IPAC'23 - Conference guide

IPAC’23 / CONFERENCE GUIDE 6 Dear colleagues and friends, it is my pleasure to welcome the world-wide accelerator community to the 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference IPAC`23 in the historic town of Venice, hosted by Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste in Italy. The IPAC conference series is our common international conference series for the whole field of particle accelerators, bringing together international specialists from large particle physics colliders, photon science factories, nuclear physics machines, medical accelerator facilities and many other fields. The European edition is organized by the Accelerator Group in the European Physical Society and its host institutes, in close collaboration with the accelerator communities in the Americas and Asian regions. More than 200 scientists from all over the world participated to the various IPAC committees and shaped this conference. Some difficult decisions had to be taken in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the presence of a climate crisis, in a period of strong monetary inflation and in the time of a terrible war that Russia brought onto Ukraine some 2,000 km away from us. The support and hard work from all committee and board members, in particular also the programme and local committee chairs P. McIntosh, A. Fabris and G. Bisoffi, are greatly appreciated. Our community spirit allowed us to overcome important obstacles and to arrive in Venice as strong as in 2017 when the last European IPAC was held in presence at Copenhagen. This 14th IPAC edition will report recent news, progress and issues in research facilities and projects in more than 2,000 presentations, also discussing innovative ideas and technologies. The industrial exhibition of IPAC’23 creates the world-leading marketplace for accelerators, deepening the contacts between science, applications and accelerator industry. Several accelerator prizes will recognize the achievements of some of our leaders. Finally, more than 100 students have been supported by our sponsors for attending IPAC’23 and are presenting the results and ideas of the new generation. I wish all participants a lively and fruitful conference. Finally, Venice is the city of world-famous explorer Marco Polo but also the city that hired Galileo Galilei 430 years ago as consultant to the Venetian arsenal. It was here that Galileo invented the thermoscope, the predecessor of the thermometer. I hope that this legacy of Venice will inspire us to be truly global explorers for the best future of accelerators and to also be inventors of new, climate-friendly solutions. Ralph Assmann DESY Organising Committee Chair Greetings Welcome from OC Chair