03 Linear Colliders, Lepton Accelerators and New Acceleration Techniques
A15 High Intensity Accelerators
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WEOAB02 FACET: The New User Facility at SLAC 1953
 
  • C.I. Clarke, F.-J. Decker, R.A. Erickson, C. Hast, M.J. Hogan, R.H. Iverson, S.Z. Li, Y. Nosochkov, N. Phinney, J. Sheppard, U. Wienands, W. Wittmer, M. Woodley, G. Yocky
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • A. Seryi
    JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
  
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-76SF00515.
FACET (Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Experimental Tests) is a new User Facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Its high power electron and positron beams make it a unique facility, ideal for beam-driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration studies. The first 2 km of the SLAC linac produce 23 GeV, 3.2 nC electron and positron beams with short bunch lengths of 20 um. A final focusing system can produce beam spots 10um wide. User-aided Commissioning took place in summer 2011 and FACET will formally come online in early 2012. We present the User Facility, the current features, planned upgrades and the opportunities for further experiments. 		 
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