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Title	Status of the ALICE IR-FEL: from ERL Demonstrator to User Facility
Authors	N. Thompson, J.A. Clarke, D.J. Dunning, A.J. Moss, Y.M. Saveliev, M. Surman STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom T. Craig, M.R.F. Siggel-King, P. Weightman The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom O.V. Kolosov, P.D. Tovee Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom M.R.F. Siggel-King Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Abstract	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.
Paper	download TUP015.PDF [1.334 MB / 5 pages]
Conference	FEL2015, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Series	International Free Electron Laser Conference (37th)
Proceedings	Link to full FEL2015 Proccedings
Session	Poster Session
Date	25-Aug-15   15:00–17:00
Main Classification	Status of Projects and Facilities
Keywords	FEL, laser, cavity, radiation, operation
Publisher	JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors	Heung-Sik Kang (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Dong Eon Kim (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany);
ISBN	978-3-95450-134-2
Published	December 2015
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