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 |
| Physical properties | |
| 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 late 2011, construction began on the Electron Beam Test Facility (EBTF). The bunker was constructed between mid 2011 and mid 2012, and the beamline and accelerator components were installed in late 2012. By 2013, the EBTF became the Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator (VELA). VELA was commissioned in 2013 and provided high-quality electron beams for several industrial and academic user groups.[1]
In 2015, it was announced that a new linear accelerator, CLARA, was to be installed as part of the VELA beamline, sharing the same RF and laser infrastructure.
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. Phase 1 was completed (when?) and provided, along with VELA, high energy electron beams for scientific research. CLARA's first beam was achieved on (when?).
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References
- ^ "ASTEC VELA". www.astec.stfc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
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