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A Conceptual Design Report for a major new soft-Xray light source facility for the UK, the New Light Source (NLS), based on high repetition rate free-electron lasers driven by a cw superconducting L-band linac was completed in May 2010. While the science case for such a facility was considered very strong, due to funding restrictions the NLS design project, supported by STFC and Diamond Light Source, was terminated after completion of the CDR. Since then we have been giving some preliminary considerations to a possible alternative option for the NLS which could provide similar performance but at reduced repetition rate, and potentially reduced cost, based on normal conducting technology. In this report we summarise the work done so far, including possible operating parameters and performance, as well as an assessment of relative costs of different frequency options.
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