TY - CPAPER
AU - Thompson, N.
AU - Clarke, J.A.
AU - Craig, T.
AU - Dunning, D.J.
AU - Kolosov, O.V.
AU - Moss, A.J.
AU - Saveliev, Y.M.
AU - Siggel-King, M.R.F.
AU - Surman, M.
AU - Tovee, P.D.
AU - Weightman, P.
TI - Status of the ALICE IR-FEL: from ERL Demonstrator to User Facility
J2 - Proc. of FEL2015
AB - The ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments) accelerator at STFC Daresbury Laboratory in the UK was conceived in 2003 and constructed as a short-term Energy Recovery Linac demonstrator to develop the underpinning technology and expertise required for a proposed 600MeV ERL-based FEL facility. In this paper we present an update on the performance and status of ALICE which now operates as a funded IR-FEL user facility. We discuss the challenges of evolving a short-term demonstrator into a stable, reliable user facility and present a summary of the current scientific programme.
PB - JACoW
CY - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 379
EP - 383
KW - FEL
KW - laser
KW - cavity
KW - radiation
KW - operation
DA - 2015/12
PY - 2015
SN - 978-3-95450-134-2
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-FEL2015-TUP015
UR - http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/FEL2015/papers/tup015.pdf
ER -