Author: Angal-Kalinin, D.
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TUPORI18 The Design of the Full Energy Beam Exploitation (FEBE) Beamline on CLARA 585
 
  • D. Angal-Kalinin, A.R. Bainbridge, J.K. Jones, T.H. Pacey, Y.M. Saveliev, E.W. Snedden
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  The CLARA facility at Daresbury Laboratory was orig-inally designed for the study of novel FEL physics utilis-ing high-quality electron bunches at up to 250 MeV/c. To maximise the exploitation of the accelerator complex, a dedicated full energy beam exploitation (FEBE) beam-line has been designed and is currently being installed in a separate vault on the CLARA accelerator. FEBE will allow the use of high charge (up to 250 pC), moderate energy (up to 250 MeV), electron bunches for a wide variety of accelerator applications critical to ongoing accelerator development in the UK and international communities. The facility consists of a shielded enclo-sure, accessible during beam running in CLARA, with two very large experimental chambers compatible with a wide range of experimental proposals. High-power laser beams (up to 100 TW) will be available for electron-beam interactions in the first chamber, and there are concrete plans for a wide variety of advanced diagnostics (includ-ing a high-field permanent magnet spectrometer and dielectric longitudinal streaker), essential for multiple experimental paradigms, in the second chamber. FEBE will be commissioned in 2024.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-TUPORI18  
About • Received ※ 19 August 2022 — Revised ※ 23 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 28 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 September 2022
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THPOJO09 Status of CLARA at Daresbury Laboratory 711
 
  • D. Angal-Kalinin, A.R. Bainbridge, A.D. Brynes, R.K. Buckley, S.R. Buckley, H.M. Castañeda Cortés, J.A. Clarke, L.S. Cowie, K.D. Dumbell, D.J. Dunning, A.J. Gilfellon, A.R. Goulden, J. Henderson, S. Hitchen, F. Jackson, C.R. Jenkins, M.A. Johnson, J.K. Jones, N.Y. Joshi, M.P. King, S.L. Mathisen, J.W. McKenzie, R. Mclean, K.J. Middleman, B.L. Militsyn, K.T. Morrow, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, T.C.Q. Noakes, W.A. Okell, H.L. Owen, T.H. Pacey, A.E. Pollard, M.D. Roper, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, B.J.A. Shepherd, R.J. Smith, E.W. Snedden, N. Thompson, C. Tollervey, R. Valizadeh, D.A. Walsh, A.E. Wheelhouse, P.H. Williams
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • A.R. Bainbridge, A.D. Brynes, J.A. Clarke, L.S. Cowie, K.D. Dumbell, D.J. Dunning, C.R. Jenkins, K.J. Middleman, A.J. Moss, B.D. Muratori, H.L. Owen, Y.M. Saveliev, D.J. Scott, B.J.A. Shepherd, N. Thompson, R. Valizadeh, A.J. Vick, A.E. Wheelhouse
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • A.D. Brynes
    Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Basovizza, Italy
  • R.J. Cash, R.F. Clarke, M. Colling, G. Cox, B.D. Fell, S.A. Griffiths, M.D. Hancock, T. Hartnett, J.P. Hindley, C. Hodgkinson, G. Marshall, A. Oates, A.J. Vick, J.T.G. Wilson
    STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • J. Henderson
    Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
 
  CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications) is a test facility for Free Electron Laser (FEL) research and other applications at STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory. The Front End of CLARA has been used for user exploitation programme from 2018. The second exploitation period in 2021-22 provided a range of beam parameters to 8 user experiments. We report on the status, further machine development, and future plans for CLARA including Full Energy Beam Exploitation (FEBE) beamline which will provide 250 MeV/c high brightness beam for novel experiments.  
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About • Received ※ 19 August 2022 — Revised ※ 28 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 05 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 September 2022
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THPORI15 Operation of the CLARA Linear Accelerator with 2.5 Cell 10 Hz Photocathode Gun with Interchangeable Photocathodes 854
 
  • B.L. Militsyn, D. Angal-Kalinin, A.R. Bainbridge, L.S. Cowie, A.J. Gilfellon, F. Jackson, N.Y. Joshi, K.J. Middleman, K.T. Morrow, T.C.Q. Noakes, M.D. Roper, R. Valizadeh, D.A. Walsh
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • R.J. Cash, B.D. Fell, T.J. Jones, A.J. Vick
    STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  During commissioning and operation run in 2021-2022 the photoinjector of the CLARA-VELA facility a 2.5 cell cavity S-band photocathode gun originally developed for the APEX experiment was used. The copper back wall of the cavity also served as the gun photocathode. In order to reduce significant time required for replacement and/or reactivation of the photocathode and improve the flexibility of the injector the gun has been upgraded for operation with DESY/INFN style interchangeable photocathodes. This upgrade included a new design of the cavity back wall to accommodate the photocathode socket and equipping the gun with a load-lock system. Modification of the gun also required replacement of the bucking coil, which zeros field in the photocathode emission plane. After the upgrade, the gun was commissioned and then operated with a hybrid Cu/Mo photocathode during the last two years. During winter-spring 2022 experimental run the gun steadily operated with a cathode field of 60 MV/m, limited by the RF power available and with an off-centre diamond turned photocathode which delivered stable bunches with a charge of 100 pC.  
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About • Received ※ 24 August 2022 — Revised ※ 08 September 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 October 2022
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