Transition Radiation at CEBAF", BIW 1994, Vancouver (Canada).
• R. Ursic, J.-C. Denard, T. Monaci, R. De Monte, C. Poloni, "High Stability Beam Position Monitoring of ELETTRA", 1st DIPAC, Montreux, Switzerland, 1993.
• R. Ursic et Jean-Claude Denard "Measuring the Beam Position in the Elettra Linac", EPAC 1992, Berlin (Germany).
• J.-C. Denard et al "Beam Position Monitoring System for ELETTRA", EPAC90 ; Nice, France.
• D. Bulfone, A. Carniel, J.-C. Denard, F. Iazzourene, R. Richter, and A. Wrulich "Design Considerations for the ELETTRA Beam Position Feedback Systems", EPAC90; Nice, France.
• J.-C. Denard et al. "Monitoring the Beam Position in the SLC Interaction Region", PAC87, Washington DC (USA).

Patents

• Measurement Method of the Linearity of Electronic Devices (Jefferson Lab, 2000)
• High Power Beam Profile Monitor Using Forward Transition Radiation (Jefferson Lab, 1999)
• Coherent oscillators (Thomson-CSF, 1970)
• Quartz coherent oscillators (Thomson-CSF, 1970)

Seminars and Conference Presentations

• J.-C. Denard, "Intense Elecron Beam Profile Measurements Performed at Jefferson Lab." Invited talk at the Intense Beam Profile Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, 6/7 Nov. 1997.
• J.-C. Denard, "Beam Instrumentation at Recently Commissioned Machines" invited talk at DIPAC, 1995, Travemunde (Germany).
• J.-C. Denard et al. "Experimental Diagnostics Using Optical Transition Radiation at CEBAF", BIW 1994, Vancouver (Canada).

Professional Activities

• Member of Beam Instrumentation Workshop organizing committee since 1993
• Member of european workshop on beam Diagnostics and Instrumentation for Particle Accelerators Conference (DIPAC) 1997, 1999.
• Member of review committees for the beam position monitor systems of Advanced Photon Source (Argonne, Il, 1989), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble,France, 1991), Swiss Light Source (Zurich, Switzerland, 1999).