• N. Sereno, M. Borland, H. W. Friedsam
  ANL, Argonne, Illinois

In the recent past, the Advanced Photon Source (APS) was asked by the U. S. Department of Energy to explore a revolutionary upgrade based on emerging energy recovery linac (ERL) technology. In an ERL, the energy of the 7-GeV, 100-mA beam is recovered after the beam passes through user beamlines by decelerating the beam back through the same superconducting linac cavities that accelerated it. The main constraint on this upgrade is that the existing APS beamlines not be disturbed. This requires that the APS storage ring be used as a single-pass transport line in the overall ERL beamline layout. A natural place to locate the ERL is inside the existing APS storage ring ‘‘infield'' area, which has unoccupied space south of the existing APS injector complex. Other important constraints include minimal disturbance of existing building structures and injector beamlines. The existing injector complex would be preserved so that existing operation can be continued through and even possibly beyond ERL commissioning. In this paper, we describe a layout that satisfies these constraints. We also estimate the amount of emittance increase the beam will experience before ring injection.