Author: Thompson, N.
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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.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-THPOJO09  
About • Received ※ 19 August 2022 — Revised ※ 28 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 05 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 September 2022
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TUPORI14 A Start-to-End Optimisation Strategy for the CompactLight Accelerator Beamline 573
 
  • Y. Zhao, A. Latina
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • A. Aksoy
    Ankara University, Accelerator Technologies Institute, Golbasi, Turkey
  • H.M. Castañeda Cortés, D.J. Dunning, N. Thompson
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  
  The CompactLight collaboration designed a compact and cost-effective hard X-ray FEL facility, complemented by a soft X-ray option, based on X-band acceleration, capable of operating at 1 kHz pulse repetition rate. In this paper, we present a new simple start-to-end optimisation strategy that is developed for the CompactLight accelerator beamline, focusing on the hard X-ray mode. The optimisation is divided into two steps. The first step improves the electron beam quality that finally leads to a better FEL performance by optimising the major parameters of the beamline. The second step provides matched twiss parameters for the FEL undulator by tuning the matching quadrupoles at the end of the accelerator beamline. A single objective optimisation method, with different objective functions, is used to optimise the performance. The sensitivity of the results to jitters is also minimised by including their effects in the final objective function.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-TUPORI14  
About • Received ※ 15 August 2022 — Revised ※ 31 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 31 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 September 2022
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