Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications
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| General properties | |
|---|---|
| Accelerator type | Linear accelerator |
| Beam type | Electrons |
| Beam properties | |
| Maximum energy | 250 MeV |
| Maximum current | µA |
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| Location | Cheshire, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 41°43′00″N 87°59′04″W / 41.716645°N 87.98440°W |
| Institution | Daresbury Laboratory, [[]] |
| Dates of operation | 2018 - present |
Compact Linear Accelerator for Research Applications (CLARA) is a scientific user facility at Daresbury Laboratory. It is an electron linear accelerator (linac) currently under construction in the Electron Hall.
CLARA is made up of three phases; Phase 1 is operational and has achieved energies of 50 MeV with bunch charges >250 pC. Phase 2 is being constructed off-line and consists of three linacs delivering a total energy of up to 250 MeV, 250 pC beam charge at 100 Hz repetition rate. Phase 2 also consists of the FEBE (Full Energy Beam Exploitation) arc, a beamline which looks at plasma-wakefield acceleration, boosting the beam to energies of around 2 GeV for high energy experimentation. Phase 3 is future expansion for X-FEL construction. This 100 nm X-FEL is linked to the UK XFEL project.
History
After beginning its decommission process in 2008, the Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) left space for construction of a new accelerator in the Electron Hall and Outer Hall. The booster ring bunker was taken down and replaced by a small E-beam facility and the linac bunker was repurposed into a linac test facility (LTF).
Several SRS end stations and beamlines were previously situated in the Electron Hall and in 2015, it was announced that a new linear accelerator, CLARA, was to fill that space.
In 2016, construction began, with the gun end situated where the SRS booster-to-storage transfer line occupied for the rest of the accelerator to span the length of the hall.
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